Bob Dylan - Mr Tambourine Man

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you

Emerson 1957

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Multiple Choice

Which instrument is the tambourine?

Multiple Choice

Who says "I'm not sleepy and I have nowhere to go"

Multiple Choice

So the speaker in this text is ...

• Mr. Tambourine Man

• a listener of songs

• Bob Dylan

• a young girl

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man

Though I know that evening’s empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me, I’m branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street’s too dead for dreaming

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man

Though I know that evening’s empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me, I’m branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street’s too dead for dreaming

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vanished

weariness

branded

ancient

amazed

• vanished

• weariness

• branded

• ancient

• amazed

Multiple Choice

"evening’s empire has returned into sand"

The evening is compared to ...

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship
My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip
My toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin’
I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it

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to swirl

to strip

to wander

to fade

to cast a spell

• to swirl

• to strip

• to wander

• to fade

• to cast a spell

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Match the 5 human senses with the right image:

taste

touch

smell

hearing

sight

• taste

• touch

• smell

• hearing

• sight

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship
My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip
My toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin’
I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man

Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging madly across the sun
It’s not aimed at anyone, it’s just escaping on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facing
And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it’s just a ragged clown behind
I wouldn’t pay it any mind
It’s just a shadow you’re seein’ that he’s chasing

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Match the following type of SKIPPING

rope -

- stones

- school

• rope -

• - stones

• - school

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swinging

spinning

chasing

escaping

laughing

• swinging

• spinning

• chasing

• escaping

• laughing

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man

Then take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man

Then take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow

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foggy

smoke rings

haunted

sorrow

silhouette

• foggy

• smoke rings

• haunted

• sorrow

• silhouette

Multiple Choice

Who is Mr. Tambourine Man?

• the listener to the song

• Bob Dylan

• everybody