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                                     E    
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out quick
                   B          E    
But when they will I can only guess
Dbm          E                  A   
■   They say I shot a man named Gray
                     E    
And took his wife to Italy
Dbm                 Emaj7        
■   She inherited a million bucks
Gbm7                         Emaj7
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
           E              
Images and distorted facts
Dbm      E        
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          E
Sweet lady ■
           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                                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
  A   E Am                       
I ran ■ ■  into the fortuneteller


[Verse]
E                                             
Who said beware of lightning that might strike
Am                           E    
■  I haven't known peace and quiet
                                  E        
For so long I can't remember what it's like
Dbm                           A    
There's a lone soldier on the cross
A                                 
Smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door
E   Dbm                                         E   
You didn't know it you didn't think it could be done
       A                        
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
              E       B                     E    
Shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars
         Dbm             Emaj7    
You hurt the ones that I love best
    A        E                  
And cover up the truth with lies
Dbm     E                     
One day you'll be in the ditch
A             E               
Flies buzzin' around your eyes
A                    E
Blood on your saddle ■


[Chorus]
      A   
Idiot wind
                            E           
Blowing through the flowers on your tomb
A                            Bsus4        E
Blowing through the curtains in your room ■
      A   
Idiot wind
                   E                  
Blowing every time you move your teeth
                A   
You're an idiot babe
E                            B7       A  E      
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
A E A E A E A
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■


[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                                  Emaj7
You'll find out when you reach the top  
E             A     
You're on the bottom
  Am                     
I noticed at the ceremony
             B                              
Your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
  E                Am               
I ■ can't remember your face anymore
               Am     
Your mouth has changed
B                         E   
Your eyes don't look into mine
                      Emaj7             
The priest wore black on the seventh day
A                  E                        
And sat stonefaced while the building burned
                                E     
I waited for you on the running boards
                 A     E                          
Near the cypress trees while the springtime turned
B      A          
Slowly into autumn


[Chorus]
E            A
■ Idiot wind ■
                                E    
Blowing like a circle around my skull
A                                       
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol
Bsus4 E      A
Idiot ■ wind ■
                            E         
Blowing every time you move your teeth
          A         
You're an idiot babe
E                                               
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe
A E A E
■ ■ ■ ■


[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             
I been wishin' I was somebody ■ else instead
                 E              
Down the highway down the tracks
         E              
Down the road to ecstasy
               A                
I followed you beneath the stars
           E          
Hounded by your memory
        B           A    
And all your ragin' glory
Am                      
I been doublecrossed now
    E                      B               E    A E
For the very last time and now I'm finally free ■ ■
Am                                
I kissed goodbye the howling beast
   E   B                E                    
On the borderline which separated you from me
Dbm    E              Emaj7          
You'll never know the hurt I suffered
A   E                    
Nor the pain I rise above
Dbm      Emaj7                        
And I'll never know the same about you
     A                E           
Your holiness or your kind of love
                A             E
And it makes me feel so sorry ■


[Chorus]
           A
Idiot wind ■
                            E           
Blowing through the buttons of our coats
A                                  Bsus4   
■ Blowing through the letters that we wrote
E           
■ Idiot wind
A                             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 Am E Am Esus4 E Dbm Dbm7
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A E Amaj7 Emaj7 A E B E
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A Am B B7 E Am E B7
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E Dbm7 Emaj7 A E Dbm Dbm7 E
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A E B7 E A E A E
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A Bsus4 E A E A
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E Bsus4 A E
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