harmonica:
D, C#, C, D, G
C# F#
Some time ago a crazy dream came to me,
G#
I dreamt I was walkin' into World War Three,
C# F#
I went to the doctor the very next day
G#
To see what kinda words he could say.
C# F#
He said it was a bad dream.
I wouldn't worry 'bout it none, though,
G#
Them old dreams 're only in your head.
harmonica:
C#, C, D, G, C, D, G
C# F#
I said, "Hold it, Doc, a World War passed through my brain."
G#
He said, "Nurse, get your pad, the boy's insane,"
C# F#
He grabbed my arm, I said "Ouch!"
G#
As I landed on the psychiatric couch,
C#
He said, "Tell me about it."
harmonica:
C, D, C#
C# F#
Well, the whole thing started at 3 o'clock fast,
G#
It was all over by quarter past.
C# F#
I was down in the sewer with some little lover
G# C#
When I peeked out from a manhole cover
F#
Wondering who turned the lights on us.
harmonica:
D, C#, C, D, G
C# F#
Well, I got up and I walked around
G#
Up and down the lonesome town.
C# F#
I stood a-wondering which way to go,
G#
I lit a cigarette on a parking meter
C#
And walked on down the road.
F#
It was a normal day.
harmonica:
D, C#, C, D, G
C# F#
Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell
G#
And I leaned my head and I gave a yell,
C# F#
"Give me a string bean, I'm a hungry man."
G# C#
D# shotgun fired and away I ran.
F#
I don't blame 'im too much though,
He didn't know me.
harmonica:
D, C#, C, D, G
C# F#
Down at the corner by a hot-dog stand
G# C#
I seen a man, I said, "Howdy friend,
F#
I guess there's just us two."
G# C#
He screamed a bit and away he flew.
F#
Thought I was a Communist.
harmonica:
D, C#, C, D, G, C, D, G
C# F#
Well, I spied me a girl and before she could leave,
G#
I said "Let's go and play Adam and Eve."
C# F#
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'
G# C#
She said, "Hey man, you crazy or somethin',
F#
You seen what happened last time they started."
harmonica:
D, C#, C, D, G, C, D, G, C, D, G
C# F#
Well, I seen your Cadillac window uptown
G#
And there was nobody aroun',
C# F#
I got into the driver's seat
G# C#
And I drove down 42nd Street
F#
In my Cadillac.
G#
Good car to drive after a war.
harmonica:
C#, C, D, G, C, D, G
C# F#
Well, I remember seein' some ad,
G#
So I turned on my Conelrad.
C# F#
But I didn't pay the Con Ed bill,
G# C#
So the radio didn't work so well.
F#
Turned on my record player
G#
It was Rock-A-Day, Johnny singin',
"Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa,
Our Loves A-Gonna Grow Ooh-wah, Ooh-wah."
harmonica:
C#, C, D, G, C, D, G, C, D, G
C# F#
I was feelin' kinda lonesome and blue,
G#
I needed somebody to talk to.
C# F#
So I called up the operator of time
G# C# F#
Just to hear a voice of some kind.
"When you hear the beep
G#
It will be three o'clock,"
She said that for over an hour
And I hung up.
harmonica:
C#, C, D, G, C, D, G
C# F#
Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then,
G#
Sayin, "Hey I've been havin' the same old dreams,
C# F#
But mine was a little different you see.
G# C#
I dreamt the only person left after the war was me.
I didn't see you around."
harmonica:
C, D, C#
C# F#
Well, now time passed and now it seems
G#
Everybody's having them dreams.
C# F# G# C# F#
Everybody sees themselves walkin' around with no one else.
Half of the people can be part right all of the time,
G#
Some of the people can be all right part of the time.
But all of the people can't be all right all of the time.
C# F#
I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,"
I said that.
harmonica:
D, C#, C, D, G, C, D, G
end on D# G