Chords for Rare 1st Live Bob Dylan recording When The Ship Comes In , August/ Sept 1963
Tempo:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret

Jam Along & Learn...
Here is the tape I promised.
all, I hope you're having a grand time, all of you.
I wish I could be with you, but then
plan to do the same thing next year.
to the Far East at any rate.
please let me hear from you in the shape of [D#] tapes or little notes.
appropriate [D] quarters, be it Bob Shelton or Sing Out.
touch with Harold.
all, I hope you're having a grand time, all of you.
I wish I could be with you, but then
plan to do the same thing next year.
to the Far East at any rate.
please let me hear from you in the shape of [D#] tapes or little notes.
appropriate [D] quarters, be it Bob Shelton or Sing Out.
touch with Harold.
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_ _ _ Here is the tape I promised.
First of all, I hope you're having a grand time, all of you. _ _
I wish I could be with you, but then
_ I plan to do the same thing next year.
Not as extensively as you, but to the Far East at any rate.
_ As I said in my letter, please let me hear from you in the shape of [D#] tapes or little notes.
_ I'll pass [C#] the news on to the appropriate [D] quarters, be it Bob Shelton or Sing Out.
[D#] Anyway, you're in touch with Harold.
[E] But [C#] some additional things can't hurt.
_ _ And everybody I meet is very anxious to know how you're getting [D] on.
_ So Joanie, she sends her love.
So does Bobby Dylan.
_ _ _ _ So does Freddie [C] Hellermann, whom I spoke to [D] yesterday.
I'm in Los Angeles at the moment, but going [C#] back and forth to [B] the East and to Hawaii next weekend. _
[D] This tape that you have before you is a_ _
_ _ weird in the technical sense.
[D#] There are two [D] marvelous songs on it.
_ [G] But it was [F] done by myself on an [E] unfamiliar tape recorder
[C#] very, very late at night when Bobby was in the mood to do the song.
So there are all sorts of extraneous noises, which you'll have to forgive.
[D#] But I think I thought the songs were so good that Pete might want to perform them [C#] on the [G#] road. _
At least one of them.
_ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ Should you want the words to these songs that is in written down form,
I've asked Alice to get to Bobby, who's back East [D#] now, and get them.
You know, it's tough.
He usually types up, as you know, one sheet and that's it.
_ [D] _
The [E] rest of it you have to [D] glean from tapes and the various times when [F] he sings.
_ _ [E] And I think it's fairly clear.
It can be reconstructed from the tapes.
However, [D#] let me know and I'll try to get the [D] sheets to you _ as well.
_ [D#] I'll sign off now, so I don't [C#] go into the recorded portion of this tape. _ _ _
[N] _ Be well, Pete and Toshi
and Danny and Mika and Tinya
_ _ et al.
Have a nice trip. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] _
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[Bm] And [C] the hurricane
_ [G] began the hour that the [D] ship comes in
_ [Bm] and the sea will spread and [Am] the ships will [G] hit
[Bm] and the sands on [Am] the shoreline will be [G] shaking
_ and the tide will [Bm] sound and the [Am] waves [G] will pound
and the morning will be [D] _ _ [D] _ [G]
breaking. _ _ _ _ _ _
For the fishes [A] will laugh as they swim out [G] of the path
[Bm] and the [C] seagulls, they'll be [G] smiling _ _
and the rocks [B] on the sand [Am] will proudly [G] stand
the hour [D] that the ship [G] comes in
and the [Bm] words they use to get the ship confused
[F#] will not be understood [G] as they're spoken _
for the chains [Bm] of the sea will [Am] have busted in [G] the night
and be buried on the bottom [D] of the _ _ ocean. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I'd scare myself.
Yes, sir. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ For a song will [C#] lift as the mainsail shifts
[Em] and the boat [C] drifts [G] onto the shoreline
and the sun will respect [Am] every face [G] on the deck.
The hour that [D] the ship [G] comes in
and [B] the sands will [C] roll out a carpet [G] of gold
for [Em] your weary [C] toes to be [G] touching
_ and the ship's [C#] wise men will remind you once [G] again
that the whole wide [D] world is _ _ [G] watching. _ _ _ _
_ All the foes [Bm] will rise [Am] with the sleep still [G] in their eyes
[Em] and they'll jerk from [C] their beds and [G] think they're dreaming
but they'll pinch themselves [C#] and squeal and [Am] they'll know that it's [G] for real.
The hour that [D] the ship [G] comes in
[B] and they'll raise their hands saying we'll [G] meet all your [Em] demands,
but we'll shout from the bow [G] your days are numbered
and like [F#] Pharaoh's [Am] tribe, they'll be drowned [G] in a tide
and like Goliath, they'll [D] be _ _ conquered.
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First of all, I hope you're having a grand time, all of you. _ _
I wish I could be with you, but then
_ I plan to do the same thing next year.
Not as extensively as you, but to the Far East at any rate.
_ As I said in my letter, please let me hear from you in the shape of [D#] tapes or little notes.
_ I'll pass [C#] the news on to the appropriate [D] quarters, be it Bob Shelton or Sing Out.
[D#] Anyway, you're in touch with Harold.
[E] But [C#] some additional things can't hurt.
_ _ And everybody I meet is very anxious to know how you're getting [D] on.
_ So Joanie, she sends her love.
So does Bobby Dylan.
_ _ _ _ So does Freddie [C] Hellermann, whom I spoke to [D] yesterday.
I'm in Los Angeles at the moment, but going [C#] back and forth to [B] the East and to Hawaii next weekend. _
[D] This tape that you have before you is a_ _
_ _ weird in the technical sense.
[D#] There are two [D] marvelous songs on it.
_ [G] But it was [F] done by myself on an [E] unfamiliar tape recorder
[C#] very, very late at night when Bobby was in the mood to do the song.
So there are all sorts of extraneous noises, which you'll have to forgive.
[D#] But I think I thought the songs were so good that Pete might want to perform them [C#] on the [G#] road. _
At least one of them.
_ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ Should you want the words to these songs that is in written down form,
I've asked Alice to get to Bobby, who's back East [D#] now, and get them.
You know, it's tough.
He usually types up, as you know, one sheet and that's it.
_ [D] _
The [E] rest of it you have to [D] glean from tapes and the various times when [F] he sings.
_ _ [E] And I think it's fairly clear.
It can be reconstructed from the tapes.
However, [D#] let me know and I'll try to get the [D] sheets to you _ as well.
_ [D#] I'll sign off now, so I don't [C#] go into the recorded portion of this tape. _ _ _
[N] _ Be well, Pete and Toshi
and Danny and Mika and Tinya
_ _ et al.
Have a nice trip. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] _
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[Bm] And [C] the hurricane
_ [G] began the hour that the [D] ship comes in
_ [Bm] and the sea will spread and [Am] the ships will [G] hit
[Bm] and the sands on [Am] the shoreline will be [G] shaking
_ and the tide will [Bm] sound and the [Am] waves [G] will pound
and the morning will be [D] _ _ [D] _ [G]
breaking. _ _ _ _ _ _
For the fishes [A] will laugh as they swim out [G] of the path
[Bm] and the [C] seagulls, they'll be [G] smiling _ _
and the rocks [B] on the sand [Am] will proudly [G] stand
the hour [D] that the ship [G] comes in
and the [Bm] words they use to get the ship confused
[F#] will not be understood [G] as they're spoken _
for the chains [Bm] of the sea will [Am] have busted in [G] the night
and be buried on the bottom [D] of the _ _ ocean. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I'd scare myself.
Yes, sir. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ For a song will [C#] lift as the mainsail shifts
[Em] and the boat [C] drifts [G] onto the shoreline
and the sun will respect [Am] every face [G] on the deck.
The hour that [D] the ship [G] comes in
and [B] the sands will [C] roll out a carpet [G] of gold
for [Em] your weary [C] toes to be [G] touching
_ and the ship's [C#] wise men will remind you once [G] again
that the whole wide [D] world is _ _ [G] watching. _ _ _ _
_ All the foes [Bm] will rise [Am] with the sleep still [G] in their eyes
[Em] and they'll jerk from [C] their beds and [G] think they're dreaming
but they'll pinch themselves [C#] and squeal and [Am] they'll know that it's [G] for real.
The hour that [D] the ship [G] comes in
[B] and they'll raise their hands saying we'll [G] meet all your [Em] demands,
but we'll shout from the bow [G] your days are numbered
and like [F#] Pharaoh's [Am] tribe, they'll be drowned [G] in a tide
and like Goliath, they'll [D] be _ _ conquered.
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