Intro: |: C | F | C | F :|
C Dm
Once upon a time, you dressed so fine,
Em F G
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
C Dm Em
People call, say beware darl you’re bound to fall,
F G
You thought they were all kidding you.
F G F G
You used to laugh about, everybody that was hanging out
F Em Dm C F Em Dm C
Now you don’t talk so loud, and now you don’t seem so proud
F G
About having to be a-scrounging your next meal.
C F G
How does it feel?
C F G
How does it feel?
C F G
To be without a home,
C F G
Like a complete unknown
C F G
Like a rollin’ stone
Harmonica solo/link: | C | F | C | F | C | F | C | C |
C Dm Em
You gone to the finest school, alright miss lonely
F G
But you know you only used to get juiced in it.
C Dm Em
Nobody’s ever taught you how to live out on the street
F G
And now you’re just gonna have to get used to it.
F G F G
You said you’d never comprimise,
with the mystery tramp, but now you realise
F Em Dm C F
That he’s not selling any alibis and
Em Dm C
as you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
F G
And say do you want to make a deal?
C F G
How does it feel?
C F G
How does it feel?
C F G
To be on your own,
C F G
With no direction home,
C F G
A complete unknown,
C F G
Like a rollin’ stone.
Harmonica solo/link: | C | F | C | F | C | F | C | C |
C Dm Em F
Oh you never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers
and the clowns
G
When they all did tricks for you.
C Dm Em
Never understood that it ain’t no good,
F
you shouldn’t let other people get
G
Your kicks for you.
F G F G
You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat
who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.
F Em Dm C F Em Dm C
Ain’t it hard when you discover that, he really wasn’t where it’s at?
F G
After he took from you everything, he could steal.
C F G
How does it feel?
C F G
How does it feel?
C F G
To hell be on your own,
C F G
With no direction home,
C F G
Like a complete unknown,
C F G
Like a rollin’ stone
Harmonica solo/link: | C | F | C | F | C | F | C | C |
C Dm Em
Princess on a steeple and all the pretty people they’re all
F G
Great in thinking that they got it made.
C Dm Em F
Exchanging all precious gifts, but you better take that Diamond ring
G
You better pawn it babe.
F G F G
You used to be so amused,
at Napoleon in regs and the language that he used.
F Em Dm C F Em
Go ahead now, he calls you, you can’t refuse,
Dm C
when you got nothing you got nothing to lose.
F G
You’re invisible now you got no secrets to conceal.
C F G
How does it feel?
C F G
How does it feel?
C F G
To be on your own,
C F G
No direction home,
C F G
Like a complete unknown,
C F G
Like a rollin’ stone.
Outro: | C | F | C | F |Repeat to fade
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