My Own Version Of You chords by Bob Dylan

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
 A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7
 A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7


Verse 1:
A minorAm           Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#  F7F7
 All through the summers  into January
      A minorAm   Am7/GAm7/G     Am/F#  F7F7
I've been visiting morgues and  monasteries
DmDm         Dm7/C  Dm/B   Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
Looking for the necessary body parts
A minorAm        Am7/GAm7/G      Am/F#   F7F7
 Limbs and livers and brains and hearts
    F7F7
I'll bring someone to life, is what I wanna do
      AdimAdim        A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7
I wanna create my own version of you

Verse 2:

     A minorAm     Am7/GAm7/G     Am/F#   F7F7
Well, it must be the winter of my discontent
  A minorAm          Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#     F7F7
I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went
   DmDm   Dm7/C     Dm/B    Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
They talk all night and they talk all day
 A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G     Am/F#       F7F7
Not for a minute do I believe anything they say
        F7F7
I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen
         AdimAdim              A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7
You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean

Verse 3:

        A minorAm    Am7/GAm7/G     Am/F#   F7F7
I'll take the Scarface Pacino and The Godfather Brando
    A minorAm    Am7/GAm7/G     Am/F# F7F7
Mix it up in a tank and get a robot commando
DmDm      Dm7/C       Dm/B     Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
If I do it upright and put the head on straight
     A minorAm      Am7/GAm7/G       Am/F#  F7F7
I'll be saved by the creature that I create

Verse 4:

     A minorAm      Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#    F7F7
I'll get blood from a cactus, gunpowder from ice
     A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#      F7F7
I don't gamble with cards  and I don't shoot no dice
     DmDm       Dm7/C     Dm/B   Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
Can you look at my face   with your sightless eyes?
A minorAm         Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#    F7F7
 Can you cross your heart and hope to die?
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 I'll bring someone to life, someone for real
AdimAdim                 A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7  A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7
Someone who feels the way that I feel

Verse 5:

     A minorAm      Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#    F7F7
I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind
    A minorAm          Am7/GAm7/G  Am/F#   F7F7
I wanna do things for the benefit of all mankind
  DmDm        Dm7/C  Dm/B      Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
I say to the willow tree, "Don't weep for me"
   A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G       Am/F#   F7F7
I'm saying to hell to all things that I used to be

Verse 6:

    A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#   F7F7
Well, I get into trouble   then I hit the wall
A minorAm      Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#   F7F7
No place to turn, no place at all
       DmDm    Dm7/C  Dm/B   Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
I'll pick a number between  a-one and two
   A minorAm      Am7/GAm7/G     Am/F#   F7F7
And I ask myself, "What would Julius Caesar do?"
     F7F7
I will bring someone to life in more ways than one
    AdimAdim
Don't matter how long it takes,
              A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7  A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7
it'll be done when it's done

Verse 7:

      A minorAm          Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#    F7F7
I'm gonna make you play the piano  like Leon Russell
A minorAm    Am7/GAm7/G      Am/F#     F7F7
Like Liberace, like St. John the Apostle
    DmDm    Dm7/C       Dm/B  Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
I'll play every number that I can play
B minorBm      Am7/GAm7/G  Am/F#   F7F7
I'll see you maybe on Judgment Day

Verse 8:

A minorAm        Am7/GAm7/G       Am/F#   F7F7
 After midnight, if you still wanna meet
        A minorAm     Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#    F7F7
I'll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street
DmDm    Dm7/C  Dm/B      Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
Two doors down,  not that far a walk
A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G     Am/F#     F7F7
 I'll hear your footsteps, you won't have to knock
F7F7
 I'll bring someone to life, balance the scales
         AdimAdim                A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7  A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7
I'm not gonna get involved any insignificant details

Verse 9:

     A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G     Am/F#     F7F7
You can bring it to St. Peter  You can bring it to Jerome
     A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G       Am/F#     F7F7
You can bring it all the way over  bring it all the way home
DmDm       Dm7/C       Dm/B    Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
Bring it to the corner where the children play
     A minorAm     Am7/GAm7/G  Am/F#  F7F7
You can bring it to me on a silver tray
      F7F7
I'll bring someone to life, spare no expense
 AdimAdim
Do it with decency and common sense

Instrumental:
A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7
A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7
A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7
A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7

Verse 10:

     A minorAm         Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#   F7F7
Can you tell me what it means  to be or not to be?
A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#   F7F7
 You won't get away with fooling me
     DmDm     Dm7/C    Dm/B     Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
Can you help me walk   that moonlight mile?
     A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#  F7F7
Can you give me the blessings of your smile?
      F7F7
I'll bring someone to life, use all of my powers
 AdimAdim                   A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7  A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7
Do it in the dark, in the wee, small hours


Verse 11:

A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G     Am/F#     F7F7
 I can see the history of the whole human race
   A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#      F7F7
It's all right there   it's carved into your face
 DmDm           Dm7/C     Dm/B      Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
Should I break it all down?   Should I fall on my knees?
A minorAm          Am7/GAm7/G        Am/F#       F7F7
Is there light at the end of the tunnel, can you tell me, please?

Verse 12:

A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#   F7F7
Stand over there by the cypress tree
         A minorAm           Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#  F7F7
Where the Trojan women and children were sold into slavery
DmDm       Dm7/C     Dm/B  Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
Long before the first  Crusade
  A minorAm     Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#     F7F7
Way back before England or America were made

Verse 13:

A minorAm     Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#    F7F7
Step right in to the burning hell
         A minorAm     Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#  F7F7
Where some of the best-known enemies of mankind dwell
   DmDm       Dm7/C   Dm/B     Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his axe
    A minorAm      Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#    F7F7
See the raw hide lash rip the skin from their backs

Verse 14:

A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G     Am/F#       F7F7
 Got the right spirit, you can feel it, you can hear it
    A minorAm      Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#    F7F7
You've got what they call the immortal spirit
     DmDm       Dm7/C     Dm/B      Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
You can feel it all night   you can feel it in the morn'
   A minorAm      Am7/GAm7/G  Am/F#     F7F7
It creeps in your body the day you were born

Verse 15:

A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#    F7F7
One strike of lightning is all that I need
    A minorAm     Am7/GAm7/G    Am/F#     F7F7
And a blast of electricity that runs at top speed
DmDm       Dm7/C   Dm/B      Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
Shimmy your ribs   I'll stick in the knife
    A minorAm     Am7/GAm7/G   Am/F#  F7F7
Gonna jumpstart my creation to life
     F7F7
I wanna bring someone to life, turn back the years
 AdimAdim
Do it with laughter and do it with tears

Outro:
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 A minorAm Am7/GAm7/G Am/F# F7F7
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