When I Paint My Masterpiece 4/4 Levon Helm Bob Dylan. Album: Cahoots 1971 Big Sky Music Standard Tuning Capo 1 Transcribed by Ken Lee kandvlee@shaw.ca D A D A E (no chord / / A - D / A Oh, the streets of / Ro - / ome are filled with / rubble, / E / / D Ancient / foo - oot - / prints are every - / where. / A / A - D / A You could / almost thi - / ink that your seein' / double, / E / / A On the / cold, dark / night on the Spanish / Stairs. E / / A Gotta hurry on / back to my hotel / room, / E / E - A / D Where I / got me a date with a / pretty little girl from / Greece. / A / A - D / A She / pro - o / mised she'd be there / with me, / E / / A When I / pai - ai / aint my master - / piece. D A D A E (no chord) / A / A - D / A Oh, the hours we / spe - / ent, inside the Coli - / seum. / E / / A Dodging / li - ii / ions, and a-wasting / time, / A / A - D / A Oh those / mighty kings of the / jungle, I could hardly stand to / see'em / E / / A Yes it / sure has / been a long, hard / climb. E / / A Train wheels a- / running through the back of my / memory, / E / E - D / A When I / ran on a hilltop / followin' a pack of wild / geese, A / / / D - A Someday / ev - ery - / thing is gonna sound like a / rhapso - dy / E / / A When I / pai - ai / aint my master - / piece. E / / D - A Sailing round the / world in a dirty gon - / do - la, / E / E - / D - E Oh to be / back in the / land of, / Co - ca - / co - la. /A / A - D / A Well I left / Ro - / me, and landed in / Brussels, / E / / A On a / plane ride so / bumby that I almost / cried, D - A / A - D / A Clergy men in uniform, and / young girls pulling / mussels, / E / / A Every - / one was there to / greet me when I stepped in - / side, E / E - D / A Newspaper / men eatin' / candy, E / E - D - / A Had to be held / down by big po - / lice. A / A - D / A Someday, every - / thing is gonna be / different, / E / / A When I / pai - ai / aint my master - / piece.