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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">License to Kill</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Infidels</a> (1983) and in a live version on <a class="recordlink" href="../26_reallive/index.htm">Real Live</a> (1984) <br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  22 <p>Another song from this album in an awkward key, which &ndash; again &ndash; is
  23 usually played in a much more pleasant key live. I therefore dare yet
  24 another capoed rendition &ndash; this time on the 6th fret. It isn't quite
  25 ideal with a capo that far up, but I do hear one guitar that only
  26 sounds high up on the neck on the recording too.</p>
  27
  28 <p>The version on Real Live is basically the same as the album version
  29 (or in the corresponding key: F# major).</p>
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  33 <pre class="verse">
  34 C                    Am                     G                C
  35 Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please
  36        C            Am              G
  37 And if things don't change soon, he will.
  38     F                    C
  39 Oh, man has invented his doom,
  40                             F
  41 First step was touching the moon.
  42 </pre>
  43 <pre class="refrain">
  44                Am /g F       Am /g F
  45 Now, there's a woman   on my block,
  46          Am /g    F                   Am /g  F
  47 She just sit there as the night grows still.
  48         C              G                   C    Csus4 C
  49 She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
  50 </pre>
  51 <pre class="verse">
  52 Now, they take him and they teach him and they groom him for life
  53 And they set him on a path where he's bound to get ill,
  54 Then they bury him with stars,
  55 Sell his body like they do used cars.
  56 </pre>
  57 <pre class="refrain">
  58 Now, there's a woman on my block,
  59 She just sit there facin' the hill.
  60 She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
  61 </pre>
  62 <pre class="verse">
  63 Now, he's hell-bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused,
  64 And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.
  65 All he believes are his eyes
  66 And his eyes, they just tell him lies.
  67 </pre>
  68 <pre class="refrain">
  69 But there's a woman on my block,
  70 Sitting there in a cold chill.
  71 She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
  72 </pre>
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  74 <pre class="bridge2">
  75             Am
  76 Ya may be a noisemaker, spirit maker,
  77 C
  78 Heartbreaker, backbreaker,
  79 Dm               C
  80 Leave no stone unturned.
  81           Am
  82 May be an actor in a plot,
  83 C
  84 That might be all that you got
  85           Dm                G
  86 'Til your error you clearly learn.
  87 </pre>
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  89 <pre class="verse">
  90 Now he worships at an altar of a stagnant pool
  91 And when he sees his reflection, he's fulfilled.
  92 Oh, man is opposed to fair play,
  93 He wants it all and he wants it his way.
  94 </pre>
  95 <pre class="refrain">
  96 Now, there's a woman on my block,
  97 She just sit there as the night grows still.
  98 She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
  99 </pre>
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