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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. Outtake
  19 version released  on <a class="recordlink"
  20 href="../46_bs8/index.htm">Tell Tale Signs</a> (2008)<br />
  21 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  25 Capo 3rd fret (sounding key Bb major)</p>
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  28
  29 <hr />
  30
  31 <pre>Intro:
  32 G . . .  D . . . . D . . . G . . . </pre>
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  34 <pre class="verse">
  35 G                        D
  36 The river whispers in my ear,
  37                          G
  38 I've hardly a penny to my name.
  39                             D
  40 The heavens never seemed so near.
  41                           G
  42 All of my body glows with flame.</pre>
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  44 <pre class="bridge">
  45 C                             G
  46  The tempest struggles in the air.
  47 C                      G
  48  and to myself alone I sing.
  49 </pre>
  50 <pre class="verse">
  51 D
  52 It could sink me then and there,
  53                       G
  54 I can hear the echoes ring.
  55 </pre>
  56
  57 <pre class="bridge">
  58 C                          G
  59  I try to find one smilin' face
  60 C                            G
  61  to drive the shadows from my head.</pre>
  62 <pre class="verse">
  63                               D
  64 I'm stranded in this nameless place,
  65                           G
  66 lyin' restless in a heavy bed
  67 </pre>
  68 <pre class="tab">
  69 CG. . CG|D . . . |D . . . |G . . . |
  70 </pre>
  71 <pre>
  72 Tell me straight out if you will,
  73 Why must you torture me within?
  74 Why must you come down from your high hill?
  75 Throw my fate to the clouds and wind
  76   Far away in a silent land
  77   Secret thoughts are hard to bear.
  78 Remember me, you'll understand:
  79 Emotions we can never share.
  80   You trampled on me as you passed,
  81   Left the coldest kiss upon my brow.
  82 All my doubts and fears are gone at last,
  83 I've nothing more to tell you now.
  84 </pre>
  85
  86 <pre>
  87 I walk by tranquil lakes and streams
  88 As each new season's dawn awaits
  89 I lay awake at night with troubled dreams
  90 The enemy is at the gates
  91   Beneath the thunder-blasted trees
  92   the words are ringing off your tongue
  93 the ground is hard in times like these
  94 the stars are cold, the night is young,
  95   the rocks are bleak, the trees are bare,
  96   iron clouds go floating by.
  97 Snowflakes falling in my hair
  98 beneath the gray and stony sky.
  99 </pre>
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 101 <pre>
 102 The evening sun is sinking low,
 103 the woods are dark, the town is too.
 104 They'll drag you down, they run the show.
 105 Ain't no tellin' what they'll do.
 106   Tell ol' Bill when he comes home:
 107   Anything is worth a try.
 108 Tell him that I'm not alone,
 109 that the hour has come to do or die.
 110   All the world I would defy,
 111   Let me make it plane as day.
 112 I look at you now and I sigh,
 113 how could it be any other way?
 114 </pre>
 115 <hr />
 116
 117 <a name="telltale"></a>
 118 <h3>The <em>Tell Tale Signs</em>, minor-key outtake version (#7)</h3>
 119 <pre>Intro:
 120 Bbm . . .  F7 . . . . F7 . . . Bbm . . . </pre>
 121
 122 <pre class="verse">
 123 Bbm                      F7
 124 The river whispers in my ear,
 125                           Bbm
 126 I've hardly a penny to my name.
 127                             F7
 128 The heavens never seemed so near.
 129                           Bbm
 130 All of my body glows with flame.</pre>
 131
 132 <pre class="bridge">
 133 Ebm                           Bbm
 134  The tempest struggles in the air.
 135 Ebm                    Bbm
 136  and to myself alone I sing.
 137 </pre>
 138 <pre class="verse">
 139                           F7
 140 It could sink me then and there,
 141                       Bbm
 142 I can hear the echoes ring.
 143 </pre>
 144
 145 <pre class="bridge">
 146 Ebm                        Bbm
 147  I try to find one smilin' face
 148 Ebm                           Bbm
 149  to drive the shadows from my head.</pre>
 150 <pre class="verse">
 151                               F7
 152 I'm stranded in this nameless place,
 153                           Bbm
 154 lyin' restless in a heavy bed
 155 </pre>
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