Bob Dylan – My Back Pages (Ukulele)

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Title: My Back Pages Artist: Bob Dylan Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan The chords vary from verse to verse and are never the same on the refrain ("Ah but I was so much older..."). If you are intent on learning the song as it is on the album, the following notes might help: Verse 1 is very different from the rest. You just gotta learn it. Verses 2, 3, 4, and 6 are identical. Verse 5 is similar to the other verses except the last part. The refrains have different variations each time. However, if youre not so picky about every detail, I recomend just learning the chords to the last verse and refrain and using that pattern throughout. Also, Dylan uses this little thing most of the G chords:

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--0--2--3--
--2--2--2--
--3--3--3--

Capo 3 ------ C

  C       Am         Em
Crimson flames tied through my ears

     F            G       C
Rollin' high and mighty traps

 C            Am       Em     C
Pounced with fire on flaming roads

  F         Em     G 
Using ideas as my maps

        F      Am       G         C
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I

 Am                   F      G
Proud 'neath heated brow.

     C                 Am     C
Ah, but I was so much older then,

     F        G        C 
I'm younger than that now.

G G G G

  C            Am     Em
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth

   F           G          C
"Rip down all hate," I screamed

 C        Am       Em
Lies that life is black and white

F                        G
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed

   Am              Em
Romantic facts of musketeers

     F                  G
Foundationed deep, somehow.

        C      Am     Em      F
Ah, but I was so much older then,   

     G                C
I'm younger than that now.

    C         Am         Em
Girls' faces formed the forward path

       F    G     C
From phony jealousy

    C   Am     Em
To memorizing politics

   F             G
Of ancient history

    Am                 Em
Flung down by corpse evangelists

    F                      G
Unthought of, though, somehow.

      C               F       C
Ah, but I was so much older then,

     F        G        C
I'm younger than that now.

   C      Am        Em
A self-ordained professor's tongue

    F    G      C
Too serious to fool

  C      Am      Em
Spouted out that liberty

    F                  G
Is just equality in school

   Am           Em
"Equality," I spoke the word

   F             G
As if a wedding vow.

       C      Am
Ah, but I was so much older then,

 F           G         C
I'm younger than that now.

      C          Am        Em
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand

        F       G         C
At the mongrel dogs who teach

 C                 Am         Em     
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy

        F               G
In the instant that I preach

    Am                F        C
My existence led by confusion boats

 Am          Em       G
Mutiny from stern to bow.

        C      Am      F     C
Ah, but I was so much older then,

     G                 C
I'm younger than that now.

         C       Am            Em
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats

     F     G     C
Too noble to neglect

    C        Am    Em
Deceived me into thinking

       F               G
I had something to protect

 Am                Em
Good and bad, I define these terms

 F                        G        
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

        C     Am       F      C
Ah, but I was so much older then,

      G                C
I'm younger than that now.

transcribed by orest [email protected]