My Own Version Of You chords by 
Bob Dylan 
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Key: C# minor•
Intro 1
C#m
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Verse 1
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All through the summers,
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into January
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I've been visiting morgues
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and monasteries
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Looking for the neces
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sary body parts
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Limbs and livers and brains
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and hearts
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I'll bring someone to life,
is what I wanna do
I wanna create my own version
of you
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Verse 2
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Well, it must be the winter
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of my discontent
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I wish you'd've taken me with you
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wherever you went
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They talk all night and
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they talk all day
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Not for a minute,
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do I believe anything they say
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I'm gon' bring someone to life,
someone I've never seen
You know what I mean,
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you know exactly what I mean
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Verse 3
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I'll take the Scarface Pacino and
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the Godfather Brando
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Mix it up and attack,
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and get a robot commando
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If I do it up right and put
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the head on straight
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I'll be saved by the creature
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that I create
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I'll get blood from a cac tus,
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gun powder from ice
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I don't gamble with card s and
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I don't shoot no dice
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Can you look in my face with
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your sightless eyes?
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Can you cross your heart
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and hope to die?
I'll bring someone to life,
someone for real
Someone who feels the way that I feel
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Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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I study Sanskrit and Arabic
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to im prove my mind
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I wanna do things for
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the benefit of all mankind
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I say to the willow tree,
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"Don't weep for me"
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I'm say ing to hell with all
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things that used to be
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Well, I get into trouble,
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then I hit the wall
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No place to turn, no place at all
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I'll pick a number between
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a-one and and two
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And I ask myself,
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E
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"What would Julius Caesar do?"
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I will bring someone to life in
more ways than one
Don't matter how long it takes,
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it'll be done when it's done
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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I'm gonna make you play the piano
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like Leon Russell
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Like Liberace, like St. John
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the Apostle
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I'll play every num ber
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that I can play
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I'll see you maybe on
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Judgment Day
After midnight,
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if you still wanna meet
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I'll be at the Black Horse Tavern
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on Armageddon Street
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Two doors down, not that far a walk
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I'll hear your foot steps,
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you won't have to knock
I'll bring someone to life,
balance the scales
I'm not gonna get involved any insignificant
Interlude 3
details
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Verse 6
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You can bring it to St. Peter,
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you can bring it to Jerome
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You can bring it all the way over,
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bring it all the way home
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Bring it to the corner where
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the children play
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You can bring it to me on
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a sil ver tray
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I'll bring someone to life,
spare no expense
Interlude 4
Do it with decency and common sense
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Verse 7
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Can you tell me what it means,
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to be or not to be?
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You won't get away with
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fool ing me
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Can you help me walk
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that good land mile?
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Can you give me the blessing
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E
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s of your smile?
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I'll bring someone to life,
use all of my powers
Do it in the dark in the wee,
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small hours
Interlude 5
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Verse 8
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I can see the history of the
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whole human race
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It's all right there,
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it's carved into your face
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Should I break it all down? Should
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I fall on my knees?
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Is there light at the end of the tunnel,
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can you tell me please?
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Stand over there by
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the cypress tree
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Where the Trojan wo men and
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children are sold into slavery
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Long before the first Crusade
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Way back 'fore England or
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Amer ica were made
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Step right into
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the burnin' hell
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Where some of the best-known
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enemies enemies of mankind dwell
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Mr. Freud with his dream s,
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Mr. Marx with his ax
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See the raw hide lash rip the skin
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from their back s
Verse 9
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Got the right spirit,
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you can feel it you can hear it
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You've got what they call
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the im mortal spirit
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You can feel it all night,
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you can feel it in the morn'
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It creeps in your body,
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the day you were born
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One strike of lightning is
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all that I need
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And a blast of electricity that
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runs at top speed
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Shimmy your ribs,
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I'll stick in the knife
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Gonna jump-start my my cre
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ation to life
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I wanna bring someone to life,
turn back the years
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Do it with laughter and do it with tears
Outro 1
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