Intro
D Dsus4 (2x) (This is also played between the verses)
[Verse]
D G A
Aint it just like the night, to play tricks when you're trying to be so
D Dsus4 D
quiet.
G A D Dsus4 D
We sit here stranded, though we're all doing our best to deny it.
A D Dsus4 D
And Louise, holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it.
G D
Lights flicker, from the opposite loft.
G D
In this room, the heat pipes just cough.
G D
The country music station, plays soft but there's nothing, really nothing
A Asus4 A Asus2 A
to turn off.
D G A D Dsus4 D
Just Louise, and her lover so intwined.
G D A D Dsus4
And these visions, of Johanna have conquered my mind.
In the empty lot where the ladies play
blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls
they whisper of escapades out on the D-train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna
have now taken my place
Now, a little boy lost,
he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery,
he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall
to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall
while I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
Oh, it's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna,
they kept me up past the dawn
Inside the museums,
Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what
salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze
I can't find my knees"
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna,
they make it all seem so cruel
The peddler now speaks
to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite
and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man?"
As she, herself, prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna
are now all that remain
4. Song: One Of Us Must Know(Sooner Or Later)
Capo: 5
[Verse]
G C G
I didn'C G D
C G D
You sho G C G
C G D
didn't mean to make you so sad
C G D
You just happened to be there, that's all
Em Bm
When I saw you say "goodbye" to your friend and smile
Am G
I thought that it was well understood
Em Bm
That you'd be comin' back in a little while
Am C D
I didn't know that you were sayin' "goodbye" for good
G D C G
But, sooner or later, one of us must know
C G D
That you just did what you're supposed to do
G D C G
Sooner or later, one of us must know
C G D
That I really did try to get close to you
[Chorus 1]
I couldn't see what you could show me
Your scarf had kept your mouth well hid
I couldn't see how you could know me
But you said you knew me and I believed you did
When you whispered in my ear
And asked me if I was leavin' with you or her
I didn't realize just what I did hear
I didn't realize how young you were
But, sooner or later, one of us must know
You just did what you're supposed to do
Sooner or later, one of us must know
That I really did try to get close to you
[Chorus 2]
I couldn't see when it started snowin'
Your voice was all that I heard
I couldn't see where we were goin'
But you said you knew an' I took your word
And then you told me later, as I apologized
That you were just kiddin' me, you weren't really from the farm
An' I told you, as you clawed out my eyes
That I never really meant to do you any harm
But, sooner or later, one of us must know
You just did what you're supposed to do
Sooner or later, one of us must know
That I really did try to get close to you
5. Song: I Want You
Capo: 5
(There are two guitars in this song. The "3rd" guitar is actually the organ. In the
the Lead and the Organ play the same. The "F" of the rhytm- guitar must be played as a bar
and the B minor must be played with the "B" as bass note to empathize the descending bass line of the song.)
[Intro]
(Leadguitar/Organ)
e|0-0-1p0---0-|0-0-1p0---0-|0-0-1p0-----|------------|
B|--------3---|--------3---|--------3--1|3-1p0-------|
G|------------|------------|------------|------2p0---|
D|------------|------------|------------|------------|
A|------------|------------|------------|------------|
E|------------|------------|------------|------------|
(Rhythm)
G Bm/F# Em D
[Verse]
(The Lead guitar guitar plays the intro until the C chord. Then it plays)
C D Em D
e|------------|------------|0-0-1p0-----|-----------|
B|1-1-0-1-0---|3-3-1-3-1-0-|--------3-1-|-3-1p0-----|
G|----------2-|------------|------------|-------2p0-|
D|------------|------------|------------|-----------|
A|------------|------------|------------|-----------|
E|------------|------------|------------|-----------|
G
The guilty undertake Bm/F#
Bm/F#
The lonesome org Em D
D C
The silver
ones say I should refuse you.
C
The cracked bells and
D
ashed-out horns
D
Blow into my face with scorn,
Em Em
But it's not that way,
D
I wasn't born to lose you.
[Chorus]
(Leadguitar and Organ play the intro)
G Bm/F#
I want you, I want you,
Em D
I want you so bad,
G
Honey, I want you.
(Middle Eight)
Bm/F#
Now all my fathers, they've gone down
Em
True love they've been without it.
Bm/F#
But all their daughters put me down
C D
'Cause I don't think about it.
6. Song: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
Capo: 4th fret
(The "F" should again be played as a bar chord. This is important since Dylans
Guitar isn't very prominent in his "Rock"songs. You will most likely hear the
deeper tones of his guitar with lots of bass strings but not the higher tones
- they are covered by the electric lead guitar or/and the organ. If you want
to play the songs as close as possible to the original versions then I recco-
mend to empathize the deeper strings.)
[Intro]
G Gsus4 (4x)
[Verse]
G Em
Oh, the ragman draws circles
G Em
Up and down the block.
G Em
I'd ask him what the matter was
C D
But I know that he don't talk.
C G
And the ladies treat me kindly
Em G
And furnish me with tape,
Em G
But deep inside my heart
C G
I know I can't escape.
Bm
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
G D C
To be stuck inside of Mobile
G D G
With the Memphis blues again.
Well, Shakespeare, he's in the alley
With his pointed shoes and his bells,
Speaking to some French girl,
Who says she knows me well.
And I would send a message
To find out if she's talked,
But the post office has been stolen
And the mailbox is locked.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.
Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line.
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine.
An' I said, "Oh, I didn't know that,
But then again, there's only one I've met
An' he just smoked my eyelids
An' punched my cigarette."
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.
Grandpa died last week
And now he's buried in the rocks,
But everybody still talks about
How badly they were shocked.
But me, I expected it to happen,
I knew he'd lost control
When he built a fire on Main Street
And shot it full of holes.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.
Now the senator came down here
Showing ev'ryone his gun,
Handing out free tickets
To the wedding of his son.
An' me, I nearly got busted
An' wouldn't it be my luck
To get caught without a ticket
And be discovered beneath a truck.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.
Now the preacher looked so baffled
When I asked him why he dressed
With twenty pounds of headlines
Stapled to his chest.
But he cursed me when I proved it to him,
Then I whispered, "Not even you can hide.
You see, you're just like me,
I hope you're satisfied."
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.
Now the rainman gave me two cures,
Then he said, "Jump right in."
The one was Texas medicine,
The other was just railroad gin.
An' like a fool I mixed them
An' it strangled up my mind,
An' now people just get uglier
An' I have no sense of time.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.
When Ruthie says come see her
In her honky-tonk lagoon,
Where I can watch her waltz for free
'Neath her Panamanian moon.
And I say, "Aw come on now,
You must know about my debutante."
And she says, "Your debutante just knows what you need
But I know what you want."
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.
Now the bricks lay on Grand Street
Where the neon madmen climb.
They all fall there so perfectly,
It all seems so well timed.
And here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice.
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end,
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.
7. Song: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
(Easy. Just play the Chords with the standard blues pattern and use the "Riff" tabbed below)
[Riff 1]
e|---9-----8-----7---|-5-5--|
B|-------------------|------|
G|-9---9-8---8-7---7-|-6-6--|
D|-------------------|------|
A|-------------------|------|
E|-------------------|------|
(The Chords are played like this (in shuffle style of course))
A: A |2-2-4-4-5-5-4-4|
E |0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|
D: D |2-2-4-4-5-5-4-4|
A |0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|
E: A |2-2-4-4-5-5-4-4|
B |0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|
(Use these patterns for all chords)
[Intro]