Bob Dylan – I Was Young When I Left Home (Guitar)
Open G (D-G-D-G-B-D)
• Capo 1
Key
-
Versions
(4)
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
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Written by: Bob Dylan
Recorded in 1961 (Minnesota Tape)
Released on the Bonus CD of “Love and Theft” (2001) and
"The Bootleg Series, Vol 7: No Direction Home" (2005)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: D-G-D-G-B-d + capo 1st fret / Standard tuning
I don't really know whether a capo is used or whether the strings are
tuned to the key one hears. For the sake of convenience, I’d suggest “Open G”
and then use a capo to match Dylan’s recording (D-G-D-G-B-d leaves three strings
as they are in standard tuning whereas one would have to retune all six strings
for Eb-Ab-Eb-Ab-C-Eb).
If you don't want to take the trouble of re-tuning the strings, I added voicings
for standard tuning in the CHORDS section below.
Dylan uses a Travis picking with many variations. I include a tab of the basic
riff below that can be used to figure out a picking accompaniment or a version
using a plectrum, too.
capo: 1st fret
play: G
key: Ab
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Basic Pattern
G Cadd9
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
d |0---------0-----|----------------|----------------|------0---------|
B 1/3---------3-----|---------------1/3-----1---0—-(1)|------1---1-----|
G 2/4-----4-------4-|---------------2/4-----2---0---0-|------0---0-----|
D |0---------------|0---------------|0-------------2-|----------2-----|
G |0---------------|0---------------|0---------------|----------------|
D |----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D7
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
d |------0---------|----------------|----------------|
B |1-----1---1-----|1---------------|----------1-----|
G |0-----0---0-----|2---------------|------0---2-----|
D |2---------2-----|0---------------|------0---------|
G |0---------------|0---------------|----------------|
D |----------------|----------------|----------------|
G
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
d |0-----0---------|------0---------|
B 1/3-----3---------|------3---------|
G 2/4---------4-----|4---------4-----|
D |0---------0-----|0---------0-----|
G |0---------------|0---------------|
D |----------------|----------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHORDS
Because of the open tuning almost all the chords have a “g” as their root
D-G-D-G-B-d E-A-D-G-B-e G x-0-0-4-3-0 and x-0-0-0-0-0-0 3-x-0-0-0-3 C x-0-2-0-1-0 (= Cadd9/G) 3-x-2-0-1-3 (= C/G) D7sus4 x-0-0-2-1-0 (= D7sus4/G) 3-x-0-2-1-3 (= D7sus4/G) or 0-0-0-2-1-0 (= D7sus4)
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[Intro]
| G | % | % | C | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % |
| G | % |
[Verse 1]
G I was young when I left home C But I been out a-ramblin’ ‘round D7sus4 D7sus4 And I never wrote a letter to my home G To my home C Lord, to my home D7sus4 G And I never wrote a letter to my home
[Verse 2]
G It was just the other day C I was bringing home my pay D7sus4 D7sus4 When I met an old friend I used to know G Said your mother’s dead and gone C Baby sister’s all gone wrong D7sus4 G And your daddy needs you home right away
[Verse 3]
G Not a shirt on my back C Not a penny on my name D7sus4 D7sus4 Well I can’t go home this-a-way G This-a-way C Lord, Lord, Lord D7sus4 G And I can’t go home this-a-way
[Interlude]
| G | % | % | C | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % |
| G | % |
[Verse 4]
G If you miss the train I’m on C Count the days I’m gone D7sus4 D7sus4 You will hear that whistle blow a hundred miles G A hundred miles, honey baby C Lord Lord Lord D7sus4 G And you’ll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles
[Verse 5]
G I’m playing on a track C Ma would come and whoop me back D7sus4 D7sus4 On them trestles down by old Jim McKay’s G When I pay the debt I owe C To the commissary store D7sus4 G I will pawn my watch and chain and go home G Go home C Lord Lord Lord D7sus4 G I will pawn my watch and chain and go home
[Interlude]
| G | % | % | C | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % |
| G | % |
[Verse 6]
G Used to tell Ma sometimes C When I see them riding blinds D7sus4 D7sus4 Gonna make me a home out in the wind G In the wind C Lord in the wind D7sus4 G Make me a home out in the wind
[Verse 7]
G I don’t like it in the wind C Wanna go back home again D7sus4 G But I can’t go home this-a-way G This-a-way C Lord Lord Lord D7sus4 G And I can’t go home this-a-way
[Interlude]
| G | % | % | C | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % |
| G | % |
[Verse 8]
G I was young when I left home C But I been out a-ramblin’ ‘round D7sus4 D7sus4 And I never wrote a letter to my home G To my home C Lord Lord Lord D7sus4 G And I never wrote a letter to my home
[Coda]
| G | % | % | C | % | D7sus4 | % | G | G