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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Changing of the Guards</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Street Legal</a> (1978)<br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
  19
  20 <p>Capo 1st fret (sounding key Ab major). During the 1978 tour it was
  21 usually (always?) played in G.</p>
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  25 <pre class="verse">
  26 G  D    Em
  27 Sixteen years,
  28 Am C   G         D              Em
  29 Sixteen banners united over the fields
  30           C             D
  31 Where the good shepherd grieves.
  32           Em   Am C     G        D
  33 Desperate men, desperate women divided,
  34                 Em               C  D    G
  35 Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves.
  36
  37 Fortune calls.
  38 I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,
  39 Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.
  40 She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born,
  41 On midsummer's eve, near the tower.
  42 </pre>
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  44 <pre class="bridge">
  45 G . D . C . . . |G . D . C . . . |
  46 G . D . C . . D |G . Gsus4 . G .
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  49 <pre class="verse">
  50 The cold-blooded moon.
  51 The captain waits above the celebration
  52 Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
  53 Whose ebony face is beyond communication.
  54 The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.
  55
  56 They shaved her head.
  57 She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo.
  58 A messenger arrived with a black nightingale.
  59 I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow,
  60 Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.
  61
  62 I stumbled to my feet.
  63 I rode past destruction in the ditches
  64 With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo.
  65 Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
  66 Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.
  67
  68 The palace of mirrors
  69 Where dog soldiers are reflected,
  70 The endless road and the wailing of chimes,
  71 The empty rooms where her memory is protected,
  72 Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
  73
  74 She wakes him up
  75 Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
  76 Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks.
  77 She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking.
  78 He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.
  79
  80 Gentlemen, he said,
  81 I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
  82 I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
  83 But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
  84 Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
  85
  86 Peace will come
  87 With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
  88 But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
  89 And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
  90 Between the King and the Queen of Swords.
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