PLEASE NOTE: These transcriptions are the authors' own works and represent their interpretation of the song. You may only use them for private study, scholarship, or research.
BOB
DYLAN BLUES
words
and music by Syd Barrett
from the "Best of" album
transcribed by James <allfallup@aol.com>
"Bob Dylan Blues" is one of Syd's earliest songs, supposedly
written in 1963 after seeing Dylan. The chorus sounds a bit like "Hard Rain's
Gonna Fall." It has what is probably the most traditional structure of any Syd
song; it follows a verse/verse/chorus progression with a intro/outro that
changes keys. Somehow, the recording is off by a quarter-step. To play along
with the disc, you have to tune your guitar up a quarter-step. (Remember, not a
full half-step, a quarter-step!!). I might have misheard a lyric or two;
specifically, the line in the forth verse about his wallet and something else
are fat. I think he says cat (or gut?)? Are the lyrics about Dylan making money
a response to some folk cry of sellout? Lastly, Syd fumbles up the chords in the
first chorus. Instead of writing out what is obviously a mistake, I have
instead written how the chords are played in the remaining two choruses.
Intro:
G D G
E---3--------------2-------------3--------------2-------------
B---0--------------3-------------0--------------3-------------
G---0--------------2------0h2p0--0--------------2------0h2p0--
D---0-------0------0--0h2--------0-------0------0--0h2--------
A---2---0h2---2--0---------------2---0h2---2--0---------------
E---3----------------------------3----------------------------
C G A D G
E---0-------------3---0----2---3------
B---1-------------0---2----3---0------
G---0------0------0---2----2---0------
D---2--0h2---2--0-0---2----0---0------
A---3-------------2---0--------2------
E-----------------3------------3------
C
Got the Bob Dylan blues
F
And the Bob Dylan shoes
C G
And my clothes and my hair's in a mess
G C
But you know I just couldn't care less
Gonna write me a song
'Bout what's right and what's wrong
About God and my girl an' all that ?
Quiet while I make like a cat
Chorus:
C G
'Cause I'm a poet, don't you know it
C F
And the wind, you can blow it
F G
'Cause I'm Mr. Dylan, the king
G C
And I'm free as a bird on the wing
Roam from town to town
Guess, I get people down
But I don't care too much about that
'Cause my gut and my wallet are fat
Make a whole lotta dough
But I deserve it though
I got soul and good heart of gold
So I'll sing bout war and the cold
Chorus & repeat intro
Well, I sings bout dreams
and I rhymes it with seams
and it seams that my dream always means
but I can prophesy all kinds of things
Well, the guy that digs me
Should try hard to see
That he buys all my discs in a hat
And when I'm in town go see that
Chorus & repeat intro
TWO OF A KIND
Although it is credited as a Syd song, it is most likely that it was Rick Wright who actually wrote it.
Intro: G#7
G#
Open your eyes and don't be blind
G# F# G#
Can't you see we're two of a kind
F# C#
I gotta say this, I hope you don't mind
G# C# G#7
I love you, we're two of a kind
Just ask yourself and you will find
We go together, we're two of a kind
No use protesting, be resigned
Baby you know, we're two of a kind
Bridge:
B C#
I knew it when I saw you
B C#
I felt it a little more when
B C#
I talked with you at first
B C#
All my blues dispursed
B C#
I couldn't disguise
B C#
My complete surprise
B C#
When you were feeling it too
A# D#
I'm in love with you
A# D# G#7
I'm in love with you
Open your eyes and don't be blind
Can't you see that we're two of a kind
I gotta say this, I hope you don't mind
I love you, we're two of a kind
Or another transcription:
INTRO:
|A7 / / /|A7 / / /|A7 / / /|A7 / / / |
VERSES:
A
Open your eyes and don't be blind
Just ask yourself and you will find
G A
Can't you see we're two of a kind?
We go together, we're two of a kind
G D
I've got to say this, I hope you don't mind
No use protesting, be resigned
A D A7
I love you, we're two of a kind
Baby you know, we're two of a kind
MIDDLE:
C D
I knew it when I saw you
C D
I felt it a little more when
C D
I talked with you at first
C D
All my blues dispersed
C D
I couldn't disguise
C D
My complete surprise
C D
When you were feeling it too
B7 E B7 E
I'm in love with you, I'm in love with you...
CODA:
A7 A7 (to fade)
Open your eyes and don't be blind
STRUCTURE: INTRO
VERSES 1&2
MIDDLE
INTRO
VERSE 1
CODA