Tangled up in Blue Chords by Bob Dylan

[Start]

[Verse]
A Asus4 A Asus4 A Asus4
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A                     Asus4          
Early one morning the sun was shining
A                  
I was laying in bed
                   Asus4         
Wondering if she'd changed it all
       D                 
If her hair was still red
A                       Asus4         
Her folks they said our lives together
A                      
Sure was gonna be rough
                           G             
They never did like mama's homemade dress
D                                
Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough


[Chorus]
E                         F#m             
And I was standing on the side of the road
A                  D    
Rain falling on my shoes
E                   F#m       
Heading out for the East Coast
A                         D            E      
Lord knows I've paid some dues getting through
G       D     A   
Tangled up in blue
Asus4 A Asus4 A Asus4 A Asus4
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[Verse]
A                    Asus4    G  
She was married when we first met
Asus4              
Soon to be divorced
A                     G          
I helped her out of a jam I guess
      D                           
But I used a little too much force
   A                 G              
We drove that car as far as we could
A                G   
Abandoned it out west


[Chorus]
A             G             
Split up on a dark sad night
D                        
Both agreeing it was best
E                    F#m       
She turned around to look at me
A                D   
As I was walking away
E                    F#m        
I heard her say over my shoulder
A                D              E     
We'll meet again someday on the avenue
G             A   
Tangled up in blue
Asus4 A Asus4 A Asus4 A Asus4
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[Verse]
A                  Asus4            
I had a job in the great north woods
A                       G    
Working as a cook for a spell
      A                 G            
But I never did like it all that much
        D                    
And one day the axe just fell
     A       Asus4              
So I drifted down to New Orleans
          A            Asus4      
Where I's lucky for to be employed
A                        Asus4       
Working for a while on a fishing boat
D                         
Right outside of Delacroix


[Chorus]
E                   F#m      
But all the while I was alone
    A              D     
The past was close behind
E               F#m  
I seen a lot of women
        A                D               E   
But she never escaped my mind and I just grew
G       D     A   
Tangled up in blue
Asus4 A Asus4 A Asus4 A Esus4 Asus4
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[Verse]
A                    Asus4        
She was working in a topless place
    A                  Asus4 G
And I stopped in for a beer  ■
  A                        G                
I just kept looking at the sight of her face
       D                 
In the spotlight so clear
    A                 G             Asus4
And later on when the crowd thinned out  
A                        Asus4
I's just about to do the same 
        A                 Asus4      G    
She was standing there in back of my chair
D                                  
Said Tell me don't I know your name
E                    F#m                 
I muttered something underneath my breath
A                           D   
She studied the lines on my face
E                     F#m          
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
         A                    D           E   
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
G             A   
Tangled up in blue
Asus4 A Asus4 A Asus4 A D
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A         Asus4                   A       Asus4    
She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe
  A                       Asus4         
I thought you'd never say hello she said
    D                        
You look like the silent type
         A           G                 A            G 
Then she opened up a book of poems and handed it to me


[Chorus]
A             G                     D                 
Written by an Italian poet from the thirteenth century
E                     F#m            
And every one of them words rang true
    A                   D   
And glowed like burning coal
E              F#m       
Pouring off of every page
        A                 D               E  
Like it was written in my soul from me to you
G       D     A   
Tangled up in blue
Asus4 A Asus4 A Asus4 A Asus4
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[Verse]
  A                  Asus4          
I lived with them on Montague Street
   A                   Asus4 
In a basement down the stairs
G         A            G             
There was music in the cafés at night
    D                    
And revolution in the air
A                    G                  
Then he started into dealing with slaves
    A                       G   
And something inside of him died
A               G                   
She had to sell everything she owned
D                  
And froze up inside


[Chorus]
    E                D      F#m  A7 
And when finally the bottom fell out
         D        
I became withdrawn
E                     F#m      
The only thing I knew how to do
       A               D                   E   
Was to keep on keeping on like a bird that flew
G             A   
Tangled up in blue
Asus4 A Asus4 A Asus4
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A                G         
So now I'm going back again
         A       Asus4  
I got to get her somehow
A                 G           
All the people we used to know
           D                 
They're an illusion to me now
A        G             
Some are mathematicians
A                    G    
Some are carpenter's wives
A                         Asus4  
Don't know how it all got started
        D                            
I don't what they do with their lives
E          F#m              
But me I'm still on the road
A                   D    
Heading for another joint
E             F#m          
We always did feel the same
        A                       D        E   
We just saw it from a different point of view
G       D     A   
Tangled up in blue


[Solo]
Asus4 A Asus4 A Asus4 A G Asus4
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A G D A Asus4 A G Asus4
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[Outro]
D E F#m A D E F#m A
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D E G A
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