All American Boy chords by
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan

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Key: C major
Verse 1
C
C

F
F

Well, I bought me a guitar, put it in tune
G
G

Went out there the month of June
C
C

'Twas a hot dog night and
F
F

a stick in a roar
G
G

Everybody was a- down on this side
C
C

There was a holy cow (holy cow)
F
F

Mean cow (mean cow)
G
G

Double jaw (double jaw)
C
C

Cow (cow)
Verse 2
C
C

Well, I'll tell you a story
F
F

about how to become
G
G

An all American boy,
C
C

you can beat on a drum
F
F

Beat on a drum from five to six
G
G

You'll be rock 'n' rollin'
C
C

soon gettin' your kicks
It's a good job (good job)
F
F

C
C

F
F

G
G

Join the band (gigging in the
band)
C
C

Bring your hand (pick your hand)
F
F

Clean your hand and come up tight
Verse 3
G
G

C
C

Roll a smoke and down at night
F
F

Hold on a train, on a whiskey jar
G
G

C
C

Settle it down there you are
F
F

Hold it steady
G
G

Pick it up now
C
C

Now hit it (makin' the
girls giggle)
Verse 4
C
C

Yes, you'll be makin' 'em
F
F

little girlies giggle
G
G

You'll be makin' 'em all just jump
C
C

up an' down an' wiggle
F
F

Empty their socks, in their britches
G
G

All you'll find that soon
you'll be itches
C
C

F
F

Itches all over
G
G

Itch in your pants
Itch while you dance
C
C

Itchin' on down to the corn' of France
Verse 5
C
C

F
F

Well, I know a boy yesterday
G
G

He become a guitar and he floated away
C
C

He played his bars and he
F
F

played 'em all
G
G

C
C

He's just on there havin' a ball
F
F

Kicking a hot storm up
G
G

over the ocean
C
C

He took himself a notion
Verse 6
C
C

F
F

He got some lotion and
G
G

He put it on his guitar, put it on him
C
C

Next time you knew
F
F

you can call him Jim
G
G

Down the road, boy, they call him Slim
C
C

F
F

They don't care if they're carry him
G
G

Just a minute now,
C
C

you'll see what I mean
F
F

G
G

(Uncle Sam, in this land,
C
C

F
F

G
G

C
C

rippin' up draft cards, an' all that)
Verse 7
C
C

F
F

Well, sooner or later a man's
gonna come
G
G

He gonna take a look at you, look
at your drum
C
C

F
F

He'd be a man and he'll take you home
G
G

Yeah, he'll take you out to his farm
C
C

He'll give you a good one
F
F

G
G

C
C

He'll give it to ya
(Well, you meet, girls don't giggle
no more)
Verse 8
F
F

Well, sooner or later you're bound
to meet his wife
G
G

An d you'll come in 'n'
C
C

have the time of your life
F
F

Just pickin' the gum, pickin' up a star
G
G

C
C

Pickin' up goin' and goin' to the bar
F
F

You and your manager
G
G

C
C

(pickin' my nose)
Verse 9
F
F

Well, you'll want to know about the man
ager soon
G
G

He'll just take you outside and put
C
C

you on the moon
He'll buy you new clothes,
F
F

new pair of shoes
G
G

You'll be walk' away
with the drummer blues
C
C

F
F

You'd be a fine drummer
G
G

Pick 'em as a comer
C
C

Dog hummer
Outro 1
C
C

F
F

G
G

C
C

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