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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Standing On The Highway</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan <br />
  17 Recorded Jan 1962 as a Leed Music demo <br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  20 <p>Open D tuning (D-A-d-f#-a-d'), capo 6th fret</p>
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  22 <p>The tab simply consists of the following little figure (which is also
  23 featured, in a slightly more refined fashion, in Ballad For A Friend,
  24 which was recorded on the same occasion), repeated over and over
  25 again.</p>
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  27 <pre class="tab">
  28   :   .   .   .
  29 |-----0-----------|
  30 |-----3-----------|
  31 |---3---1---------|
  32 |-----------3---0-|
  33 |-----------------|
  34 |-0---0---0---0---|
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  40 Well, I'm standin' on the highway
  41 Tryin' to bum a ride, tryin' to bum a ride,
  42 Tryin' to bum a ride.
  43 Well, I'm standin' on the highway
  44 Tryin' to bum a ride, tryin' to bum a ride,
  45 Tryin' to bum a ride.
  46 Nobody seem to know me,
  47 Everybody pass me by.
  48
  49 Well, I'm standin' on the highway
  50 Tryin' to hold up, tryin' to hold up,
  51 Tryin to hold up and be brave.
  52 Well, I'm standin' on the highway
  53 Tryin' to hold up, tryin to hold up and be brave.
  54 One roads goin' to the bright lights,
  55 The others goin' down to my grave.
  56
  57 Well, I'm lookin' down at two card,
  58 They seem to be handmade.
  59 Well, I'm lookin' down at two card,
  60 They seem to be handmade.
  61 One looks like it's the ace of diamonds,
  62 The other looks like it is the ace of spades.
  63
  64 Well, I'm standin' on the highway
  65 Watchin' my life roll by.
  66 Well, I'm standin' on the highway
  67 Watchin' my life roll by.
  68 Well, I'm standin' on the highway
  69 Tryin' to bum a ride.
  70
  71 Well, I'm standin' on the highway
  72 Wonderin' where everybody went, wonderin' where everybody went,
  73 Wonderin' where everybody went.
  74 Well, I'm standin' on the highway
  75 Wonderin' where everybody went, wonderin' where everybody went,
  76 Wonderin' where everybody went.
  77 Please mister, pick me up,
  78 I swear I ain't gonna kill nobody's kids.
  79
  80 I wonder if my good gal,
  81 I wonder if she knows I'm here,
  82 Nobody else seems to know I'm here.
  83 I wonder if my good gal,
  84 I wonder if she knows I'm here,
  85 Nobody else seems to know I'm here.
  86 If she knows I'm here, Lawd,
  87 I wonder if she said a prayer.
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