Album version
Recorded in Minneapolis Dec 27 1974
Bm Am
Our conversation was short and sweet
Bm Am
It nearly swept me off-a my feet.
G C
And I'm back in the rain, oh
G C
And you are on dry land,
Am
You made it there somehow
Bm Am D7/f# G . . . D/f# . . .
You're a big girl now.
Original New York version
Recorded in New York Sept 17th 1974, released on Biograph
Open E/D tuning
Emaj7 . . B11 | E(iv) . . . |
Emaj7 B11
Our conversation was short and sweet
Emaj7 B11
It nearly swept me off-a my feet.
E(iv) B(ii) A
And I'm back in the rain, mm - mm
E(iv) B(ii) A
And you are on dry land, mm - mm
F#m7 *)
You made it there somehow
Emaj7 B11 E(iv) . . A | E B(vii) . . |
You're a big girl now.
Bird on the horizon, sittin' on a fence,
He's singin' his song for me at his own expense
And I'm just like that bird, oh, oh,
Singin' just for you, mm-mm.
I hope that you can hear,
Hear me singin' through these tears.
Love is so simple, to quote a phrase,
You've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days .
Oh, I know where I can find You, oh, oh,
In somebody's room. m-mm
It's a price I have to pay
You're a big girl all the way.
Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast
Oh, but what a shame that all we've shared can't last.
I can change, I swear, mm-mm
See what you can do, mm-mm.
I can make it through,
You can make it too.
A change in the weather can be extreme
But it ain't like changing horses in midstream
I'm going out of my mind, mm-mm
With a pain that stops and starts, mm-aa
Like a corkscrew to my heart
Ever since we've been apart.
*) or (to get the bass more clearly) 222100 (or 220100 or 222120)
Rolling Thunder Revue live version (1976)
Tabbed from Fort Worth, TX May 16, 1976; the Hard Rain version from Fort Collins a week later is virtually identical.
Two guitars are prominent: Dylan’s and Steven Soles’ (according to Trev Gibb, who got this information from David Mansfield)
1st guitar: Capo 4th fret (sounding key: E major); 2nd guitar no capo
Chords (some of these suggestions incorporate the tones in the bass and other instruments as well):
Cmaj7 There are many alternatives for this one:
x35500 gives the b-c clash that is clearly audible, at least in the intro;
xx5453 is an option, together with G11=3231, if the bass plays the bottom c;
032000 gives the "Em" feeling, and
332000 or x32000 is a more straightforward Cmaj7
xxx987 This is the high ringing guitar in the intro and the first lines of the verses
G11 3x0211. Mute the 5th string with the ring finger - it's not that tricky.
Can also be played as a Dm or a Dm7 (xx0211, xx0231, xx3231 [with Cmaj7=xx5453])
xxx765 (goes with xxx987)
The second guitar (probably Dylan) plays these chords without a capo (and correspondingly the other chords a major third higher than noted in the tab: E, B, A, and F#m):
Emaj7 xx9890 (for Cmaj7) A6 xx7670 (for G11)
[one verse intro]
Cmaj7 G11
Our conversation was short and sweet
Cmaj7 G11
It nearly knocked me right off-a my feet.
C C G F
And I'm back in the rain, oh
C C G F
And you are on dry land,
Dm G
You made it there somehow
C F F *)
You're a big girl now.
*) C F F C G
. . . : (freely) : . . . : . . . :
|----3----(1)-(1)--------------------|-0----------(0)--|----------------|-3---------------
|-/5---5---1---1-----------1----1----|-1----------(1)--|----------------|-0---------------
|-/5-------2---2-----------0----2----|-0----------(0)--|----------------|-0---------------
|--------------3-----------3----3----|-2----------(2)--|----------------|-0---------------
|------------------------------------|-3----------(3)--|----------------|-2---------------
|------------------------------------|-----------------|---------0--1-2-|-3---------------
You're a now
big girl