Chords for Bob Dylan - Ballad in Plain D (Official Audio)

_ _ _ _ I [D] _
once loved a [Bm] girl, [A] her skin [Em] it was [D] bronze _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ With the innocence of a [Bm] lamb, she [B] was gentle [G] like a fawn
_ _ I [D] courted her [Bm] proudly, [D] but now she is gone _
_ _ Gone [F#m] as the season _ [A] she's [D] taken _ _ _ _
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In [D] a young [Bm] summer's youth, [D] I stole her away _
_ From her mother [Bm] and sister, though [G] close did they stay _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] Each one of them [Bm] suffering from the failures of that day
_ _ With strings of guilt, [A] they tried hard to guide _ us _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [A] Of [D] _ the two [Bm] sisters, _ [A] I [D] loved the young _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] With sensitive _ [A] instincts, she was [G] the creative one _ _ _
[D] Their constant _ [Bm] scrapegoat, she [D] was easily _ undone _ _ _
By the jealousy [A] of [F#m] others _
[A] around _ [D] her _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ For _
_ [A] her [D] parasite _ [Bm] sister, I [D] had no _ respect _ _
_ _ Bound by [Bm] her boredom, her [D] pride to [G] protect _ _
_ _ _ Countless [Bm] _ visions [F#m] of the other, she'd [D] reflect _ _ _
As a crutch for [A] her scenes and her _ _ [D] society _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ Myself, for [Bm] what I did, I [D] cannot be _ excused
_ _ The changes I [Bm] was going through can't even [G] be used
_ _ _ _ _ For [D] the lies [Bm] that I told her, [D] in hope not to lose
_ _ There could be a [A] dream lover of my _ [D] lifetime _ _ _ _ _
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[D] With _ _ [Bm] unseen consciousness, [D] I possessed [G] in [D] my grip _
_ A _ magnificent [Bm] metal piece, though its [C] heart [G] being chipped
_ _ _ _ [D] _ Noticing [Bm] not that [D] I'd already slipped _ _
_ To the sin of love's false [A] _ _ _ [D] security _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ [D] From _ silhouetted [Bm] anger to [G] manufactured _ peace
_ _ _ _ _ Answers of [Bm] emptiness, [G] voice _ [G] _ vacancies
_ _ [D] Till the tombstones [Bm] of damage [A] read no [D] questions but _ pleas
_ What's wrong, [A] what's [F#m] exactly [A] the _ [D] matter? _ _
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And [D] so it did [Bm] happen, [A] like it could have been [D] _ foreseen
_ _ The timeless [Bm] explosion of [C] _
fantasy's [G] dream
_ _ At [D] the peak of the [Bm] night, the king and the queen
_ _ _ Tumbled _ [A] all down into _ _
[D] pieces _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
[A] _ _ The _ _ [D] tragic [Bm] figure, her [G] sister [D] did shout
_ _ _ Leave her alone, [C] god damn you, [G] get out _
[D] And I, in [Bm] my armor, _ [B] turning _ [D] about _ _ _
I'm nailing her [A] in the ruins of her [A] _ [D] pettiness _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] Beneath a bare [Bm] _ lightbulb, [D] the plaster did pound
_ _ Her sister [Bm] and I in a [C] screaming _ [G] battleground _
And _ [D] she in [Bm] between, [D] the victim of sound _
_ _ Soon shattered [A] as a child to the [A] _ _ [D] shadows _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
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All is [D] gone, all [Bm] is gone, admit it, [D] take flight _ _
_ I gagged [Bm] in contradiction, [C] tears blinding [G] my sight _
_ My [D] mind, it was [Bm] mangled, I [D] ran into the night _ _
_ Leaving all of [A] love's ashes _ [D] behind _ _ me _
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[A] _ _ _ _ [F#m] The wind [Bm] knocks my window, [G] the room it [D] is wet
_ _ _ The words to [Bm] say I'm sorry I [B] haven't [G] found yet
_ _ _ I think of [Bm] her often and hope [G] whoever she's [D] met
_ _ _ Will be fully [A] aware of how precious _ [D] she is
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_ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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Ah, [D] my friends from the [Bm] prison, they [G] ask unto me _ _ _
How good, how good does it feel to be free?
_ _ _ And I answer [Bm] them [D] most _ _ mysteriously
_ Are birds free [A] from the chains of the _ _
_ [D] _ skyway? _ _ _ _
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