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  19 <h1 class="songtitle">Absolutely Sweet Marie</h1>
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  22 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  23 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Blonde on Blonde</a> (1966)<br />
  24 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p><hr />
  25
  26 <p>I have a slight suspicion that Dylan plays in dropped C tuning with a capo on the 2nd fret &ndash; it is clearly played with a capo, and the third chord (A, or G with the capo) is played as seventh chord, and he hardly ever does that except in that tuning. It's not much to go by, and it doesn't really matter, so I'll let it fall.<br />
  27 Anyway, the basic riff is much easier to play in D, so I'll leave the tab in the sounding key.</p>
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  29 <p> Basic riff:</p>
  30 <pre class="tab">
  31   D
  32   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  33 |-----2---1-2---3-|-----2---1-2-----|
  34 |-----3---3-3---3-|-----3---3-3-----|
  35 |-----2---1-2---4-|-----2---1-1-----|
  36 |-0---------------|-----------------|
  37 |-----------------|-----------------|
  38 |-----------------|-----------------|
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  43 <pre class="verse">
  44 D
  45
  46            D             G           A          D
  47 Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can't jump it
  48 G            D                 A
  49 Sometimes it gets so hard, you see
  50          D           G        A     D       Bm
  51 I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet
  52      F#m                    D        A
  53 With all these promises you left for me
  54     G               A              D
  55 But where are you tonight, sweet Marie?
  56
  57 Well, I waited for you when I was half sick
  58 Yes, I waited for you when you hated me
  59 Well, I waited for you inside of the frozen traffic
  60 When you knew I had some other place to be
  61 Now, where are you tonight, sweet Marie?
  62 </pre>
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  64 <pre class="refrain">
  65       Bb
  66 Well, anybody can be
  67           D
  68 just like me, obviously
  69     Bb
  70 But then, now again,
  71                          D             A
  72 not too many can be like you, fortunately.
  73 </pre>
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  75 <pre class="verse">
  76 Well, six white horses that you did promise
  77 Were fin'lly delivered down to the penitentiary
  78 But to live outside the law, you must be honest
  79 I know you always say that you agree
  80 But where are you tonight, sweet Marie?
  81 </pre>
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  83 <pre class="refrain">
  84 Well, I don't know how it happened
  85 But the river-boat captain, he knows my fate
  86 But ev'rybody else, even yourself
  87 They're just gonna have to wait.
  88 </pre>
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  90 <pre class="verse">
  91 Well, I got the fever down in my pockets
  92 The Persian drunkard, he follows me
  93 Yes, I can take him to your house but I can't unlock it
  94 You see, you forgot to leave me with the key
  95 Oh, where are you tonight, sweet Marie?
  96
  97 Now, I been in jail when all my mail showed
  98 That a man can't give his address out to bad company
  99 And now I stand here lookin' at your yellow railroad
 100 In the ruins of your balcony
 101 Wond'ring where you are tonight, sweet Marie.
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