Bob Dylan – High Water For Charley Patton (Guitar)

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HIGHWATER (FOR CHARLEY PATTON) by Bob Dylan Released on "Love And Theft" submitted by Andrea Baroni ([email protected]) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

           G                         F5  F#5   G                        (C)
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e|-------|-------3-/(7)7---|-----------------|-3---------------|----------------|
B|-------|-------3-/(8)8---|*----------------|-3--------------*|----------------|
G|-------|-------4-/(7)7---|-----------------|-4---------------|----------------|
D|-3h0---|-5---------------|-----------------|-5----(3-5)------|----------------|
A|----1b-|-5---------------|*--------3---4---|-5--------------*|----------------|
E|-------|-3---------------|---------1---2---|-3---------------|----------------|

[Verse 1]

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High water rising, rising night and day

All the gold and silver are being stolen away Big Joe Turner looking east and west from the dark room of his mind He made it to Kansas City, Twelfth Street and Vine

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Nothing standing there

     F5    F#5  G
High water everywhere

[Verse 2]

G
High water rising, the shacks are sliding down

Folks lose their possessions and folks are leaving town Bertha Mae she shook it, broke it, and she hung it on the wall Say: "You dancin' with whom they tell you to, or you don't dance at all"

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It's tough out there

     F5    F#5  G
High water everywhere

[Verse 3]

G
I got a craving love for blazing speed, got a hopped up Mustang Ford

Jump into the wagon, Love, throw your panties overboard I can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mind I'm no pig without a wig I hope you treat me kind

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Things are breaking up out there

     F5    F#5  G
High water everywhere

[Verse 4]

G
High water rising, six inches 'bove my head

Coffins dropping in the street, like balloons made out of lead Water poured into Vicksburg, don't know what I'm gonna do "Don't reach out for me," she said, "Can't you see I'm drowning too"

F5   F#5       G
It's rough out there

     F5    F#5  G
High water everywhere

[Verse 5]

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Well, George Lewes told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew,

"You can't open up your mind, boys, to any conceivable point of view, They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway 5" Judge says to the High Sheriff, "I want him dead or alive,

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Either one, I don't care"

     F5    F#5  G
High water everywhere

[Verse 6]

G
Well, the cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies

I'm preaching the word of God, I'm putting out your eyes I asked fat Nancy for something t' eat, she said, "Take it off the shelf As great as you are, man, you'll never be greater than yourself."

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I told her I didn't really care

     F5    F#5  G
High water everywhere

[Verse 7]

G
I'm gettin' up in the morning, I believe I'll dust my broom

Keeping away from the women, I'm giving them lots of room Thunder rollin' over Clarksdale, everything a-lookin' blue I just can't be happy, love, unless you're happy too

     F5  F#5 G
It's bad out there

     F5    F#5  G
High water everywhere

[Outro] G F5 F#5 G F5 F#5 G