Drop D

Tune the 6th string down one whole step (equivalent to two frets), and you’re done.

This is one of the most common tunings that Dylan uses. It gives a great, full sound from the D chord and a very simple and powerful transition to G.

Joni Notation: 
E75545
Note Names: 
D-A-d-g-b-e'

East Virginia Blues

      D                     D7
I was born in East Virginia
          G          D
North Carolina I did go
        G               D
There I met the fairest maiden
       A             D
and my age I did not know.  *)

Her hair it was the darkest colour 
Cheeks they were a-ruby red
On her breast she wore a white lily
Where I longed to lay my head

I'd rather be in some dark hollow
where the sun don't ever shine
than to see you love another
and to know you'll never be mine.

I don't want your green back dollar
I don't want your diamond ring
All I want is your love, darling
Won't you take me back again?
Won't you take me back again?

Long Time Gone

   D
My parents raised me tenderly
  C              D
I was their only son.
   D
My mind got mixed with ramblin'
     C            D
When I was all so young.
      D
An' I left my home the first time
     C                D
When I was twelve an' one.
      D
I'm a long time a-comin', Ma
     C              D
I'll be a long time gone.

On the western side of Texas
On the Texas plains
I tried to find a job of work
But they said I's young of age.
My eyes they burned when I heard
"Go home where you belong!"
I'm a long time a-comin'
I'll be a long time gone.

Handsome Molly

      D                    G . D . . .
Oh, I wish I was in London,
                      A
Or some other seaport town;
    D
I'd put my foot on a steamboat,
    G               D    . . .
I'd sail the ocean 'round.

  G                                   D                       G D
  :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .   .   .
|-----------------|-----------------|-2---------------|-------3-2---------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-3---------------|-------3-3---------------|

Long Ago, Far Away

   D
To preach of peace and brotherhood,

Oh what might be the cost!

a man he did it long ago,

and they hung him on a cross.
      A        D
Long ago, far away
G                  A      D
Those things don't happen nowadays

The chains of slaves they dragged the ground
with heads and hearts hung low
But that was during Lincoln's time,
and that was long ago.
Long ago, far away
Those things like that don't happen no more nowadays, do they?

The war guns they bombed and blazed
the whole world bled its blood.                 *) The official lyrics have:

Barbara Allen

 

Gaslight III version

Dropped D tuning (D-A-d-g-b-e’)

Chords:

D    000232
G    5x000x
A/e  2x2220

The following figure appears here and there, between verses and where there is a long held D chord.

Gospel Plow

     D
Mary wore three lengths of chain,
      A                D
Ev'ry length was Jesus name,
            G            A          D   [fill]
Keep-a your hand on that plow, hold on,
    A         D   [fill]
Oh, Lord, Oh, Lord,
            G            A          D   [fill]
Keep-a your hand on that plow, hold on.

Matthew,*) Mark and Luke and John,
All them prophets so good and gone,
Keep-a your hand on that plow, hold on,
Oh, Lord, Oh, Lord,

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