Dylan

Dylan - Idiot Wind guitar tab

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From: Harlan L Thompson

IDIOT WIND- Bob Dylan

Am B E

Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press

Am B E

Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess

C#m G#m F#m E

They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy

C#m G#m F#m E

She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me

G#m A

I can't help it if I'm lucky

People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act

Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts

Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at

I couldn't believe after all these years

You didn't know me better than that, sweet lady

CHORUS #1:

E A E

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth

A B

Blowing down the backroads headin' south

E A E

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth

A B E

You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe

I ran into the fortune teller, who said beware of lightning that might

strike

I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's

like There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door

You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done

In the final end he won the war after losin' every battle

I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are

Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see

stars You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with

lies

One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes

Blood on your saddle

CHORUS #2:

Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb

Blowing through the curtains in your room

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth

You're an idiot, babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe

It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart

You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my

heart

Now everything's a little upside down

As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped

What's good is bad, what's bad is good

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom

I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind

I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed

Your eyes don't look into mine

The priest wore black on the seventh day

And sat stone faced while the building burned

I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees

While the springtime turned slowly into autumn

CHORUS #3:

Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull

>From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth

You're an idiot, babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe

I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read

Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin' I was somebody else

instead Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy

I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory

And all your ragin' glory

I been double crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free

I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline

Which separated you from me

You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above

And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love

And it makes me feel so sorry

CHORUS #4:

Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats

Blowing through the letters that we wrote

Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves

We're idiots, babe, it's a wonder we can even feed ourselves

(from Blood On the Tracks, 1974)

(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)

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