Too Late chords by Bob Dylan

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: G+G

G+G  C/GC/G

G+G
Whether there was a murder
D MajorD           E minorEm
I don't know
I can't say
C majorC          G+G  C/GC/G G+G C/GC/G
I was visiting a friend in jail
      G+G
There were only two women
    D MajorD
at the scene at the time
E minorEm             C majorC
 Neither one of them saw a thing
G+G       C/GC/G G+G
both of them were wearing veils
          C majorC      Csus4Csus4
They said it was a natural situation
    C majorC
that he reached too high
Csus4Csus4    C majorC  |: Csus4Csus4 C majorC :|
tumbled back to the ground
          D MajorD
You know what they say about
          Dsus4Dsus4    D MajorD
being nice to people on the way up
G+G        A minorAm
sooner or later you might meet them coming down
      G+G           E minorEm
Well, it's too late to bring him back
     C majorC
Too late, too late, too late
D MajorD           G+G       C/GC/G  G+G C/GC/G
Too late, too late to bring him back
     G+G
He had a brother named Paul
    D MajorD         E minorEm
hangin' out at the Café Royal
       C majorC       G+G
where all the company is mixed
G+G
Pretty to look at
D MajorD
he wants someone to throw the book at
E minorEm
 but you know he drinks
C majorC         G+G
and drinks can be fixed
    C majorC
Sing me one more song
      Csus4Csus4
about your summer romance
  C majorC
Or maybe that one about your
Csus4Csus4              |: C majorC Csus4Csus4 :|
one-night stand with Errol Flynn
     D MajorD
In these times of compassion
    Dsus4Dsus4
when conformity's in fashion
D MajorD
Say one more stupid thing to me
 G+G       A minorAm
before the final nail's driven in
       G+G           E minorEm
You know it's too late to bring him back
C majorC          D MajorD           G+G
Too late
Too late
Too late to bring him back
  G+G
Dr Silverspoon
     D MajorD
from the Ecstasy Ballroom
E minorEm       C majorC
 He's a retired businessman
       G+G
who feeds off everyone he's touched
     G+G
He gives money to the church
E MajorE
to foundations of research
E minorEm
 He's not someone you can
C majorC           G+G
 play around with too much
     C majorC
There's a Rosetta Blake
   Csus4Csus4           C majorC
who's been to both sides of the lake
            Csus4Csus4     C majorC
she's rough to look at but she's fit
        D MajorD         Dsus4Dsus4
She'll feed you coconut bread and spiced buns in bed
    D MajorD
and you won't have to worry about
D7D7        A minorAm
sleepin' with you head face down in the plate
     G+G           E minorEm
But it's too late to bring him back
C majorC          D MajorD
Too late
Too late
Too late
G+G
it's too late to bring him back
   G+G        D MajorD
Gonna arrange to see a man tonight
   E minorEm          C majorC
He'll tell you some secret things
              G+G
that you think might open some doors
    G+G           D MajorD
How to enter in the gates of paradise?
  E minorEm
No, not really
    C majorC          G+G
More like going crazy from carrying
        C/GC/G       G+G C/GC/G
a burden never meant to be yours
     C majorC             Csus4Csus4     C majorC
From the stage they'll be doing the bumps and the grinds

A augmentedA whore will pass the hat, collect a hundred grand

say "Well, boys - thanks!"
       D MajorD            Dsus4Dsus4
They like to take all this money from sin
D MajorD
build big castles to study in
D7D7      A minorAm              D7D7
They'll sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss bank
      G+G           E minorEm
Well, it's too late to bring him back
C majorC          D MajorD
Too late
Too late
Too late
G+G       C/GC/G  G+G  C/GC/G
it's too late to bring him back

G+G
They got some serious people out there, man
E minorEm
they can ring your bell and show you
           G+G
how to hold your tongue
G+G
They don’t come to party, man
E minorEm
they kill babies in the crib and say:

           G+G
“Only the good die young ”
C majorC
They don’t believe in mercy
Csus4Csus4
and judgement on them
C majorC             Csus4Csus4
is something you’ll never see
D MajorD
They can put your face on a postage stamp
Dsus4Dsus4
turn your home into an armed camp
D MajorD      G+G          A minorAm
any way they want you, that’s the way you’ll be

G+G           E minorEm
But it's too late to bring him back
C majorC          D MajorD
Too late
Too late
Too late
G+G
it's too late to bring him back

G+G             E minorEm
Yes
I guess I loved him too
G+G
I still see him in my mind, climbin’ that hill
C majorC         Csus4Csus4
Or was it a wall?
       C majorC
I don’t recall
Csus4Csus4                     C majorC
It don’t matter all all, honey, and it never will
D MajorD             Dsus4Dsus4
Ain’t nothin’ left here, partner
D MajorD           Dsus4Dsus4              D MajorD
just the dust of fools that have left their mark in spades
D MajorD              Dsus4Dsus4
From now on, this’ll be where you’re from
D MajorD         Dsus4Dsus4     D MajorD
Let the dead bury the dead Your time will come
           G+G           A minorAm
Feel that hot iron glowing now as you raise the shade

G+G           E minorEm
But it's too late to bring him back
C majorC          D MajorD
Too late
Too late
Too late
G+G
it's too late to bring him back