Tangled Up In Blue Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][Am][D][Am][D][Am][D][G]
[D][Am][D][Am][D][Am][D][G]
[Em][Bm][D][G][Asus4][Bm]
[D][G][Asus4][D][Asus4][D][G][D]
[G]

[Verse 1]
[D]Early one mornin' the sun [Am]was shinin'
[D]I was layin' i[Am]n bed
[D]Wondrin' if she'd [Am]changed at all
[D]If her hair was still [G]red
[D]Her folks they said our lives [Am]together
[D]Sure was gonna be [Am]rough
They [D]never did like
Mama's [Am]homemade dress
Papa's [D]bank book wasn't big [G]enough
An[Em]d I was standin'
[Bm]on the side of the road
[D]Rain fallin' on [G]my shoes
[Em]Heading out for the [Bm]east coast
Lord [D]knows I've paid [G]some dues
Gettin' [Em]through
[Asus4]Tangled up in blue

[Interlude 1]
[D][G][D][G]

[Verse 2]
[D]She was married when we fir[Am]st met
[D]Soon to be divorced
[Am]I help[D]ed her out of a [Am]jam I guess
But [D]I used a little too much [G]force
We [D]drove that car as [Am]far as we could
Aban[D]doned it [Am]out west
[D]Split up on a dark [Am]sad night
Both [D]agreeing it was be[G]st
[Em]She turned around to look [Bm]at me
As I [D]was walkin' away
[G]I heard her[Em] say over my [Bm]shoulder
We'll [D]meet again some day
[G]On the avenue[Em][Asus4]

[Interlude 2]
Tangled up in blue
[D][G][D][G]

[Verse 3]
[D]I had a job in the great n[Am]orth woods
[D]Working as a cook for [Am]a spell
But [D]I never did like it [Am]all that much
And one [D]day the axe just [G]fell
So [D]I drifted down to New
[Am]Orleans
Where I was look[D]ing for
to be em[Am]ployed
Work[D]in' for a while [Am]on a
fish[D]in' boat
Right outside [G]of Delacroix
[Em]But all the while I [Bm]was alone
[D]The past was close be[G]hind
I [Em]seen a lot of women
[Bm]But she never[D]
escaped [G]my mind
And I just [Em]grew
[Asus4]Tangled u[A]p in blue

[Interlude 3]
[D][G][D][G]

[Verse 4]
[D]She was workin' in a top[Am]less place
And [D]I stopped in for [Am]a beer
[C]I jus[D]t kept lookin' at the side of [Am]her face
[D]In the spotlight so cle[G]ar
An[D]d later on as the crowd
[Am]thinned out
[D]I's just about to do the [Am]same
She [D]was standing there
in [Am]back of my chair
Said to [D]me, Don't I know your
[G]name?
[Em]I muttered somethin' under [Bm]my breath
She [D]studied the lines [G]on my face
I [Em]must admit I felt a [Bm]little uneasy
When she [D]bent down to tie [G]the laces
Of my [Asus4]shoe

[Interlude 4]
Tangled up in blue
[D][G][D][G]

[Verse 5]
[D]She lit a burner on [Am]the stove
[D]And offered me a[Am] pipe
I [D]thought you'd never say hello, [Am]she said
[D]You look like the silent typ[G]e
Then [D]she opened up a book [Am]of poems
And [D]handed it to [Am]me[C]
[D]Written by [Am]an Italian poet
From the thir[D]teenth century
[G]And eve[Em]ryone of them word
[Bm]s rang true
[D]And glowed like burnin' [G]coal
[Em]Pourin' off of [Bm]every page
Like it [D]was written in my soul
[G]From me to [Em]you
[Asus4]Tangled up in blu[A]e

[Interlude 5]
[D][G][D][G]

[Verse 6]
[D]I lived with them on Montague
[Am]Street
[D]In a basement down the stair[Am]s
There was [D]music in the cafés at night
And [Am]revolution in [D]the air
[G]Then [D]he started [Am]into[D] dealing
with [Am]slaves
[D]And something inside of him died
[Am]She had to sell everything
[D]she owned
And froze [G]up inside
And [Em]when finally the [Bm]bottom fell out
[D]I became withd[G]rawn
The [Em]only thing I knew how [Bm]to do
[D]Was to keep on keepin' [G]on
Like a bird [Asus4]that flew
Tangled up in blue
[D][G][D]

[Verse 7]
[G]
So [D]now I'm goin' [Am]back again
I got to [D]get to her somehow
[Am]All [D]the people we used[Am] to know
[D]They're an illusion to [G]me now
[D]Some are mathematicians
[Am]Some[D] are car
[Am]penters' wives
Don't know [D]how it all got star[Am]ted
I [D]don't know what they're
doin' with [G]their lives
[Em]But me, I'm [G]still [Bm]on the road
Head[D]in' for another [G]joint
We [Asus4]al ways did feel the sa[Bm]me
We [D]just saw it from a different
[G]point [Em]of view
[Asus4]Tangled up in blue

[Outro 1]
[D][G][D][G][D][C][Dsus4][D][Am]
[D][Dsus4][D][G][D][Am]
[D][Am][D][G]
[Bm][D][G][Em][Bm][D][G][Asus4]
[D][G][Asus4][D]