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Tempest easy guitar chords by
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan

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Intro 1
C
G
D
G
C
G
D

G

Verse 1
G

The pale

moon rose in it's glory
C

Out on the Western town
G

She told a sad, sad story
D
G

Of the great ship that went down
Verse 2
G

T'was the fourteenth day of April
C

Over the waves she rode
G

Sailing into tomorrow
D
G

To a golden age foretold
Verse 3
G

The night was black with starlight
C

The seas were sharp and clear
G

Moving through the shadows
D
G

The promised hour was near
Verse 4
G

Lights were holding steady
C

Gliding over the foam
G

All the lords and ladies
D

Heading for their eternal
G

home
Verse 5
G

The chandeliers were swaying
C

From the balustrades above
G

The orchestra was playing
D
G

Songs of faded love
Verse 6
G

The watchman, he lay dreaming
C

As the ballroom dancers twirled
G

He dreamed the Titanic was sinking
D

Into the underworld
Interlude 1
G
C
G
D
G

Verse 7
G

Leo took his sketchbook
C

He was often so inclined
G

He closed his eyes and painted
D
G

The scenery in his mind
Verse 8
G

Cupid struck his bosom
C

And broke it with a snap
G

The closest woman to him
D
G

He fell into her lap
Verse 9
G

He heard a loud commotion
C

Something sounded wrong
G

His inner spirit was saying
D

That he couldn't stand
G

here long
Verse 10
G

He staggered to the quarterdeck
C

No time now to sleep
G

Water on the quarterdeck
D
G

Already three foot deep
Verse 11
G

Smokestack was leaning sideways
C

Heavy feet began to pound
G

He walked into the whirlwind
D
G

Sky splitting all around
Verse 12
G

The ship was going under
C

The universe had opened wide
G

The roll was called up yonder
D
G

The angels turned aside
Verse 13
G

Lights down in the hallway
C

Flickering dim and dull
G

Dead bodies already floating
D
G

In the double bottom hull
Verse 14
G

The engines then exploded
C

Propellers they failed to start

The boilers overloaded
G
D
G

The ship's bow split apart
Verse 15
G

Passengers were flying
C

Backward, forward,

far and fast
G

They mumbled, fumbled, and tumbled
D
G

Each one more weary than the last
Verse 16
G

The veil was torn asunder
C

'Tween the hours of twelve and one
G

No change, no sudden wonder
D
G

Could undo what had been done
Verse 17
G

The watchman lay there dreaming
C

At fourty five degrees

He dreamed that the
G

Titanic was sinking
D
G

Dropping to her knees
Interlude 2
G
C
G
D
G

Verse 18
G

Wellington he was sleeping
C

His bed began to slide
G

His valiant heart was beating
D
G

He pushed the tables aside
Verse 19
G

Glass of shattered crystal
C

Lay scattered roundabout
G

He strapped on both his pistols
D
G

How long could he hold out?
Verse 20
G

His men and his companions
C

Were nowhere to be seen
G

In silence there he waited for
D

Time and space to interve
G

ne
Verse 21
G

The passageway was narrow
C

There was blackness in the air
G

He saw every kind of sorrow
D

Heard voices everywhere
Verse 22
G

Alarm-bells were were ringing
C

To hold back the swelling tide
G

Friends and lovers clinging
D
G

To each other side by side
Verse 23
G

Mothers and their daughters
C

Descending down the stairs
G

Jumped into the icy waters
D
G

Love and pity sent their prayers
Verse 24
G

The rich man, Mister Astor
C

Kissed his darling wife
G

He had no way of knowing
D
G

It'd be the last trip of his life
Verse 25
G

Calvin, Blake and Wilson
C

Gambled in the dark
G

Not one of them would ever live to
D
G

Tell the tale on the disembark
Verse 26
G

Brother rose up 'gainst brother
C

In every circumstance
G

They fought and slaughtered each other
D
G

In a deadly dance
Verse 27
G

They lowered down the lifeboats
C

From the sinking wreck

There were traitors,
G

there were turncoats
D
G

Broken backs and broken necks
Verse 28
G

The bishop left his cabin
C

To help others in need
G

Turned his eyes up to the heavens
D
G

Said, "The poor are yours to feed"
Verse 29
G

Davey the brothel-keeper
C

Came Came out dismissed his girls
G

Saw the water getting deeper
D

Saw the changing of his world
G
Verse 30


Jim Dandy smiled
C

He never learned to swim
G

Saw the little crippled child
D
G

And he gave his seat to him
Verse 31
G

He saw the starlight shining
C

Streaming from the East
G

Death was on the rampage
D
G

But his heart was now at peace
Verse 32
G

They battened down the hatches
C

But the hatches wouldn't hold
G

They drowned upon the staircase
D
G

Of brass and polished gold
Verse 33
G

Leo said to Cleo
C

I think I'm going mad
G

But he'd lost his mind already
D
G

Whatever mind he had
Verse 34
G

He tried to block the doorway
C

To save all those from harm
G

Blood from an open wound
D
G

Pouring down his arm
Verse 35
G

Petals fell from flowers
C

'Til all of them were gone
G

In the long and dreadful hours
D
G

The wizard's curse played on
Verse 36
G

The host was pouring brandy
C

He was going down slow
G

He stayed right to the end and he
D
G

Was the last to go
Verse 37
G

There were many, many others
C

Nameless here forever more
G

They never sailed the ocean
D
G

Or left their homes before
Verse 38
G

The watchman, he lay dreaming
C

The damage had been done
D

He dreamed the Titanic was sinking
G
D

And he tried to tell someone
G
Interlude 3
C
G
D
G

Verse 39
G
D
G
D
G

The captain, barely breathing
C

Kneeling at the wheel
D
G

Above him and beneath him
D
G

Fifty thousand tons of steel
Verse 40
G

He looked over at his compass
C

And he gazed into its face

Needle pointing downward
G
D
G

He knew he lost the race
Verse 41
G

In the dark illumination
C

He remembered bygone years
D

He read the Book of Revelation
G
D
G

And he filled his cup with tears
Verse 42
G

When the Reaper's task had ended
C

Sixteen hundred had gone to rest
G

The good, the bad, the rich,

the poor
D
G

The loveliest and the best
Verse 43
G

They waited at the landing
C

And they tried to understand
G

But there is no understanding
D
G

On the judgement of God's hand
Verse 44
G

The news came over the wires
C

And struck with deadly force
G

Love had lost its fires
D
G

All things had run their course
Verse 45
G

The watchman he lay dreaming
C

Of all the things that can be
G

He dreamed the Titanic was sinking
D

Into the deep blue sea
Outro 1
G
C
G
D

G
C
G
D
G

C
G
D
G
C

D
G

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