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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Solid Rock</h1>
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  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Saved</a> (1980) and on <a class="recordlink" href="../28_biograph/index.htm">Biograph</a> (1985)<br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem </p>
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  22 <p>Opening riff:<br />
  23 Play on the 6th string while holding a barre A (-0222x):</p>
  24 <pre class="verse">
  25   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
  26 | 0 3 5 . 5 . 3 5 . 5 3 . 5 . . . |
  27 </pre>
  28
  29 <p>(Or hire a bass player...) </p>
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  33 <pre class="verse">
  34 A
  35           C   D   A
  36 Well, I'm hangin' on
  37      C D   A
  38 to a solid rock
  39 D E F#m
  40 Made
  41 D E F#m
  42 before
  43     D E F#m
  44 the foundation
  45 D E F#m
  46 of
  47     A
  48 the world
  49       D
  50 And I won't let go, and I can't let go, won't let go
  51                                                         A
  52 And I can't let go, won't let go, and I can't let go no more.
  53
  54      C  D      A              C  D      A
  55 For me He was chastised, for me He was hated,
  56      C     D     A           E
  57 For me he was rejected by a world that He created.
  58 C  D        A      C      D   A
  59 Nations are angry, cursed are some,
  60 C      D      A        E
  61 People are expecting a false peace to come.
  62
  63           G       A
  64 Well I'm hangin' on ...
  65
  66 It's the ways of the flesh to war against the spirit,
  67 Twenty-four hours a day you can feel it and you can hear it
  68 Using all the devices under the sun.
  69 And He never give up 'til the battle's lost or won.
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