Bob Dylan

Em
Up on the white veranda
C                         G
She wears a necktie and a Panama hat.
Em
Her passport shows a face
    C
From another time and place
          G
She looks nothin' like that.
Bm                          C D    C
And all the remnants of her recent past
C/b G
Are scattered in the wild wind.
    Bm
She walks across the marble floor
        C     D        C        C/b
Where a voice from the gambling room
   G
is callin' her to come on in.
    Bm                      Am
She smiles, walks the other way
       C    /b   Am    G       D(/f#)      C

D: “Let’s keep that take. Right after that take, put down this wild track, would you? It just consists of:”

Corn
beans
peas
Succotash
guacamole

second coming coffee
and climax tobacco

“End of take”

Billy 1

Several verses instrumental intro

Original album version

Capo 1st fret (original key Ab major)

The G — C/g — G (320003 — 3x2013 — 320003) pattern goes through the whole song. One could play just a sustained G as well. The change of this pattern that I’ve indicated in lines 2 and 4 is mainly to get an approximation to what the second guitar plays there. Likewise, in the last line there seems to be very little activity — maybe there should be just a G all through it.

   A
Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"

Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"

God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"

God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
    D7                                     A
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
     E7
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
A
God says, "Out on Highway 61."

Well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose
Welfare Department they wouldn't give him no clothes
He asked poor Howard where can I go
Howard said there's only one place I know
Sam said tell me quick man I got to run

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A
           A
I got this graveyard woman, you know she keeps my kid

But my soulful mama, you know she keeps me hid
D                                                     A
She's a junkyard angel and she always gives me bread

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  C
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Album version

Capo 2nd fret

(open E-string) - G

G
She's got everything she needs,
         C                      G      C/g G
She's an artist, she don't look back.
          C
She's got everything she needs,
                                G      C/g G
She's an artist, she don't look back.
                 A
She can take the dark out of the nighttime
    C                 G                C/g G
And paint the daytime black.

You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees.
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees.

A

        A
Well, I wake up in the morning

There's frogs inside my socks

Your mama, she's a-hidin'

Inside the icebox
     D
Your daddy walks in wearin'
                               A
A Napoleon Bonaparte mask
         E
Then you ask why I don't live here
D                           A
Honey, do you have to ask?

Well, I go to pet your monkey
I get a face full of claws
I ask who's in the fireplace
And you tell me Santa Claus
The milkman comes in
He's wearing a derby hat
Then you ask why I don't live here
Honey, how come you have to ask me that?