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From: tgannon@charlie.usd.edu (spideir)
          **ICE CREAM MAN (Tom Waits)**
            =============
   
  -- 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   ||||||
      ||||||   ||||||   ||||||   ||||||   ||||||   ||||||   ||||||   ||||||
   
   
   
  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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