Am         G            F          G         Am    [play it forever]

There must be some kind of way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief
Businessmen they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line
Know what any of it is worth
No reason to get excited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late
All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants too
Outside in the distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
The wind began to howl

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        Dm            A        Dm
Seen the arrow on the doorpost
   Dm          A          Dm
Saying this land is condemned
               A            C       G      Bb       C   Dm
All the way from New Orleans to Jeruselem
  Dm        A        Dm
I travelled to East Texas
    Dm               A       Dm
Where many martyrs fell
                  A          C                 G
And I know no one can sing the blues
Bb                 C           Dm
Like Blind Willie McTell

Well I heard that hooter singing
As they were taking down the tents
The stars above the barren trees
Were his only audience
Them charcoal gypsy maidens
Can strut their feathers well
But nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell
See them big plantations burning
Hear the cracking of the whips
Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
See the ghosts of slavery ships
I can hear them tribes a moaning
Hear that undertaker's bell
Nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell
There's a woman by the river
With some fine young handsome man
He's dressed up like a squire
Bootleg whiskey in his hand
There's a chain gang on a highway
I can hear them rebels yell
But I know no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell
Well God is up in Heaven
And we are what was his
But power,greed and corruptable seed
Seem to be all that there is
I'm gazing out the window
of the St. James Hotel
And I know no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell

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A HARD RAIN'S A GONNA FALL

            E                                   A           E
Oh, where have you been, my blue eyed son?
           E                                      B
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
         A                                   E
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
         A                                       E
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
         A                                  E
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
                A                          E
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
               A                                   E
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
                 E                       B             E                    A
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
                  E    B                     E    A  E
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall

Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall

And what did you hear, my blue eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a blazin'
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a gonna fall

Oh, who did you meet, my blue eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded with hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a gonna fall

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a fallin'
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a gonna fall

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BLOWIN' IN THE WIND

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G                          D                    G
My heart is telling me, I love you still
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G                                        Em
I can see the turning of the key
               C                                              D
I've been deceived by the clown inside of me
  Bm                                                    C
I thought that he was righteous but he's vain
G                          D                                  G
Something's telling me, I wear the ball and chain

[Same chords Throughout]

My patron saint is a-fighting with a ghost
He's always off somewhere when I need him most
The Spanish moon is rising on the hill
But something's telling me, I love you still
I come back to the town from the flaming ruins
But when I see you in the street I begin to swoon
I love to see you dress before the mirror
Won't you let me in your room one time, before I finally disappear

Everybody's wearing a disguise
To hide what they've got left behind their eyes
But me I can't cover what I am
Wherever their children go, I'll follow them

I'm marching the parade of liberty
But as long as I love you I'm not free
How long must I suffer such abuse
Won't you let me see you smile, before I turn you loose

I've given up the game I've got to leave
The pot of gold is only make believe
The treasure can't be found by men who search
Who's gods are dead and whose queens are in the church

We sat in an empty theater and we kissed
I asked you please to cross me off your list
My head tells me it's time to make a change
But my heart is telling me, I love you but you're strange

[Harmonica solo, same chords as verse]

So one more time at midnight near the wall
Take off your heavy makeup and your shawl
Won't you descend from the throne from whence you sit
And let me feel your love one more time, before I finally abandon it

Absolutely Sweet Marie
[Blond On Blond]

D                   D              G                A7                  D
Well, your railroadgate, you know I just can't jump it.
G                         D                       A7
Sometimes it gets so hard, you see.
            D             G               A7              D         Bm
I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet,
       F#                              m             D         A7
with all these promises you left for me.
                G                    A7                  D
But where are you tonight, sweet Marie ?

              D                 G           A7        D
Well, I waited for you when I was half sick.
            G                     D                    A7
Yes I waited for you when you hated me.
              D                G                   A7          D          Bm
Well, I waited for you inside of the frozen traffic
                F#m                               D             A7
When you knew I had some other place to be.

                   G                     A7                 D
Now, where are you tonight, sweet Marie ?
         Bb                                  D
Well, anybody can be just like me, obviosly,
      Bb                                                                 D                A7
But then, now again, not too many can be like you, fortunately.
                         D      G              A7       D
Well, six white horses that you did promise me
           G                              D                      A7
Where finaly delivered down to the penitentiary.
          D                     G                  A7         D        Bm
But to live outside the law, you must be honest.
  F#m                                       D          A7
I know you always say that you agree,
         G                            A7                  D
But where are you tonight, sweet Marie ?

                       D G        A7            D
Now, I been in jail when all my mail showed
          G                                       D                         A7
That a man can't give his address out to bad company,
                 D               G             A7              D            Bm
And now I stand here lookin' at your yellow railroad
         F#m             D            A7
In the ruins of your balcony,
                          G                     A7                  D
Wond'ring where are you tonight, sweet Marie ?

                   Bb                                                                        D
Well I don't know how it happened, But the riverboat captain, he knows my fate
      Bb                                                           D                          A7
But ev'rybody else, even yourself, they're just gonna have to wait.
                      D      G       A7             D
Well, I got the fever down in my pockets,
       G                 D                       A7
The Persian drunkard, he follows me.
                  D                     G                  A7              D         Bm
Yes, I can take him to your house, but I can't unlock it.
       F#m                                    D                  A7
You see, you forgot to leave me with the key.
       G                              A7                  D
Oh, where are you tonight, sweet Marie ?

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You ain't going nowhere
G                             Am
Clouds so swift, the rain won't lift
        C                               G
The gates won't close, the railings froze
                               Am
Get your mind off wintertime
   C                          G
You ain't going nowhere
Ooo-wee, ride me high
Tomorrow's the day my bride's gonna come
Ooh, ooh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair

I don't care how many letters they sent
The morning came and the morning went
Pick up your money, pack up your tent,
You ain't going nowhere

Ooo-wee...

Buy me a flute and a gun that shoots
Tailgates and substitutes
Strap yourself to the tree with roots
You ain't going nowhere

Ooo-wee...

Gengis Khan he could not keep
All his kings supplied with sleep
We'll climb that hill no matter how steep
When we get up to it
Ooo-wee...

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G
Sometimes I'm in the mood I wanna milk my milk cow low
C                                                                                 G
Sometimes I'm in the mood I wanna leave my lonesome home
G                                                     B7                    C
Sometimes I'm in the mood I wanna hit that highway road
             G              D                G        C
But then again and again I said oh oh oh
G           D                             G
Oh Babe I'm in the mood for you

Sometimes I'm in the mood I wanna turn my back to the wall
Sometimes I'm in the mood I wanna live in my pony stall
Sometimes I'm in the mood I ain't gonna do nothin at all
But then again and again I said oh I said oh I said
Oh babe, I'm in the mood for you

Sometimes I'm in the mood I wanna change my house around
Sometimes I'm in the mood I wanna change the things in the town
Sometimes I'm in the mood I wanna change the whole world around
But then again and again I said oh I said oh I said
Oh babe, I'm in the mood for you

Sometimes I'm in the mood I'm gonna give away all my sins
Sometimes I'm in the mood I wanna walk the road again
Sometimes I'm in the mood and I'm bound to lose again
But then again and again I said oh I said oh I said
Oh babe, sometimes I'm in the mood for you
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Bob Dylan's Dream

While [G]riding on a [Am]train going west
I fell as[C]leep for to t[D]ake my rest.
I dreamed a [D7]dream that [D]made me [G]sad
Concerning mys[Am]elf and the [D]first few [C]friends I [G]had.

With half damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon,
Where we together weathered many a storm,
Laughing and singing 'till the early hours of the morn.

By the old wooden stove where our hats were hung,
Our words were told and our songs were sung;
We longed for nothing and were satisfied
Talking and joking about the world outside.

With haunted hearts through the heat and cold,
We never thought we could get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
Though our chances really were a million to one.

As easy it was to tell black from white,
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right;
Our choices were few and the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.

Ah many a year has passed and gone,
And many a gamble has been lost and won;
And many a road taken by many a friend,
And each one of them I've never seen again.

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
That we could sit simply in that room once again;
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat,
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.

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E          Esus  E2              Esus E
Buckets of rain, buckets of tears
E     Esus        E2                     Esus          E
Got all them buckets coming out of my ears
A                                             E     A/E   E
Buckets of moonbeams in my hand
B                        A     G#m11    F#m11 E    A/E   E
You got all the love honey baby I can stand

I've been meek, and hard like an oak
I've seen pretty people disappear like smoke
Friends will arrive, friends will disappear
If you want me, honey baby I'll be here

I like the smile in your fingertips
I like the way that you move your hips
I like the cool way you look at me
Everything about you is bringing me misery

Little red wagon, little red bike
I ain't no monkey but I know what I like
I like the way you love me strong and slow
I'm taking you with me honey baby when I go

Life is sad, life is a bust
All you can do is do what you must
You do what you must do, and you do it well
I'll do it for you, honey baby can't you tell?
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