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Idiot Wind easy guitar chords by
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan

1975Folk
5.0 (1)
Verse 1
Cm

Someone’s got it in for me
D
G

They’re planting stories in the press
Cm

Whoever it is

I wish they’d cut it out quick
D

But when they will
G

I can only guess
Em
Bm

They say I shot a man named Gray
Am
G

And took his wife to Italy
Em
Bm

She inherited a million bucks
Am
G

And when she died it came to me
Bm
C

I can’t help it if I’m lucky
Verse 2
Cm

People see me all the time
D

And they just can’t remember
G

how to act
Cm

Their minds are filled with big ideas
D
G

Images and distorted facts
Em
Bm

Even you, yesterday
Am
G

You had to ask me where it was at
Em
Bm

I couldn’t believe after all these years
Am
G

You didn’t know me any better than that
Bm
C

Sweet lady
Chorus 1
G

Idiot wind
C
G

Blowing every time you move your mouth
C

Blowing down the backroads
D

heading south
G

Idiot wind
C
G

Blowing every time you move your teeth
C

You’re an idiot, babe
D

It’s a wonder that you still know
G
C
G
C

how to breathe
Verse 3
Cm

I ran into the fortune-teller
D

Who said beware of lightning
G

that might strike
Cm

I haven’t known peace and quiet
D

For so long,
G

I can’t remember what it’s like
Em
Bm

There’s a lone soldier on the cross
Am
G

Smoke pouring out of a boxcar door
Em

You didn’t know it,
Bm

you didn’t think it could be done
Am
G

In the final end he won the war
Bm
C

After losing every battle
Verse 4
Cm

I woke up on the roadside
D

Daydreaming about the way
G

things sometimes are
Cm

Visions of your chestnut mare
D

Shoot through my head
G

and are making me see stars
Em
Bm

You hurt the ones that I love best
Am
G

And cover up the truth with lies
Em
Bm

One day you’ll be in the ditch
Am
G

Flies buzzing around your eyes
Bm
C

Blood on your saddle
Chorus 2
G

Idiot wind
C
G

Blowing through the flowers on your tomb
C

Blowing through the curtains
D

in your room
G

Idiot wind
C
G

Blowing every time you move your teeth
C

You’re an idiot, babe
D

It’s a wonder that you still know
G
C
G
C

how to breathe
Verse 5
Cm

It was gravity which pulled us down
D
G

And destiny which broke us apart
Cm

You tamed the lion in my cage
D

But it just wasn’t enough
G

to change my heart
Em
Bm

Now everything’s a little upside down
Am
G

As a matter of fact, the wheels have stopped
Em
Bm

What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good
Am
G

You’ll find out when you reach the top
Bm
C

You’re on the bottom
Verse 6
Cm

I noticed at the ceremony
D
G

Your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
Cm

I can’t remember your face anymore
D

Your mouth has changed,
G

your eyes don’t look into mine
Em
Bm

The priest wore black on the seventh day
Am
G

And sat stone-faced while the building burned
Em
Bm

I waited for you on the running boards
Am

Near the cypress trees,
G

while the springtime turned
Bm
C

Slow- ly into Autumn
Chorus 3

G

Idiot wind
C
G

Blowing like a circle around my skull
C

From the Grand Coulee Dam
D

to the Capitol
G

Idiot wind
C
G

Blowing every time you move your teeth
C

You’re an idiot, babe
D

It’s a wonder that you still know
G
C
G
C

how to breathe
Verse 7
Cm

I can’t feel you anymore
D
G

I can’t even touch the books you’ve read
Cm

Every time I crawl past your door
D

I been wishing
G

I've been somebody else instead
Em
Bm

Down the highway, down the tracks
Am
G

Down the road to ecstasy
Em
Bm

I followed you beneath the stars
Am
G

Hounded by your memory
Bm
C

And all your raging glory
Verse 8
Cm

I been double-crossed now
D
G

For the very last time and now I’m finally free
Cm

I kissed goodbye the howling beast
D

On the borderline
G

which separated you from me
Em
Bm

You’ll never know the hurt I suffered
Am
G

Nor the pain I rise above
Em
Bm

And I’ll never know the same about you
Am
G

Your holiness or your kind of love
Bm
C

And it makes me feel so sorry
Chorus 4
G

Idiot wind
C
G

Blowing through the buttons of our coats
C

Blowing through the letters
D

that we wrote
G

Idiot wind
C
G

Blowing through the dust upon our shelves
C

We’re idiots, babe
D

It’s a wonder we can even
G
C
G
C

feed ourselves
Outro 1
Cm
D
G

Cm
D
G

Em
Bm
Am
G

Em
Bm
Am
G

Bm
C
Cm

[Fade out]

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  • D

  • G

  • Em

  • Bm

    2
  • Am

  • C

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