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13 <h1 class=
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16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan
<br />
17 Recorded June
15,
1965 during the
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../06_hwy61/index.htm">Highway
61 Revisited
</a>
18 sessions, released on
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"index.htm">The Bootleg Series
1-
3</a> (
1991)
<br />
19 Tabbed by Eyolf
Østrem
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21 <p>Dylan is at the piano, hence the (black) key. A fair guess is that the
22 guitars are capoed on the fourth fret. That would give the chords E
23 (which is actually an E7-
10 =
022133), B7 and A9 (x02000)
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29 I paid fifteen million dollars, twelve hundred and seventy-two cents
31 I paid one thousand two hundred twenty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents
33 See my bull dog bite a rabbit
35 And my hound dog is sittin' on a barbed-wire fence
37 Well, my temperature rises and my feet can't walk so hot
38 Yes, my temperature rises and my feet can't walk so hot
39 Well, this Arabian doctor comes in, gives me a shot
40 But he wouldn't tell me what it was that I got
42 Well, this woman I've got, she's killin' me alive
43 Yes, this woman I've got, she's killin' me alive
44 She's makin' me into an old man,
45 and man I'm not even
25
47 Of course, you're gonna think this song is a riff
48 I know you're gonna think this song is just a riff
49 Unless you've been inside a tunnel
50 And fell down
69,
70 feet over a barbed-wire fence