Bob Dylan

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:

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.

G
Standing on your window, honey,
C              D      G
Yes, I've been here before.
G
Feeling so harmless,
    C               D      G
I'm looking at your second door.
D                                      G
How come you don't send me no regards?
    G                D7
You know I want your lovin',
                      G
Honey, why are you so hard?

  :    .     .     .       :     .     .     .

F
 Three angels up above the street,
C
 Each one playing a horn,
Dm
 Dressed in green robes with wings that stick out,
G                                           F# F
 They've been there since Christmas morn.

The wildest cat from Montana passes by in a flash,
Then a lady in a bright orange dress,
One U-Haul trailer, a truck with no wheels,
The Tenth Avenue bus going west.

The dogs and pigeons fly up and they flutter around,
A man with a badge skips by,
Three fellas crawlin' on their way back to work,
Nobody stops to ask why.

The bakery truck stops outside of that fence

Intro (turnaround):

E           C#m          D   E
Sign on the window says "Lonely,"
E           C#m           D         A      Asus2
Sign on the door said "No Company Allowed,"
E           C#m                   D   Asus2
Sign on the street says "Y' Don't Own Me,"
E    *)     C#m   E/b   E/a     /g# F#m7         *) 2nd verse G#m
Sign on the porch says "Three's A   Crowd,"
E    G#m    C#m   E/b   F#9     A E
Sign on the porch says "Three's A Crowd."

|:A   E :|x4

Her and her boyfriend went to California,
Her and her boyfriend done changed their tune.
My best friend said, "Now didn' I warn ya,

      C
Winterlude, Winterlude, oh darlin',
                         G
Winterlude by the road tonight.
  G7
Tonight there will be no quarrelin',
                           C
Ev'rything is gonna be all right.
      C          /b      /a      /g
Oh, I see by the angel beside me
     C(7)                 F
That love has a reason to shine.
                             C
You're the one I adore, come over here and give me more,
           G                             C
Then Winterlude, this dude thinks you're fine.

Winterlude, Winterlude, my little apple,

Album version

This one is more tricky than it seems at first. The tricky thing is actually the E chord. It sounds like it is (or rather: it’s definitely) played in the fourth position, with the prominent g# on the 1st string (4th fret), as if there was a capo on the fourth fret, but the G#m’ and F#m’ chords are definitely played:

A . . . D . . . x4

A                  D        A         D
Can't you hear that rooster crowin'?
A                    C#m/g#
Rabbit runnin' down across the road
A7/g                            F#m          D
Underneath the bridge where the water flowed through
Bm               C#m
So happy just to see you smile
     D                E(11)
Underneath the sky of blue
        A   D        A   D
On this new morning, new morning
        A   D            A
On this new morning with you.

Can't you hear that motor turnin'?
Automobile comin' into style