**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:c bass: 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:c:  /  BbM7  /  A+  [5x ... 5th x, move A+ fingering up every
2 frets for neat effect; then pause...]
(quicker tempo:)
Dm / Dm:c: / Bb7 / A7+ / [2x]

VERSE 1:
Dm       /       Dm:c:  /    Bb7   /   A7+  /
Well, I take 'em by your house about two forty-five--
Dm  /    Dm:c:      /  Bb7   /   A7+  /
Sidewalk sundaes, strawberry surprise--
DmDm Piano Chord 
     /  /    / Gm7Gm7 Piano Chord 
   /   /   /
I got a cherry popsickle, right on time--
A7A7 Piano Chord 
   /     /      /       A7+A7+ Piano Chord 
 /    /    /
A big stick, mama, that'll blow your mind--

CHORUS:
Dm    /   Dm:c:  /  Bb7   /   A7+  /
'Cuz I'm an Ice Cream Man--
Dm   /  Dm:c:   /  Bb7   /   A7+  /
I'm a one-man band--
Dm    /   Dm:c: /     Bb7   /  A7+  /  Dm  /  Dm:c: /  Bb7 / A7+ /
I'm an Ice Cream Man, honey, I'll be good to you.

VERSE 2:
Dm     /      Dm:c:   /    Bb7    /   A7+   /
If you meet me in the alley, baby, don't you fret--
Dm   /     Dm:c:  /   Bb7   /  A7+  /
Come back around, and don't forget--
DmDm Piano Chord 
   /           /      /       Gm7Gm7 Piano Chord 
      /      /    /
When you're tired and you're hungry, and you want somethin' cool--
A7A7 Piano Chord 
  /         /       /     A7+A7+ Piano Chord 
 /    /    /
Got somethin' better than a swimmin' pool--

CHORUS

LEAD TACIT {"over" Verse chords}

CHORUS

VERSE 3:
Dm  / Dm:c:       /        Bb7  /   A7+    /
If you see me comin', 'n'you ain't got no change--
Dm    /     Dm:c: /     Bb7 /  A7+    /
Don't worry, baby, it can be arranged--
DmDm Piano Chord 
     /        /     /     Gm7Gm7 Piano Chord 
   /   /    /
Show me you can smile, baby, just for me--
A7A7 Piano Chord 
       /       /   /         A7+A7+ Piano Chord 
    /      /    /
Feed you with a drumstick, I'll do it for free--
[no Freudian stuff in THIS song, by God!]

CHORUS
Dm  /  Dm:c: /  Bb7  /  A7+  /  Dm / Dm:c: /
[... I'll be good to you.]             --Be good to you--
Bb7  /  A7+  /  Dm / Dm:c: /
--Be good to you--
Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm:c: /
--Good to you, yeh--
Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm:c: /
--Good to you, yeh--
Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm:c: /
--Good to you, yeh--
Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm:c: /
--Good to you, yeh--
Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm:c: /
--Good to you, yeh--
Bb7  /  A7+  /      Dm   / Dm:c: /
--Good to you--
Bb7   /  A7+  /  Dm   / Dm:c: /
--I'll be good to you--
Bb7   /       A7+  /  Dm   / Dm:c: /
--I'll be good to you-- [...fade]

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|     nobody's business but my   \ (=o=/    own." (_A_Day_for_Eeyore_)  |
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