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Waits - Ice Cream Man guitar tab

**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 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 ||||||

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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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