Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan - Cant Wait guitar tab

Can't Wait

Words and music by Bob Dylan

Released on Time Out Of Mind (1997)

Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

Capo 4th fret (Original key Ab blues)

The recurrent chord is a shimmering Esus4 which is never really resolved - or, for the sake of convenience, Em.

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Em

I can't wait

A Em

Wait for you to change my mind

It's late

A Em

I'm tryin to walk the line

Well it's way past midnight

And there's some people all around

A

Some on their way up

Some on their way down

Em A

The air burns and I'm tryin to think straight

C B7 Em

And I don't know how much longer I can wait

I'm your man

I've tried to recover the sweet love that we knew

You understand

That my heart can't go on beating without you

Well your loveliness has wounded me

I'm reeling from the blow

I wish I knew what it was that keeps me loving you so

I'm breathin' hard standin' at the gate

And I don't know how much longer I can wait

Skies are gray

I'm looking for anything that will bring a happy glow

Night or day

It doesn't matter where I go anymore I just go 1)

If I ever saw you comin' I don't know what I might do

I'd like to think I could control myself

But it isn't true

That's how it is

When things disintegrate

And I don't know how much longer I can wait

A

I'm doomed to love you

Em

I been rollin' through stormy weather

A

I'm thinkin' of you

Bsus4

And all the places we could roam together

Em

It's mighty funny

The end of time has just begun

Oh honey, after all these years you're still the one

Well I'm strollin' through the lonely graveyard of my mind

I left my life with you

Somewhere back there along the line

I thought somehow that I would be spared this day

I don't know how much longer I can wait

To the Highlands

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1) From Josh Meisler:

The lyric

"night or day, it doesn't matter anymore where I go, I just go"

is conspicuously similar to a lyric in the Grateful Dead tune 'Crazy Fingers' which goes

"gone are the days we stopped to decide where we should go, we just ride",

by robert hunter. somewhat similar in construction and definitely in content.

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2000 version

The main changes are in the pace and the mood of the playing, not really much in the arrangement.

B7add11=x21200. Or play B7-10 (x21230)

Em

Em

I can't wait

A Em

Wait for you to change my mind

It's late

A Em

I'm tryin to walk the line

*)

Well it's way past midnight

And there's some people all around

A

Some on their way up

Some on their way down

Em A

The air burns and I'm tryin to think straight

C B7add11 Em

And I don't know how much longer I can wait

A

I'm doomed to love you

Em

I been rollin' through stormy weather

A

I'm thinkin' of you

Bsus4

And all the places we could roam together

*)

Em A

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