Artist: Bob Dylan
Title: Dark Eyes
Album: Empire Burlesque
Capo 3rd fret
Throughout the whole song he just plucks the bottom 5th and 6th string,
so you would play:
E A B C#m
e|--0--0--2--4----|
B|--0--2--4--5----|
G|----------------|
D|----------------|
A|----------------|
E|----------------|
Intro:
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
Oh, the gentle-men are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside,
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
They're drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide.
B A C#m A A B B A C#m A A B
I live in a-nother world where life and death are me-morized,
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
Where the earth is strung with lovers' pearls and all I see are dark eyes.
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
A cock is cro-wing far away and ano-ther sol-dier's deep in prayer,
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
Some mo-ther's child has gone astray, she can't find him anywhere.
B A C#m A A B B A C#m A A B
But I can hear a-nother drum beating for the dead that rise,
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
Whom na-ture's beast fears as they come and all I see are dark eyes.
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
They tell me to be discreet for all in-ten-ded purposes,
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
They tell me re-venge is sweet and from where they stand, I'm sure it is.
B A C#m A A B B A C#m A A B
But I feel no-thing for their game where beauty goes un-re-cognized,
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
All I feel is heat and flame and all I see are dark eyes.
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
Oh, the French girl, she's in paradise and a drun-ken man is at the wheel,
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
Hun-ger pays a heavy price to the fall-ing gods of speed and steel.
B A C#m A A B B A C#m A A B
Oh, Time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies,
E C#m B C#m A B E C#m B C#m A E
A mill-ion fac-es at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
e|--4--5--7--4--0--2----4--5--7--4--0--2----|
B|--5--7--9--5--2--4----5--7--9--5--2--4----|
G|------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------|
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A E
e|--0--4--2--4------------------------------|
B|--0--5--4--5--1/2---2-0-------------------|
G|--------------1/2---2-1-1-----------------|
D|------------------2-----2-----------------|
A|------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------|
During the bridges there's a slight riff that goes like:
e|--2--0--4--0------------|
B|--4--2--5--2----2----4--|
G|--------------2----4----|
D|------------------------|
A|------------------------|
E|------------------------|
tabbed by: Blaine AriharaDark Eyes chords and lyrics
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Artist: Bob Dylan
Title: Dark Eyes
Album: Empire Burlesque
Capo 3rd fret
Throughout the whole song he just plucks the bottom 5th and 6th string,
so you would play:
Intro:
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A B
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A E
E C#m B C#m A E
During the bridges there's a slight riff that goes like:
tabbed by: Blaine AriharaDark Eyes Chords by Bob Dylan
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