Dark Eyes Chords

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                       Dark Eyes – Bob Dylan
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Written by: Bob Dylan
From: “Empire Burlesque” (1985)
 
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
 
The original is played with a different tuning. This is a version for
Standard tuning.
 
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CHORDS
       E-A-D-G-B-e
G*     3-x-0-0-0-x
G      3-x-0-0-0-3
 
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[Intro]
| G* G D G | C D | G* G D G | C G |
| G* G D G | C D | G* G D G | C G |
 
 
[Verse] 1
        G* G  D   G   C  D            G* G     D       G      C    G
Oh, the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside
        G*  G    D  G   C  D        G* G  D    G   C     G
They’re drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide
D G*   G  G* C D    D           D    G*  G     G*  C D D
I live in a- nother world where life and death are memorized
          G*    G  D      G    C       D          G*  G D   G   C    G
Where the earth is strung with lovers’ pearls and all I see are dark eyes
 
 
[Interlude]                        2/4
| G* G D G | C D | G* G D G | C G | G |
 
 
[Verse] 2
  G*   G  D   G   C    D        G* G   D  G      C       G
A cock is crowing far away and another soldier’s deep in prayer
     G* G     D     G   C    D       G*  G     D    G   C  G
Some mother’s child has gone astray, she can’t find him anywhere
    D G*  G    G* C D  D    D  G*   G   G*  C    D    D
But I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise
     G* G     D     G     C       D        G*  G D   G   C    G
Whom nature’s beast fears as they come and all I see are dark eyes
 
 
[Interlude]
| G* G D G | C D | G* G D G | C G |
 
 
[Verse] 3
G*   G    D  G  C     D         G*  G D  G   C    G
They tell me to be discreet for all intended purposes,
G*   G    D  G C        D              G*    G    D      G   C       G
They tell me revenge is sweet and from where they stand, I’m sure it is.
    D G*   G  G*   C   D     D          D   G* G    G* C   D
But I feel nothing for their game where beauty goes unrecognized,
G*  G D    G  C        D         G*  G D   G   C    G
All I feel is heat and flame and all I see are dark eyes.
 
 
[Interlude]
| G* G D G | C D | G* G D G | C G |
| G* G D G | C D | G* G D G | C G |
 
 
[Verse] 4
        G*     G     D     G  C   D          G*  G   D   G  C      G
Oh, the French girl, she’s in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel
G* G   D    G C     D            G* G    D    G  C         G
Hunger pays a heavy price to the falling gods of speed and steel
    D    G* G     G*      C    D     D       D  G*   G     G*  C          D
Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies
  G* G    D G   C     D        G* G  D   G   C   |  G  |  %  |
A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes
 
 
[Solo]
| G* G D G | C D | G* G D G | C G |
| G* G D G | C D | G* G D G | C G |
| D G   | C D | D G   | C D |
| G* G D G | C D | G* G D G | C G |
 
 
[Coda]
| G* G D G | D G
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