I Shall Be Free chords by Bob Dylan

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Intermediate

Chords:

D7susD7sus  x00213
C/GC/G   xx2013 (or 3x2013)


Intro:

G+G D7D7 G+G C/GC/G G+G C/GC/G G+G C/GC/G G+G C/GC/G G+G

Verse 1:
    D7susD7sus
Well, I took me a woman late last night
                    G+G  C/GC/G G+G C/GC/G G+G
I was three-fourths drunk, she looked alright
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'Til she started peelin' off her onion-gook
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She took off her wig, an' said, "How do I look?"
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I was high-flyin'
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Bare-naked
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Out the window

Verse 2:
   D7susD7sus
Well, sometimes I might get drunk
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Walk like a duck and smell like a skunk
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Don't hurt me none, it don't hurt my pride
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'Cause I got my little lady right by my side

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She's-a tryin' to hide
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Pretendin' she don't know me

Verse 3:
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I's out there paintin' on the old woodshed
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When a can of black paint it fell on my head
D7susD7sus
I went down to scrub and rub
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But I had to sit in back of the tub
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Cost a quarter
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Half-price

Verse 4:
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Well, my telephone rang, it would not stop
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It's President Kennedy callin' me up
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He said, "My friend Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?"
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I said, "My friend John, Brigitte Bardot
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Anita Ekberg
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Sophia Loren
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Country-O-Grow"

Verse 5:
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Well, I got a woman four feet short
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She yells and hollers and screams and snorts
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She tickles my nose pats me on the head
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Rolls me over and kicks me outta bed
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She's a man-eater
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Meat-grinder
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Bad loser

Verse 6:
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Oh, there ain't no use in me workin' all the time
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I got a woman who works herself blind
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Works up to her britches, up to her neck
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Writes me letters and sends me checks
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She's a humdinger
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Folk singer

Verse 7:
D7susD7sus
Late one day in the middle of the week
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Eyes were closed, I was half asleep
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I chased me a woman up the hill
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Right in the middle of an air raid drill
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I jumped the fallout shelter
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I jumped the string-bean
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I jumped the TV dinner
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I jumped the shotgun

Verse 8:
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Now, the man on the stand, he wants my vote
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He's a-runnin' for office on a ballot note
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He's out there preachin' in front of the steeple
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Tellin' me he loves all kinds of people
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He's eatin' bagels
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He's eatin' pizza
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He's eatin' chitlins

Verse 9:
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Oh, I set me down on the television floor
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I flipped the channel on to number four
D7susD7sus
Out of the shower comes a football man
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With a bottle of oil in his hand
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Greasy kid stuff
     D7susD7sus
But what I want to know, Mr. Football Man
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Is what do you do about  Willy Mays?
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Martin Luther King?
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Oula Tunjee?

Verse 10:
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Well, the funniest woman I ever seen
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Was the great-granddaughter of Mr. Clean
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She takes about fifteen baths a day
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Wants me to grow a mustache on my face
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She's insane

Verse 11:
     D7susD7sus
Well, ya ask me why I'm drunk all the time
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It levels my head and eases my mind
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I just walk along and stroll and sing
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I'll see better days and I'll do better things
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I'll catch dinosaurs
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Make love to Elizabeth Taylor
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Catch hell from Richard Burton

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