Its Alright Ma Im Only Bleeding - Ver 2
- Bob Dylan
Key: Am Am ·
Orig: Am ·
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Time: 4/4 ·
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Pre-song (freely)
Am
Alright, thank you very much!
This is called "It's Alright, Ma, I'm Only Bleedin'"
Intro
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Verse 1
Am
Darkness at the break of noon
C
Shadows even the silver spoon
D
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
F
Eclipses both the sun and moon
E Am Am
To understand you know too soon that there is no sense in trying.
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Verse 2
Am
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
C
Suicide remarks are torn
D
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
F
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
E Am Am
He not busy being born is busy dying.
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Verse 3
Am
Temptation’s page flies out the door
C
You follow, find yourself at war
D
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
F
You feel to moan but unlike before
E Am Am
You discover that you’d just be one more person crying
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Chorus
Am E A D
So don't fear if you hear a foreign sound to your ear
A E D E Am Am
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.
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Verse 4
Am
As some warn victory, some downfall
C
Private reasons great or small
D
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
F
To make all that should be killed to crawl
E Am Am
Others say don’t hate nothing at all except hatred
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Verse 5
Am
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
C
As human gods aim for their mark
D
Make everything from toy guns that spark
F
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
E Am Am
It’s easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred
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Verse 6
Am
While preachers preach of evil fates
C
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
D
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
F
Goodness hides behind its gates
E Am Am
Even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked
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Chorus
Am E
An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged
A D
It’s people’s games that you got to dodge
A E D E
And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it
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Verse 7
Am
Advertising signs they con you
C
Con you into thinking that you're the one
D
That can do what's never been done
F
That can win what's never been won
E Am Am
Meantime life outside goes on all around you
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Verse 8
Am
You lose yourself and then you reappear
C
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
D
Alone you stand with nobody near
F
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
E Am Am
Startles your sleeping ears to hear that somebody thinks they really have found you
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Verse 9
Am
A question in your nerves is lit
C
Yet you know there is no answer fit
D
To satisfy, ensure you not to quit
F
Keep it in your mind and don't forget
E Am Am
That it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to
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Chorus
Am E
The masters make the rules
A D
For the wise men and the fools
A E D E
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
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Verse 10
Am
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
C
Limited in s*x, they dare
D
To push fake morals, insult and stare
F
While money doesn't talk, it swears
E Am Am
Obscenity, who really cares propaganda, all is phony
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Verse 11
Am
While them that defend what they cannot see
C
With a killer's pride, security
D
It blows the minds most bitterly
F
For them that think death's honesty
E Am Am
Won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely
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Verse 12
Am
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed
C
Graveyards and false gods, I scoff
D
At pettiness which plays so rough
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Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
E
Kick my legs to crash it off
E Am Am
Say alright, I have had enough what else can you show me
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Chorus
Am E
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
A D
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
A E D E Am Am
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only
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Coda
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break
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