Clean Cut Kid

Bob Dylan

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          Clean Cut Kid - Bob Dylan
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Written by: Bob Dylan
From: "Empire Burlesque" (1985)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

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[Intro]
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D7
| % | % | % |
A7
       (b
D7
reak)

[Verse 1]
D7
Everybody’s asking why he couldn’t adjust
Ad
D7
just to what a dream that bust?
He was a
A7
clean-cut kid
Well they
D7
made a killer out of him that’s what they did
      (break)

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D7
| % | % | % |
A7
       (b
D7
reak)

[Verse 2]
They said what’s
D7
up is down they said what isn’t is
They put i
D7
deas in his head he thought were his
He was a
A7
clean-cut kid
But  they
D7
made a killer out of him that’s what they did
      (break)

|
  
D7
| % | % | % |
A7
       (b
D7
reak)

[Verse 3]
He was on the
D7
baseball team he was in the marching band
When he was
D7
ten years old he had a watermelon stand
He was a
A7
clean-cut kid
They
D7
made a killer out of him that’s what they did
      (break)

|
  
D7
| % | % | % |
A7
       (b
D7
reak)

[Bridge 1]
They said “
G
Listen boy you’re just a pup”
They sent him to a
D7
napalm health spa to shape up
They gave him
E7
dope to smoke drinks and pills
A
A7
jeep to drive blood to spill
(break)

[Verse 4]
They said “Con
D7
gratulations you got what it takes”
They sent him
D7
back into the rat race without any brakes
He was a
A7
clean-cut kid
They
D7
made a killer out of him that’s what they did
      (break)

|
  
D7
| % | % | % |
A7
       (b
D7
reak)

[Bridge 2]
He bought the A
G
merican dream but it put him in debt
The only
D7
game he could play was Russian roulette
He drank
E7
Coca-Cola he was eating Wonder Bread
Ate
A7
Burger Kings he was well fed
  (break)

 [Verse 5]
He went to
D7
Hollywood to see Peter O’Toole
He stole a
D7
Rolls-Royce and drove it in a swimming pool
They took a
A7
clean-cut kid
And they
D7
made a killer out of him that’s what they did
      (break)

|
  
D7
| % | % | % |
A7
       (b
D7
reak)

[Bridge 3]
He could’ve
G
sold insurance owned a restaurant or bar
Could’ve
D7
been an accountant or a tennis star
He was
E7
wearing boxing gloves took a dive one day
Off the
A7
Golden Gate Bridge into China Bay
      (break)

 [Verse 6]
His mama
D7
walks the floor his daddy weeps and moans
They gotta
D7
sleep together in a home they don’t own
They took a
A7
clean-cut kid
And they
D7
made a killer out of him that’s what they did
      (break)

|
  
D7
| % | % | % |
A7
       (b
D7
reak)

[Bridge 4]
Well
G
everybody’s asking why he couldn’t adjust
D7
All he ever wanted was somebody to trust
They
E7
took his head and turned it inside out
He
A7
never did know what it was all about
 (break)

[Verse 7] + coda
He had a
D7
steady job he joined the choir
He
D7
never did plan to walk the high wire
They took a
A7
clean-cut kid
And they
D7
made a killer out of him that’s what they
D7
did
      (break)

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