I Was Young When I Left Home

I Was Young When I Left Home chords and lyrics

Free chords for I Was Young When I Left Home by Bob Dylan. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.

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          I Was Young When I Left Home – Bob Dylan
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Written by: Bob Dylan
Recorded in 1961 (Minnesota Tape)
Released on the Bonus CD of “Love and Theft” (2001) and
      "The Bootleg Series, Vol 7: No Direction Home" (2005)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: D-G-D-G-B-d + capo 1st fret / Standard tuning
I don't really know whether a capo is used or whether the strings are
tuned to the key one hears. For the sake of convenience, I’d suggest “Open G”
and then use a capo to match Dylan’s recording (D-G-D-G-B-d leaves three strings
as they are in standard tuning whereas one would have to retune all six strings
for Eb-Ab-Eb-Ab-C-Eb).
If you don't want to take the trouble of re-tuning the strings, I added voicings
for standard tuning in the CHORDS section below.
Dylan uses a Travis picking with many variations. I include a tab of the basic
riff below that can be used to figure out a picking accompaniment or a version
using a plectrum, too.
capo: 1st fret
play: G
key: Ab
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CHORDS
Because of the open tuning almost all the chords have a “g” as their root
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[Intro]
| G | % | % | C | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % |
| G | % |
[Verse 1]
[Verse 2]
[Verse 3]
[Interlude]
| G | % | % | C | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % |
| G | % |
[Verse 4]
[Verse 5]
[Interlude]
| G | % | % | C | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % |
| G | % |
[Verse 6]
[Verse 7]
[Interlude]
| G | % | % | C | % | D7sus4 | % | G | % |
| G | % |
[Verse 8]
[Coda]