Idiot Wind Chords by Bob Dylan

[Start]

[Intro]
C Am B E
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[Verse]
Am                        
Someone's got it in for me
        E        B              E    
They're planting stories in the press
        Am                                  
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out quick
         B                    E    
But when they will I can only guess
Dbm      E                      
They say I shot a man named Gray
A                    E    
And took his wife to Italy
Dbm     E                        
■   She inherited a million bucks
A                    E         
And when she died it came to me
B                      A    
I can't help it if I'm lucky
Am                        
People see me all the time
         B                          E  
And they just can't remember how to act
Am                                   
Their minds are filled with big ideas
B                    E    
Images and distorted facts
Dbm                   
■   Even you yesterday
A                              E 
You had to ask me where it was at
Dbm                                E    
I couldn't believe after all these years
A                              E   
You didn't know me better than that
A         
Sweet lady
E            A
■ Idiot wind ■
                                 E    
Blowing every time you move your mouth


[Chorus]
A                       Bsus4              
■ Blowing down the back roads headin' south
E           
■ Idiot wind
A                                       
■ Blowing every time you move your teeth
       E    A         
You're ■ an idiot babe
              E        A          E      A      
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
E A E A E
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[Verse]
Am                          
I ran into the fortuneteller
    E              B                    E     
Who said beware of lightning that might strike
Am                             
I haven't known peace and quiet
E                   B                  E   
For so long I can't remember what it's like
          Dbm          E           
There's a lone soldier on the cross
      A                E          
Smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door
Dbm                    E                            
You didn't know it you didn't think it could be done
       A                    E   
In the final end he won the wars
B                  A     
After losin' every battle
Am                          
■  I woke up on the roadside
E           B                    E            
Daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
Am                              
■  Visions of your chestnut mare
                          B                 E    
Shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars
Dbm          E                A   
You hurt the ones that I love best
             E                  
And cover up the truth with lies
        E                     
One day you'll be in the ditch
A             E               
Flies buzzin' around your eyes
B             E      A
Blood on your saddle ■
E            A
■ Idiot wind ■
                               E        
Blowing through the flowers on your tomb
A                                      Bsus4
■ Blowing through the curtains in your room 


[Chorus]
E           
■ Idiot wind
A                           E         
Blowing every time you move your teeth
          A         
You're an idiot babe
E                                        A       E
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe ■


[Verse]
Am                                 
It was gravity which pulled us down
E           B              E    
And destiny which broke us apart
Am                           
You tamed the lion in my cage
E           B                       E       
But it just wasn't enough to change my heart
Dbm                E                 
Now everything's a little upside down
   A                    E                  
As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped
Dbm                       E          
What's good is bad what's bad is good
A                        E            
You'll find out when you reach the top
B      Emaj7  A     
You're on the bottom
                 Am      
I noticed at the ceremony
     E                             B        
Your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
  E     Am                        
I can't remember your face anymore
     E                
Your mouth has changed
     B                    E   
Your eyes don't look into mine
    Dbm                      E          
The priest wore black on the seventh day
    A                        E              
And sat stonefaced while the building burned
Dbm                     E             
I waited for you on the running boards
         A                       E                
Near the cypress trees while the springtime turned
B      A          
Slowly into autumn
E            A
■ Idiot wind ■
                                E    
Blowing like a circle around my skull
A                                Bsus4  
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol


[Chorus]
E            A
■ Idiot wind ■
                            E         
Blowing every time you move your teeth
          A         
You're an idiot babe
E                                        A       E
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe ■


[Verse]
Am                      
I can't feel you anymore
  E                B                    
I can't even touch the books you've read
E          Am                    
Every time I crawl past your door
  E            B     E        Dbm  E      
I been wishin' I was somebody else instead
                 A    E         
Down the highway down the tracks
         Dbm            
Down the road to ecstasy
E                               
I followed you beneath the stars
E                     
Hounded by your memory
             B      A    
And all your ragin' glory
Am                      
I been doublecrossed now
E                                  A       E Am     
For the very last time and now I'm finally ■ ■  free
                     E            
I kissed goodbye the howling beast
       B                E         Dbm        
On the borderline which separated you from me
             E               A       
You'll never know the hurt I suffered
    E               Dbm  
Nor the pain I rise above
         E                         A  
And I'll never know the same about you
                      E           
Your holiness or your kind of love
       B        E    A       
And it makes me feel so sorry
E           
■ Idiot wind
A                   E                    A
Blowing through the buttons of our coats ■


[Chorus]
                    Bsus4                 E
Blowing through the letters that we wrote ■
      A   
Idiot wind
                    E                    
Blowing through the dust upon our shelves
             A   
We're idiots babe
       E                                
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves


[Solo]
A E A E Emaj7 A Esus4 Am
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Esus4 E A Am Esus4 B7 E Dbm
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E A E Amaj7 E A E B
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A Am B E Am E B E
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Gbm7 E A E Dbm E A E
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B7 A E A E A E Bsus4
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E A E A E Bsus4 E
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