Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics - Teenage Fanclub

(Bob Dylan) 

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me 

I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to 

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me 

In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you 

Though I know that evenings empire has returned into sand 

Vanished from my hand 

Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping 

My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet 

I have no one to meet 

And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming 

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me 

I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to 

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me 

In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you 

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship 

My senses have been stripped 

My hands can't feel to grip 

My toes too numb to step 

Wait only for my bootheels to be wandering 

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade 

Into my own parade 

Cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it 

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me 

I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to 

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me 

In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you 

Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging madly across the sun 

It's not aimed at anyone 

It's just escaping on the run 

And but for the sky there are no fences facing 

And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme 

To your tambourine in time 

It's just a ragged clown behind 

I wouldn't pay it any mind 

It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing 

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me 

I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to 

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me 

In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you 

Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind 

Down the foggy ruins of time 

Far past the frozen leaves 

The haunted frightened trees 

Out to the windy bench 

Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow 

Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free 

Silhouetted by the sea 

Circled by the circus sands 

With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves 

Let me forget about today until tomorrow 

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me 

I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to 

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me 

In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you