WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE - Bob Dylan
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Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble
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Ancient footprints are everywhere
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You can almost think that you're seein' double
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On a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs
C#7 F# B
Got to hurry on back to my hotel room
C#7 F#
Where I've got me a date with Botticelli's niece
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She promised that she'd be right there with me
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When I paint my masterpiece
Oh, the hours I've spent inside the Coliseum
Dodging lions and wastin' time
Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle
I could hardly stand to see 'em
Yes, it sure has been a long, hard climb
Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese
Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody
When I paint my masterpiece
[Bridge]
Bm F#
Sailin'round the world in a dirty gondola
A#m B C# B F# G#7 C#7
Oh to be back in the land of Coca Cola!
I left Rome and landed in Brussels
On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried
Clergymen in uniform and young girls pullin' muscles
Everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside
Newspapermen eating candy had to be held down by big police Someday,
everything is gonna be different
B F# C# B F# G#m F#
When I paint my masterpiece