Chords for Bob Dylan - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (Official Audio)

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[A] Darkness at the break of [E] noon, shadows even the silver spoon,.
[D] The handmaid blade [A] the child's balloon, eclipses both the sun and moon,.
[C] To understand you know too soon, there is no [E] sense in trying.
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[A] Pointed threats they bluff with [E] scorn, suicide remarks are torn,.
[A] From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn, plays wasted words,.
Proves to [C] warn that he not busy being born, is [E] busy dying.
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[A] Temptations page flies out the [E] door, you follow find yourself at war,.
Watch waterfalls of pity [Am] roar, you feel the moan but unlike before,.
You discover that you'd just be one more person [E] crying.
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So don't fear, if [B] you hear, [E] a foreign sound [A] to your ear,.
[E] It's alright [B] Ma, [E] I'm only sighing, .
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As [A] some warn victory, some downfall, [D] private reasons, great or small,.
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call, to [A] make all that should be killed to crawl,.
[C] While others say don't hate nothing at all [E] except hatred.
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[A] Disillusioned words like bullets bark, as human gods aim for their mark,.
Make [D] everything from toy guns that [A] spark, to flesh colored Christ's that glow in the [C] dark,.
It's easy to see without looking too far, that not much is really [E] sacred.
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[C#m] While preachers preach of evil fates, [E] teachers teach that knowledge waits,.
[A] Can lead to hundred dollar plates, goodness hides behind its gates,.
[C] But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to [E] stand naked, .
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And though the rules of the road have been [B] lodged,.
It's [E] only people's games, that you [C#m] got to dodge,.
[E] And it's [A] alright [B] Ma, [E] I can make it.
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[A] Advertising signs that [E] con you into thinking you're the [C] one,.
That can do what's never been done, that can win what's never been won,.
Meantime life outside goes [E] on, all around you, .
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[C#m] You lose yourself, you [E] reappear, you suddenly find you got nothing to [D] fear,.
Alone you stand with nobody [A] near, when a trembling distant voice unclear,.
[C] Startles your sleeping ears to hear, that somebody thinks [E] they really found you, .
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[A] A question in your nerves is lit, [E] yet you know there is no answer fit [D] to satisfy,.
Ensure you not to quit, [A] to keep it in your mind, and not forget,.
That [C] it is not he or she or them or it, [E] that you belong to.
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And though the masters make the [B] rules, [E] for the wise men [A] and the fools,.
[E] [A] I got nothing [B] more [E] to live up to, .
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For [A] them that must obey authority, [E] that they do not respect in any degree,.
Who [A] despise their jobs, their destiny, speak jealously of them that are free,.
[Am] Do what they do just to be nothing more than something [E] they invest in, .
[A] While some on principles [E] baptize, to strict party platform ties,.
Social clubs in drag [A] disguise, outsiders they can freely criticize,.
[C] Tell nothing except you to idolize, and say [E] God bless him,.
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[A] 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 [Am] higher,.
But rather get you down in the [E] hole that he's in, .
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But I mean no harm, [B] nor put fault, [E] on anyone that lives [A] in a vault,.
[E] But it's [B] alright, Ma, if I [E] can't please him, .
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[C#m] Old lady judges watch people in [E] pairs, limited in sex they dare,.
To [D] push fake morals, insult [A] and stare, while money doesn't talk it swears,.
[Am] Obscenity, who really cares, propaganda [E] all is phony,.
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[A] While them that defend what they cannot [E] see, with a killer's pride, [D] security,.
It blows their minds most [A] bitterly, for them to think death's honesty,.
[Am] Won't fall upon them naturally, life sometimes must [E] get lonely,.
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eyes collide head on with [C#m] stuffed graveyards, false goals I [E] scuff,.
At pettiness which plays so rough, [D] walk upside down inside [C#m] handcuffs,.
Kick my legs to crash it off, [C] say, okay I've had enough, what else [E] can you show me?
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And if my thought dreams could [B] be seen,.
It'd [E] probably put my head [A] in a guillotine,.
[E] But [C#m] it's alright, [B] Ma, it's life and [E] life only.
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