Bob Dylan – Dignity (Ukulele)

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[Verse]
D G D D7
Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel thin man lookin' at his last meal

G D G D
Hollow man lookin' in a cotton field for dignity

D G D D7
Wise man lookin' in a blade of grass young man lookin' in the shadows that pass

G D G D
Poor man lookin' through painted glass for dignity

A
Somebody got murdered on New Year's Eve

G D
Somebody said dignity was the first to leave

G F#m
I went into the city went into the town

Em A A(2)
Went into the land of the midnight sun

D G D D7
Searchin' high searchin' low searchin' everywhere I know

G D G D
Askin' the cops wherever I go Have you seen Dignity

D G D D7
Blind man breakin' out of a trance puts both his hands in the pocket of chance

D G D
Hopin' to find one circumstance of dignity

D G D D7
I went to the wedding of Mary-Lou she said I don't want nobody see me talkin to you

G D G D
Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew about dignity

A
I went down where the vultures feed

G D
I would've gone deeper but there wasn't any need

G F#m
Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men

Em A A(2)
Wasn't any difference to me

D G D D7
Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade house on fire debts unpaid

G D G D
Gonna stand at the window gonna ask the maid Have you seen dignity
D G D
D7
Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears in a crowded room full of covered up
mirrors
G D G D
Lookin' into the lost forgotten years for dignity
D G D
D7
Met Prince Philip at the home of the blues said he'd give me information if his name
wasn't used
G D G D
He wanted money up front said he was abused by dignity

A
Footprints runnin' cross the silver sand

G D
Steps goin' down into tattoo land

G F#m
I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light

Em A A(2)
In the bordertowns of despair

D G D D7
Got no place to fade got no coat I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin' boat

G D G D
Tryin' to read a note somebody wrote about dignity

D G D D7
Sick man lookin' for the doctor's cure lookin' at his hands for the lines that were

G D G D
And into every masterpiece of literature for dignity

D G D D7
Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind combin' his hair back his future looks
thin
G D G D
Bites the bullet and he looks within for dignity

A
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed

G  D
dignity never been photographed

G F#m
I went into the red went into the black

Em A A(2)
Into the valley of dry bone dreams

D G D D7
So many roads so much at stake so many dead ends I'm at the edge of the lake

G D G D
Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity