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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">I'm Not There (1956)</h1>
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  16 <p>Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Recorded during <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">The Basement Tapes</a> sessions (1967), and released (unofficially) on the Genuine Basement Tapes.<br />
  18 Lyrics transcribed by J.W. Mahoney, with some emendations to make it sound more like a meaningful text (which I don't think it necessarily has to be; see <a href="../faq.htm#I'mnotthere">this note</a> for a short explanation of why).<br />
  19 Here's a <a href="im_not_there_lyrics.htm">different transcription</a><br />
  20 And just for the record: &ldquo;(1956)&rdquo; is part of the title, not the
  21 year of writing.<br />
  22 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  25 <p>Capo 4th fret (original key B major)</p>
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  27 <p>The Gs are regularly embellished by 320003-3x2013-320003-turns.</p>
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  31 <pre class="verse">
  32           G
  33 Well it's alright
  34
  35 she'nay she's all the time in my
  36 F
  37 neighborhood
  38               Am
  39 she cried both day and night,
  40             G
  41 I know it because it was there.
  42
  43       G
  44 It's a milestone
  45           F
  46 but she's down on her luck,
  47         Am
  48 and she daily salutin
  49        G
  50 but to make him hard to buck,
  51
  52 I bevaid ...
  53 </pre>
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  55 <pre class="refrain">
  56   C
  57 I believe where she stopping
  58        Em
  59 if she wants time to care,
  60     F
  61 I believe that she'd look upon
  62   G
  63 deciding to care,
  64       Em
  65 and I go by the Lord
  66      F
  67 in a way she's on my way,
  68       G
  69 but I don't belong there.
  70 </pre>
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  72 <pre class="verse">
  73 No I don't belong to her,
  74 I don't belong to anybody,
  75 she's my prize forsaken angel
  76 but she don't hear me cry.
  77
  78 She's a long-hearted mystic
  79 and she can't carry on,
  80 when I'm there she's alright,
  81 but she's not, when I'm gone
  82 </pre>
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  84 <pre class="refrain">
  85 Heaven knows that the answer
  86 she's don't call in no-one,
  87 she's the way, a sailing beautiful,
  88 she's mine, for the one,
  89
  90 and I loss a heavy tension,
  91 by temptation less it runs
  92 but she don't allah me
  93 but I'm not there, I'm gone.
  94 </pre>
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  96 <pre class="verse">
  97 Now I've cried tonight
  98 like I cried the night before,
  99 and I'm knees on the hassle,
 100 but I dream about the door.
 101
 102 So-long Jesus-saken,
 103 blind fate, with a tell,
 104 it don't hang contonation
 105 she's my ald fare-thee-well.
 106 </pre>
 107
 108 <pre class="refrain">
 109 Now when I'll treat the levee,
 110 I was born to love her,
 111 but she knows that the kingdom
 112 weighs so high above her,
 113
 114 and I run but I race,
 115 but it's not too fast a sleoun,
 116 but I don't perceive her,
 117 I'm not there, I'm gone.
 118 </pre>
 119
 120 <pre class="verse">
 121 Well it's all about deffusion
 122 That I cry for her veil,
 123 I don't need anybody now
 124 beside me to tell
 125
 126 And it's all affirmation
 127 I recieve, but it's not,
 128 She's a lone-hearted beauty
 129 but she's gone like the spot
 130 if she waoun...
 131 </pre>
 132
 133 <pre class="refrain">
 134 Yes, she's gone like the rainbow
 135 that was shining yesterday
 136 but now she's a-home beside me
 137 and I'd like her to stay
 138
 139 she's a bone-forsaking beauty
 140 and it don't trust anyone,
 141 and I wish I was beside her,
 142 but I'm not there, I'm gone.
 143 </pre>
 144
 145 <pre class="verse">
 146 Well it's a too hard to stake-in,
 147 and I don't bart-b'lieve
 148 It's all bag for tebusing,
 149 but she's hard, too hard to leave.
 150
 151 It's alone, it's a crime
 152 the way she moult me around
 153 was she told for to hate me
 154 by this dong fortaken clown.
 155 </pre>
 156
 157 <pre class="refrain">
 158 Yes I believe that it's rightful,
 159 oh I believe it in my mind,
 160 I b'told like I said when I before
 161 carry on the crying,
 162
 163 and she's all good to told her,
 164 like I said, carry on,
 165 I wish I was there to help her,
 166 but I'm not there, I'm gone ...
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