Bob Dylan – Highlands (Guitar Live)
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Guitar Live
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Bob wanders a bit away from the original lyrics in the 1997 Time Out of Mind album
The recording is blurry in places, but it's a simple blues in G using mainly 7th chords and
he is accompanied to his right by a ukulele playing riffs in G
[Intro]
G7
[Verse 1]
G7 Well my hearts in the Highlands gentle and fair G7 Honeysuckle blooming in the wildwood air C7 G7 Bluebells blazing where the Aberdeen waters flow D7 C7 G7 Well my heart's in The Highlands, I'm gonna go there when I feel good enough to go
[Verse 2]
G7 Windows were shaking all night in my dreams G7 Everything was exactly the way that it seems C7 G7 Woke up this mornin' and I looked at the same old page D7 C7 G7 Same old rat race, life in the same old cage
[Verse 3]
G7 I don't want nothin' from anyone, ain't that much to take G7 Wouldn't know the difference between a real blonde and a fake C7 G7 Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery D7 C7 G7 I wish someone'd come and push back the clock for me
[Verse 4]
G7 Well my heart's in The Highlands wherever I roam G7 That's where I'll be when I get called home C7 G7 The wind it whispers to the buckeye trees of rhyme D7 C7 G7 Well, my heart's in The Highlands, I can only get there one step at a time
[Verse 5]
G7 I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound G7 Someone's always yellin' "Turn it down" C7 G7 Feel like I'm driftin', driftin' from scene to scene D7 C7 G7 I'm wonderin' what in the devil could it all possibly mean
[Verse 6]
G7 Insanity is smashin' up against my soul G7 You could say I was on anything but a roll C7 G7 If I had a conscience, well I just might blow my top D7 C7 G7 What would I do with it anyway, take it to the pawn shop?
[Verse 7]
G7 My heart's in The Highlands at the break of dawn G7 By the beautiful lake of the Black Swan C7 G7 Big white clouds like chariots that swing down low D7 C7 G7 Well my heart's in The Highlands, only place left to go
[Verse 8]
G7 I'm in Boston town in some restaurant G7 I got no idea what I want C7 G7 Or maybe I do but I'm just really too sure D7 C7 G7 Waitress comes over, nobody in the place but me and her
[Verse 9]
G7 Well it must be a holiday, there's nobody around G7 She studies me closely as I sit down C7 G7 She got a pretty face and long white shiny legs D7 C7 G7 I said "Tell me whats good today" She proudly say "You probably want hard boiled eggs"
[Verse 10]
G7 I said "That's right, bring me some" G7 She says "We ain't got any, you picked the wrong time to come" C7 G7 Then she says "I know you're an artist, draw a picture of me" D7 C7 G7 I said "I would if I could but, I don't do sketches from memory"
[Verse 11]
G7 Well she's there, she says "I'm right here in front of you, or haven't you looked?" G7 I say "All right, I know but I don't have my drawin' book" C7 G7 She throws me a napkin, she say "You can do it on that" D7 C7 G7 I say "Yes I would if I could but I don't know where my pencil is at"
[Verse 12]
G7 She pulls one out from behind her ear G7 She says "OK go ahead draw me I'm stayin' right here" C7 G7 I make a few lines and I show it for her to see D7 C7 G7 Well she takes the napkin and throws it back and says, "That don't look a thing like me"
[Verse 13]
G7 I said "Oh kind miss, it most certainly does" G7 She say "You must be joking", I said "I wish I was" C7 G7 She says "I know you don't read women authors do ya?" At least that's what I think I hear her say D7 C7 G7 Well I say "How would you know, and what would it matter anyway?"
[Verse 14]
G7 Well she says "Ya just don't seem like ya do" I said "You're way wrong" G7 She says "Which ones have you read then?", I say "Read Erica Jong" C7 G7 She goes away for a minute, and I slide out, out of my chair D7 C7 G7 I head back out to the busy street, but nobody's goin' anywhere
[Verse 15]
G7 Well my heart's in The Highlands with the horses and hounds G7 Way up in the border country far from the towns C7 G7 With the twang of the arrow and the snap of the bow D7 C7 G7 My heart's in The Highlands, can't go no any other place that I wanna go
[Verse 16]
G7 Every day is the same thing, out the door G7 Try to repair what went wrong the day before C7 G7 Some things in life it just gets too late to learn D7 C7 G7 Well I'm lost somewhere, I must have made a few bad turns
[Instrumental]
G7 x4
C7 x2
G7 x2
D7 C7 G7
[Verse 17]
G7 I see people in the park, forgettin' their troubles and woes G7 They're drinkin' and dancin', wearin' bright colored clothes C7 G7 All the young men with the young women lookin' so good D7 C7 G7 Well, I'd trade places with any of 'em, in a minute only if I could
[Verse 18]
G7 I'm crossin' the street to get away from a mangy dog G7 Talkin' to myself in a monologue C7 G7 I think what I might need full-length leather coat D7 C7 G7 Somebody just asked me if I'm registered to vote
[Verse 19]
G7 Well my heart's in The Highlands at the break of day G7 Over the hills and far away C7 G7 There's a way to get there, and I'll figure it out somehow D7 C7 G7 Well I'm already there in my mind and that's good enough for now....fade out
Love and peace
Kevin