GuitarTabsExplorer icon
GuitarTabsExplorer icon

Log in

Songbook

  • Log in to add and see bookmarks

Last visited songs

    No songs visited yet...

Early Roman Kings chords by Bob Dylan

Chords with lyrics

Album:  Tempest (2012)
Style:  John Lee Hooker & Bo Diddley Blues.
Tabbed: rikigo
URL:    http://www.youtube.com/watch v=s0IQiQcnN58&feature=related
Tuning: Standard

Chords:
        EADGBe
Chord diagramG+G   === 355433
Chord diagramG11G11 === 333433
Chord diagramC majorC   === 81010988
Chord diagramC11C11 === 888988

Method: Upstroke-Downstroke-Upstroke/Downstroke.

Intro:
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |

Verse 1:
G-G11-G
Ah the early Roman kings, in their shark skin suits.
G-G11-G                              C-C11-C
Bow ties and buttons, high-top boots.
C-C11-C                                 G-G11-G
Drivin' the spikes in, blazin' the rails.
G-G11-G                                        C-C11-C
Nailed in their coffins, in top hats and tails.
C-C11-C                                 G-G11-G
Fly away over, fly away, flap your wings.
G-G11-G
Fly by night, like the early Roman kings.

Bridge:
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |

Verse 2:
G-G11-G
Ah the early Roman kings, were never really born.
G-G11-G                                         C-C11-C
Comin' down the mountain, distributing the corn.
C-C11-C                                               G-G11-G
Speedin' through the forest, ah racin' down the track.
G-G11-G                                    C-C11-C
Ya trying' to get away, they drag you back.
C-C11-C                                      G-G11-G
Tomorrow is Friday, we'll see what it brings.
G-G11-G
Everybody's talkin' about the early Roman kings.

Bridge:
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |

Verse 3
G-G11-G
The peddlers and the meddlers, they buy and they sell.
G-G11-G                                               C-C11-C
They destroyed your city, they'll destroy you as well.
C-C11-C                                                    G-G11-G
They're lecherous and treacherous, a-hell-bent for leather.
G-G11-G                                       C-C11-C
Each of 'em bigger, than all men put together.
C-C11-C                                        G-G11-G
Sluggers and muggers, wearin' fancy gold rings.
G-G11-G
All the women goin' crazy, for the early Roman kings.

Bridge:
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |

Verse 4
G-G11-G
I could dress up you wounds, with a blood-clotted rag.
G-G11-G                                         C-C11-C
I ain't afraid to make love, to a bitch of a hag.
C-C11-C                                        G-G11-G
If you see me comin' and you're standin' there,
G-G11-G                           C-C11-C
Wave your handkerchief in the air.
C-C11-C                                     G-G11-G
I ain't dead yet, my bell still still rings.
G-G11-G
I keep my fingers crossed like the early Roman kings.

Bridge:
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |

Verse 5:
C-C11-C
I could strip you of life, strip you of bread.
G-G11-G                              C-C11-C
Ship you down, to the house of death.
C-C11-C                      G-G11-G
One day, you will ask for me.
G-G11-G                                       C-C11-C
They'll be no-one else, that you'll wanna see.
C-C11-C                               G-G11-G
Bring down fiddle, tune up my strings.
G-G11-G
I'm gonna brake it wide open, like the early Roman kings.

Bridge:
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |

Verse 6:
C-C11-C
I was up on Black Mountain, the day Detroit fell.
G-G11-G                                             C-C11-C
They killed them all off and they sent them to Hell.
C-C11-C                                 G-G11-G
Ding-dong-daddy, you're comin' up short.
G-G11-G                                      C-C11-C
They'll put you on trial, in a Sicilian Court.
C-C11-C                               G-G11-G
I have had my fun, I've had my flings.
G-G11-G
Goin' shake 'em on down, like the early Roman kings.

Coda:
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |
| G-G11-G | G-G11-G |

[ Privacy | About us ]

Welcome to the guitar community

Why join and log in?
- Get songbook with favourite songs
- Get custom made front page
- Submit chords and tabs
- Submit guitar-cover videos
- Get a lot of thumbs up for your work

Songbook

Last visited songs

Site
Home
Search
Community
Submit chords
Submit video

Video

No video for this page. Check out how you can submit guitar-cover videos here

Search tabs and chords

Browse by artist

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #


Menu

Search

Video

Bookmark

Login