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From: tgannon@charlie.usd.edu (spideir)
**ICE CREAM MAN (Tom Waits)**
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-- comp. Tom Waits (from _Closing_Time_) ["transcr." tcg, '86]
-- 4/4 // Key of Dm (transposed from Cm) // Allegro [except Intro]
-- each chord symbol OR slash = 1 beat
CHORDS--
Dm Dm
xxo___ x_x___ x_x___ x_x___ xox___ xoxo__ _x____ xoxo_o
1 |||||1 |||||1 |1===1 |1=1=1 |||||1 |||||1 |||||| ||||||
|||2|| |||2|| |||2|| |||||| |||23| ||||2| |||||| ||2|3|
||||3| |3||4| ||||3| ||||3| |||||| |||||| 1=1111 ||||||
|||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||
INTRO: (Moderately: ad-lib arpeggios [piano, really])
Dm / Dm
2 frets for neat effect; then pause...]
(quicker tempo:)
Dm / Dm
VERSE 1:
Dm / Dm
Well, I take 'em by your house about two forty-five--
Dm / Dm
Sidewalk sundaes, strawberry surprise--
Dm / / / Gm7 / / /
I got a cherry popsickle, right on time--
A7 / / / A7+ / / /
A big stick, mama, that'll blow your mind--
CHORUS:
Dm / Dm
'Cuz I'm an Ice Cream Man--
Dm / Dm
I'm a one-man band--
Dm / Dm
I'm an Ice Cream Man, honey, I'll be good to you.
VERSE 2:
Dm / Dm
If you meet me in the alley, baby, don't you fret--
Dm / Dm
Come back around, and don't forget--
Dm / / / Gm7 / / /
When you're tired and you're hungry, and you want somethin' cool--
A7 / / / A7+ / / /
Got somethin' better than a swimmin' pool--
CHORUS
LEAD TACIT {"over" Verse chords}
CHORUS
VERSE 3:
Dm / Dm
If you see me comin', 'n'you ain't got no change--
Dm / Dm
Don't worry, baby, it can be arranged--
Dm / / / Gm7 / / /
Show me you can smile, baby, just for me--
A7 / / / A7+ / / /
Feed you with a drumstick, I'll do it for free--
[no Freudian stuff in THIS song, by God!]
CHORUS
Dm / Dm
[... I'll be good to you.] --Be good to you--
Bb7 / A7+ / Dm / Dm
--Be good to you--
Bb7 / A7+ / Dm / Dm
--Good to you, yeh--
Bb7 / A7+ / Dm / Dm
--Good to you, yeh--
Bb7 / A7+ / Dm / Dm
--Good to you, yeh--
Bb7 / A7+ / Dm / Dm
--Good to you, yeh--
Bb7 / A7+ / Dm / Dm
--Good to you, yeh--
Bb7 / A7+ / Dm / Dm
--Good to you--
Bb7 / A7+ / Dm / Dm
--I'll be good to you--
Bb7 / A7+ / Dm / Dm
--I'll be good to you-- [...fade]
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| Thomas C. Gannon | tgannon@charlie.usd.edu | U of SoDak (Vermillion) |
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| nobody's business but my \ (=o=/ own." (_A_Day_for_Eeyore_) |
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