Bob Dylan – Shelter From The Storm (Guitar Live)

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Shelter From The Storm. Words and Music by Bob Dylan. (If you haven't heard it listen to the live version on Hard Rain) Other guitarist plays A (transpose these chords +2) with capo 1st fret [Intro] | G D | C G | G D | C G | | G D | C G | G D | C G | [Verse 1]
      G          D         C               G
'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood

G               D           C                G
Blackness was a virtue, the road was full of mud

  G                D             C                G
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

      G                    D        C                G
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm."
[Instrumental] | G D | C G | G D | C G | | G D | C G | G D | C G | [Verse 2]
      G                D               C             G
Not a word was spoke between us, there was no risk involved

G             D                 C             G
Everything up to that point had been left unresolved.

G        D                       C               G
Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm.

      G                    D        C                G
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm."
[Instrumental] | G D | C G | G D | C G | | G D | C G | G D | C G | [Verse 3]
      G                 D         C             G
I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail,

G               D       C                G
Poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail,

G             D          C              G
Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn.

      G                    D        C                G
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm."
[Instrumental] | G D | C G | G D | C G | | G D | C G | G D | C G | [Verse 4]
G          D                 C                G
Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there

     G                D                 C              G
With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair.

    G                  D              C                G
She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns.

      G                    D        C                G
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm."
[Instrumental] | G D | C G | G D | C G | | G D | C G | G D | C G | [Verse 5]
G                        D                  C                G
Now, the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount

G              D             C               G
Nothing really matters much, doom alone that counts

        G             D         C              G
And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn.

      G                    D        C                G
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm."
[Instrumental] | G D | C G | G D | C G | | G D | C G | G D | C G | [Verse 6]
     G              D             C              G
In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes

  G                D            C                G
I bargained for salvation, they gave me a lethal dose.

  G             D          C               G
I offered up my innocence, got repaid with scorn.

      G                    D        C                G
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm."
[Instrumental] | G D | C G | G D | C G | | G D | C G | G D | C G | [Verse 7]
    G                D         C                      G
Now there’s a wall between us, somethin’ there’s been lost

  G                 D        C              G
I took too much for granted, got my signals crossed

G                     D              C          G
Just to think that it all began on a uneventful morn

      G                    D        C                G
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”
[Instrumental] | G D | C G | G D | C G | | G D | C G | G D | C G | [Verse 8]
    G                   D               C                  G
I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line

G              D                 C                G
Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.

           G                  D             C                G
If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born.

      G                    D        C                G
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm."
[Instrumental/Ending] | G D | C G | G D | C G | | G D | C G | G D | C C C G