When I Paint My Masterpiece (chromatric)

WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE chromatic
By: Bob Dylan
The Band, The Grateful Dead
Key: A

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Oh, the streets of Rome 
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are filled with rub-ble,
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An-cient foot-prints are ev-‘ry-where.
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You can al-most think that 
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you're see-in' dou-ble
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On  a cold dark night on the Span-ish Stairs.

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Got to hur-ry on back to my ho-tel room,
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Where I've got me a date with 
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Bot-ti-cel-li’s niece.
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She prom-ised that she'd be
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right there with me
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When I paint my mas-ter-piece.

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Oh, the hours I've spent 
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in-side the Col-i-se-um,
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Dodg-ing li-ons and wast-in' time.
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Oh, those might-y kings of the jun-gle,
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I could hard-ly stand to see 'em,
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Yes, it sure has been a long hard climb.

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Train wheels run-nin' thru 
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the back of my mem-o-ry,
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When I ran on the hill-top 
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Fol-low-ing a pack of wild geese.
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Some-day, ev-‘ry-thing is gon-na be
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Smooth like a rhap-so-dy,
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When I paint my mas-ter-piece.

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Sail-in' 'round the world 
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in a dir-ty gon-dol-a,
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Oh, to be back in the land of Co-ca-Co-la!

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I left Rome and land-ed in Brus-sels,
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On a plane ride so bump-y 
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that I al-most cried.
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Oh those cler-gy-men in un-i-form 
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and young girls pull-in' mus-cles,
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Ev-‘ry-one was there to greet me 
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when I stepped in-  side.

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News-pa-per-men eat-ing can-dy
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Had to be held down by big po-lice.
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Some-day, ev-‘ry-thing 
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is gon-na be dif-f'rent
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When I paint my mas-ter-piece.