Senor chords by Bob Dylan

Chords with lyrics

This is the sixth song off of Dylan~s underrated -Street Legal- album. I
happen to love the song (and some of the album, itself) to death. Anyway,
what one should remember about this is that there are a lot of bass walk-
downs in this song, and they are slow, as is the song. What I mean, for
example, is that, say the song moves from C majorC to Am, the bass goes C, B, A augmentedA
(like with what any normal bassist would do). I know you may be thinking,
what does this have to do with chord progression that he is about to
transcribe. Well, sometimes there is a feeling in the song that more than
one chord is being played and that is normally the bass walking down. I may
seem silly stating this but trust me... Or you could just ignore this whole
paragraph (as would what I would do if I were reading it). Another thing
about this transcription is that I had a very hard time understanding Mr.
Dylan~s lyrics especially in the bridges. So the lyrics are not exactly what
they appear to be. For a more better interpretation of the lyrics, one
should buy or take out of the library the Bob Dylan lyric book (which was
featured in that awful movie, you know what I~m talking about). Anyway:

A minorAm
Senor,
E minorEm
Senor,
    FF        C majorC
Can you tell me ...
               A minorAm
Lincoln County ...
         G+G        FF
Seems like I been down ...
DmDm             A minorAm
Is there any ...

A minorAm
Senor,
E minorEm
Senor,
    FF        C majorC
Do you know where ...
             A minorAm
How long are we ...
            G+G         FF
How long must I keep my ...
DmDm               A minorAm
Will there be any ...

     C majorC                 E minorEm
There~s a wicked wind still blowing ...
      FF                 Am*
There~s an iron cross still hanging ...
     C majorC                  E minorEm
There~s a marching band still ...
     FF                   Am*
Where she held me in her arms ...

A minorAm
Senor,
E minorEm
Senor,
   FF        C majorC
I can see the ..
          A minorAm
Smell the ...
        G+G      FF
Can~t stand the ..
    DmDm              A minorAm
Can you tell me who to ...

Instrumental: all of the verse chords with the cool mandolin


     C majorC                 E minorEm
Well the last thing I remember before ...
   FF                 Am*
Was a train load of fools born ...
  C majorC                 E minorEm
The gypsy, where he broke a ...
     FF                    Am*
He say, -Son this ain~t a dream ...

A minorAm
Senor,
E minorEm
Senor,
        FF            C majorC
You know their hearts here ...
               A minorAm
Well give me a minute...
      G+G           FF
Just gotta pick myself up ...
DmDm           A minorAm
I~m ready when ...


Another Instrumental like the First Instrumental


A minorAm
Senor,
E minorEm
Senor,
   FF       C majorC
Let~s overturn ...
         A minorAm
Disconnect ...
G+G                  FF
This place don~t make ...
    DmDm               A minorAm
Can you tell me what we~...


The song fades out and ends on the verse chords and that is about it.
The Am* chords are played by striking the A minorAm chord, then you release all your
fingers so that you strike all open strings (except for the low E MajorE and A augmentedA
strings), then you strike back on the A minorAm chord. It may not be accurate but
that is how I make sense out of that part of the song).

Feel free to email me and we can discuss why Bob Dylan rushes his lyrics
while playing in concert, making his songs lose all of their bite. (Or maybe
it's just me). Oh yeah, I must not disrespect the Spanish language by not
nothing that there is a tilda over the "n" in Senor. That is all.