Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue (Guitar Intro)

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Early one mornin' the sun was shinin',

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I was layin' in bed

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Wond'rin' if she'd changed at all

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If her hair was still red.

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Her folks they said their lives together

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Sure was gonna be rough

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They never did like Mama's homemade dress

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Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough.

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And I was standin' on the side of the road

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Rain fallin' on my shoes

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Heading out for the East Coast

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Lord knows I’ves paid some dues gettin' through,

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Tangled up in blue.

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She was married when they first met,

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Soon to be divorced

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I helped her out of a jam, I guess,

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But I used a little too much force.

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We drove that car as far as we could

E*               D*
Abandoned it out West

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Split up on a dark sad night

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Both agreeing it was best.

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She turned around to look at me

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As I was walkin' away

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I heard her say over my shoulder,

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“We'll meet again someday on the avenue,"

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Tangled up in blue.

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I had a job in the great north woods

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Working as a cook for a spell

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But I never did like it all that much

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And one day the axe just fell.

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So I drifted down to New Orleans

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Where I happened to be employed

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Working’ for a while on a fishing’ boat

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Right outside of Delacroix.

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But all the while I was alone

       E      B*   A
The past was close behind,

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I seen a lot of women

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But she never escaped my mind, and I just grew

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Tangled up in blue.

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She was working’ in a topless place

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And I stopped in for a beer

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I just kept looking’ at the side of her face

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In the spotlight so clear.

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And later on as the crowd thinned out

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I’s just about to do the same,

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She was standing there in back of my chair

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Said to me, “Don’t I know your name?”

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I muttered somthin’ underneath my breath,

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She studied the lines on my face

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I must admit I felt a little uneasy

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When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe,

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Tangled up in blue.

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She lit a burner on the stove

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And offered me a pipe

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“I thought you’d never say hello,” she said

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‘You look like the silent type.”

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Then she opened up a book a book of poems

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And handed it to me

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Written by an Italian poet

 E       B*         A
From the thirteenth century.

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And every one of them words rang true

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And glowed like burnin’ coal

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Pouring’ off of every page

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Like it was written in my soul from me to you,

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Tangled up in blue.

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I lived with them on Montague Street

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In a basement down the stairs,

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There was music in the cafes at night

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And revolution in the air.

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Then he started into dealing with slaves

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And something inside him died.

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She had to sell everything she owned

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And froze up inside.

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And when finally the bottom fell out

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I became withdrawn,

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The only thing I knew how to do

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Was to keep on kepi’ on like a bird that flew,

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Tangled up in blue.

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So now I’m going’ back again,

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I got to get to her somehow

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All the people we used to know

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They’re an illusion to me now.

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Some are mathematicians

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Some are carpenter’s wives.

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Don’t know how it all got started,

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I don’t know what they’re doing’ with their lives.

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But me, I’m still on the road

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Heading’ for another joint,

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We always did feel the same,

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We just saw it from a different point of view,

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Tangled up in blue.