Girl from the North Country – Bob Dylan

Album: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)
Lyrics & Music: Bob Dylan
Guitar: Bruce Langhorne 

Tabbed by Robert Saunders

Tuning: standard tuning with capo on 3 (and tuned down a bit from standard pitch)

[Chords]
          
E|   3      X 

       
     0      X 

#      
     0      0 

 
B|   0      1      3      1      1      0
G|   0      0      0      2      2      0
D|   0      2      4      0      0      2 
A|   2      3      2      0      0      2   
E|   3      3      0      2      2      0  

[Notes]
I've only included the chords for now but Bruce Langhorne used the Travis picking 
technique on this recording, with the thumb playing alternating bass notes and the 1st
and middle fingers playing the 3rd, 2nd and 1st strings. (Langhorne lost his ring and
little fingers in a childhood accident.)

Dylan used the same chords (with capo on 1) in Boots of Spanish Leather on the album 
Don’t Think Twice. In live recordings Dylan tends to play Em7/D (X54030) instead of 
the Em9, and C major (X32010) instead of D7/F#.
 
The chords listed below for the harmonica parts are the chords for the guitar not the 
harmonica.  

[Intro]
                          

[Verse]
         
  If you’re tr

             
avelin’ in the

         
 north country

           
 fair
           
  Where the wi

           
nds hit heavy 

            
on the  border

        
line
          
Remember me to

           
 one who lives

           
 there
        
  She once was

            
 a true love o

            
f mine

        
 If you   go  

          
when the   sno

#                  
wflakes storm
           
 When the rive

           
rs freeze and 

              
 summer  ends
          
Please see she

           
 has a coat so

           
 warm
           
  To keep her 

         
from the  howl

                  
in’ winds

         
 Please see if

        
 her   hair ha

             
ngs long,
           
If it  rolls a

          
nd flows all  

            
down her breas

    
t.
            
Please see for

         
 me if her hai

             
r’s hanging lo

        
ng,
           
 For that’s th

         
e way I rememb

                        
er her best.

        
  I’m a-wonder

           
in’ if she  re

            
members me at 

        
all
        
  Many times I

           
’ve  often  pr

          
ayed
          
 In the darkne

          
ss   of my  ni

          
ght
        
 In the bright

           
ness of my  da

           
y

[HARMONICA STARTS]
            
            
                
      
[ARMONICA ENDS

/      
]

           
  So if you’re

           
 travelin’ in 

         
the  north cou

               
ntry fair
           
  Where the wi

           
nds hit heavy 

            
on the  border

          
line
          
Remember me to

           
 one who lives

            
 there
        
  She once was

            
 a true love o

        
f mine

[HARMONICA STARTS]
                  
            

[END]