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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Chimes of Freedom</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music by Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="../04_anotherside/index.htm">Another Side Of Bob Dylan</a> (1964), and in a live version on <a class="recordlink" href="../44_bs7_ndh/index.htm">No Direction Home</a> (2005)<br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem </p>
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  22 <p>Chords: </p>
  23 <pre class="chords">
  24 G/d      xx0433
  25 C/d      xx0553
  26 C/g      3x2013
  27 </pre>
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  31 <pre class="verse">
  32 G      G/d
  33
  34                       D          G/d        C/d    G
  35 Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll
  36    G/d      C/d      G/d        D            G       C/g    G
  37 We ducked inside the doorway as thunder went crashing
  38      G/d             D            G/d     C/d    G
  39 As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds
  40 G/d        C/d    G/d       D       G       C/g   G
  41 Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing
  42 D                               G           C/g    G
  43 Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
  44 C                G               Am              D
  45 Flashing for the refugees of the unarmed road of flight
  46         G              D        G              C
  47 An' for each an' ev'ry underdog soldier in the night
  48        G              D                 G         C/g     G
  49 An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
  50
  51
  52 Through the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched
  53 With faces hidden as the walls were tightening
  54 As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin' rain
  55 Dissolved into the bells of the lightning
  56 Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
  57 Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an' forsaked
  58 Tolling for the outcast, burnin' constantly at stake
  59 An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
  60
  61 Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
  62 The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
  63 That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
  64 Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
  65 Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
  66 Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
  67 And the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time
  68 And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
  69
  70 In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
  71 For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
  72 Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
  73 All down in taken-for-granted situations
  74 Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute
  75 and the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
  76 For the misdemeanor outlaw, chained an' cheated by pursuit
  77 And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
  78
  79 Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off comer flashed
  80 An' the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
  81 Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
  82 Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
  83 Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
  84 For the lonesome hearted lovers with to personal a tale
  85 And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
  86 And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
  87
  88 Starry-eyed and laughing as I recall when we were caught
  89 Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
  90 As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look
  91 Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended
  92 Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
  93 For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse
  94 An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
  95 An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
  96 </pre><hr />
  97 <h2 class="songversion"><em>No Direction Home</em> version</h2>
  98 <p>Basically the same as the album version, only with simpler chords &ndash; no fancy half-barres here, just plain C, D and Am, and the beautifully full, chiming G major.</p>
  99 <pre>
 100       G                  D           G                 C
 101 Far between the finished sundown an' midnight's broken toll
 102    G                 C          D            G
 103 We ducked inside the doorway as thunder went crashing
 104      G               D            G              C
 105 As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds
 106    G              C         D       G
 107 Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing
 108 D                               G
 109 Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
 110 C                G               Am              D
 111 Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
 112         G              D        G              C
 113 An' for each an' ev'ry underdog soldier in the night
 114        G              C         D       G
 115 An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
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