Bob Dylan – Ring Them Bells (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Bob Dylan From: "Oh Mercy" (1989) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Following the main vocal line, Dylan plays a lot of changes on the piano on his recording that are hard to do on a guitar. I skipped most of them for this tab and kept to the underlying chord (mostly C). capo: 1st fret play: C key: C#/Db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

CHORDS
          E-A-D-G-B-E
F/A       x-0-3-2-1-1
G/B       x-2-0-0-3-3
F/G       3-x-3-2-1-1

Abaug     4-x-2-1-1-x
C/G       3-x-2-0-1-0
D9/F#     2-x-0-2-1-0
Fmaj7  (t)1-3-3-2-1-0
C/E       0(3)2-0-1-0

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | C | C G | Am | Am F/A G/B | C | % | [Verse 1]

C
Ring them bells, ye heathen

         F/A             C
From the city that dreams

C
Ring them bells from the sanctuaries

           F/G
’Cross the valleys and streams

            F                C
For they’re deep and they’re wide

        C                  F
And the world’s on its side

    C
And time is running backwards

    F/G       C
And so is the bride

[Interlude] | F/A F/A G/B | C | % | [Verse 2]

C
Ring them bells St. Peter

          F/A            C
Where the four winds blow

C
Ring them bells with an iron hand

       F/G
So the people will know

        F         C
Oh it’s rush hour now

       C                  F
On the wheel and the plow

        C
And the sun is going down

         F/G    C
Upon the sacred cow

[Interlude] | F/A F/A G/B | C | % | [Verse 3]

C
Ring them bells Sweet Martha

        F/G        C
For the poor man’s son

C
Ring them bells so the world will know

     G
That God is one

       F            C
Oh the shepherd is asleep

          C       F
Where the willows weep

        C
And the mountains are filled

     F/G  C
With lost sheep

[Middle 8]

          Am                          C
Ring them bells for the blind and the deaf

          Am                          C
Ring them bells for all of us who are left

          Am                   Abaug
Ring them bells for the chosen few

                   C/G                   D9/F#
Who will judge the many when the game is through

          Fmaj7                    C/E
Ring them bells, for the time that flies

                   Dm7
For the child that cries

               F/G
When innocence dies

[Verse 4]

C
Ring them bells St. Catherine

         F/G             C
From the top of the room

C
Ring them from the fortress

        F/G
For the lilies that bloom

       F         C
Oh the lines are long

        C           F
And the fighting is strong

            C
And they’re breaking down the distance

        F/G       C
Between right and wrong

[Outro] | G | F | G | F | | C | % | F/G C