Bob Dylan – I Shall Be Free (Guitar)

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[Chords]
D7sus   x00213
C/G     xx2013 (or 3x2013)
[Intro] G D7 G C/G G C/G G C/G G C/G G [Verse 1]
        D7sus
Well, I took me a woman late last night

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I was three-fourths drunk, she looked alright

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'Til she started peelin' off her onion-gook

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She took off her wig, an' said, "How do I look?"

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I was high-flyin'

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Bare-naked

        C/G   G D7 C/G G C/G G
Out the window
[Verse 2]
      D7sus
Well, sometimes I might get drunk

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Walk like a duck and smell like a skunk

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Don't hurt me none, it don't hurt my pride

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'Cause I got my little lady right by my side

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She's-a tryin' to hide

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Pretendin' she don't know me
[Verse 3]
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I's out there paintin' on the old woodshed

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When a can of black paint it fell on my head

D7sus
I went down to scrub and rub

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But I had to sit in back of the tub

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Cost a quarter

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Half-price
[Verse 4]
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Well, my telephone rang, it would not stop

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It's President Kennedy callin' me up

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He said, "My friend Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?"

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I said, "My friend John, Brigitte Bardot

      C/G     G C/G G
Anita Ekberg

       C/G   G C/G G
Sophia Loren

         C/G    G  D7 C/G G C/G G C/G G
Country-O-Grow"
[Verse 5]
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Well, I got a woman four feet short

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She yells and hollers and screams and snorts

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She tickles my nose pats me on the head

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Rolls me over and kicks me outta bed

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She's a man-eater

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Meat-grinder

       D7sus C/G G C/G G C/G G C/G G
Bad loser
[Verse 6]
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Oh, there ain't no use in me workin' all the time

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I got a woman who works herself blind

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Works up to her britches, up to her neck

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Writes me letters and sends me checks

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She's a humdinger

    C/G    G  D7sus C/G G C/G G C/G G
Folk singer
[Verse 7]
D7sus
Late one day in the middle of the week

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Eyes were closed, I was half asleep

  D7sus
I chased me a woman up the hill

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Right in the middle of an air raid drill

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I jumped the fallout shelter

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I jumped the string-bean

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I jumped the TV dinner

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I jumped the shotgun
[Verse 8]
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Now, the man on the stand, he wants my vote

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He's a-runnin' for office on a ballot note

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He's out there preachin' in front of the steeple

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Tellin' me he loves all kinds of people

            C/G     G C/G G
He's eatin' bagels

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He's eatin' pizza

            C/G G   D7 C/G G C/G G C/G G
He's eatin' chitlins
[Verse 9]
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Oh, I set me down on the television floor

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I flipped the channel on to number four

D7sus
Out of the shower comes a football man

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With a bottle of oil in his hand

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Greasy kid stuff

         D7sus
But what I want to know, Mr. Football Man

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Is what do you do about   Willy Mays?

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Martin Luther King?

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Oula Tunjee?
[Verse 10]
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Well, the funniest woman I ever seen

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Was the great-granddaughter of Mr. Clean

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She takes about fifteen baths a day

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Wants me to grow a mustache on my face

      C/G G C/G D7sus C/G G C/G G C/G G
She's insane
[Verse 11]
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Well, ya ask me why I'm drunk all the time

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It levels my head and eases my mind

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I just walk along and stroll and sing

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I'll see better days and I'll do better things

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I'll catch dinosaurs

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Make love to Elizabeth Taylor

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Catch hell from Richard Burton