Waits Tom

Waits Tom - Ice Cream Man guitar chord

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From: tgannon@charlie.usd.edu (spideir)

         **ICE CREAM MAN (Tom Waits)**

           =============

  

-- 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 BbM7     Bb7      A+       A7+      Gm7      A7  

     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  /  BbM7  /  A+  [5x ... 5th x, move A+ fingering up every

                                  2 frets for neat effect; then pause...]

(quicker tempo:)

   Dm / Dm / Bb7 / A7+ / [2x]

  

VERSE 1:

          Dm       /       Dm  /    Bb7   /   A7+  /

Well, I take 'em by your house about two forty-five--

  Dm  /    Dm      /  Bb7   /   A7+  /

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  /  Bb7   /   A7+  /

'Cuz I'm an Ice Cream Man--

       Dm   /  Dm   /  Bb7   /   A7+  /

I'm a one-man band--

        Dm    /   Dm /     Bb7   /  A7+  /  Dm  /  Dm /  Bb7 / A7+ /

I'm an Ice Cream Man, honey, I'll be good to you.

  

VERSE 2:

         Dm     /      Dm   /    Bb7    /   A7+   /

If you meet me in the alley, baby, don't you fret--

  Dm   /     Dm  /   Bb7   /  A7+  /

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       /        Bb7  /   A7+    /

If you see me comin', 'n'you ain't got no change--

  Dm    /     Dm /     Bb7 /  A7+    /

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 /  Bb7  /  A7+  /  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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  | "--If I decide to practice a   / o )=\    slight movement from right  |

  *  to left . . . or from left   {   /===}    to right . . . it's        *

  |     nobody's business but my   \ (=o=/    own." (_A_Day_for_Eeyore_)  |

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