Wallflower

Written by 
Bob Dylan
Released on 
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1–3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991 (1991) and The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (2013)
Tabbed by 
Eyolf Østrem

Recorded Nov 4, 1971 after the sessions for New Morning (1970).

Either the tape is slow or the instruments have been tuned down a semitone. Either way, the sounding key is F# major, but the tab is in G.

Chords 
Dadd9/c x30230
G6/b    x20030
  G             D             G
  :   .   .     :   .   .     :   .   .
|---7-----7---|---6-----5---|-3-------
|-------------|-------------|---------
|-7-----7-----|-6-----5-----|-4------- etc.
|-------------|-------------|---------
|-------------|-------------|---------
|-------------|-------------|---------

G

    G
Wallflower, wallflower
          C          G       C/g-G
Won't you dance with me?
                   D
I'm sad and lonely too.
    G
Wallflower, wallflower
          C          G       C/g-G
Won't you dance with me?
    G          D         G
I'm fallin' in love with you.

D                                   G
Just like you I'm wondrin' what I'm doin' here.
A                                       D  Dadd9/c G6/b  D/a
Just like you I'm wondrin' what's goin' on.

Wallflower, wallflower
Won't you dance with me?
The night will soon be gone.

I have seen you standing in the smoky haze
And I know that you're gonna be mine one of these days,
Mine alone.

Wallflower, wallflower
Take a chance on me.
Please let me ride you home.

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