Bob Dylan – Ballad For A Friend (Guitar)

Capo 1
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Chords

From the Witmark Demos (1962-1964) Capo I Originally played in open D, this version uses standard [Intro] G C/G [Verse 1]
        G              C/G      G      C/G
Sad I'm sittin' on the railroad track

              G                 C/G
Watchin' that old smokestack

                         G              G7  C C7 G
Train's a-leavin' but it won't be back
[Verse 2]
         C/G          G      C/G
Years ago  we'd hang around

                     G           C/G
Watchin' trains roll through the town

                    G                  G7  C C7 G  C G
Now that train is a-graveyard bound
[Verse 3]
        C/G   G          C/G       G    C/G
Well we go    up in that North Country

                      G                  C/G  G   C/G
Lakes and streams and mountains so free

                G      C/G  G  G7  C C7 G  C G
I had no better friend than he
[Verse 4]
C/G       G           C/G      G   C/G
Something happened to him that day

                    G              C/G
I thought I heard a stranger say

          G        C/G    G    G7  C C7 G
I held my hand and stole away
[Verse 5]
  C/G              G             C/G  G  C/G
A diesel truck was headin' down

                    G    C/G
Carryin' up a heavy load

              C/G  G     G7  C C7 G
Left him on a Utah road
[Verse 6]
                 C/G              G      C/G
They carried him back to his home town

           C/G        G              C/G
His mother cried, his sister moaned

                               G     G7  C C7 G
Listenin' to them church bells toll
[Verse 7]
               C/G         G    C/G
A diesel truck was rollin' slow

                  G        C/G
Pullin' down that heavy load

                  C/G  G     G7  C C7 G
and left him on a Utah road