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7 <title>Gates of Eden
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13 <h1 class=
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16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan
<br />
17 Released on
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../05_biabh/index.htm">Bringing It All Back Home
</a> (
1965), and in a live
18 version on
<a class=
"recordlink" href=
"../43_bs6/index.htm">Live
1964</a> (
2004)
<br />
19 Tabbed by Eyolf
Østrem
</p>
25 G
320003 or
320033 (before Cadd9)
32 <p>The exact chord progression of the last two lines varies somewhat from
33 verse to verse, but the version in verse
4 is the default for the rest
42 Of war and peace the truth just twists
44 Its curfew gull it glides
46 Upon four-legged forest clouds
48 The cowboy angel rides
50 With his candle lit into the sun
52 Though its glow is waxed in black
54 All except when 'neath the trees of Eden
56 The lamppost stands with folded arms
57 Its iron claws attached
58 To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail
59 Though it shadows metal badge
60 All and all can only fall
62 With a crashing but meaningless blow
64 No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden
66 The savage soldier sticks his head in sand
68 Unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf
70 Upon the beach where hound dogs bay
71 At ships with tattooed sails
73 Heading for the Gates of Eden
75 With a time-rusted compass blade
77 Sits with Utopian hermit monks
78 Side saddle on the Golden Calf
79 And on their promises of paradise
81 You will not hear a laugh
83 All except inside the Gates of Eden
85 Relationships of ownership
86 They whisper in the wings
87 To those condemned to act accordingly
88 And wait for succeeding kings
89 And I try to harmonize with songs
90 The lonesome sparrow sings
91 There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden
93 The motorcycle black madonna
94 Two-wheeled gypsy queen
95 And her silver-studded phantom cause
96 The gray flannel dwarf to scream
97 As he weeps to wicked birds of prey
98 Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
99 And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden
101 The kingdoms of Experience
102 In the precious wind they rot
103 While paupers change possessions
104 Each one wishing for what the other has got
105 And the princess and the prince
106 Discuss what's real and what is not
107 It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden
109 The foreign sun, it squints upon
110 A bed that is never mine
111 As friends and other strangers
112 From their fates try to resign
113 Leaving men wholly, totally free
114 To do anything they wish to do but die
115 And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden
117 At dawn my lover comes to me
118 And tells me of her dreams
119 With no attempts to shovel the glimpse
120 Into the ditch of what each one means
121 At times I think there are no words
122 But these to tell what's true
123 And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden
128 <h2 class=
"songversion">Live version from the Halloween Show (Philharmonic Hall, Oct
31 1964)
</h2>
131 G . Dm . . . F . C . G . . .
134 Of war and peace the truth it twists
136 Its curfew gull just glides
138 Upon four-legged forest clouds
140 The cowboy angel rides
142 With his candle lit into the sun
144 Though its glow is waxed in black
146 All except when 'neath the trees of Eden
149 <p>Occasionally the following figure (or some variation of it) is played
150 between verses or lines, replacing the G - C/g - G turn (only the
151 changes are noted, and the F must be played with the thumb in order
152 for the little figure to be playable):
</p>
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160 |-
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161 |-
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164 <p>And the D in the penultimate line is often played in the same manner:
</p>
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177 <h2 class=
"songversion">Live version from
1988, various locations
</h2>
190 Of war and peace the truth just twists
192 Its curfew gull just glides
194 Upon four-legged forest clouds
196 The cowboy angel rides
198 With his candle lit into the sun
200 Though its glow is waxed in black
202 All except when 'neath the trees of Eden