Bob Dylan – Seven Days (Guitar Live)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Bob Dylan Live in Tampa, Florida, 4/21/76 From: “The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991” (1991) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | Em | % | % | % | | Em | % | % | % | | Em | % | % | % | [Verse 1]
      | Em | % | % |
Seven days

C                         G
Seven more days she’ll be comin’

        B7             Em     
I’ll be waiting at the station

C           | Am |
 For her to arrive

Am               B7                   | Em | % |
Seven more days, all I gotta do is survive
[Verse 2]
        | Em | % | % |
She been gone 

     C              G
Ever since I been a child

     B7               Em
Ever since I seen her smile

     C                  | Am |
I’ve never forgotten her eyes

Am                           B7                   | Em | % |
She had a face that could outshine the sun in the skies
[Verse 3]
       | Em | % | % |
I been good

       C                 G
I been good while I been waitin’

      B7            Em
Maybe guilty of hesitatin’

    C            | Am |
But I been hangin’ on

Am                  B7              | Em | % |
Seven more days and all that will be gone
[Middle 8]
            D                      A
Now there’s kissing in the valley, thieving in the alley

B7                         Em
Fighting every inch of the way

D                            A
Trying to get a lead on, somebody to beat on

         B7                                | B7 | % | % | % | B7
When the nights are always sadder than the day  (riff)
[Verse 4]
      | Em | % | % |
Seven days 

      C               G
Seven days sippin’ an’blowin' [?]

        B7              Em
And the whistle will be blowing

C                  | Am |
She’ll be comin’ on forth

Am            B7              | Em | % |
 My beautiful comrade from the north
[Instrumental]
| Em | % | C G | B7 | Em |
             2/4
| C Am | Am | B7 | Em | % | [Middle 8]
                D                       A
Well, there’s a-fightin’ in the valley, thieving in the alley

B7                         Em
Fighting every inch of the way

D                            A
Trying to get a lead on, somebody to beat on

         B7                                | B7 | % | % | % | B7
When the nights are always sadder than the day  (riff)
[Verse 5]
      | Em | % | % |
Seven days 

C                            G
Don't know where the wind is blowing [?]

        B7              Em
And the whistle will be blowing

C               | Am |
She’ll be comin’ forth

Am            B7              | Em | % | % | % |
 My beautiful comrades of the north
[Coda] 2/4
| D A | B7 Em | D A | B7 |
               1 + 2 + 3 + 4
| B7 | % | % | B7 B7