Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan - Its Allright Ma guitar tab

; Mon, 15 Feb 1993 18:35:03 MST

Subject: CRD: It's Allright Ma - Bob Dylan

IT'S ALLRIGHT MA

Bob Dylan

Darkness at the break of noon shadows even the silver spoon

The hand made blade, the child's balloon exlipses both the sun and moon

To understand you know too soon there is no sense in trying

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

Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before

You discover that you'd just be one more person crying

So don't fear, if you hear, a foreign sound to your ear

It's allright ma, I'm only sighing

As some warn victory, some downfall, private reasons great or small

Can be seen in the eys of those that call

To make all that shoulc be killed to crawl

While others say don't hate nothing at all except hatred

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark

Make everything from toy guns that spark

To flesh colored Christs that glow in the dark

It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred

While preachers preach of evil fates, teacherrs teach that knowledge waits

Can lead to hundred dollar plates, goodness hides behind its gates

But even the president of the United States must sometimes have to stand naked

And though the rules of the road have been lodged

It's only people's games that you've got to dodge

And it's allright ma, I can make it

Advertising signs that con you into thinking you're the one

That can do what's never been done, that can win what's nver been won

Meantime life outside goes on all around you

You lose yourself, you reappear you suddenly find you've got nothing to fear

Alone you stand with nobody near when a trembling distant voice unclear

Startles your sleeping ears to hear that somebody thinks they really found you

A question in your nerves is lit yet you know there is no answer fit

To satisfy, ensure you not to quit to keep it in your mind and not forget

That it is not he or she or them or it that you beling to

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools

I've got nothing ma, to live up to

For them that must obey authority that they don not respect in any degree

Who despise their jobs, their destinies Speak jealously of them that are free

Cultivate their flowers to be nothing more than something they invest in

While unprinciples baptize too strict party platform ties

Social clubs in drag disguise, outsiders they can freely criticize

Tell nothing except who to idolize and say 'God bless him'

While one who sings with his tongue on fire gargles in the rat race choir

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher

But rather get you down in the holw that he's in

But I mean no harm nor put fault on anyone that lives in a vault

But it's allright ma, if I can't please him

Old lady judges watch people in paird, limited in sex they dare

To push fake morals, insultant stares while money doesn't talk, it swears

Obscenity, who really cares, propaganda all is phony

While them that defend what they cannot see with a killer's pride, security

It blows the mind most bitterly for them that think death's honesty

Won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely

My eyes collide head on with stuffed graveyards, false goals, I scuff

At pettiness which plays so rough, walk upside down inside handcuffs

Kick my legs to crash it off, say OK I've had enough

What else can you show me and if my thought dreams could be seen

They'd probably put my head in a guillotine

But it's allright ma, it's life and life only

tune both E strings to D, capo on 2nd fret

-2---- -00230 x4 ...break of noon

0----- -00230 x4 ...silver spoon

-3---- -00230 x4 ...child's balloon

-2---- -00230 x4 ...sun and moon

-1---- -00230 x4 ...know too soon

0----- 000230 0------ 00230-00230 000233/55-33

there's no sense in trying

000230 202222 000230 020033

so don't fear if you hear a foreign sound to your ear

0----- -0---- -2---- -0---- -02222 000230

its all right ma I'm only sighing

great song - Good luck with it!

Peace, love, and soul,

Paul Zimmerman

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