It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) original guitar chords by
Bob Dylan

1965•Folk•3.4K views•

Key: E major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Darkness at the break of noon

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Shadows even the silver spoon

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The handmade blade, the child's balloon

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Eclipses both the sun and moon

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To understand you know too soon

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There is no sense in trying

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Verse 2

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Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn

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Suicide remarks are torn

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From the fool's gold mouthpiece

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The hollow horn plays wasted words

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Proves to warn that he not busy being born

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Is busy dying

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Verse 3

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Temptation's page flies out the door

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You follow, find yourself at war

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Watch waterfalls of pity roar

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You feel to moan but unlike before

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You discover that you'd just be

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One more person crying

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Chorus 1

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So don't fear if you hear

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A foreign sound to your ear

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It's al right, Ma,

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I'm only sighing

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Verse 4

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As some warn victory, some downfall

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Private reasons great or small

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Can be seen in the eyes of those that call

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To make all that should be killed to crawl

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While others say don't hate nothing at all

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Except hatred

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Verse 5

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Disillusioned words like bullets bark

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As human gods aim for their mark

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Made everything from toy guns that spark

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To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark

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It's easy to see without looking too far

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That not much is really sacred

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Verse 6

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While preachers preach of evil fates

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Teachers teach that knowledge waits

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Can lead to hundred-dollar plates

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Goodness hides behind its gates

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But even the president of the United States

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Sometimes must have to stand naked

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Chorus 2

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An' though the rules of the road

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have been lodged

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It's only people's games

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that you got to dodge

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And it's al right, Ma, I can make it

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Verse 7

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Advertising signs that con you

Into thinking you're the one

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That can do what's never been done

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That can win what's never been won

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Meantime life outside goes on

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All around you

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Verse 8

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You lose yourself, you reappear

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You suddenly find you got nothing to fear

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Alone you stand with nobody near

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When a trembling distant voice, unclear

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Startles your sleeping ears to hear

That somebody thinks

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they really found you

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Verse 9

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A question in your nerves is lit

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Yet you know there is

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no answer fit to satisfy

Insure you not to quit

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To keep it in your mind and not fergit

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That it is not he or she or them or it

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That you belong to

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Chorus 3

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Although the masters make the rules

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For the wise men and the fools

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I got nothing, Ma, to live up to

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Verse 10

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For them that must obey authority

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That they do not respect in any degree

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Who despise their jobs, their destinies

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Speak jealously of them that are free

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Do what they do just to be

nothing more than something

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they invest in

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Verse 11

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While some on principles baptized

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To strict party platform ties

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Social clubs in drag disguise

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Outsiders they can freely criticize

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Tell nothing except who to idolize

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And then say God bless him

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Verse 12

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While one who sings with his tongue on fire

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Gargles in the rat race choir

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Bent out of shape from society's pliers

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Cares not to come up any higher

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But rather get you down

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in the hole that he's in

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Chorus 4

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But I mean no harm nor put fault

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On anyone that lives in a vault

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But it's al right, Ma, if I can't please him

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Verse 13

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Old lady judges watch people in pairs

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Limited in sex, they dare

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To push fake morals, insult and stare

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While money doesn't talk, it swears

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Obscenity, who really cares

Propaganda, all is

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phony

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Verse 14

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While them that defend what they cannot see

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With a killer's pride, security

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It blows the minds most bitterly

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For them that think death's honesty

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Won't fall upon them naturally

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Life sometimes must get lonely

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Verse 15

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My eyes collide head-on

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with stuffed graveyards

False gods, I scuff

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At pettiness which plays so rough

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Walk upside-down inside handcuffs

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Kick my legs to crash it off

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Say okay I have had enough

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What else can you show me

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Chorus 5

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And if my thought-dreams could be seen

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They'd probably put my head in a guillotine

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But it's al right, Ma, it's life, and life only

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Tuning:Standard Open Tuner

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Chords

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Frequently asked questions

The original key of It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) by Bob Dylan is E major.

The primary chords used in It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) are E, G, A, D, Am, B.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 7 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like E, G, A, D, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

If the simplified chords are too easy, you can visit the original chords page for a more advanced arrangement.

The tempo of It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) is approximately 115 beats per minute.

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