Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a-Changin' chords

One of the most mis-tabbed songs on the internet. I've never seen the correct TAB for this song online. I've even submitted my correct TAB to sites that have the wrong tab and it's been rejected.

One of the biggest errors is putting in too many Am's. There's just one in each stanza, but most like to put in three or four Am's, including at the end of each stanza.

Another error is the sequence before Dylan sings "the times are a changing".  People like to put in all sorts of C and Am chords there, which sounds alright, but it's not what Dylan plays. He plays a D chord, lifts two fingers up and puts one down on A3, then sequence down to A2 then A0. It's unorthodox, but easy and sounds good.

Chords are below, I'll make a video on it to describe it better at some point. (see video link at bottom which is better than what I could do.)

Online tablature is notoriously inaccurate. Please enjoy what I think is the correct TAB for: Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a-Changin':


1.       G             Em         C        G
Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
      G            Em       C             D
And admit that the waters around you have grown
      G            Em            
And accept it that soon you'll be 
  C               G
drenched to the bone
       G        Am           D
If your time to you is worth saving
         D            Cadd9              G6 
  Then you better start swimming or you'll sink 
      D/A
like a stone,
        G                     D   G     Em  
For the times, they are a’ changing  
C   G 

2.  Come writers and critics who prophesies with your pen
And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
And there's no telling who that it's naming
‘Cause loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a’changing

3.  Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside and it's raging
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a’changing

4.  Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don't criticise what you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly aging
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a’changing
    
5.  The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a’changing

Chords:

Am      x02210
C       x32010
Cadd9   x30030
D       xx0232
D/A     x00232
Em      022000
G       320033
G6      x20030

Update: I found a video tutorial which I think is the way it should be played. Plus, I had only really tabbed the first stanza and there's a mix up of the chords I didn't realise in the part where Dylan plays harmonica. Probably because I don't play the harmonica and just ignored that part. In the end it's too much to remember. Plus there are lots of lyrics in Dylan's songs to remember too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R7k7TC4be4

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