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4th Time Around Tab

by Bob Dylan


First Release-'Blonde On Blonde' 1966. 'BOB DYLAN LIVE 1966' 1998.


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When she said, 
                                      
"Don't waste your words, they're just lies," 
                        
I cried she was deaf.             
                                          
And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes, 
                                      
Then said, "What else you got left?" 
        
It was then that I got up to leave 
                            
But she said, "Don't forget, 
                             
Everybody must give something back 
                           
For something they get." 
    

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I stood there and hummed, 
                                     
I tapped on her drum and asked her how come. 
                    
And she buttoned her boot, 
                     
And straightened her suit, 
                     
Then she said, "Don't get cute." 
                          
So I forced my hands in my pockets 
                  
And felt with my thumbs, 
                   
And gallantly handed her 
                     
My very last piece of gum. 

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She threw me outside, 
                                 
I stood in the dirt where ev'ryone walked. 
                 
And after finding I'd 
                 
Forgotten my shirt, 
                   
I went back and knocked. 
  
I waited in the hallway, she went to get it, 
                      
And I tried to make sense 
                                   
Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair 
              
That leaned up against . . . 

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Her Jamaican rum 
                                    
And when she did come, I asked her for some. 
              
She said, "No, dear." 
                               
I said, "Your words aren't clear, 
                           
You'd better spit out your gum." 

She screamed till her face got so red 
                      
Then she fell on the floor, 
                        
And I covered her up and then 
                               
Thought I'd go look through her drawer.  

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And, when I was through 
             
I filled up my shoe 
                  
And brought it to you. 
                      
And you, you took me in, 
               
You loved me then 

You didn't waste time. 
                    
And I, I never took much, 
                      
I never asked for your crutch. 
                 
Now don't ask for mine.


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