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.
Intro: Riff 1 x 4, Riff 2 x 2 D Riff 3 Riff 4 D Riff 2 x 2 Feelin funny in my mind lord, I believe I'm fixin to die D Riff 3 Riff 4 D Riff 2 x 2 Feelin funny in my mind lord, I believe I'm fixin to die D Riff 3 Riff 4 D Riff 2 x 2 Well I don't mind dyin' but I hate to leave my children cryin'
Released on The Bootleg Series 1-3 (1991) in a version from Carnegie Hall, NYC, Oct 26, 1963
Dropped D tuning (D-A-d-g-b-e’)
Capo 2nd fret (sounding key E major)
The following figure recurs at the end of virtually every phrase, in this form, or shortened or prolonged:
D-riff:
Intro and recurring rhythmical pattern:
Intro: (* = slide up on the sixth string). Interlude between verses something of the same as the intro.
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.
: . . . : . . . : . . : . . . : |-----------------|-----------------|-------------|-2---2-2-2-------|---- |.----3--(3)3-3--.|-----3---3-3-3---|-----3-3-----|-3---3-3-3-------|---- |-----2--(2)2-2---|-----2---2-2-2---|-----0-0-----|-2---2-2-2-------|---- etc. |-----0--(0)0-0---|-----0---0-0-0---|-----0-0-----|-0---------------|-0--
Intro:
: . . . : . . . : . . . |---2-2-(etc.)----|-----------------|-----------------|---- |---3-3-----------|-----------------|-----------------|---- |---2-3-----------|-----------------|-----------------|---- |---0-0---0-----3-|-3-0-------------|-----------------|-0-- |-0-----3---------|-----3-0---------|---------------3-|----
D G D
D G D
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
D A
And where have you been, my darling young one?
G/d A/d D
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
G/d A/d D
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
G/d A/d D
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
G/d A/d D
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
D /c G/b D
The sweet pretty things are in bed now of course
D /c G/b D
The city fathers they're trying to endorse
D /c G(b D
The reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse
D/c G/b D
But the town has no need to be nervous
The ghost of Belle Starr she hands down her wits To Jezebel the nun she violently knits A bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sits At the head of the chamber of commerce
G
Dropped C tuning (C-A-d-g-b-e’)
Capo 4th fret (sounding key E major)
Intro:
