Chimes of Freedom easy guitar chords by
Bob Dylan

1964•Folk•

Intro 1

G

Verse 1

G

D

Far between sundown’s finish

G

C

G

an’ midnight’s broken toll

G

C

G

We ducked inside the doorway,

D

G

C

G

as thunder went crashing

G

C

As majestic bells of bolts

G

C

G

C

struck shadows in the sounds

G

Seeming to be the chimes

G

D

G

C

G

of freedom flashing

Chorus 1

D

Flashing for the warriors

G

C

G

whose strength is not to fight

C

G

Flashing for the refugees

Am

D

on the unarmed road of flight

G

And for each

D

G

C

and every underdog soldier in the night

G

D

And we gazed upon the chimes

G

C

G

of freedom flashing

Verse 2

G

C

Through the city’s melted furnace,

G

C

G

C

unexpectedly we watched

G

C

With faces hidden

D

G

C

G

while the walls were tightening

G

C

As the echo of the wedding bells

G

C

G

C

before the blowin’ rain

G

C

D

Dissolved into the bells

G

C

G

of the lightning

Chorus 2

D

Tolling for the rebel,

G

tolling for the rake

C

G

Tolling for the luckless,

Am

D

the abandoned and forsaken

G

C

Tolling for the outcast,

G

C

burning constantly at stake

G

C

And we gazed upon the chimes

G

D

G

C

G

of freedom flashing

Verse 3

G

C

Through the mad mystic hammering

G

C

G

C

of the wild ripping hail

G

C

D

The sky cracked its poems

G

C

G

in naked wonder

G

C

That the clinging of the church bells

G

C

G

C

blew far into the breeze

G

C

D

Leaving only bells of lightning

G

C

G

and its thunder

Chorus 3

D

Striking for the the gentle,

G

striking for the kind

C

G

Striking for the guardians

Am

D

and protectors of the mind

G

D

And the poet and the painter

G

C

far behind his rightful time

G

C

And we gazed upon the chimes

D

G

C

G

of freedom flashing

G

G

In the

Verse 4

G

C

wild cathedral evening

G

C

G

C

the rain unraveled tales

G

C

For the disrobed faceless

D

G

C

G

D

forms of no position

G

C

Tolling for the tongues

G

C

G

C

with no place to bring their thoughts

G

C

D

All down in taken-forgranted

G

C

G

situations

Chorus 4

D

Tolling for the deaf and blind,

G

tolling for the mute

C

G

For the mistreated, mateless mother,

Am

D

the mistitled prostitute

G

D

For the misdemeanor outlaw,

G

C

chained and cheated by pursuit

G

C

And we gazed upon the chimes

D

G

C

of freedom flashing

Interlude 1

D

G

G

G

Verse 5

G

C

Even though a cloud’s white curtain

G

C

G

C

in a far-off corner flared

G

C

D

And the hypnotic splattered mist

G

C

G

was slowly lifting

G

C

Electric light still struck like arrows,

G

C

G

C

fired but for the ones

G

C

Condemned to drift

D

G

C

G

or else be kept from drifting

Chorus 5

D

Tolling for the searching ones,

G

on their speechless, seeking trail

C

G

For the lonesome-hearted lovers

Am

D

with too personal a tale

G

And for each unharmful,

D

G

C

gentle soul misplaced inside a jail

G

C

And we gazed upon the chimes

D

G

C

G

D

of freedom flashing

Interlude 2

G

C

G

C

G

C

G

C

D

G

C

G

G

G

Verse 6

G

C

G

Starry-eyed and laughing as I recall

C

G

C

when we were caught

G

C

Trapped by no track

D

G

C

G

of hours for they hanged suspended

G

G

C

G

As we listened one last time an’ we watched

C

G

C

with one last look

G

C

D

Spellbound and swallowed

G

C

G

’til the tolling ended

Chorus 6

D

Tolling for the aching

G

whose wounds cannot be nursed

C

For the countless confused,

G

accused, misused,

Am

D

strung-out ones and worse

G

D

And for every hung-up person

G

C

in the whole wide universe

G

C

And we gazed upon the chimes

G

D

G

of freedom flashing

G

C

D

G

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