Idiot Wind chords by
Bob Dylan

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Key: G major

Verse 1
Cm Cm 3
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Someone’s got it in for me
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G G 
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They’re planting stories in the press
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Whoever it is
I wish they’d cut it out quick
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But when they will
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I can only guess
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Bm Bm 2
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They say I shot a man named Gray
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And took his wife to Italy
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Bm Bm 2
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She inherited a million bucks
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And when she died it came to me
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C C 
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I can’t help it if I’m lucky

Verse 2
Cm Cm 3
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People see me all the time
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And they just can’t remember
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how to act
Cm Cm 3
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Their minds are filled with big ideas
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Images and distorted facts
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Bm Bm 2
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Even you, yesterday
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G G 
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You had to ask me where it was at
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Bm Bm 2
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I couldn’t believe after all these years
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G G 
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You didn’t know me any better than that
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C C 
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Sweet lady

Chorus 1
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Idiot wind
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G G 
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Blowing every time you move your mouth
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Blowing down the backroads
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heading south
G G 
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Idiot wind
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Blowing every time you move your teeth
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You’re an idiot, babe
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It’s a wonder that you still know
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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how to breathe

Verse 3
Cm Cm 3
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I   ran into the fortune-teller
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Who said beware of lightning
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that might strike
Cm Cm 3
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I   haven’t known peace and quiet
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For so long,
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I can’t remember what it’s like
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Bm Bm 2
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There’s a lone soldier on  the cross
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G G 
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Smoke pouring out of a boxcar door
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You didn’t know it,
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you didn’t think it could be done
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G G 
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In  the final end he won the war
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C C 
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After losing every battle

Verse 4
Cm Cm 3
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I   woke up on the roadside
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Daydreaming about the way
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things sometimes are
Cm Cm 3
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Visions of your chestnut mare
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Shoot through my head
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and are making me see stars
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Bm Bm 2
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You hurt the ones that I   love best
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G G 
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And cover up the truth with lies
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Bm Bm 2
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One day you’ll be in  the ditch
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G G 
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Flies buzzing around your eyes
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C C 
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Blood on your saddle

Chorus 2
G G 
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Idiot wind
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G G 
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Blowing through the flowers on your tomb
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Blowing through the curtains
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in your room
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Idiot wind
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G G 
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Blowing every time you move your teeth
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You’re an idiot, babe
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It’s a wonder that you still know
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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how to breathe

Verse 5
Cm Cm 3
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It was gravity which pulled us down
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G G 
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And destiny which broke us apart
Cm Cm 3
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You tamed the lion in my cage
D D 
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But it just wasn’t enough
G G 
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to change my heart
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Bm Bm 2
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Now everything’s a little upside down
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G G 
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As a matter of fact, the wheels have stopped
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Bm Bm 2
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What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good
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G G 
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You’ll find out when you reach the top
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You’re on  the bottom

Verse 6
Cm Cm 3
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I   noticed at the ceremony
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G G 
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Your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
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I   can’t remember your face anymore
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Your mouth has changed,
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your eyes don’t look into mine
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Bm Bm 2
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The priest wore black on the seventh day
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G G 
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And sat stone-faced while the building burned
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Bm Bm 2
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I waited for you on the running boards
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Near the cypress trees,
G G 
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while the springtime turned
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C C 
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Slow- ly into Autumn

Chorus 3
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Idiot wind
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G G 
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Blowing like a circle around my skull
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From the Grand Coulee Dam
D D 
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to the Capitol
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Idiot wind
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G G 
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Blowing every time you move your teeth
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You’re an idiot, babe
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It’s a wonder that you still know
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C C 
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G G 
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C C 
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how to breathe

Verse 7
Cm Cm 3
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I   can’t feel you anymore
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G G 
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I  can’t even touch the books you’ve read
Cm Cm 3
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Every time I crawl past your door
D D 
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I been wishing
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I've been somebody else instead
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Bm Bm 2
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Down the highway, down the tracks
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G G 
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Down the road to ecstasy
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Bm Bm 2
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I followed you beneath the stars
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Hounded by your memory
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C C 
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And all your raging glory

Verse 8
Cm Cm 3
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I been double-crossed now
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G G 
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For the very last time and now I’m finally free
Cm Cm 3
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I kissed goodbye the howling beast
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On the borderline
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which separated you from me
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Bm Bm 2
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You’ll never know the hurt I suffered
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Nor the pain I rise above
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Bm Bm 2
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And I’ll never know the same about you
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G G 
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Your holiness or your kind of love
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And it makes me feel so sorry

Chorus 4
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Idiot wind
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Blowing through the buttons of our coats
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Blowing through the letters
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that we wrote
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Idiot wind
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Blowing through the dust upon our shelves
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We’re idiots, babe
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It’s a wonder we can even
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feed ourselves

Outro 1
Cm Cm 3
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Cm Cm 3
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Em Em 
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Bm Bm 2
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Am Am 
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Am Am 
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Cm Cm 3
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