Intro: G C G
C G
Gypsy gal, the hands of Harlem
C G
Cannot hold you to its heat
C G
You're temperature is too hot for tamin'
C G
Your flamin' feet are burnin' up the street.
C3rd G3rd C3rd G
I am homeless come and take me
C3rd G3rd C3rd D
to the reach of your rattle and drums.
C G C D G
Let me know, babe, all about my fortune
C D G C D [strum eighths] G C D G C G
down along my restless palms.
C G
Gypsy gal, you got me swallowed
C G
I have fallen far beneath
C G
your perly eyes so fast and slashing
C3rd C G
and your flashing diamond teeth.
C3rd G3rd C3rd G
The night is pitchblack come and make my
C3rd G3rd C3rd D
pale face fit in the place of pleas.
C G C D G
Let me know, babe, I'm nearly drownin'
C D G C D G C D G C G
If it's you, my lifeline's trace.
G3rd C3rd C G
I've been wondering all about me
G3rd C3rd C G
ever since I've seen you there
G3rd C3rd C G
on your cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding
G C3rd C G
I know I'm round you but I don't know where.
C3rd G3rd C3rd G
You have slayed me you have made me
C3rd G3rd C3rd D
I've got to laugh half ways off my heels
C G C D G
I got to know, babe, oh will you surround me
C D G C G
so I can know if I am really real.
When it says 'C3rd it means' C on the 3rd fret.