Originally released on Night On Earth

Main lyrics from "Gypsy" version:

When I was a boy The moon was a pearl The sun a yellow gold But when I was a man The wind blew cold The hills were upside down But now that I have gone from here There's no place I'd rather be Than to float my chances on the tide Back in the good old world On October's last I'll fly back home Rolling down winding way Scare crows are all dressed in rags Out at the edge of the field I lay And all I've got's a pocket full Of flowers on my grave But now summer is gone I remember it best Back in the good old world I remember when she held my hand And we walked home alone in the rain How pretty her mouth, how soft her hair Nothing can be the same And there's a rose upon her breast Where I long to lay my head And her hair was so yellow And the wine was so red Back in the good old world

D

D7

I shook hands with the president and the pope in Rome

G

G7

Been to parties where I had to be flown

Bm

F#m

Bm

F#m

This told me everything is sacred, nothing is profane

B

F#m

A7

Money's something that you throw off of the back of a train

D

A

Always keep a diamond in your mind

D7

G7

Always keep a diamond in your mind

D

D7

G

Wherever you may wander, wherever you may roam

D

A7

D

Always keep a diamond in your mind Steamer of gravy and the little fried pearls Floating like a necklace on a beautiful girl And Chalmers said thanks for the food and the land And something about God that I just don't understand Always keep a diamond in your mind Always keep a diamond in your mind Wherever you may wander, wherever you may roam Always keep a diamond in your mind

G

D

She's got the milk of human kindness and the fat of the lamb

A

D

D7

Skin like a baby, but she drives like a man

G

D

She lives in Natchez where she operates a crane

E7

A

She's like a wrecking ball that's no longer connected to the chain Zerelda Samuel said she ain't never prayed Since her right arm was blown off in the Pinkerton raid They lashed her to a windmill with three-fingered Dave Now she's 102, drinking juleps in the shade Always keep a diamond in your mind Always keep a diamond in your mind Wherever you may wander, wherever you may roam Always keep a diamond in your mind Sissy's hanging laundry down by the brook Penfield Morgan's taking more than a look If it weren't for the squawk of the rocker that's kept out in the rain There would be nothing to complain about except for the trains

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D

Bm7

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Asus4

A

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D

Bm7

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Cadd2

A

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D

Bm7

Asus4

A

I've come five hundred miles just to see your halo

D

Bm7

Cadd2

A

Come from St. Petersburg, Scarlett and me

D

Bm7

Asus4

A

When I open my eyes, I was blind as can be

D

Bm7

Cadd2

A

And to give a man luck, he must fall in the sea

Em7

Em/d

Asus4

A

And she wants you to steal and get caught

Em7

Em/d

Asus4

A

For she loves you for all that you are not

D

Bm7

Asus4

A

When you're falling down, falling down

D

Bm7

Asus4

A

When you're falling down, falling down, falling down You forget all the roses don't come around on Sunday She's not gonna choose you for standing so tall Go on take a swig of that poison and like it And now don't ask for silverware, don't ask for nothing Go on and put your ear to the ground You know you'll be hearing that sound Falling down, you're falling down, falling down Falling down, falling down, falling down When you're falling down, falling down, falling down When you're falling down, falling down, falling down Go on down see that wrecking ball come swing in on her now Everyone knew that hotel was a goner They broke all the windows and took all the door knobs And they hauled it away in a couple of days Now someone yelled timber, take off your hat We all look smaller down here on the ground When you're falling down, falling down, falling down Falling down, falling down Falling down Someone's falling down, falling down, falling down Falling down, falling down Falling down

C

It's just the way we are, boys

C

F

Just the way we are

F

C

Don't ever try to change us

G

C

It's just the way we are

C

There was a young soldier named Dice

F

C

Who remarked, they say, bigamy's nice

F

Even two are a bore

C

I prefer three or four

G

C

Because the plural of spouse is spice It's just the way we are, boys Just the way we are Don't ever try to change us It's just the way we are That's the way we are Don't ever try to change us That's the way we are A damsel seductive and handsome Got wedged in a sleeping room transom When she offered much gold For release she was told That the view was worth more than the ransom

There's a blue eyed girl with a red bow tie And a string of pearls with one good eye In a rainy town the chimney smoke will curl No one likes clowns on the other side of the world And the children know she'll never let me go There's a one legged priest that tangos with the farmers wife Beauty and the beast is taking her own life And a tear on a letter back home turns into a lake of your own And a crow turns into a girl on the other side of the world And she tastes like the sea and she's waiting for me In the spring the weeds will show that he brought back the only rose And he gave it to his girl on the other side of the world And I drink champagne from your thin blue veins She visits his grave wearing her mother's shawl Should I shave or end it all There's an old sailor song that the children know Their fingers curl round the other side of the world On a bone white mare lost in Kathleen's hair In the spring the weeds will show he brought back the only rose And he gave it to his girl on the other side of the world

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Am

E

Am

Will you take me across the channel

Dm

G

E

London Bridge is falling down

Am

E

Am

Strange, a woman tries to save

Dm

G

E

More than a man will try to drown

Dm

G

C

And it's the rain that they predicted

E7

Am

It's the forecast every time

Dm

G

C

The rose has died because you picked it

B

E7

I believe that brandy's mine

A

G

And all over the world

F

E7

Am

G

Strangers talk only about the weather

F

Dm/f

B7

All over the world it's the same

E7

Am

It's the same And the world is getting flatter And the sky is falling all around Oh, when nothing is the matter For I never cry in town And a love like ours, my dear Is best measured when it's down And I never buy umbrellas 'Cause there's always one around And all over the world Strangers talk only about the weather All over the world it's the same It's the same

Dm

G

C

And you know that it's beginning

E7

Am

And you know that it's the end

Dm

G7

C

Once again we are strangers

B7

E7

As the fog comes rolling in And all over the world Strangers talk only about the weather All over the world it's the same It's the same