Bob Dylan – My Own Version Of You (Guitar)
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My Own Version Of You Bob Dylan 2020
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Authors Notes:
Throughout the song, Dylan references creating a person
out of disparate parts.
Perhaps in reference to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
It's difficult to get Bob's lyrics into a rhythm pattern.
Licks 1 & 2 run consistently through the verses
¾ Beat
x = muted string e.g. 3-- = let the string sound
Lick 1 => Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 e|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-| B|-x-1-1-|-x-1-1-|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-| G|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-1-1-| D|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-3-3-| A|-0-----|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-| E|-x-x-x-|-3-----|-2-----|-1-----| Lick 2 => Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 e|-x-1-1-|-x-1-1-|-x-1-1-|-x-1-1-| B|-x-3-3-|-x-3-3-|-x-3-3-|-x-3-3-| G|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-| D|-0-----|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-| A|-------|-3-----|-2-----|-1-----| E|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|
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Adim x03545
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[Intro]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7
[Verse 1]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 All through the summers into January Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I've been visiting morgues and monasteries Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 Looking for the necessary body parts Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Limbs and livers and brains and hearts F7 I'll bring someone to life, is what I wanna do Adim Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I wanna create my own version of you
[Verse 2]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Well, it must be the winter of my discontent Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 They talk all night and they talk all day Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Not for a minute do I believe anything they say F7 I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen Adim Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean
[Verse 3]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I'll take the Scarface Pacino and The Godfather Brando Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Mix it up in a tank and get a robot commando Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 If I do it upright and put the head on straight Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I'll be saved by the creature that I create
[Verse 4]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I'll get blood from a cactus, gunpowder from ice Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I don't gamble with cards and I don't shoot no dice Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 Can you look at my face with your sightless eyes? Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Can you cross your heart and hope to die? F7 I'll bring someone to life, someone for real Adim Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Someone who feels the way that I feel
[Verse 5]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I wanna do things for the benefit of all mankind Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 I say to the willow tree, "Don't weep for me" Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I'm saying to hell to all things that I used to be
[Verse 6]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Well, I get into trouble then I hit the wall Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 No place to turn, no place at all Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 I'll pick a number between a-one and two Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 And I ask myself, "What would Julius Caesar do?" F7 I will bring someone to life in more ways than one Adim Don't matter how long it takes, Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 it'll be done when it's done
[Verse 7]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I'm gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Like Liberace, like St. John the Apostle Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 I'll play every number that I can play Bm Am7/G Am/F# F7 I'll see you maybe on Judgment Day
[Verse 8]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 After midnight, if you still wanna meet Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I'll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 Two doors down, not that far a walk Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I'll hear your footsteps, you won't have to knock F7 I'll bring someone to life, balance the scales Adim Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I'm not gonna get involved any insignificant details
[Verse 9]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 You can bring it to St. Peter You can bring it to Jerome Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 You can bring it all the way over bring it all the way home Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 Bring it to the corner where the children play Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 You can bring it to me on a silver tray F7 I'll bring someone to life, spare no expense Adim Do it with decency and common sense
[Instrumental]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7
[Verse 10]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Can you tell me what it means to be or not to be? Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 You won't get away with fooling me Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 Can you help me walk that moonlight mile? Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Can you give me the blessings of your smile? F7 I'll bring someone to life, use all of my powers Adim Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Do it in the dark, in the wee, small hours
[Verse 11]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 I can see the history of the whole human race Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 It's all right there it's carved into your face Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 Should I break it all down? Should I fall on my knees? Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Is there light at the end of the tunnel, can you tell me, please?
[Verse 12]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Stand over there by the cypress tree Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Where the Trojan women and children were sold into slavery Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 Long before the first Crusade Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Way back before England or America were made
[Verse 13]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Step right in to the burning hell Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Where some of the best-known enemies of mankind dwell Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his axe Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 See the raw hide lash rip the skin from their backs
[Verse 14]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Got the right spirit, you can feel it, you can hear it Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 You've got what they call the immortal spirit Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 You can feel it all night you can feel it in the morn' Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 It creeps in your body the day you were born
[Verse 15]
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 One strike of lightning is all that I need Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 And a blast of electricity that runs at top speed Dm Dm7/C Dm/B Bbmaj7 Shimmy your ribs I'll stick in the knife Am Am7/G Am/F# F7 Gonna jumpstart my creation to life F7 I wanna bring someone to life, turn back the years Adim Do it with laughter and do it with tears
[Outro]
(Fade out)
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7
Am Am7/G Am/F# F7
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