Key: D major
Verse 1
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
Wondering if she'd changed at all
D
Dsus4
Her folks, said our lives together
Dsus4
D
They never did like mama's
homemade dress
Dsus4
G
And papa's bank book
wasn't big enough
D
G
Rain falling on my shoes
A
Bm
Headed out for the east coast
D
G
Lord knows I've paid some dues
C
D
Dsus4
Tangled up in blue
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D
She was married when we first met,
soon to be divorced
I helped her out of the gym
Dsus4
G
I guess, but I used a little too much force
Dsus4
D
abandoning our ways
I up on the dock, said no,
Dsus4
G
put that ring in, it was bad
A
Bm
She said something that ticked her to me
D
G
as I was walking away
A
Bm
Up on my shoulder,
A
C
G
D
Dsus4
Take all the fin goo
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
I had a job in the great Newark woods
Am
D
But I never did like it all that much
Asus4
D
So I drifted down to New Orleans
Am
D
And picked it up to be employed
I worked for a while on a fishin' boat
A
Bm
But all the while I was alone
D
G
The past was close behind
Bm
D
G
But she never escaped my mind,
A
G
D
and I just grew tangled in blue
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
She was working in a tarp -less place,
Am
D
I just kept staring at the side of her face
G
D
in this blinding light so clear
Am
D
She was standing there in
the back of my chair
Dsus4
G
She said to me,
don't I know your name
D
G
She could still never look at my face
A
Bm
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
G
A
and tied the laces of my shoes
G
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D
G
D
She lit a burner on the stove
and offered me a pipe
Dsus4
D
I thought you'd never say hello,
she said
Asus4
D
She opened up a book of poems
and handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
A
Bm
And every one of them words rang true
D
G
And flew like burning coal
A
Bm
Tore right off of every page
G
A
For me to give
C
G
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D
To take all the food
Well, I lived with them on Montague Street,
a basement down the stairs
There was music in the cafes at night,
dealing with slaves,
Dsus4
D
and something inside of him died
She had to sell everything she owned
G
A
Bm
The only thing I knew how to do
D
G
was to keep on keepin' on
C
G
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D
tangled in the breeze
So now I'm going back again,
I've got to get to her somehow
Dsus4
D
All the people we used to know,
Dsus4
G
D
they're an illusion to me
G
D
Some are mathematicians,
some are carpenters' wives
Dsus4
D
I don't know how
it all got started,
A
Bm
But me, I'm still on the road
G
A
Bm
We always didn't feel the same,
D
G
we just sighed from a different
C
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus4
D
Tangled up in blue
Am
D
G
D
Am
D
Dsus4
G
A
Bm
D
G
A
Asus4
Bm
D
G
A
C
G
D
D
E
Thank you.
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