{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1763134,"song":"Its Alright Ma Im Only Bleeding","artist":"Bob Dylan","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1763134-its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding-chords-by-bob-dylan/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1763134?type=chord","rating":4.70689,"votes":33,"content":"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Bob Dylan\r\nTuned Double Drop D (D,A,D,G,B,D)\r\nCapo 2nd or 5th fret\r\n\r\nchords\r\n\r\n[tab]D    0-0-0-2-3-0[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]    X-0-2-2-2-0\r\n[ch]G[/ch]    5-X-0-0-0-5\r\nD/B  0-2-0-2-3-0[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]  X-0-0-2-3-0\r\nD/C  0-3-0-2-3-0\r\nD/Bb 0-1-0-0-3-0\r\nF/D  0-0-0-2-1-3\r\nG/D  0-0-0-4-3-5[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]Riff\r\n   [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]F/D[/ch] [ch]G/D[/ch]   [ch]F/D[/ch]\r\nD|-0---0---0-0-0---3--/5-----3-3---|\r\nB|-3---3---3-3-3---1--/3-----1-1---|\r\nG|-2---2---2-2-2---2--/4-----2-2---|(play twice more)\r\nD|-0---0---0-0-0---0---0-----0-0---|\r\nA|-0---0---0-0-0---0---0-----0-0---|\r\nD|-0---0---0-0-0---0---0-----0-0---|[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 1\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nDarkness at the break of noon[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nShadows even the silver spoon[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nThe handmade blade, the child's balloon[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nEclipses both the sun and moon[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                        riff  \r\nTo understand you know too soon, there is no sense in trying\r\n \r\nVerse 2 \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nPointed threats, they bluff with scorn[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nSuicide remarks are torn[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nFrom the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nPlays wasted words proves to warn[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                      riff\r\nThat he not busy being born is busy dying\r\n\r\nVerse 3 \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nTemptation's page flies out the door[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nYou follow, find yourself at war[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nWatch waterfalls of pity roar[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nYou feel to moan but unlike before[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                   riff\r\nYou discover that you'd just be one more person crying\r\n\r\nChorus\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo don't fear if you hear[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA foreign sound to your ear[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]               riff\r\nIt's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nAs some warn victory, some downfall[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nPrivate reasons great or small[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nCan be seen in the eyes of those that call[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nTo make all that should be killed to crawl[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                     riff\r\nWhile others say don't hate nothing at all, except hatred\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nDisillusioned words like bullets bark[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nAs human gods aim for their mark[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nMade everything from toy guns that spark[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nTo flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                                   riff\r\nIt's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nOur preachers preach of evil fates[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nTeachers teach that knowledge waits[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nCan lead to hundred-dollar plates[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nGoodness hides behind its gates[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                                           riff\r\nBut even the President of the United States Sometimes must have to stand naked\r\n\r\nChorus\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAn' all the rules of the road have been lodged[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's only people's games that you got to dodge[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]D[/ch]     \r\nAnd it's alright, Ma, I can make it[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nAdvertising signs that con you[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nInto thinking you're the one[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nThat can do what's never been done[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nThat can win what's never been won[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                         riff\r\nMeantime life outside goes on all around you\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nYou lose yourself, you reappear[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nYou suddenly find you got nothing to fear[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nAlone you stand with nobody near[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nWhen a trembling distant voice, unclear[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                                           riff\r\nStartles your sleeping ears to hear That somebody thinks they really found you\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nA question in your nerves is lit[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nYet you know there is no answer fit[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nTo satisfy insure you not to quit[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nTo keep it in your mind and not forget[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                   riff\r\nThat it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to\r\n\r\nChorus\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAlthough the masters make the rules[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor the wise men and the fools[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI got nothing, Ma, to live up to[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nFor them that must obey authority[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nThat they do not respect in any degree[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nWho despise their jobs, their destinies[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nSpeak jealously of them that are free[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                                  riff\r\nDo what they do just to be nothing more than something they invest in\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nWhile some on principles baptized[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nTo strict party platform ties[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nSocial clubs in drag disguise[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nOutsiders they can freely criticize[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                        riff\r\nTell nothing except who to idolize and say, \"God bless him\"\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nWhile one who sings with his tongue on fire[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nGargles in the rat race choir[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nBent out of shape from society's pliers[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nCares not to come up any higher[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                             riff\r\nBut rather get you down in the hole that he's in\r\n\r\n\r\nChorus\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut I mean no harm nor put fault[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOn anyone that lives in a vault[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nOld lady judges watch people in pairs[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nLimited in sex, they dare[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nTo push fake morals, insult and stare[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nWhile money doesn't talk, it swears[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                 riff\r\nObscenity, who really cares propaganda, all is phony\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nWhile them that defend what they cannot see[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nWith a killer's pride, security[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nIt blows the minds most bitterly[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nFor them that think death's honesty[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                           riff\r\nWon't fall upon them naturally, life sometimes must get lonely\r\n\r\nVerse \r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nMy eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/A[/ch]\r\nFalse goals, I scuff at pettiness which plays so rough[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/C[/ch]\r\nWalk upside-down inside handcuffs[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D/B[/ch]\r\nKick my legs to crash it off[/tab]\r\nD/Bb                                                      riff\r\nSay, \"Okay, I have had enough, what else can you show me?\"\r\n\r\nChorus\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]         \r\nAnd if my thought dreams could be seen[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey'd probably put my head in a guillotine[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only[/tab]","plain_text":"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Bob Dylan\nTuned Double Drop D (D,A,D,G,B,D)\nCapo 2nd or 5th fret\n\nchords\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 1\n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                        riff  \nTo understand you know too soon, there is no sense in trying\n \nVerse 2 \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                      riff\nThat he not busy being born is busy dying\n\nVerse 3 \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                   riff\nYou discover that you'd just be one more person crying\n\nChorus\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                     riff\nWhile others say don't hate nothing at all, except hatred\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                                   riff\nIt's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                                           riff\nBut even the President of the United States Sometimes must have to stand naked\n\nChorus\n\n\n\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                         riff\nMeantime life outside goes on all around you\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                                           riff\nStartles your sleeping ears to hear That somebody thinks they really found you\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                   riff\nThat it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to\n\nChorus\n\n\n\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                                  riff\nDo what they do just to be nothing more than something they invest in\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                        riff\nTell nothing except who to idolize and say, \"God bless him\"\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                             riff\nBut rather get you down in the hole that he's in\n\n\nChorus\n\n\n\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                 riff\nObscenity, who really cares propaganda, all is phony\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                           riff\nWon't fall upon them naturally, life sometimes must get lonely\n\nVerse \n\n\n\n\nD/Bb                                                      riff\nSay, \"Okay, I have had enough, what else can you show me?\"\n\nChorus","chords":["D","A","G","B","D/B","D/A","D/C","D/Bb","F/D","G/D"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}