Blowin' in the Wind
Freewheelin’ version
Capo 7th fret (sounding key D major)
Capo 7th fret (sounding key D major)
G D
I'm going down to Rose Marie's
C G
She never does me wrong.
G D
She puts it to me plain as day
C G
And gives it to me for a song.
G G7
It's a wicked life but what the hell
C Am
[and] everybody's got to eat
G D
And I'm just the same as anyone else
C Am
When it comes to scratching for my meals *)
G C Goin' to Acapulco G F Goin' on the run.
Capo 6th fret (original key Bb major).
The Bbdim is only a faint approximation to the wealth of notes sounding at this point (and never twice the same, it seems). A chord like x12300 or x12202 captures that fairly well, but there are really no correct chords here!
The same goes for the other two chords basically tonic, fifth and a lot of blue notes.
This is a piano song, and he prefers to play these on the black keys, hence the original key is Ab major. On a guitar this suggests a capo on the 1st fret, with the following chords:
E B E B
E B
Tell me, I've got to know.
E B
Tell me, tell me before I go.
A
Does that fire still burn? Does that flame still glow?
E
Or has it died out and melted like the snow.
B E (E7)
Tell me. Tell me.
Tell me, what are you focused upon? Tell me, will it come to me after you're gone? *)
Tell me now with a glance or a sigh. Shall I hold you close or let you go by? Tell me. Tell me.
C
C Fmaj7 C
Farewell Angeli - na
Fmaj7 C
The bells of the crown
C Fmaj7 C
Are being stolen by ban - dits
Fmaj7 C
I must follow the sound
C
The triangle tingles
Fmaj7 C
the music play slow
C Am
But farewell Angelina
C Em/b
The night is on fire
F C Csus4 C
And I must go.
C
There is no use in talkin'
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 C
and there's no need for blame
There is nothing to prove,
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 CIntro:
Intro:
The main text is the version recorded 16 Sept, 1974, released on the Bootleg Series 1-3. Some lyrical variations from the version from Sept 19, included for release on the original test pressing, have been indicated.