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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Highway 61 Revisited</a> (1965) and <a class="recordlink" href="../99_greatesthits2/index.htm">Greatest Hits II</a> (1971), from an earlier take on <a href="../44_bs7_ndh/index.htm" class="recordlink">No direction home</a> (2005), and live on <a class="recordlink" href="../39_rah/index.htm">Live 1966</a> (1998)<br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  22 <p>Intro (more or less):
  23 The &ldquo;Em/d&rdquo; at the beginning could be played xx0453 as well</p>
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  26  Em/d D               D C             C/g G
  27     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  28 ||--0-2-------------|-2-0-------------|-----------------|-3---------------||
  29 ||*-0-3-------------|-3-1-------------|-1-0-------------|-1p0------------*||
  30 ||--0-2-------------|-2-0-------------|-0-0-------------|-0---------------||
  31 ||--0-0-------------|-0-2-------------|-2-0-------------|-2p0-------------||
  32 ||*-----------------|---3-------------|-x-2-------------|-x--------------*||
  33 ||------------------|-----------------|-3-3-------------|-3-3-------------||
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  36             G                      C(/g)
  37 When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
  38                     G
  39 And it's Eastertime too
  40          G
  41 And your gravity fails
  42         C(/g)                 G      (/g-a-b)
  43 And negativity don't pull you through
  44       C
  45 Don't put on any airs
  46                                   G
  47 When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
  48               D
  49 They got some hungry women there
  50                                  G
  51 And they really make a mess outa you
  52
  53
  54 Now if you see Saint Annie
  55 Please tell her thanks a lot
  56 I cannot move
  57 My fingers are all in a knot
  58 I don't have the strength
  59 To get up and take another shot
  60 And my best friend, my doctor
  61 Won't even say what it is I've got
  62
  63 Sweet Melinda
  64 The peasants call her the goddess of gloom
  65 She speaks good English
  66 And she invites you up into her room
  67 And you're so kind
  68 And careful not to go to her too soon
  69 And she takes your voice
  70 And leaves you howling at the moon
  71
  72 Up on Housing Project Hill
  73 It's either fortune or fame
  74 You must pick up one or the other
  75 Though neither of them are to be what they claim
  76 If you're lookin' to get silly
  77 You better go back to from where you came
  78 Because the cops don't need you
  79 And man they expect the same
  80
  81 Now all the authorities
  82 They just stand around and boast
  83 How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms
  84 Into leaving his post
  85 And picking up Angel who
  86 Just arrived here from the coast
  87 Who looked so fine at first
  88 But left looking just like a ghost
  89
  90 I started out on burgundy
  91 But soon hit the harder stuff
  92 Everybody said they'd stand behind me
  93 When the game got rough
  94 But the joke was on me
  95 There was nobody even there to call my bluff
  96 I'm going back to New York City
  97 I do believe I've had enough
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