Tablature my back pages - The Byrds

          



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  From: moskowit@panix.com (Len Moskowitz)

  Subject: CRD: My Back Pages (The Byrds/Dylan)

  

  

  			     MY BACK PAGES

  		     (Words and Music by Bob Dylan)

  			 1964 Warner Bros. Inc

  		    Renewed 1992 Special Rider Music

  

  [This is The Byrds' arrangement.  Lyrics provided by Roger McGuinn in a

  post from alt.music.byrds.  Comments in brackets by the cureent poster.]

  

  Intro:  E Esus4 (repeat 4 times)

  

  

  E       C#m         Abm

  Crimson flames tied through my ears

          A        B      E

  Rollin' high and mighty traps

  E            C#m     Abm

  Pounced with fire on flaming roads

        A          B

  Using ideas as my maps

         C#m            Abm           

  "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I

  A                   B

  Proud 'neath heated brow.

          E             A     E

  Ah, but I was so much older then,

       A      B         E  (intro riff twice)

  I'm younger than that now.

  

  Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth

  "Rip down all hate," I screamed

  Lies that life is black and white

  Spoke from my skull. I dreamed

  Romantic facts [flanks] of musketeers

  Foundationed deep, somehow.

  Ah, but I was so much older then,

  bI'm younger than that now.

  

  [The next two verses were left out by The Byrds]

  

  Girls' faces formed the forward path

  From phony jealousy

  To memorizing politics

  Of ancient history

  Flung down by corpse evangelists

  Unthought of, though, somehow.

  Ah, but I was so much older then,

  I'm younger than that now.

  

  A self-ordained professor's tongue

  Too serious to fool

  Spouted out that liberty

  Is just equality in school

  "Equality," I spoke the word

  As if a wedding vow.

  Ah, but I was so much older then,

  I'm younger than that now.

  

  [The Byrds pick it up here]

  

  In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand

  At the mongrel dogs who teach

  Fearing not that I'd become my enemy

  In the instant that I preach

  My pathway led [Sisters fled] by confusion boats

  Mutiny from stern to bow.

  Ah, but I was so much older then,

  I'm younger than that now.

  

  [12-string guitar solo followed by the refrain]

  

  Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats

  Too noble to neglect

  Deceived me into thinking

  I had something to protect

  Good and bad, I define these terms

  Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

  Ah, but I was so much older then,

  I'm younger than that now.

  

  

  -- 

  Len Moskowitz

  moskowit@panix.com

  

  

   


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