Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (Guitar)

Capo 4
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Bob Dylan From: "Blonde on Blonde" (1966) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Interesting mistake that I came across when I aligned chords and lyrics. It is 2:43 into the song (verse 4): The line reads “When he built a fire on Main Street” in the lyrics on bobdylan.com, but what you actually hear on the record is “When I speak ... built a fire on Main Street”. Dylan either botched up the line, starting with the wrong words and then quickly getting back on track or it is a bad edit. Vocal flub is more probable, though (I read somewhere that the recording on the album is the full and final take 20). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- capo: 4th fret play: C key: E For chords in original key, transpose +4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bass run between verses
 [E
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
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A|------------2---|--0-------------|
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CHORDS 
       E-A-D-G-B-E
Csus4  x-3-3-0-1-x
G/B    x-2-0-0-0(3)
C/G    3-x-2-0-1-0
F/G    3-x-3-2-1-1
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[Intro]
         [Csus4
 [C            [C
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  
e|----------------|
B|1-1-1-1---1-1-1-|
G|0-0-0-0---0-0-0-|
D|2-2-2-2---3-3-2-|
A|3-3-3-3---3-3-3-|
E|----------------|
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | C Csus4 | C Csus4 | C Csus4 | C | [Verse 1]
        C            Am
Oh, the ragman draws circles

C               Am
Up and down the block

    C                Am
I’d ask him what the matter was

      F                  G (7)
But I know that he don’t talk

        F               C
And the ladies treat me kindly

          Am              C
And they furnish me with tape

    Am             C
But deep inside my heart

  F              C
I know I can’t escape

Em
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?

      C       G/B     Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile,

C/G      F/G            C       
With the Memphis blues again?  [bass: C, Bb, G, F, E, C]
= E, D, B, A, G#, E without capo [Verse 2]
      C                        Am
Well, Shakespeare, he’s in the alley

         C                     Am
With his pointed shoes and his bells

C                 Am
 Speaking to some French girl

    F                 G
Who says she knows me well

    F              C
And I would send a message

    Am               C
To find out if she’s talked

        Am                   C
But the post office has been stolen

        F          C
And the mailbox is locked

Em
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?

      C       G/B     Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile,

C/G      F       F/G    C       
With the Memphis blues again?   [bass: C, Bb, G, F, E, C]
= E, D, B, A, G#, E without capo [Verse 3]
C              Am
Mona tried to tell me

   C                        Am
To stay away from the train line

    C                 Am
She said that all the railroad men

           F                  G
Just drink up your blood like wine

      F                   C
An’ I said, “Oh, I didn’t know that

           Am                         C
But then again, there’s only one I’ve met

    Am                C
An’ he just smoked my eyelids

    F              C
An’ punched my cigarette”

Em
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?

      C       G/B     Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile,

C/G      F       F/G    C       
with the Memphis blues again?   [bass: C, Bb, G, F, E, C]
= E, D, B, A, G#, E without capo [Verse 4]
C                 Am
Grandpa died last week

             C             Am
And now he’s buried in the rocks

    C               Am
But everybody still talks about

    F               G
How badly they were shocked

    F                    C
But me, I expected it to happen

  Am                C
I knew he’d lost control

        Am              C
When he built a fire on Main Street 

    F               C 
And shot it full of holes

Em
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?

      C       G/B     Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile,

C/G      F       F/G    C
With the Memphis blues again?   [bass: C, Bb, G, F, E, C]
= E, D, B, A, G#, E without capo [Verse 5]
        C       Am
Now the senator came down here

C                    Am
Showing ev’ryone his gun

C                 Am
 Handing out free tickets

       F              G
To the wedding of his son

    F                C
An’ me, I nearly got busted

    Am                C
An’ wouldn’t it be my luck

       Am               C
To get caught without a ticket

          F                 C
And be discovered beneath a truck

Em
Oh Mama, is this really the end?

      C       G/B     Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile,

C/G      F       F/G    C
With the Memphis blues again?   [bass: C, Bb, G, F, E, C]
= E, D, B, A, G#, E without capo [Verse 6]
        C                  Am
Now the preacher looked so baffled

       C                Am
When I asked him why he dressed

     C                Am
With twenty pounds of headlines

F              G
Stapled to his chest

       F                C
But he cursed me when I proved to him

       Am                           C
Then I whispered, “Not even you can hide

    Am                    C
You see, you’re just like me

  F                C
I hope you’re satisfied”

Em
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?

      C       G/B     Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile,

C/G      F       F/G    C
with the Memphis blues again?   [bass: C, Bb, G, F, E, C]
= E, D, B, A, G#, E without capo [Verse 7]
        C               Am
Now the rainman gave me two cures

        C                 Am
Then he said, “Jump right in”

    C               Am
The one was Texas medicine

    F                       G
The other was just railroad gin

    F             C
An’ like a fool I mixed them

       Am              C
An’ it strangled up my mind

        Am              C
An’ now people just get uglier

      F                C
An’ I have no sense of time

Em
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?

      C       G/B     Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile,

C/G      F/G            C       
with the Memphis blues again?   [bass: C, Bb, G, F, E, C]
= E, D, B, A, G#, E without capo [Verse 8]
     C                Am
When Ruthie says come see her

       C            Am
In her honky-tonk lagoon

            C                   Am
Where I can watch her waltz for free

           F           G
’Neath her  Panamanian moon

     F              C
An’ I say, “Aw come on now

    Am                         C
You know you know about my debutante”

                    Am                            C
An’ she says, “Your debutante just knows what you need

    F               C
But I know what you want”

Em
Oh Mama, can this really be the end?

      C       G/B     Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile,

C/G      F/G            C
with the Memphis blues again?   [bass: C, Bb, G, F, E, C]
= E, D, B, A, G#, E without capo [Verse 9]
        C             Am
Now the bricks lay on Grand Street

          C           Am
Where the neon madmen climb

     C                 Am
They all fall there so perfectly

   F                 G
It all seems so well timed

    F             C
An’ here I sit so patiently

Am                       C
Waiting to find out what price

    Am                 C
You have to pay to get out of

      F                        C
Going through all these things twice

Em
Oh Mama, is this really the end?

      C       G/B     Am
To be stuck inside of Mobile,

C/G      F/G            [ C ]  
with the Memphis blues again?
[Coda](harp) | C | % | % | % |
| C G/B | Am C/G | F/G F/G | C
  [last three bars: break on every chord]