It's All Right Ma (I'm only Bleeding)
Words and music by Bob Dylan

30th Anniversary Concert version
 

Drop D Tuning (DADGBe)
      DADGBe
      ++++++
D:    000232
D/Bb: x1023x
G/B:  x20032
D/C:  x3023x
Dm7:  000211
Em7:  000433
A:    x02220

The riff between verses looks like:


   D   Dm7 Em7    Dm7 D      (use middle finger on 4th,5th strings)
e--2---1---3--3---1---2---------------------------------
B--3---1---3--3---1---3---------------------------------
G--2---2---4--4---2---2-----------2---2-----2-----------
D--0---0---0--0---0---0-------0---0---3-----0---0---0---
A-----------------------------3-----------------3---0---
D-------------------------------------------------------

G/B
Darkness at the break of noon
D
Shadows even the silver spoon
    D/C
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
 G/B
Eclipses both the sun and moon
   D/Bb
To understand, you know to soon
                             D     riff
That there is no sense in tryin'

Pointed threats they bluff with scorn,
suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece, the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
that he not busy being born is busy dying

Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you just be one more person crying.

chorus:

D                    A    D/C
So don't fear if you hear
  D                     G/B  (hammer 5th string: A---2--0h2--0h2--)
a foreign sound to your ear
D    G/B D    A                D     riff
It's allright ma, I'm only sighing


Transcription by Kelvin Sherlock
alt.guitar.tab

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