Its Alright Ma Im Only Bleeding
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1/9
Sound:
Step 1 / 9Position: 1
1 index2 middle3 ring4 pinkyO open
The song is in drop D with a capo on the 2nd fret.
Chords:
D000232
G/B 02003x (or -0 or -3)
Csus2030030
Bb601003x
F/D000211
G/D000433
A202220
: . . . : . . .
E|--1--/3-------1----|(2)---------------|
B|.-1--/3-------1----|-3---3-3-3-3-3--.-|
G|--2--/4-------2----|-2---2-2-2-2-2----|
D|--0---0-------0----|-0---0-0-0-0-0----|
A|.-0---0-------0----|-0---0-0-0-0-0--.-|
D|--0---0-------0----|-0---0-0-0-0-0----|
All verses same chords as verse 1, all refrains same chords as refrain 1.
[Verse 1]
DarknG/Bess at the break of noon
ShadoDws even the silver spoon
The handmCsus2ade blade, the child's balloon
EclipG/Bses both the sun and moon
To underBb6stand you know too soon
There is no sense in tryinDg.
[Verse 2]
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
[Verse 3]
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.
[Refrain 1]
So don't fear Dif you hearA
A foreiDgn sound to your earG/B
It's DalrigAht, G/BMa, IA'm only sighiDng.
[Verse 4]
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.
[Verse 5]
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
[Verse 6]
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.
[Refrain 2]
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.
[Verse 7]
Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.
[Verse 8]
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.
[Verse 9]
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
[Refrain 3]
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
[Verse 10]
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
[Verse 11]
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.
[Verse 12]
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.
[Refrain 4]
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
[Verse 13]
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares, propaganda, all is phony.
[Verse 14]
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
[Verse 15]
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False goals, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?
[Refrain 5]
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.
************************************
| (n) Ghost note
| / Slide up
| . Staccato
************************************
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Its Alright Ma Im Only Bleeding
by Bob Dylan
Chords in this song · guitar
D
Csus2
Bb6
F/D
G/D
A
G/B
The song is in drop D with a capo on the 2nd fret.
Chords:
D
000232
G/B 02003x (or -0 or -3)
Csus2
030030
Bb6
01003x
F/D
000211
G/D
000433
A
202220
: . . . : . . .
E|--1--/3-------1----|(2)---------------|
B|.-1--/3-------1----|-3---3-3-3-3-3--.-|
G|--2--/4-------2----|-2---2-2-2-2-2----|
D|--0---0-------0----|-0---0-0-0-0-0----|
A|.-0---0-------0----|-0---0-0-0-0-0--.-|
D|--0---0-------0----|-0---0-0-0-0-0----|
All verses same chords as verse 1, all refrains same chords as refrain 1.
[Verse 1]
G/B
Darkness at the break of noon
D
Shadows even the silver spoon
Csus2
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
G/B
Eclipses both the sun and moon
Bb6
To understand you know too soon
D
There is no sense in trying.
[Verse 2]
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
[Verse 3]
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.
[Refrain 1]
D A
So don't fear if you hear
D G/B
A foreign sound to your ear
D A G/B A D
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.
[Verse 4]
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.
[Verse 5]
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
[Verse 6]
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.
[Refrain 2]
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.
[Verse 7]
Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.
[Verse 8]
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.
[Verse 9]
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
[Refrain 3]
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
[Verse 10]
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
[Verse 11]
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.
[Verse 12]
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.
[Refrain 4]
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
[Verse 13]
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares, propaganda, all is phony.
[Verse 14]
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
[Verse 15]
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False goals, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?
[Refrain 5]
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.
************************************
| (n) Ghost note
| / Slide up
| . Staccato
************************************
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