Idiot Wind Chords

[Chords used:]
D/C   x-3-x-2-3-2
G/F#  2-x-0-0-0(3)
C6    x-3-2-2-1-0
C/D   x-x-0-0-1-0
C/G   3-x-2-0-1-0
 
Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan (original Lyrics)
 
[Verse]
Cm                          D                               G
Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Cm
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out
    D             D/C         G        G/F#
but when they will I can only guess.
     Em           Bm                 Am               G
They say I shot a man named Gray, took his wife to Italy,
Em              Bm                Am               G
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
        Bm             C6
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
 
Cm                              D                 D/C           G
 People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
Cm                                     D     D/C             G         G/F#
Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.
Em        Bm            Am            G               G/F#
Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,
  Em                     Bm               Am                     G
I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me any better than that
Bm     C6
 Sweet lady.
 
[Chorus]
G           C                                G
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
C                                  C/D
Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
G           C                                G
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
          G      C
You're an idiot, babe.
       D                D7               G         C/G   G    C/G
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
 
[Verse]
Cm                                 D
I threw the I ching yesterday, it said
          D/C                  G
there'd be some thunder at the well
Cm                              D                     D/C              G
I haven't tasted peace and quiet for so long it seems like living hell
           Em           Bm           Am                     G
There's a lone soldier on the hill, watching falling raindrops kill
Em                      Bm
You never know it, to look at him
Am                  G
At the final shot he won the war
      Bm           C6
After losin' every battle.
 
Cm                         D                     D/C                  G
I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
Cm                                  D
hoofbeats pounding in my head, at breakneck speed
        D/C           G        G/F#
And makin' me see stars.
    Em                 Bm              Am           G
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.
Em                Bm            Am             G
One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,
Bm             C6
Blood on your saddle.
 
[Chorus]
G           C                                   G
Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
C                                    C/D
Blowing through the curtains in your room.
G           C                                G
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
          G      C
You're an idiot, babe.
       D6                                G        C/G   G   C/G
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
 
[Verse]
   Cm                                   D             D/C       G
It was gravity which pulled us in and destiny which broke us apart
Cm
You tamed the lion in my cage
    D               D/C                G       G/F#
But it just wasn't enough to change my heart.
    Em                    Bm
Now everything's a little upside down
     Am                 G
As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,
       Em                  Bm
What's good is bad, what's bad is good
Am                       G
You'll find out when you reach the top
Bm            C6
You're on the bottom.
 
Cm                                D              D/C              G
I noticed at the ceremony, that you left your bags behind
Cm
The driver came in after you left
      D                      D/C                  G       G/F#
He gave 'em all to me and then he resigned
Em                           Bm
The priest wore black on the seventh day
    Am                        G
And waltzed around while the building burned.
  Em                    Bm
You didn't trust me for a minute babe
         Am                       G
I've never known the spring to turn
Bm                C6
so quickly into autumn.
 
[Chorus]
G           C                               G
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your jaw,
         C                          C/D
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Mardi Gras.
G           C                                G
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
          G      C
You're an idiot, babe.
       D                                 G         C/G   G    C/G
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
 
[Verse]
Cm                        D            D/C                    G
We pushed each other a little too far and one day it just turned into a raging storm
Cm                                        D
The hound dog bayed beyond your trees
         D/C             G       G/F#
As I was packing up my uniform
Em                Bm               Am               G
I figured I'd lost you anyway, why go on, what's the use
  Em             Bm               Am              G
In order to get in a word with you I'd have to come up with some excuse
    Bm        C6
It just struck me kinda funny...
 
Cm                                D                  D/C             G
I been double-crossed too much, at times I think I've almost lost my mind
  Cm
Lady-killers load dice on me,
       D                D/C                G     G/F#
behind my back while imitators steal me blind
Em                    Bm              Am             G
You close your eyes and pout your lips and slip your fingers from your glove
    Em                  Bm                   Am               G
You can have the best there is, but it's gonna cost you all your love
       Bm               C6
You won't get it for money...
 
[Chorus]
G           C                                  G
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
C                                   C/D
Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
G           C                                  G
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
      G       C
We're idiots, babe.
       D             D7           G          C/G    G    C/G
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
 
[Outro] (harp)
| Cm | D D/C | G |
| Cm | D D/C | G      G/F# |
| Em Bm | Am G |
| Em Bm | Am G |
 
 2/4  4/4
| Bm | C6 |
| Cm | D D/C | G |
(fade out over last bars)
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