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Title: My Back Pages
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan
The chords vary from verse to verse and are never the same on the refrain
("Ah but I was so much older..."). If you are intent on learning the song
as it is on the album, the following notes might help:
Verse 1 is very different from the rest. You just gotta learn it.
Verses 2, 3, 4, and 6 are identical.
Verse 5 is similar to the other verses except the last part.
The refrains have different variations each time.
However, if youre not so picky about every detail, I recomend just learning
the chords to the last verse and refrain and using that pattern throughout.
Also, Dylan uses this little thing most of the G chords:
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--0--2--3--
--2--2--2--
--3--3--3--
Capo 3
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C
C Am Em
Crimson flames tied through my ears
F G C
Rollin' high and mighty traps
C Am Em C
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
F Em G
Using ideas as my maps
F Am G C
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Am F G
Proud 'neath heated brow.
C Am C
Ah, but I was so much older then,
F G C
I'm younger than that now.
G G G G
C Am Em
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
F G C
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
C Am Em
Lies that life is black and white
F G
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Am Em
Romantic facts of musketeers
F G
Foundationed deep, somehow.
C Am Em F
Ah, but I was so much older then,
G C
I'm younger than that now.
C Am Em
Girls' faces formed the forward path
F G C
From phony jealousy
C Am Em
To memorizing politics
F G
Of ancient history
Am Em
Flung down by corpse evangelists
F G
Unthought of, though, somehow.
C F C
Ah, but I was so much older then,
F G C
I'm younger than that now.
C Am Em
A self-ordained professor's tongue
F G C
Too serious to fool
C Am Em
Spouted out that liberty
F G
Is just equality in school
Am Em
"Equality," I spoke the word
F G
As if a wedding vow.
C Am
Ah, but I was so much older then,
F G C
I'm younger than that now.
C Am Em
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
F G C
At the mongrel dogs who teach
C Am Em
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
F G
In the instant that I preach
Am F C
My existence led by confusion boats
Am Em G
Mutiny from stern to bow.
C Am F C
Ah, but I was so much older then,
G C
I'm younger than that now.
C Am Em
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
F G C
Too noble to neglect
C Am Em
Deceived me into thinking
F G
I had something to protect
Am Em
Good and bad, I define these terms
F G
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
C Am F C
Ah, but I was so much older then,
G C
I'm younger than that now.
transcribed by orest
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