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Simple Twist of Fate ? Bob Dylan
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Bob Dylan
Simple Twist of Fate (1975)
(Bob Dylan)
From: "Blood on the Tracks"
Dylan uses an open tuning on the original recording. This is what I play
if I don't want to retune and still look for similar voicings.
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CHORDS
C [E-A-D-G-B-E]x-3-2-0-1(0)
[ch]Cmaj7/B[/ch] x-2-2-0-1(0)
C/Bb x-1-2-0-1(0)
F (t)1-3-3-2-1(1)
Fm (t)1-3-3-1-1(1)
G/B x-2-0-0-0-x
Fsus2 (t)1-3-3-0-1(1)
F/G 3-x-3-2-1(1)
[ch]Fsus2/G[/ch] 3-x-3-0-1(1)
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Capo 4th fret
INTRO / VERSES
C [ch]Cmaj7/B[/ch]
[1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+] [1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+] [1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+] [1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+]
e(0)--------------|----------------(0)--------------|----------------|
B|1---------------|----------------|0---------------|----------------|
G|0---------------|----------------|0---------------|----------------|
D|2---------------|----------------|2---------------|----------------|
A|3---------------|----------------|2---------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
[C/Bb] [F]
[1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+] [1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+] [1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+] [1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+]
e(0)--------------|----------------(1)--------------|---------(1)----|
B|1---------------|----------------|1---------------|----------1-----|
G|0---------------|----------------|2---------------|----------0-----|
D|2---------------|----------------|3---------------|----------3-----|
A|1---------------|----------------|3---------------|----------3-----|
E|----------------|----------------|1---------------|----------1-----|
[Fm] [C] [G/B] [F][Fsus2]
[1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+] [1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+] [1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+]
e(1)--------------(0)--------------(1)-------(1)----|
B|1---------------|1------0--------|1---------1-----|
G|1---------------|0------0--------|2---------0-----|
D|3---------------|2------0--------|3---------3-----|
A|3---------------|3------2--------|3---------3-----|
E|1---------------|------(3)-------|1---------1-----|
C F/G [ch]Fsus2/G[/ch] C
[1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+] [1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+] [1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+] [1] [+] [2] [+] [3] [+] [4] [+]
e(0)--------------|-(1)-----(1)----(0)--------------|----------------|
B|1---------------|--1-------1-----|1---------------|----------------|
G|0---------------|--2-------0-----|0---------------|----------------|
D|2---------------|--3-------3-----|2---------------|----------------|
A|3---------------|----------------|3---------------|----------------|
E|----------------|--3-------3-----|----------------|----------------|
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Capo 4th fret
INTRO
| C | % | [ch]Cmaj7/B[/ch] | % | C/Bb | % |
| F | F Fsus2| Fm | % | C G/B | F Fsus2 |
| C | F/G [ch]Fsus2/G[/ch] | C | % |
[C] They sat together in the park
[Cmaj7] As the evening sky grew dark
[C/Bb] She looked at him and he felt a spark [F]tingle to his bones[Fsus2]
?Twas [Fm]then he felt alone and [C]wished that [G/B]he?d gone [F]straight[Fsus2]
C F/G [ch]Fsus2/G[/ch] C
And watched out for a simple twist of fate
[C] They walked along by the old canal
[Cmaj7] A little confused, I remember well
[C/Bb] And stopped into a strange hotel with a [F]neon burnin? bright
He [Fm]felt the heat of the night [C]hit him [G/B]like a [F]frei---gh[Fsus2]t train
C F/G [ch]Fsus2/G[/ch] C
Moving with a simple twist of fate
[C] A saxophone someplace far off played
[Cmaj7] As she was walkin? on by the arcade
As the [C/Bb]light bust through a beat-up shade where [F]he was wakin? up,[Fsus2]
She dropped a [Fm]coin into the cup of a [C]blind [G/B]man at the [F]gate[Fsus2]
C F/G [ch]Fsus2/G[/ch] C
And forgot about a simple twist of fate
SOLO
| C | % | [ch]Cmaj7/B[/ch] | % | C/Bb | % |
| F | % | Fm | % | C G/B | F |
| C | F/G | C | % |
[C] He woke up, the room was bare
[Cmaj7] He didn?t see her anywhere
[C/Bb] He told himself he didn?t care, pushed the [F]window open wide
Felt an [Fm]emptiness inside to which he [C]just could [G/B]not re[F]late[Fsus2]
C F/G [ch]Fsus2/G[/ch] C
Brought on by his simple twist of fate
[C] He hears the ticking of the clocks
[Cmaj7] And walks along with a parrot that talks
[C/Bb] Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the [F]sailors all come in
Maybe she?ll [Fm]pick him out again, how [C]long [G/B]must he [F]wait[Fsus2]
C F/G [ch]Fsus2/G[/ch] C
One more time for a simple twist of fate
[C] People tell me it?s a sin
[Cmaj7] To know and feel too much within
[C/Bb] I still believe she was my twin, [F]but I lost the ring
[Fm]She was born in spring, but [C]I was [G/B]born too [F]late[Fsus2]
C F/G [ch]Fsus2/G[/ch] C
Blame it on a simple twist of fate
SOLO
| C | % | [ch]Cmaj7/B[/ch] | % | C/Bb | % |
| F | % | Fm | % | C G/B | F |
| C | F/G | C
