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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Love Minus Zero/No Limit</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Bringing It All Back Home</a> (1965) and on
  18 <a class="recordlink" href="../21_budokan/index.htm">Budokan</a> (1978), and in a live version on <a class="recordlink" href="../42_bs5/index.htm">Live 1975</a>
  19 (2002)<br />
  20 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  22 <h2 class="songversion">Album Version</h2>
  23 <p>Dylan's guitar is in dropped C tuning (C-A-d-g-b-e') with a capo on the 4th fret (sounding key E major) and with the following chords:</p>
  24 <pre class="chords">
  25 C       032010
  26 G(7)    220001
  27 F       003211 or 033211
  28 Dm      x00231</pre>
  29 <p>Since Dylan's guitar isn't the most prominent one, I've given the plain chords (without the G7), played by the other main guitar.</p>
  30
  31 <p>
  32 The main accompaniment goes something like this, with a strong separation
  33 between bass downstrokes and treble upstrokes, and an emphasis on the
  34 middle string for the <tt>G F</tt> part (the downstroke on the G on the last beat
  35 of the second measure is somewhat undetermined: could be a hint of the
  36 bass strings, could be the middle strings):
  37 </p>
  38 <pre class="tab">
  39   C                           G   F                 C             G   F
  40   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  41 |-------0---0---0-|-------0---------|-----------------|-------0---------|
  42 |-------1---1---1-|-------1---0---1-|-------1---1---1-|-------1---0---1-|
  43 |-------0---0---0-|-------0---0---2-|-------2---2---0-|-------0---0---2-| etc.
  44 |-2---2-----------|-----------0---3-|-------3---3---2-|-----------0---3-|
  45 |-3---3---3---3---|-3---3---3-------|-3---3---3---3---|-3---3---3-------|
  46 |-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0-------|-0---0---0---0---|-0---0---0-------|
  47 </pre>
  48
  49 <pre class="verse">
  50    C
  51 My love she speaks like silence,
  52 G  F                  C
  53     Without ideals or violence,
  54 G  F                              C
  55     She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
  56           Dm         F         G
  57 Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
  58 C
  59 People carry roses,
  60 G  F                         C
  61     And make promises by the hours,
  62 G  F                           C
  63     My love she laughs like the flowers,
  64 Dm        G      C
  65 Valentines can't buy her.
  66
  67 In the dime stores and bus stations,
  68 People talk of situations,
  69 Read books, repeat quotations,
  70 Draw conclusions on the wall.
  71 Some speak of the future,
  72 My love she speaks softly,
  73 She knows there's no success like failure
  74 And that failure's no success at all.
  75
  76 The cloak and dagger dangles,
  77 Madams light the candles.
  78 In ceremonies of the horsemen,
  79 Even the pawn must hold a grudge.
  80 Statues made of match sticks,
  81 Crumble into one another,
  82 My love winks, she does not bother,
  83 She knows too much to argue or to judge.
  84
  85 The bridge at midnight trembles,
  86 The country doctor rambles,
  87 Bankers' nieces seek perfection,
  88 Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
  89 The wind howls like a hammer,
  90 The night blows cold and rainy,
  91 My love she's like some raven
  92 At my window with a broken wing.
  93 </pre>
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  96
  97 <h2 class="songversion">Budokan version</h2>
  98
  99 <p>Same as above, but in standard tuning, and in the key of D:</p>
 100 <pre class="verse">
 101    D
 102 My love she speaks like silence,
 103 A  G                  D
 104     Without ideals or violence,
 105 A  G                              D
 106     She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
 107           Em         G         A      Asus4 A
 108 Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
 109 D
 110 People carry roses,
 111 A  G                         D
 112     And make promises by the hours,
 113 A  G                           D
 114     My love she laughs like the flowers,
 115 Em        A      D
 116 Valentines can't buy her.
 117 </pre>
 118
 119 <hr />
 120
 121 <h2 class="songversion">Live 1975 version</h2>
 122
 123 <p>Played quite squarely, with a constant emphasis on the up-beats</p>
 124 <pre class="verse">
 125    C
 126 My love she speaks like silence,
 127 G  F                  C
 128     Without ideals or violence,
 129 G  F                              C
 130     She doesn't have to say she's faithful,
 131           Dm                   G    C/g  G
 132 Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
 133 C
 134 People carry roses,
 135 G  F                         C
 136     And make promises by the hours,
 137 G  F                           C
 138     My love she laughs like the flowers,
 139 Dm        G      F      C
 140 Valentines can't buy her
 141 </pre>
 142
 143 <hr />
 144
 145 <h2 class="songversion"><a class="recordlink" href="../37_unplugged/index.htm">Unplugged</a> version</h2>
 146
 147 <p>Standard tuning</p>
 148 <pre class="chords">
 149 Dm  = standard or xx3230
 150 G11 = 3x3211
 151 </pre>
 152
 153 <p>At least in the intro the F is rather a F9 133213 (or, more playable: 13x213).</p>
 154
 155 <p>&quot;C-G-F&quot;-figure:</p>
 156 <pre class="tab">
 157   C         G   F
 158   :   .   .   .     :
 159 |-0-----000-333-11|-1---
 160 |-1-----111-000-11|-1---
 161 |-0-----000-000-22|-2---
 162 |-2-----222-000-33|-3---
 163 |-3-----333-222-33|-3---
 164 |-----------333-11|-1---
 165 </pre>
 166
 167 <hr />
 168
 169 <pre class="verse">
 170 C
 171 My love she speaks like silence,
 172 G  F                              C
 173     Without ideals or violence,
 174 G  F                                  C
 175     doesn't have to say she's faithful,
 176           Dm                       G11
 177 Yet she's true, like ice, like fire.
 178 C
 179 People carry roses,
 180 G  F                            C
 181     make promises by the hours,
 182 G  F                                   C
 183     My love she laughs like the flowers,
 184 Dm                    G11  C
 185 Valentines can't buy her.
 186 </pre>
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