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Bob Dylan - North Country Blues Chords

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North Country Blues Chords

(ver. 2)
Bob Dylan
Capo 3rd Fret

Intro
Am
e-------------|-------------|-------------|
B-----1---1---|-----1-------|-----1---1---|
G-----2---2---|-----2-------|-----2---2---|
D-----2---2---|-----2-------|-----2---2---|
A-0-----------|-------------|-0-----------|
E-------------|-0-------3---|-------------|

Fill at the end of each verse played over the Am
chord
  Am
e--------------|
B--------------|
G--------------|
D-0h2-0h2------|
A---------0--0-|
E--------------|

Intro

Am                                  G
Come gather 'round friends and I'll tell you a tale
            Am       G              Am
Of when the red iron-ore pits ran a-plenty
                                     G
But the cardboard-filled windows and old men on the benches
         Am           G             Am
Tell you now that the whole town is empty


Am                             G
In the north end of town my own children are grown
   Am       G             Am
But I was raised on the other
                             G
In the wee hours of youth my mother took sick
    Am            G         Am
And I was brought up by my brother


Am                         G
All iron ore poured as the years passed the door
   Am              G                  Am
The drag lines and shovels they was a-humming
                         G                  
'Till one day my brother failed to come home
    Am         G         Am
The same as my father before him


Am                                  G                       
With, a long winter's wait from the window I watched
   Am           G                  Am
My friends they couldn't have been kinder
                              G
And my schooling was cut as I quit in the spring
   Am         G         Am
To marry John Thomas, a miner


Am                              G
the years passed again, and the giving was good
         Am           G            Am
With the lunch bucket filled every season
                                 G
What with three babies born, the work was cut down
     Am           G             Am
To a half a day's shift with no reason


Am                                G
Then the shaft was soon shut, and more work was cut
        Am          G            Am
And the fire in the air, it felt frozen
                                   G
'Till a man come to speak, and he said in one week
     Am       G        Am
That number eleven was closing


Am                             G
They say in the East, they are paying too high
     Am            G               Am
They say that your ore ain't worth digging
                                   G
That it's much cheaper down in the South American towns
          Am          G          Am
Where the miners work almost for nothing


Am                                  G               
So the mining gates locked, and the red iron rotted
        Am           G          Am
And the room smelled heavy from drinking
                                  G                  
And the sad, silent song made the hour twice as long
     Am             G         Am     
As I waited for the sun to go sinking


Am                          G
I lived by the window as he talked to himself
     Am         G              Am
This silence of tongues it was building
                              G
'Till one morning's wake, the bed it was bare
    Am          G               Am
And I was left alone with three children


Am                      G                    
The summer is gone, the ground's turning cold
    Am            G             Am 
The stores one by one they're a folding
                       G            
My children will go as soon as they grow
            Am            G           Am
Well, there ain't nothing here now to hold them


            
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