Ice Cream Man chords by Tom Waits

Chords with lyrics

**ICE CREAM MAN (Tom Waits)**
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 -- comp. Tom Waits (from _Closing_Time_) ["transcr." tcg, '86]
  -- 4/4 // Key of DmDm (transposed from C minorCm) // Allegro [except Intro]
  -- each chord symbol OR slash = 1 beat

 CHORDS--
   DmDm   DmDm BbM7   Bb7Bb7   A augmentedA+    A7A7+   Gm7Gm7   A7A7
   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])
  DmDm / DmDm / BbM7 / A augmentedA+ [5x ... 5th x, move A augmentedA+ fingering up every
                 2 frets for neat effect; then pause...]
 (quicker tempo:)
  DmDm / DmDm / Bb7Bb7 / A7A7+ / [2x]

 VERSE 1:
     DmDm    /    DmDm /  Bb7Bb7  /  A7A7+ /
 Well..
 DmDm /  DmDm   / Bb7Bb7  /  A7A7+ /
 Sidewalk ..
     DmDm   / /  / Gm7Gm7  /  /  /
 I ..
  A7A7  /   /   /    A7A7+ /  /  /
 A augmentedA big ..

 CHORUS:
       DmDm  /  DmDm / Bb7Bb7  /  A7A7+ /
 'Cuz ..
    DmDm  / DmDm  / Bb7Bb7  /  A7A7+ /
 I'm ..
    DmDm  /  DmDm /   Bb7Bb7  / A7A7+ / DmDm / DmDm / Bb7Bb7 / A7A7+ /
 I'm ...

 VERSE 2:
     DmDm   /   DmDm  /  Bb7Bb7  /  A7A7+  /
 If ..
 DmDm  /   DmDm /  Bb7Bb7  / A7A7+ /
 Come ..
       DmDm  /      /   /    Gm7Gm7   /   /  /
 When ..
 A7A7 /     /    /   A7A7+ /  /  /
 Got ..

 CHORUS

 LEAD TACIT {"over" Verse chords}

 CHORUS

 VERSE 3:
     DmDm / DmDm    /    Bb7Bb7 /  A7A7+  /
 If ..
 DmDm  /   DmDm /   Bb7Bb7 / A7A7+  /
 Don't ..
  DmDm   /    /   /   Gm7Gm7  /  /  /
 Show ..
 A7A7    /    /  /     A7A7+  /   /  /
 Feed ..
              [no Freudian stuff in THIS song, by God!]

 CHORUS
           DmDm / DmDm / Bb7Bb7 / A7A7+ / DmDm / DmDm /
 [... I'll ...]       --Be ..--
                   Bb7Bb7 / A7A7+ / DmDm / DmDm /
                    --Be ..--
                   Bb7Bb7 / A7A7+ /   DmDm  / DmDm /
                        --Good ..--
                   Bb7Bb7 / A7A7+ /   DmDm  / DmDm /
                        --Good ..--
                   Bb7Bb7 / A7A7+ /   DmDm  / DmDm /
                        --Good ..--
                   Bb7Bb7 / A7A7+ /   DmDm  / DmDm /
                        --Good ..--
                   Bb7Bb7 / A7A7+ /   DmDm  / DmDm /
                        --Good ..--
                   Bb7Bb7 / A7A7+ /   DmDm  / DmDm /
                        --Good ..--
                   Bb7Bb7  / A7A7+ / DmDm  / DmDm /
                  --I'll ..--
                   Bb7Bb7  /    A7A7+ / DmDm  / DmDm /
                     --I'll ..-- [...fade]

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 | Thomas C. Gannon | [email protected] | 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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