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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Ballad For A Friend</h1>
  14
  15
  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan <br />
  17 Recorded Jan 1962 as a Leeds Music demo <br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
  19
  20 <p>Open D tuning (D-A-d-f#-a-d'), capo 7th fret.</p>
  21
  22 <p>The interlude figure also appears in &ldquo;Standing On The Highway&rdquo;,
  23 recorded on the same occasion.</p>
  24
  25 <p>Chords:</p>
  26 <pre>
  27 G      020100
  28 D7     000330
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  33 <pre class="verse">
  34 D
  35
  36 G       D              G        D
  37 Sad I'm sittin' on the railroad track
  38 G             D
  39 Watchin' that old smokestack
  40 G                        D               D7  D
  41 Train is a-leavin' but it won't be back.
  42 </pre>
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  44 <pre class="tab">
  45   D7                            D
  46       :     .     .     .       :     .
  47 --0-|-----0-0-----------------|-----0------
  48 --3-|-----3-3-----------------|-----0------
  49 --3-|-----3-3---1-------------|-----0------  etc.
  50 ----|-----------------3-----0-|-----0------
  51 ----|-------------------------|-----0------
  52 ----|-0-----0-----0-----0-----|-0----------
  53 </pre>
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  55 <pre class="verse">
  56 Years ago we hung around,
  57 Watchin' trains roll through the town.
  58 Now that train is a-graveyard bound.
  59
  60 Where we go up in that North Country,
  61 Lakes and streams and mines so free,
  62 I had no better friend than he.
  63
  64 Something happened to him that day,
  65 I thought I heard a stranger say,
  66 I hung my head and stole away.
  67
  68 A diesel truck was rollin' slow,
  69 Pullin' down a heavy load.
  70 It left him on a Utah road.
  71
  72 They carried him back to his home town,
  73 His mother cried, his sister moaned,
  74 Listin' to them church bells tone.
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