Youre Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

by Bob Dylan

Chords

4.7 (62)

Version:

v2 v1 v3 v4 v5

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Capo

None

Size

100%

This is track five on "Blood on the Tracks", Bob Dylan's 1974 album.

It's also on Shawn Colvin's album "Cover Girl".

I play it in a much slower tempo than the Bob Dylan version, and slightly

slower than Shawn Colvin's, and I don't fingerpick.

Just strum the chords on an acoustic guitar to the rhythm of the song,

it should work out. Then for the last line of each verse,

the "chorus" of the song, there's a little fill:

   [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]
e|-3-----------2----|
B|-0---3----0--3----|
G|-0-----------2----|
D|-0-----------0----|
A|-2-----------x----|
E|-3-----------x----|
   ...when you go.

When he says "Honolulu", it sounds like "Honolula", so it rhymes with "Ashtabula."

A couple of the phrases here are not known to all people, so:

Purple clover and Queen Anne's lace are plants common to the American northeast.

Verlaine and Rimbaud were French lovers in the 19th century.

Verlaine shot Rimbaud (pronounced Rim-bo) in the left wrist.

Ashtabula is a port city in Ohio.

That's about it. Comments/questions/corrections to planetawesome@hotmail.com

Intro

Verse 1

I've seen love go

by my door, it's

never been this close before

Never been so

easy or so

slow

I've been shooting in the

dark too long, when

something isn't right it's wrong

You're gonna make me

lonesome when you

go.

Verse 2

Dragon clouds so

high above,

I've only known careless love,

It's always hit me

right from

below

But this time around it's

more correct,

right on target, so direct,

You're gonna make me

lonesome when you

go.

Verse 3

Purple clover,

Queen Anne's lace,

crimson hair across your face,

You could make me

cry if you don't

know

Can't remember what I was

thinkin' of, you

might be spoilin' me too much love,

You're gonna make me

lonesome when you

go.

Refrain

Flowers on the hillside, bloomin'

crazy

Crickets talkin' back and forth in

rhyme

Blue river runnin' slow and lazy

I could stay with you forever,

and never realize the time.

Verse 4

Situations have

ended sad,

relationships have all been bad

Mine've been like

Verlaine's and Rim

baud

But there's no way

I can compare

all those scenes to this affair

You're gonna make me

lonesome when you

go.

Refrain

You're gonna make me wonder what I'm

doin'

Stayin' far behind without

you

You're gonna make me wonder what I'm sayin'

You're gonna make me give myself

a good talkin' to.

Verse 5

I'll look for you in old

Honolulu,

San Francisco, and Ashtabula

You're gonna have to

leave me now,

I know.

But I'll see you in the

sky above, in the

tall grass, and in the ones I love,

You're gonna make me

lonesome when you

go.

But I'll see you in the

stars above, in the

tall grass, and in the ones I love,

You're gonna make me

lonesome when you

go.

You're gonna make me

lonesome when you

go.

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| x Dead note

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