Tell Ol' Bill [Alternate Version, North Country Soundtrack] chords by Bob Dylan
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Intro 1
(A minor) (E major) (C major) (A minor)
Verse 1
The river whispers (A minor)
in my ear (E major)
I've hardly a penny to my
name (A minor) (F major) (E major) (A minor)
The heavens have never
seemed so (E major) near (F major) (E major)
All of my body glows with flame
(A minor) (F major) (E major)
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Verse 2
(D major)
The tempest struggles in
the air (A minor) (E major) (D major)
And to myself (D minor) alone I sing (A minor) (F major) (E major) (A minor)
It could sink me then and there (E major)
I can hear the echoes (A minor) ring (D major)
Verse 3
I tried to find (D major) one smiling face (A minor) (F major) (E major) (D major)
To drive the shadow from
my head (A minor) (F major) (E major) (A minor)
I'm stranded in this nameless place (E major)
Interlude 1
Lying restless in a heavy bed
(A minor) (F major)
(E major) (A minor) (E major) (A minor)
(F major) (E major) (A minor)
Verse 4
Tell me straight (A minor) out if you (E major) will
Why must you torture me within? (A minor)
Why must you come down
off of your high (E major) hill?
Throw my fate to the clouds and wind
(A minor) (D major)
Verse 5
Far away in a silent land
(A minor) (F major) (A minor) (E major) (D major)
Secret thought (D minor) s are hard (D major) to
bear (A minor) (F major) (E major) (A minor)
Remember me, you'll understand (E major)
Emotions we can never (A minor) share
Verse 6
(D major)
You trampled on me as you passed
(A minor) (F major) (A minor) (E major)
Left (D major) the coldest (D minor) kiss upon
my brow (A minor) (E major) (A minor)
All of my doubts and fears
have gone at last (E major)
I've nothing more to tell you
Interlude 2
now
(A minor) (E major)
(A minor) (F major) (A minor) (E major) (A minor)
Verse 7
I walk by tranquil (A minor) lakes and streams (E major)
As each new season's dawn
awaits (A minor) (F major) (A minor)
I lay awake at night with
troubled dreams (E major) (F major) (E major)
The enemy is at the gate
(A minor)
Verse 8
(D major)
Beneath the thunder blasted
trees (A minor) (F major) (E major) (D major)
The words are ringin' off your
tongue (A minor) (F major) (E major) (A minor)
The ground is hard in times like (E major) these
Stars are cold, the night is young
(A minor)
Verse 9
(D major)
The rocks are bleak,
the trees are bare (A minor) (D major)
Iron clouds go floating by (A minor)
(F major) (A minor) (E major) (A minor)
Snowflakes fallin' in my hair (E major)
Beneath the gray and stormy
(A minor) sky
Interlude 3
(A minor) (E major) (A minor)
Verse 10
The evenin' sun (A minor) is sinkin' low (E major)
The woods are dark,
the town isn't new (A minor) (F major) (E major) (A minor)
They''ll drag you down,
they'll run the (E major) show (F major) (E major)
Ain't no telling what they'll
do
(A minor) (E major) (A minor)
Verse 11
(D major)
Tell ol' Bill when he comes
home (A minor) (F major) (A minor) (D major)
Anything is worth a try (A minor)
Tell him that I'm not alone (E major)
That the hour has come to do
or die
(A minor) (F major) (A minor)
Verse 12
(D major)
All the world I would defy (A minor) (D major)
Let me make it plain as day (A minor)
I look at you now and I sigh (E major)
How could it be any other
Outro 1
way?
(A minor) (A minor) (E major)
(A minor)
Tell Ol' Bill [Alternate Version, North Country Soundtrack]
Bob Dylan
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