Señor Tales Of Yankee Power - Bob Dylan
Tuning: , E A D G B E
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 to Am, the bass goes C, B, A.
[Verse 1]
Señor,
Señor,
Can you tell m
e where we hea
ding?
Lincoln County
Road or Armag
eddon?
Seems like I b
een down this
way before
Is there any t
ruth in that,
Señor?
[Verse 2]
Señor,
Señor,
Do you know wh
ere she's hidi
ng?
How long are w
e gonna be rid
ing?
How long must
I keep my eyes
glued to the
door?
Will there be
any comfort he
re, Señor?
[Verse 3]
There's a wick
ed wind still
blowing on tha
t upper deck
There's an iro
n cross still
hanging down f
rom around her
neck
There's a marc
hing band stil
l playing in t
heir vacant lo
t
Where she held
me in her arm
s one time and
said "forget
what we got"
[Verse 4]
Señor,
Señor,
I can see the
painted wagon
Smell the tail
of a dragon
Can't stand th
e suspense any
more
Can you tell m
e who to conta
ct here, Señor
?
[Instrumental] (all of the verse chords with the cool mandolin)
[Verse 5]
Well the last
thing I rememb
er before they
stripped and
kneeled
Was a train lo
ad of fools bo
gged down in a
Magnetic fiel
d
The gypsy, wit
h his broken f
lag and a flas
hing ring
He say, "Son t
his ain't a dr
eam no more, i
t's the real t
hing"
[Verse 6]
Señor,
Señor,
You know their
hearts here a
re hard as lea
ther
Well give me a
minute, let m
e get it toget
her
Just gotta pic
k myself up of
f the floor
I'm ready when
you are, Seño
r?
Another Instrumental like the first Instrumental
[Verse 7]
Señor,
Señor,
Let's overturn
these tables
Disconnect the
se cables
This place don
't make sense
to me no more
Can you tell m
e what we're w
aiting for, Se
ñor?
The song fades out and ends on the verse chords and that is about it.
The Am* chords are played by striking the Am chord, then you release all your
fingers so that you strike all open strings (except for the low E and A
strings), then you strike back on the Am chord. It may not be accurate but
that is how I make sense out of that part of the song.