Tablature chimesoffreedom - Bob Dylan

          



 # From: Len Moskowitz <moskowit@panix.com>

  {t:Chimes of Freedom}

  {st:Bob Dylan}

  #

  # Lyrics are from Dylan's "Another Side of Bob Dylan."  This version is

  # from Roger McGuinn's latest (5/23/95) live shows, per my recollection.

  # The 12-string guitar is tuned down 1/2 step.

  #

  {define C9 base-fret 1 frets x 3 2 0 3 3}

  {define C9/B base-fret 1 frets x 2 0 0 3 3}

  {define G base-fret 1 frets 3 2 0 0 3 3}

  Intro:  G C C/B D Dsus4 

  	C D G (notes: B C D G...)

  	

  [G]Far between the sundown's [C9]finish

  and [G]midnights broken [C9]toll

  we [G]ducked inside 

  the [C9]doorway [D]thunder [G]crashing  (notes: B C D G...)

  

  As [G]majestic bells of [C9]bolts

  struck [G]shadows in the [C9]sounds

  [G]seeming to be the [C9]chimes of [D]freedom [G]flashing

  

  (notes on low E string and open D: G F# E D...)

  

  [D]Flashing for the warriors 

  whose [G]strength is [C9]not to [G]fight

  [C9]flashing for the [C9/B]refugees

  of the [Am]unarmed road of [D]flight

  and for [G]each and every [C9]underdog

  [G]soldier in the [C9]night

  and we [G]gazed upon the [C9]chimes of [D]freedom [G]flashing (notes: B C D G...)

  

  There are cities melted furnace

  unexpectedly we watched

  with faces hidden as the walls were tightening

  

  As the echo of the wedding bells

  before the blowing rain

  dissolved into the bells of the lightning

  

  Tolling for the rebel

  tolling for the rake

  tolling for the luckless

  they are bound and damned forsaked

  tolling for the outcasts 

  burning constantly at stake

  and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

  

  Through the mad mystic hammering

  and the wild ripping hail

  the sky cracked its farms in naked wonder

  

  As the clanging of the church bells

  blew far into the breeze

  leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder

  

  Striking for the gentle

  striking for the kind

  striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind

  and the poet and painter 

  far behind his rightful time

  and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

  

  In the wild cathedral evening

  the rain unravelled tales

  for a disrobed faceless farms of no position

  

  Tolling for the tongues

  with no place to bring their thoughts

  all down and taken for granted situations

  

  Tolling for the deaf and blind

  tolling for the mute

  for a mistreated maidless mother, a mistitled prostitute

  for the misdemeanor outlaw

  chained and cheated by pursuit

  and we gaze upon the chimes of freedom flashing

  

  Even though the cloud's white curtain

  in a far off corner flashed

  and the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting

  

  Electric lights still struck like arrows

  fired but for the ones

  condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting

  

  Tolling for the searching ones

  on their speechless seeking trail

  for the lonesome hearted lovers with too personal a tale

  and for each unharmful gentle soul

  misplaced inside a jail

  and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

  

  Starry eyes and laughing

  as I recall when we were caught

  can't find no track of ours for they hang suspended

  

  As we listened one last time

  and we watched with one last look

  spellbound and swallowed 'til the tolling ended

  

  Tolling for the aching ones

  whose wounds cannot be nursed

  or the countless confused accused misused

  strung out ones and worse

  and for every hung up person

  in the whole wide universe

  and we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

   


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 Chimesoffreedom, de Bob dylan 

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