It's Alright, Ma Chords by Bob Dylan
- Key: C
- BPM: 105
- Capo: no capo
PULSO FUERTE
IT'S ALRIGHT, MA ACORDES
[Intro] [Verse] G C ■ Darkness at the break of noon G Shadows even the silver spoon F F The handmade blade the child's balloon C Eclipses both the sun and moon C To understand you know too soon C There is no sense in trying [Intro] [Verse] C Pointed threats they bluff with scorn G Suicide remarks are torn F From the fool's gold mouthpiece C Em The hollow horn plays wasted words C Eb Proves to warn that he not busy being born Eb Is busy dying C Temptation's page flies out the door G You follow find yourself at war F Watch waterfalls of pity roar C You feel to moan but unlike before C You discover that you'd just be C One more person crying G D So don't fear ■ if you hear G G C A foreign sound to your ear D C D G It's alright Ma I'm only sighing ■ [Chorus] [Verse] C G As some warn victory some downfall G Private reasons great or small F Can be seen in the eyes of those that call F C To make all that should be killed to crawl Cm While others say don't hate nothing at all Cm Except hatred [Intro] [Verse] G G7 G C ■ ■ Disillusioned words like bullets bark G F As human gods aim for their mark F Made everything from toy guns that spark C To fleshcolored Christs that glow in the dark Cm It's easy to see without looking too far Cm That not much is really sacred C While preachers preach of evil fates G Teachers teach that knowledge waits F Can lead to hundreddollar plates C Cm Goodness hides behind its gates Cm But even the president of the United States Cm Sometimes must have to stand naked F G D ■ An' though the rules of the road have been lodged G C It's only people's games that you got to dodge G D Dsus4 G ■ And it's alright Ma I can make it ■ C Advertising signs that con you G Into thinking you're the one F That can do what's never been done C That can win what's never been won C Meantime life outside goes on Cm All around you G C You lose yourself you reappear G F You suddenly find you got nothing to fear C Alone you stand with nobody near C When a trembling distant voice unclear C7 Startles your sleeping ears to hear Cm G That somebody thinks they ■ really found you C A question in your nerves is lit G F Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy C Insure you not to quit C To keep it in your mind and not fergit Cm That it is not he or she or them or it Cm That you belong to [Chorus] G Dsus4 D ■ Although the masters make the rules G C For the wise men and the fools D C D G I got nothing Ma to live up to C For them that must obey authority [Verse] G That they do not respect in any degree F C Who despise their jobs their destinies C7 Speak jealously of them that are free Cm G Dsus4 Do what they do just to be nothing more than something they invest in ■ G C G ■ While some on principles baptized G To strict party platform ties F Social clubs in drag disguise C Outsiders they can freely criticize Cm Tell nothing except who to idolize G And then say God bless him ■ C G While one who sings with his tongue on fire F Gargles in the rat race choir Csus4 Bent out of shape from society's pliers C Cares not to come up any higher G But rather get you down in the hole that he's in ■ D But I mean no harm nor put fault [Chorus] G C On anyone that lives in a vault D G But it's alright Ma if I can't please him [Verse] C G Old lady judges watch people in pairs Gsus4 Limited in sex they dare F To push fake morals insult and stare C While money doesn't talk it swears C Obscenity who really cares C Propaganda all is phony G C ■ While them that defend what they cannot see G With a killer's pride security F It blows the minds most bitterly C For them that think death's honesty Cm7 F7 Won't fall upon them naturally Cm7 Life sometimes must get lonely G G C ■ My eyes collide headon with stuffed graveyards G False gods I scuff G At pettiness which plays so rough F Walk upsidedown inside handcuffs C Kick my legs to crash it off Cm Say okay I have had enough G What else can you show me [Chorus] D And if my thoughtdreams could be seen G C They'd probably put my head in a guillotine D C D Dsus4 G But it's alright Ma it's life and life only [Outro]