Bob Dylan – Poor Lazarus (Guitar)

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Poor Lazarus (trad) Similar to the version recorded by Bob Dylan on the “Minnesota Hotel Tape” (Dec 22 1961) Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem [Intro]
D/F#          G          G7
Well they found poor Lazarus

      C            A
in between two mountains

            G      D/F#
Blowed him down    great God

                  G    D/F#
they blowed him down
[Verse 1]
          G             G7
Well they killed poor Lazarus

         C     A
with a mighty number

        G   D/F#
number 45
[Verse 2]
          G                G7
Poor Lazarus they took his body

C                    A
to the commissary office

            G   D/F#
Walked away

                          G   D/F#
great God they walked away
[Verse 3]
          G               G7
Poor Lazarus Lazarus's father

C                             A
When he heard his son was a-dying

                            G   D/F#
he said: let that fool go down

                   G   D/F#
Let the fool go down
[Verse 4]
          G                      G7
And Lazarus Lazarus's little sister

C                            A
she could not come to the funeral

                 G     D/F#
Didn't have no shoes

               G     D/F#
lord on her feet
[Verse 5]
          G                   G7
And Lazarus Lazarus's old mother

C              A
walking down the road

                 G    D/F#
crying: my only son

                   G    D/F#
he killed my only son
[Verse 6]
          G                     G7
Hey captain did you hear the news?

C                         A
Your men are gonna leave you

            G    D/F#
next pay day

                    G    D/F#
oh lord next pay day
[Verse 7]
          G                       G7
Well the high sheriff told the deputy

C                     A
go out and get me Lazarus

            G     D/F#
Dead or alive

            G    
dead or alive