Changing Of The Times - Bob Dylan, guitar chords

Published: 2019-02-27 17:39
Selection chords: Katie Paterson

Intro: Bb

Gm
Sixteen years,
Bb F Gm
Sixteen banners united over the fields
Eb F
While the good shepherd grieves
Gm Bb F
Desperate men, desperate women divided,
Gm Eb F Bb
Spreading their wings ʼneath the falling leaves.

Gm
Fortune calls.
Bb F Gm
I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,
Eb F Gm
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.
Bb F Gm
Sheʼs smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born,
Eb F Bb
On midsummerʼs eve, near the tower.

Gm
The cold-blooded moon.
Bb F
The captain waits above the celebration
Gm Eb F
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Gm Bb F
Whose ebony face is beyond communication.
Gm Eb F Bb
The captain is down but still believing that his love
will be repaid.

Gm
They shaved her head.
Bb F
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo.
Gm Eb F
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale.
Gm Bb F
I seen her on the stairs and I couldnʼt help but follow,
Gm Eb F Bb
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.

Gm
I stumbled to my feet.
Bb F
I rode past destruction in the ditches
Gm Eb F
With the stitches still mending ʼneath a heart-shaped tattoo.
Gm Bb F
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Gm Eb F Bb
Were handing out the flowers that Iʼd given to you.

Gm
The palace of mirrors
Bb F
Where dog soldiers are reflected,
Gm Eb F
The endless road and the wailing of chimes,
Gm Bb F
The empty rooms where her memory is protected,
Gm Eb F Bb
Where the angelsʼ voices whisper to the souls of previous times.

Gm
She wakes him up
Bb F
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
Gm Eb F
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks.
Gm Bb F
Sheʼs begging to know what measures he now will be taking
Gm Eb F Bb
Heʼs pulling her down and sheʼs clutching on to his
long golden locks.

Gm
Gentlemen, he said,
Bb F Gm
I donʼt need your organization, Iʼve shined your shoes,
Eb F
Iʼve moved your mountains and marked your cards
Gm Bb F
But Eden is burning, either get brave for elimination
Gm Eb F Bb
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing
of the guards.

Gm
Peace will come
Bb F Gm
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
Eb F Gm
But will offer no reward when her false idols fall
Bb F Gm
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
Eb F Bb
Between the King and the Queen of Swords.

Gm Bb F
Gm