Tablature blind willie mctell - Bob Dylan

          



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  From: Harlan L Thompson <harlant@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>

  

  BLIND WILLIE McTELL- Bob Dylan

  

        Dm        A      Dm

  Seen the arrow on the doorpost

   Dm           A       Dm

  Saying this land is condemned

            A       C    G     Bb     C  Dm

  All the way from New Orleans to Jeruselem

     Dm       A      Dm

  I travelled to East Texas

   Dm          A     Dm

  Where many martyrs fell

            A       C            G

  And I know no one can sing the blues

  Bb           C       Dm

  Like Blind Willie McTell

  

  Well I heard that hooter singing

  As they were taking down the tents

  The stars above the barren trees

  Were his only audience

  Them charcoal gypsy maidens

  Can strut their feathers well

  But nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell

  

  See them big plantations burning

  Hear the cracking of the whips

  Smell that sweet magnolia blooming

  See the ghosts of slavery ships

  I can hear them tribes a moaning

  Hear that undertaker's bell

  Nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell

  

  There's a woman by the river

  With some fine young handsome man

  He's dressed up like a squire

  Bootleg whiskey in his hand

  There's a chain gang on a highway

  I can hear them rebels yell

  But I know no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell

  

  Well God is up in Heaven

  And we are what was his

  But power,greed and corruptable seed

  Seem to be all that there is

  I'm gazing out the window

  of the St. James Hotel

  And I know no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell

  

  

  (originally done around 1983, released as part of The Bootleg

  Series, 1-3)

  (sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)

  

  

   


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 Blind willie mctell, de Bob dylan 

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