Changing Of The Guards chords by Bob Dylan

Chords with lyrics

Intro: AbAb

    F minorFm
Sixteen years,
    AbAb    Eb MajorEb       F minorFm
Sixteen banners ...
     DbDb      Eb MajorEb
While the good ...
     F minorFm    AbAb     Eb MajorEb
Desperate men, ...
        F minorFm        DbDb Eb MajorEb  AbAb
Spreading their wings 'neath ...

    F minorFm
Fortune calls.
    AbAb        Eb MajorEb          F minorFm
I stepped forth from the ...
       DbDb         Eb MajorEb            F minorFm
Merchants and thieves, hungry for ...
       AbAb       Eb MajorEb          F minorFm
She's smelling sweet like the ...
        DbDb  Eb MajorEb    AbAb
On midsummer's ...

(Interlude)

         F minorFm
The cold-blooded ...
      AbAb         Eb MajorEb
The captain waits above ...
      F minorFm      DbDb   Eb MajorEb
Sending his thoughts to a ...
      F minorFm      AbAb   Eb MajorEb
Whose ebony face is beyond ...
        F minorFm                DbDb    Eb MajorEb   AbAb
The captain is down but still believing that ...

        F minorFm
They shaved ...
           AbAb       Eb MajorEb
She was torn between ...
      F minorFm       DbDb      Eb MajorEb
A augmentedA messenger arrived with a ...
         F minorFm     AbAb         Eb MajorEb
I seen her on the stairs and I ...
      F minorFm                DbDb Eb MajorEb   AbAb
Follow her down past the ...


(Interlude)

         F minorFm
I stumbled to ..
      AbAb         Eb MajorEb
I rode past ...
     F minorFm               DbDb       Eb MajorEb
With the stitches still mending ...
     F minorFm     AbAb          Eb MajorEb
Renegade priests and ...
   F minorFm               DbDb Eb MajorEb  AbAb
Were handing out the ...

       F minorFm
The palace ...
     AbAb       Eb MajorEb
Where dog soldiers ...
      F minorFm      DbDb     Eb MajorEb
The endless road and the ...
     F minorFm       AbAb      Eb MajorEb
The empty rooms where her ...
     F minorFm              DbDb    Eb MajorEb     AbAb
Where the angels' voices whisper to the ...

(Interlude)

       F minorFm
She wakes him up
         AbAb        Eb MajorEb
Forty-eight hours later, ...
      F minorFm         DbDb        Eb MajorEb
Near broken chains, mountain ...
         F minorFm      AbAb         Eb MajorEb
She's begging to know what ...
         F minorFm                DbDb   Eb MajorEb   AbAb
He's pulling her down and she's ....

       F minorFm
Gentlemen, he said,
    AbAb       Eb MajorEb            F minorFm
I don't need your organization, ..
        DbDb            Eb MajorEb
I've moved your mountains and ...
        F minorFm          AbAb     Eb MajorEb
But Eden is burning, either get ...
       F minorFm                 DbDb    Eb MajorEb   AbAb
Or else your hearts must have the courage ...


(Interlude)

      F minorFm
Peace will c...
     AbAb     Eb MajorEb            F minorFm
With tranquility and splendor ...
     DbDb     Eb MajorEb            F minorFm
But will offer no reward when ...
  AbAb       Eb MajorEb        F minorFm
And cruel death surrenders ...
      DbDb      Eb MajorEb     AbAb
Between the King and the Queen ...


F minorFm   AbAb Eb MajorEb
Fm...


The "Interlude" (that the sax plays) is:

      AbAb  Eb MajorEb   DbDb             AbAb

E MajorE -6-8-9-8-8~----6-6~----4-4~--(repeat 3 times)---||-6p4-4---4~--||
BB ------------------------------------------------||-------6-----||
G+G ------------------------------------------------||-------------||
D MajorD ------------------------------------------------||-------------||
A augmentedA ------------------------------------------------||-------------||
E MajorE ------------------------------------------------||-------------||


One word of note: It is much easier to play this song with a capo on the
first fret (i.e. play E minorEm G+G D MajorD E minorEm C majorC D... while the 1st fret is fretted). This
makes it more easier and does not make the guitar sound too choppy.


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