Tangled Up In Blue
by Bob DylanTranspose
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Tangled Up in Blue – Bob Dylan
Written by: Bob Dylan
From: "Blood On The Tracks" (1974)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard (different guitars: no capo / transpose -2 + capo 2 /
transpose +5 + capo 7)
alternative: Open-D + capo 7th fret or
Open-E + capo 5th fret
There are a lot of guitars on this recording. Playing it alone, an open
tuning may help to get something like the texture of this multiple guitar
sound.
I made a quick demo recording of the open tuning version. Listen to it
here: https://soundcloud.com/maguri/tangled-up-in-blue
capo: 7th fret / 5th fret no capo + standard tuning (Dylan's guitar)
play: Open-D / Open-E A
CHORDS
open tuning standard tuning
+ capo A-E-A-C#-E-a E-A-D-G-B-e
A 0-0-0-0-0-0 x-0-2-2-2-0 or x-0-7-6-5-0
Asus4 0-0-0-1-0-0 x-0-2-2-3-0 or x-0-7-7-5-0
G6(add9)/A 0-3-2-1-0-0 x-0-5-4-3-0
D x-2-0-1-0-0 x-x-0-2-3-2
E x-0-2-3-0-0 0-2-2-1-0-0
F#m x-2-0-0-0-0 2-4-4-2-2-2
G x-3-2-1-0-0 3-x-0-0-0-3
Intro
Verse 1
Early one mornin&rsquo
; the sun was shinin’
I was layin&rsqu
o; in bed
Wond’rin&rsqu
o; if she’d changed at all
If her
hair was still red
Her folks they said our
lives together
Sure was gonna be
rough
They
never did like Mama&rs
quo;s homemade dress
Papa&rs
quo;s bankbook wasn’t big enough
And
I was standin’ o
n the side of the road
Rain fallin’
on my shoes
Heading out for the
East Coast
Lord
knows I’ve paid
some dues ge
ttin’ through
Tangled
up in
blue
Interlude
Verse 2
She was married when
we first met
Soon to be di
vorced
I helped her out of a
jam, I guess
But I
used a little too much force
We
drove that car as
far as we could
A
bandoned it out
West
Split up on a
dark sad night
Both a
greeing it was best
She
turned around to
look at me
As
I was walkin&rs
quo; away
I heard her say over
my shoulder
“
We’ll mee
t again someda
y on the avenue”
Tangled
up in
blue
Interlude
Verse 3
I had a job in the
great north woods
Working as a cook for a
spell
But I
never did like it
all that much
And one
day the ax just fell
So I
drifted down to
New Orleans
Where I
happened to be em
ployed
Workin’ for a while
on a fishin’ boat
Right
outside of Delacroix
But
all the while I
was alone
The
past was close be
hind
I
seen a lot of
women
But she
never escaped my
mind, and I just
grew
Tangled
up in
blue
Interlude
Verse 4
She was workin’
in a topless place
And
I stopped in for a
beer
I
just kept lookin’ a
t the side of her face
In the
spotlight so clear
And
later on when the
crowd thinned out
I&rs
quo;s just about to d
o the same
She was
standing there in
back of my chair
Said to
me, “Don’t I know your name?”
I
muttered somethin’
underneath my breath
She
studied the lines on my
face
I
must admit I felt a
little uneasy
When she
bent down to tie the
laces of my
shoe
Tangled
up in
blue
Interlude
Verse 5
She lit a burner
on the stove
And offered me a
pipe
“I thought you’d n
ever say hello,” she said
&ldqu
o;You look like the silent type”
Then she
opened up a
book of poems
And
handed it to
me
Written by an I
talian poet
From the
thirteenth century
And
every one of them
words rang true
And
glowed like burnin&r
squo; coal
Pourin’ o
ff of every page
Like it was
written in my
soul from me to
you
Tangled
up in
blue
Interlude
Verse 6
I
lived with them on
Montague Street
In a
basement down the
stairs
There was
music in the ca
fés at night
And revo
lution in the air
Then
he started into
dealing with slaves
And
something inside of him
died
She
had to sell every
thing she owned
And
froze up inside
And when
finally the
bottom fell out
I became with
drawn
The
only thing I knew
how to do
Was to
keep on keepin&r
squo; on like a bird
that flew
Tangled
up in
blue
Interlude
Verse 7
So
now I’m
goin’ back again
I got to
get to her some
how
All the people we
used to know
They’re
an illusion to me now
Some are mathema
ticians
Some are carpenters&r
squo; wives
Don&rs
quo;t know how it al
l got started
I don’t know what th
ey’re doin’ with their lives
But
me, I&rs
quo;m still on the road
Headin’ for an
other joint
We always did
feel the same
We just
saw it from a different
point of
view
Tangled
up in
blue
Interlude
[Coda] (harp solo)
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