Like a rolling stone
C - F -
G - C - F - G - C
C Dm
1. Once upon a time you dressed so fine,
Em
F - G
threw
the bums a dime in your prime, didn't
you ?
C
Dm
Yeah, people'd
call, say, "Beware doll,
Em - F - G
you're
bound to fall !" You thought
they were just kiddin' you.
F - G - F - G
You used to laugh about everybody that was hangin' out.
F Em Dm
- C - F Em Dm - C
Now you don't talk so proud, now you don't talk so loud
Dm F
G
about
having to be scrounging your next meal.
C - F - G C - F - G
How does it feel, how
does it feel
C - F - G C - F - G
to be on your own with no direction home,
C - F - G C - F - G
like a complete unknown, just like a rolling stone ?
C Dm Em
2. Yeah, you've gone to the finest schools all right, Miss Lonely,
F - G
but you
know you only used to get juiced
in it.
C Dm Em
Nobody taught you how to live out
on the street,
F
- G
and
now you're gonna have to get used
to it.
F
- G
You said you'd never compromise
F - G
with
the mystery tramp, but now you realize
F Em - Dm
C
that
he's not selling any alibis,
F Em - Dm C
as
you stare into the vacuum of his eyes,
Dm F
G
and
say, do you want to make a deal ?
C - F - G C - F - G
How does it feel, how
does it feel
C - F - G C - F - G
to be on your own, with no direction home,
C - F - G C - F - G
a complete unknown just like a rolling stone.
+ instrumental = verse 2 +
CHORUS
C Dm Em
3. Yeah, the princess on the steeple, all the pretty people,
F - G
drinkin', thinkin' that they got
it made.
C Dm
Exchanging all kinds of precious
gifts,
Em F - G
they're
gonna take that diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe !
F - G
You used to be so amused
F
G
at
Napoleon in rags and the language that he used.
F Em Dm
- C
Now, go to him now, he calls
you, you can't refuse,
F Em - Dm C
when
you got nothing, you got nothing to lose,
Dm
F G
you're
invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
+ CHORUS + G7 - C
(The Rolling Stones)