Bob Dylan – Too Late (Guitar)

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G C/G
G
Whether there was a murder

D                     Em
I don't know, I can't say,

      C                    G   C/G  G  C/G
I was visiting a friend in jail 

           G
There were only two women

       D
at the scene at the time

Em                         C
 Neither one of them saw a thing,

                  G             C/G  G
both of them were wearing veils

                   C           Csus4
They said it was a natural situation

        C
that he reached too high,

           Csus4       C    |: Csus4 C :|
tumbled back to the ground

                   D
You know what they say about

                    Dsus4       D
being nice to people on the way up,

                          G                Am
sooner or later you might meet them coming down 

           G                     Em
Well, it's too late to bring him back

          C
Too late, too late, too late,

D                     G              C/G   G  C/G
Too late, too late to bring him back

         G
He had a brother named Paul

        D                  Em
hangin' out at the Café Royal

              C              G
where all the company is mixed

G
Pretty to look at,

   D
he wants someone to throw the book at

Em
 but you know he drinks,

    C                  G
and drinks can be fixed 

        C
Sing me one more song

           Csus4
about your summer romance

   C
Or maybe that one about your

Csus4                            |: C Csus4 :|
one-night stand with Errol Flynn

         D
In these times of compassion

        Dsus4
when conformity's in fashion

D
Say one more stupid thing to me

  G              Am
before the final nail's driven in

              G                     Em
You know it's too late to bring him back

C                   D                     G
Too late, Too late, Too late to bring him back

    G
Dr  Silverspoon

         D
from the Ecstasy Ballroom

Em              C
 He's a retired businessman

              G
who feeds off everyone he's touched

         G
He gives money to the church,

       E
to foundations of research

Em
 He's not someone you can

C                     G
 play around with too much

          C
There's a Rosetta Blake

      Csus4                      C
who's been to both sides of the lake

                       Csus4         C
she's rough to look at but she's fit

                D                 Dsus4
She'll feed you coconut bread and spiced buns in bed

        D
and you won't have to worry about

D7                Am
sleepin' with you head face down in the plate 

         G                     Em
But it's too late to bring him back

C                   D
Too late, Too late, Too late,

              G
it's too late to bring him back

      G                D
Gonna arrange to see a man tonight

      Em                   C
He'll tell you some secret things

                            G
that you think might open some doors

       G                     D
How to enter in the gates of paradise?

    Em
No, not really 

       C                   G
More like going crazy from carrying

               C/G              G  C/G
a burden never meant to be yours

         C                          Csus4         C
From the stage they'll be doing the bumps and the grinds
A whore will pass the hat, collect a hundred grand say "Well, boys - thanks!"
             D                        Dsus4
They like to take all this money from sin,

      D
build big castles to study in,

              D7           Am                            D7
They'll sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss bank

           G                     Em
Well, it's too late to bring him back

C                   D
Too late, Too late, Too late,

                 G             C/G   G    C/G
it's too late to bring him back

G
They got some serious people out there, man

Em
they can ring your bell and show you

                     G
how to hold your tongue 

G
They don’t come to party, man,

 Em
they kill babies in the crib and say:

                     G
“Only the good die young ”

C
They don’t believe in mercy,

Csus4
and judgement on them

C                          Csus4
is something you’ll never see 

D
They can put your face on a postage stamp,

          Dsus4
turn your home into an armed camp,

D           G                    Am
any way they want you, that’s the way you’ll be

G                     Em
But it's too late to bring him back

C                   D
Too late, Too late, Too late,

              G
it's too late to bring him back

G                         Em
Yes, I guess I loved him too,

                                         G
I still see him in my mind, climbin’ that hill

C                 Csus4
Or was it a wall?

              C
I don’t recall,

Csus4                                         C
It don’t matter all all, honey, and it never will 

D                         Dsus4
Ain’t nothin’ left here, partner,

D                     Dsus4                           D
just the dust of fools that have left their mark in spades 

D                            Dsus4
From now on, this’ll be where you’re from

D                  Dsus4          D
Let the dead bury the dead  Your time will come

                     G                     Am
Feel that hot iron glowing now as you raise the shade

G                     Em
But it's too late to bring him back

C                   D
Too late, Too late, Too late,

              G
it's too late to bring him back