**ICE CREAM MAN (Tom Waits)**
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-- comp. Tom Waits (from _Closing_Time_) ["transcr." tcg, '86]
-- 4/4 // Key of (transposed from ) // Allegro [except Intro]
-- each chord symbol OR slash = 1 beat
CHORDS--
< bass> +
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 ||||||
(Moderately: ad-lib arpeggios [piano, really])
/ / BbM7 / + [5x ... 5th x, move + fingering up every
2 frets for neat effect; then pause...]
(quicker tempo:)
/ <> / / / [2x]
/ <> / / /
Well, I take 'em by your house about two forty-five--
/ <> / / /
Sidewalk sundaes, strawberry surprise--
/ / / / / /
I got a cherry popsickle, right on time--
/ / / + / / /
A big stick, mama, that'll blow your mind--
/ <> / / /
'Cuz I'm an Ice Cream Man--
/ <> / / /
I'm a one-man band--
/ <> / / / / <> / / /
I'm an Ice Cream Man, honey, I'll be good to you.
/ <> / / /
If you meet me in the alley, baby, don't you fret--
/ <> / / /
Come back around, and don't forget--
/ / / / / /
When you're tired and you're hungry, and you want somethin' cool--
/ / / + / / /
Got somethin' better than a swimmin' pool--
LEAD TACIT {"over" Verse chords}
/ <> / / /
If you see me comin', 'n'you ain't got no change--
/ <> / / /
Don't worry, baby, it can be arranged--
/ / / / / /
Show me you can smile, baby, just for me--
/ / / + / / /
Feed you with a drumstick, I'll do it for free--
[no Freudian stuff in THIS song, by God!]
/ <> / / / / <> /
[... I'll be good to you.] --Be good to you--
/ / / <> /
--Be good to you--
/ / / <> /
--Good to you, yeh--
/ / / <> /
--Good to you, yeh--
/ / / <> /
--Good to you, yeh--
/ / / <> /
--Good to you, yeh--
/ / / <> /
--Good to you, yeh--
/ / / <> /
--Good to you--
/ / / <> /
--I'll be good to you--
/ / / <> /
--I'll be good to you-- [...fade]
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| Thomas . Gannon | tgannon@charlie.usd.edu | U of SoDak (Vermillion) |
| "--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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