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  14 <h1 class="songtitle">Tell Ol' Bill </h1>
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  17 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  18 Recorded summer 2005 for the <em>North Country</em> soundtrack <br />
  19 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  23 Capo 3rd fret (sounding key Bb major)</p>
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  27 <hr />
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  29 <pre>Intro:
  30 G . . .  D . . . . D . . . G . . . </pre>
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  32 <pre class="verse">
  33 G                        D
  34 The river whispers in my ear,
  35                          G
  36 I've hardly a penny to my name.
  37                             D
  38 The heavens never seemed so near.
  39                           G
  40 All of my body glows with flame.</pre>
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  42 <pre class="bridge">
  43 C                             G
  44  The tempest struggles in the air.
  45 C                      G
  46  and to myself alone I sing.
  47 </pre>
  48 <pre class="verse">
  49 D
  50 It could sink me then and there,
  51                       G
  52 I can hear the echoes ring.
  53 </pre>
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  55 <pre class="bridge">
  56 C                          G
  57  I try to find one smilin' face
  58 C                            G
  59  to drive the shadows from my head.</pre>
  60 <pre class="verse">
  61                               D
  62 I'm stranded in this nameless place,
  63                           G
  64 lyin' restless in a heavy bed
  65 </pre>
  66 <pre class="tab">
  67 CG. . CG|D . . . |D . . . |G . . . |
  68 </pre>
  69 <pre>
  70 Tell me straight out if you will,
  71 Why must you torture me within?
  72 Why must you come down from your high hill?
  73 Throw my fate to the clouds and wind
  74   Far away in a silent land
  75   Secret thoughts are hard to bear.
  76 Remember me, you'll understand:
  77 Emotions we can never share.
  78   You trampled on me as you passed,
  79   Left the coldest kiss upon my brow.
  80 All my doubts and fears are gone at last,
  81 I've nothing more to tell you now.
  82 </pre>
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  84 <pre>
  85 I walk by tranquil lakes and streams
  86 As each new season's dawn awaits
  87 I lay awake at night with troubled dreams
  88 The enemy is at the gates
  89   Beneath the thunder-blasted trees
  90   the words are ringing off your tongue
  91 the ground is hard in times like these
  92 the stars are cold, the night is young,
  93   the rocks are bleak, the trees are bare,
  94   iron clouds go floating by.
  95 Snowflakes falling in my hair
  96 beneath the gray and stony sky.
  97 </pre>
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  99 <pre>
 100 The evening sun is sinking low,
 101 the woods are dark, the town is too.
 102 They'll drag you down, they run the show.
 103 Ain't no tellin' what they'll do.
 104   Tell ol' Bill when he comes home:
 105   Anything is worth a try.
 106 Tell him that I'm not alone,
 107 that the hour has come to do or die.
 108   All the world I would defy,
 109   Let me make it plane as day.
 110 I look at you now and I sigh,
 111 how could it be any other way?
 112 </pre>
 113 <hr />
 114 <h3>The minor outtake version (#7)</h3>
 115 <pre>Intro:
 116 Bbm . . .  F7 . . . . F7 . . . Bbm . . . </pre>
 117
 118 <pre class="verse">
 119 Bbm                      F7
 120 The river whispers in my ear,
 121                           Bbm
 122 I've hardly a penny to my name.
 123                             F7
 124 The heavens never seemed so near.
 125                           Bbm
 126 All of my body glows with flame.</pre>
 127
 128 <pre class="bridge">
 129 Ebm                           Bbm
 130  The tempest struggles in the air.
 131 Ebm                    Bbm
 132  and to myself alone I sing.
 133 </pre>
 134 <pre class="verse">
 135                           F7
 136 It could sink me then and there,
 137                       Bbm
 138 I can hear the echoes ring.
 139 </pre>
 140
 141 <pre class="bridge">
 142 Ebm                        Bbm
 143  I try to find one smilin' face
 144 Ebm                           Bbm
 145  to drive the shadows from my head.</pre>
 146 <pre class="verse">
 147                               F7
 148 I'm stranded in this nameless place,
 149                           Bbm
 150 lyin' restless in a heavy bed
 151 </pre>
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