It's Alright, Ma Chords by Bob Dylan

[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]