I'm Not There chords by
Bob Dylan And The Band

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Key: E major

Verse 1

A

Thing's all right and she's all too tight

G

In my neighborhood she cries

Bm

both day and night

A

I know it because I was there

Verse 2
A A 
 
It's a milestone but she's
G G 
 
down on her luck
Bm Bm 
 
And she's daily so lonely but
A A 
 
to make hard earned buck

Verse 3
I remain
A A 
 
D D 
 
I believe where she's stoppin'
A A 
 
F#m F#m 
 
if she wants time to care
A A 
 
G G 
 
I  believe that she'd look
A A 
 
D D 
 
upon deciding to care
F#m F#m 
 
And I go by    the Lord in
G G 
 
a way she's on my way
A A 
 
But I don't be long there

Verse 4
A A 
 
No, I don't belong to her,
G G 
 
I don't belong to anybody
Bm Bm 
 
She's my  prize- forsaken angel
A A 
 
but she don't hear me cry
She's a lone- hearted mystic and
G G 
 
she dain't carry on
Bm Bm 
 
When I'm there she's alright but when
A A 
 
she's not when I'm gone

Verse 5
A A 
 
D D 
 
Heaven knows that the answer,
A A 
 
F#m F#m 
 
she's don't calling no one
G G 
 
She's the way, her sailin' beauty
A A 
 
D D 
 
for she's mine for the one
And I lost her hesitating by
A A 
 
F#m F#m 
 
temptation does it runs
G G 
 
A A 
 
But she don't holler me but I'm not there,

Interlude 1

I'm gone

A

Verse 6
A A 
 
Now I'll cry tonight like I
G G 
 
cried the night before
Bm Bm 
 
And I'm released on the heights in
A A 
 
but I'll dream about the door
It's alone, she's forsaken by her fate,
G G 
 
ways to tell
Bm Bm 
 
"It don't hang by formation",
A A 
 
she smiled, said "thee well"

Verse 7
A A 
 
D D 
 
Now went out treat the layway I
A A 
 
F#m F#m 
 
was born  to love her
G G 
 
But she knows that the kingdom
D D 
 
waits so high above her
A A 
 
And I run but I race but it's
F#m F#m 
 
not   too fast to slim
G G 
 
But I  don't perceive her,
A A 
 
I'm not there, I'm gone

Interlude 2

A

Verse 8
A A 
 
Well, it's all about dead
years'n and I cried for her veil
G G 
 
I don't need anybody now
Bm Bm 
 
beside me to tell
A A 
 
And it's all affirmation,
I perceive but it's not
G G 
 
She's an old- hearted beauty
Bm Bm 
 
but she don't like the spot
And she phoned
A A 
 

Verse 9
D D 
 
Yes, she's gone like the rainbow,
A A 
 
F#m F#m 
 
the shining yesterday
G G 
 
But now she's home beside me
D D 
 
and I'd like her here to stay
She's a unforsaken beauty
A A 
 
F#m F#m 
 
and it's don't trust anyone
G G 
 
A A 
 
I wish I was beside her but I'm not there,

Interlude 3

I'm gone

A

Verse 10
A A 
 
Well, it's a too- hard to stakin'
G G 
 
and I don't bother leave
Bm Bm 
 
A A 
 
It's so bad for abusing when she's hard,
too hard to leave
It's unknown, it's a crime,
G G 
 
the way she mauls me around
Bm Bm 
 
But she told, phoned to hate me,
A A 
 
but it's doomed to make a clown

Verse 11
A A 
 
D D 
 
Yes, I believe that it's rightful,
F#m F#m 
 
oh, I believe it in my mind
G G 
 
I been told like I said when I before,
D D 
 
carry on the grind
And she's all to tole her,
F#m F#m 
 
like I said, carry on
G G 
 
I wish I was there to help her
A A 
 
but I'm not there, I'm gone

Outro 1

A

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsA G Bm D F#m

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