I Shall Be Released chords by Joan Baez

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Intermediate

I Shall Be Released
as sung by Joan Baez (written by Bob Dylan)

Capo 2nd fret to play in the recording's key of D

Verse 1:
C                            Dm
They say everything can be replaced
Em             Dm              C
They say every distance is not near
C                    Dm
Yet I remember every face
Em       Dm             C
Of every man who put me here.

Chorus:
C                   Dm
I see my light come shining
Em       Dm            C
From the west unto the east.
C
Any day now,
Dm
Any day now,
Em  Dm         C
I   shall be released

Verse 2:
C                           Dm
They say every man needs protection.
Em            Dm             C
They say that every man must fall.
C                      Dm
Yet I swear I see my reflection,
Em           Dm              C
Somewhere so high above this wall.

Chorus:
C                   Dm
I see my light come shining
Em       Dm            C
From the west unto the east.
C
Any day now,
Dm
Any day now,
Em  Dm         C
I   shall be released

Verse 3:
C                                Dm
Well yonder stands a man in this lonely crowd,
Em        Dm               C
A man who swears he not to blame.
C                           Dm
Yet all day long I hear him shouting so loud,
Em          Dm              C
He's crying out that he was framed.

Chorus:
C                   Dm
I see my light come shining
Em       Dm            C
From the west unto the east.
C
Any day now,
Dm
Any day now,
Em  Dm         C
I   shall be released