Changing Of The Guards Chords

Artist: Bob Dylan
Song: Changing of the Guards
Capo 1
 
[Intro]
G
 
[Verse 1]
G  D    Em
Sixteen years,
        G       D               Em
Sixteen banners united over the field
        C            D
Where a good Shepard grieves.
          Em             G     D
Desperate men, desperate women divided
                Em               C  D    G
Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves
 
[Verse 2]
G  D     Em
Fortune calls
          G              D               Em
I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,
              C                   D                        Em
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.
               G              D                     Em
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born
               C    D        G
On midsummer's eve, near the tower
 
[Interlude]
G D C
G D C
G D C D
G Gsus4 G
 
[Verse 3]
    G    D       Em
The cold-blooded moon
            G               D
The captain waits above the celebration
            Em            C       D
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
            Em      G      D
Whose ebony face is beyond communication
              Em                                C         D  G
he captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid
 
[Verse 4]
     G      D   Em
They shaved her head
                     G           D
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo
            Em             G     D
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
                  Em           G                 D
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow
           Em                                C      D   G
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil
 
[Interlude]
G D C
G D C
G D C D
G Gsus4 G
 
[Verse 5]
  G        D     Em
I stumbled to my feet
                G                  D
I rode past the destruction in the ditches
         Em                                C            D
With the stitches still mending 'neath the heart shaped tattoo.
         Em          G                 D
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
     Em                           C   D        G
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you
 
[Verse 6]
G   D         Em
The palace of mirrors
          G           D
Where dog solders are reflected,
            Em           C          D
The endless road and the wailing of chimes
          Em              G         D
The empty rooms where her memory is protected
          Em                            C        D        G
Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times
 
[Interlude]
G D C
G D C
G D C D
G Gsus4 G
 
[Verse 7]
    G     D   Em
She wakes him up
                  G                 D
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
            Em               C          D
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rock.
                 Em         G                       D
She's begging to know  what measures he now will be taking.
                 Em                                 C    D      G
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks
 
[Verse 8]
G     D        Em
Gentlemen, he said,
        G               D                        Em
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
                C                          D
I've moved your mountains, and marked your cards
            Em                  G              D
But Eden is burning, either get ready for elimination
             Em                                   C        D      G
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
 
[Verse 9]
G     D     Em
Peace will come
     G               D                         Em
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
         C        D                           Em
But will offer no reward when her false idols fall
          G         D                Em
And cruel death surrenders with it's pale ghosts retreating
            C        D        G
Between the King and Queen of Swords
 
[Outro]
Em
G D Em
C D Em
G D Em
C D G
 
G D C
G D C
G D C D
G Gsus4 G
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