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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Tell Me That It Isn't True</h1>
  14
  15
  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Nashville Skyline</a> (1969)<br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
  19
  20 <p>Capo 3rd fret (sounding key F major)</p>
  21
  22 <p>The G/b in the last line of the verses does contain a Bm somewhere
  23 (which actually turns it into a Gmaj7 of some sort)</p>
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  27 <pre class="tab">
  28     D                 Dsus4
  29     :   .   .   .     .   .   .   .
  30 ||-(2)------2-2---2-|-3---2---3---2---||
  31 ||*(3)----------3---|----------------*||
  32 ||-(2)--------------|-----------------||
  33 ||--0---------------|-----------------||
  34 ||*-----------------|----------------*||
  35 ||------------------|-----------------||
  36 </pre>
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  38 <pre class="verse">
  39 D            A      Em       D
  40 I have heard rumors all over town,
  41 D                     A       Em         D
  42  They say that you're planning to put me down.
  43 G           F#m          A
  44  All I would like you to do,
  45 G/b                 Em    D
  46  Is tell me that it isn't true.
  47
  48 They say that you've been seen with some other man,
  49 That he's tall, dark and handsome, and you're holding his hand.
  50 Darlin', I'm a-countin' on you,
  51 Tell me that it isn't true.
  52 </pre>
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  54 <pre class="bridge">
  55 G                 F#m          Em          D
  56 To know that some other man is holdin' you tight,
  57 F#              Bm       Em           F#m    Em
  58 It hurts me all over, it doesn't seem right.
  59 </pre>
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  61 <pre class="verse">
  62 All of those awful things that I have heard,
  63 I don't want to believe them, all I want is your word.
  64 So darlin', you better come through,
  65 Tell me that it isn't true.
  66 </pre>
  67
  68 <pre class="bridge">
  69 [instrumental break]
  70 </pre>
  71
  72 <pre class="verse">
  73 All of these awful things that I have heard,
  74 I don't want to believe them, all I want is your word.
  75 So darlin', I'm countin' on you,
  76 Tell me that it isn't true.
  77
  78 F#   Bm   Em   F#m
  79
  80 [three suggestions for the ending:]
  81 </pre>
  82 <pre class="tab">
  83   D/g     G6               D           D       G6                D
  84   :   .   .   .     :   .    .   .     :   .   .   .      :   .    .   .
  85 |-----------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------||
  86 |-----------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------||
  87 |-----------------|-0----------------|-----------------|2h4-2--------------||
  88 |/4-2-0-2---0-----|---4-2-/4---------|-4-2-0-2---0-0---|------2-h4---------||
  89 |-------------2---|------------------|-----------------|-------------------||
  90 |-----------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------||
  91 </pre>
  92
  93 <p>or:</p>
  94 <pre class="tab">
  95   D/g     G6              D            D       G6                D
  96   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .      :   .   .   .      :   .    .   .
  97 |-2-0---0---------|-3-2-0-2----------|-----------------|-------------------||
  98 |-3---3-0---3-0---|-------3----------|-------0---------|-------------------||
  99 |-0-----0---------|-4-2-0-2----------|-2-----0---------|-2h4-2-------------||
 100 |-----------------|-------0----------|-4-2-0-2---0-----|-------2-h4--------||
 101 |-----------------|------------------|-------------2---|-------------------||
 102 |-----------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------||
 103 </pre>
 104
 105 <p>This is actually played on a guitar capoed on the 1st fret, something like:</p>
 106 <pre class="tab">
 107   :   .   .   .     :   .    .   .     :   .   .   .      :   .    .   .
 108 |-----------------|------------------|-----------------|-(0)---------------||
 109 |-----------------|-0-0-0--0---------|-----------------|--------(0)--------||
 110 |-----------------|------------------|-----------------|4h6-4--------------||
 111 |/6-4-2-4---2-----|-7-6-4-h6---------|-----------------|------4-h6---------||
 112 |-------------4---|------------------|-----------------|-------------------||
 113 |-----------------|------------------|-4-2-0-2---0-0---|-------------------||
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