Bob Dylan – Changing Of The Guards (Guitar)

G  D    Em
Sixteen years,

        G       D               Em
Sixteen banners united over the field

        C            D
Where a good Shepard grieves.

          Em             G     D
Desperate men, desperate women divided

                Em               C  D    G
Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves

G  D     Em
Fortune calls

          G              D               Em
I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,

              C                   D                        Em
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.

               G              D                     Em
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born

               C    D        G
On midsummer's eve, near the tower

    G    D       Em
The cold-blooded moon

            G               D
The captain waits above the celebration

            Em            C       D
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid

            Em      G      D
Whose ebony face is beyond communication

              Em                                C         D  G
he captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid

     G      D   Em
They shaved her head

                     G           D
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo

            Em             G     D
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale

                  Em           G                 D
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow

           Em                                C      D   G
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil

  G        D     Em
I stumbled to my feet

                G                  D
I rode past the destruction in the ditches

         Em                                C            D
With the stitches still mending 'neath the heart shaped tattoo.

         Em          G                 D
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches

     Em                           C   D        G
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you

G   D         Em
The palace of mirrors

          G           D
Where dog solders are reflected,

            Em           C          D
The endless road and the wailing of chimes

          Em              G         D
The empty rooms where her memory is protected

          Em                            C        D        G
Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times

    G     D   Em
She wakes him up

                  G                 D
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking

            Em               C          D
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rock.

                 Em         G                       D
She's begging to know  what measures he now will be taking.

                 Em                                 C    D      G
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks

G     D        Em
Gentlemen, he said,

        G               D                        Em
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,

                C                          D
I've moved your mountains, and marked your cards

            Em                  G              D
But Eden is burning, either get ready for elimination

             Em                                   C        D      G
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards

G     D     Em
Peace will come

     G               D                         Em
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire

         C        D                           Em
But will offer no reward when her false idols fall

          G         D                Em
And cruel death surrenders with it's pale ghosts retreating

            C        D        G
Between the King and Queen of Swords