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Drop C

Tune the 6th string down two whole tones (equivalent to four frets) to C:

C-A-d-g-b-e’

(Joni code: C95545

If I Was a King

           C          F          G7
If I was a king, I’ll hang in an alley
       F       C               G7
With a hundred stallions after me
               F              G7     C         F        C  G7                          
And if I was a rogue, I would lay in your jaw, mourning Larrow
         F           C     G7 
With the law hangin' after me 
           C               F     G7
I rode six mare, I’ve been on my wagon
    F          C                     G7
And now here I stand with you facin' me

Farewell Angelina

C

    C        Fmaj7 C
Farewell Angeli  - na
    Fmaj7        C
The bells of the crown
          C         Fmaj7 C
Are being stolen by ban - dits
       Fmaj7      C
I must follow the sound
    C
The triangle tingles
    Fmaj7      C
the music play slow
        C        Am
But farewell Angelina
    C           Em/b
The night is on fire
F          C      Csus4 C
And I must go.

         C
There is no use in talkin'
            Fmaj7       C     Fmaj7 C
and there's no need for blame

There is nothing to prove,
     Fmaj7              C     Fmaj7 C

Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands


Album version

Bob plays in dropped C tuning (C-A-d-g-b-e’) with quite simple chords, like he does on the Denver Hotel Tape (March 13, 1966) (See below). That accounts for some of the blurryness of the keys, since the two versions occasionally clash. Two versions follow: the first basically shows what the other instruments do, the second what Bob Dylan does.

Fourth Time Around


C    F               C
When she said,"Don't waste
     F                   C
your words, they're just lies,"
  F             C         F   C   F
I cried she was deaf.
    C   F            C
And she worked on my face
      F           C
until breaking my eyes,
           F                  C      F   C  F
Then said, "What else you got left?"
       Em
It was then that I got up to leave
                        Dm
But she said, "Don't forget,

Like a Rolling Stone

Highway 61 Revisited version

C                    Dm7
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
    C/e                   F              G
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?
C                    Dm7                 C/e
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
    F                     G
You thought they were all    kiddin' you
F           G
 You used to laugh about
F                  G
 Everybody that was hangin' out
F         C/e  Dm7     C
 Now you don't talk so loud
F         C/e  Dm7     C
 Now you don't seem so proud

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