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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Dink's Song</h1>
  14
  15
  16 <p>(trad., John/Alan Lomax)<br />
  17 Recorded in Bonnie Beecher's appartment, with Tony Glover at the
  18 recording wheels, on what came to be known as the <em>Minnesota
  19 Hotel Tape</em> (Released on <a href="../44_bs7_ndh/index.htm" class="recordlink">No direction home</a> [2005]). Also played once during the second Rolling Thunder Revue
  20 (Apr 25, 1976) in a duet with Joan Baez. <br />
  21 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  24
  25 <h2 class="songversion">&ldquo;Minnesota Hotel Tape&rdquo; version</h2>
  26
  27 <p>Dylan told Bonnie Beecher that he learned the song from a woman called
  28 Dink. So did Alan Lomax, several years earlier... Read the whole story
  29 in <a class="url" href="http://users.powernet.co.uk/barrett/The-Telegraph/extracts/dinks48.html">The Telegraph</a>, or in <a class="url" href="http://ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/php/search/individ.php?mid=16">Roger McGuinn's Folk Den</a>, where you can also hear his version of the song.</p>
  30
  31 <p>Capo 3rd fret (Original key Eb major)</p>
  32
  33 <p>Played by alternately lowering and raising all the fingers in a steady
  34 rhythmical pattern over the chords C and F, later G and Am:</p>
  35 <pre class="tab">
  36   C     F           C     F
  37   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  38 |-----------------|-----------------|
  39 |-1-----1---0-1-0-|-1-----1---0-1-0-|
  40 |-0-----2---0-2-0-|-0-----2---0-2-0-|
  41 |-2-----3---0-3-0-|-2-----3---0-3-0-|  etc.
  42 |-3-----3---0-3-0-|-3-----3---0-3-0-|
  43 |-----------------|-----------------|
  44 </pre>
  45
  46 <p>This pattern is usually repeated also at the end of each line, so that
  47 the first line is:</p>
  48
  49 <pre class="verse">
  50 C  F     C    F C F C F
  51 If I had wings
  52 </pre>
  53
  54 <p>Chords (The 1st string should be kept silent, except in the Am chord): </p>
  55 <pre class="chords">
  56 C      332010
  57 F(maj) x33210
  58 Am     002210
  59 G      320003
  60 </pre>
  61
  62 <p>The turn to G at the end is very rudimentary in some verses &#8211; occasionally it isn't even there but he goes straight to the C-F-thing instead. </p>
  63 <p>And don't forget the foot, tapping the rhythm a la John Lee Hooker.</p>
  64 <hr />
  65
  66 <pre class="verse">
  67 C  F   C  F
  68
  69 C  F     C    F
  70 If I had wings
  71 C    F      C    F
  72 like Noah's dove,
  73 C   F       Am
  74 I'd fly the river
  75              C     F
  76 to the one I love.
  77 C         Am       F       G
  78 Fare thee well, my honey,
  79           C     F
  80 fare thee well.
  81
  82 I had a man
  83 who was long and tall,
  84 moved his body
  85 like a cannonball.
  86 Fare thee well, my honey,
  87 fare thee well.
  88
  89 'member one evening
  90 was drizzling rain,
  91 and round my heart
  92 I felt an aching pain.
  93 Fare thee well, my honey,
  94 fare thee well.
  95
  96 Once I wore
  97 my apron low,
  98 couldn't keep you
  99 away from my door.
 100 Fare thee well, my honey,
 101 fare thee well.
 102
 103 Now my apron
 104 is up to my chin,
 105 you'll pass my door
 106 but you'll never come in.
 107 Fare thee well, my honey,
 108 fare thee well.
 109
 110 Mighty river
 111 runs muddy and wild,
 112 can't care the bloody
 113 for my unborn child.
 114 Fare thee well, my honey,
 115 fare thee well.
 116
 117 Number nine train
 118 done no harm,
 119 number nine train,
 120 take my poor baby home.
 121 Fare thee well, my honey,
 122 fare thee well.
 123
 124 Fastest man
 125 I ever saw,
 126 was in Missouri
 127 on the way to Arkansas.
 128 Fare thee well, my honey,
 129 fare thee well.
 130 </pre>
 131
 132 <p>Glover: Is that the way the original goes?<br />
 133 Bob: Huh?<br />
 134 Glover: Is that the way the original goes?<br />
 135 Bob: That's the way I heard it. I heard that from a lady named Dink. I
 136 don't know who wrote it. Hah!</p>
 137
 138 <hr />
 139
 140 <h2 class="songversion">Rolling Thunder Version with Joan Baez</h2>
 141
 142 <p>Capo 2nd fret </p>
 143
 144 <pre class="verse">
 145    G
 146 If I had wings
 147      C      G
 148 like Noah's dove,
 149             Em
 150 I'd fly the river
 151              C
 152 to the one I love.
 153           G     C/g G
 154 Fare thee well, my  honey,
 155 C         G
 156 fare thee well.
 157 </pre>
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