The Times They Are A-Changin - Bob Dylan


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        The Times They Are A-Changin' (Alternate) - Bob Dylan
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Written by: Bob Dylan
Alternate Version, recorded October 23, 1963
From: "Love and Theft" (Bonus CD of Limited Edition)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Drop D (+ capo 3rd fret)

A beautiful version in a different key and tuning. Dylan is obviously
experimenting here as he uses a different chord sequence in every 
chorus. Listen to it here: https://vimeo.com/661019767 (Password: Times)

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capo: 3rd fret
play: D
key: F

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Special Voicings

       D-A-D-G
D      0-0-0-2
       0-0-0-2
Bm     x-2-4-4
G      5-x-0-0
A      x-0-2-2
A6     x-0-4-2
A7     x-0-5-2
A/E    x-x-2-2
A/C#   x-4-2-2
Em     x-x-2-0
Dsus4  0-0-0-0
D *    0-0-4-x
D6     0-0-0-4

-B-e
-3-x (first verse)
-3-2 (later)
-3-x
-0-x
-2-x
-2-x
-2-x
-2-x
-2-x
-0-0
-3-x
-3-x
-3-x

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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
             
Come gather 'r

        
ound people
            |
Wherever you r

  | % |
oam
             
And admit that

     
 the waters
             
Around you hav

  
e grown
         
And ac-cept it

      
 that soon
             
You'll be dren

            | 
ched to the bo

 | % | 
ne
             
If your time t

            
o you is worth

|    |  |
 savin'
            
Then you bette

             
r start swimmi

             
n' or you'll s

           
ink like a sto

ne
             
For the times 

  *    
they  are a-ch

  |  | % | % | % |
an -  gin'

[Verse 2]
             
Come writers a

      
nd critics
             
Who prophesize

          |  | % |
 with your pen
             
And keep your 

     
eyes wide
             
The chance won

         
't come again
         
And   don't sp

        
eak too soon
             
For the wheel'

           | 
s still in spi

 | % |
n
             
And there's no

            
 tellin' who t

        |   
hat it's namin

 |  |
'
            
For the loser 

           
now will be la

           
ter to win    

[  ]
(For ...)
           
For the times 

  *    
they  are a-ch

  |  | % | % | % | % |
an -   gin'

[Verse 3]
             
Come senators,

 
 congressmen
             
Please heed th

  |  | % |
e call
             
Don't stand in

     
 the doorway
             
Don't block up

         [ 
 the hall   (F

 ]
or ...)
           
For he that ge

   
ts hurt
             
Will be he who

     |  | % |
 has stalled
           
The battle out

    |    |  |
side ragin'
            
Will soon shak

            
e your windows

     
 and vibrate y

our walls
             
For the times 

    *    
they are a-cha

  |  | % | % | % |
n -   gin'

[Verse 4]
             
Come mothers a

   
nd fathers
             
Throughout the

 |  | % |
 land
             
And don't crit

 
icize
             
What you can't

           
 understand   

 [  ]
  (Your ...)
           
Your sons and 

     
your daughters
             
Are beyond you

     |  | % |
r command
             
Your old road 

        |  
is rapidly agi

  |  |
n'
            
Please get out

            
 of the new on

            
e if you can't

             
 lend your han

 [  ]
d  (For ...)
           
For the times 

  *    
they  are a-ch

  |  | % | % | % | 
an -   gin'

[Verse 5]
             
The line it is

 
 drawn
             
And the curse 

      |  | % |
it is cast
            
The slow one n


ow
             
Will later be 

|    |  |
fast     (As .

..)
           
As the present

 
 now
             
Will later be 

|  | % |
past
            
The order is r

     |    |  |
apidly fadin'
            
And the first 

           
one now will l

/      
ater be last
             
For the times 

            
they are a-cha

  |  |  
n -   gin'
                            (ritardando)

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