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                      My Own Version Of You – Bob Dylan
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Written by: Bob Dylan
From: “Rough and Rowdy Ways” (2020)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Capo 2nd fret
Play: Bm
Key: C#m
For chords in original key, transpose +2

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CHORDS
       E-A-D-G-B-e
Bm     x-2-4-4-3-x
Bm/A   x-0-4-4-3-x
Bm/G#  4-x-4-4-3-x
Bm/G   3-x-4-4-x-x
Em/D   x-x-0-0-0-0
A#aug  x-1-4-3-3-x
G7     3-5-x-4-6-3

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[Intro]
| Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G |
| Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G |

[Verse 1]
Bm                  Bm/A      Bm/G# Bm/G
All through the summers, into Janu- ary
          Bm       Bm/A       Bm/G# Bm/G
I've been visiting morgues and monasteries
Em                   Em/D        A/C#  C
Looking for the necessary body parts
Bm               A#aug          Bm/A     Bm/G#
Limbs and livers and brains and hearts

[Turnaround 1]
           G
I'll bring someone to life, is what I wanna do
        G7                    | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G |
I wanna create my own  version  of  you

[Verse 2]
         Bm               Bm/A  Bm/G#  Bm/G
Well, it must be the winter of my discontent
  Bm                     Bm/A         Bm/G#      Bm/G
I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went
     E             Em/D      A/C#        C
They talk all night and they talk all day
Bm               A#aug           Bm/A         Bm/G#
Not for a minute do I believe anything they say

[Turnaround 2]
               G
I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen
    G7                                      | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G |
You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean

[Verse 3]
              Bm         Bm/A         Bm/G#     Bm/G
I'll take the Scarface Pacino and The Godfather Brando
       Bm      Bm/A           Bm/G#   Bm/G
Mix it up in a tank and get a robot commando
E            Em/D              A/C#    C
If I do it upright and put the head on straight
        Bm           Bm/A               Bm/G#  Bm/G
I'll be saved by the creature that I create

[Verse 4]
         Bm                 Bm/A Bm/G#          Bm/G
I'll get blood from a cactus, gunpowder from ice
        Bm          Bm/A        Bm/G#          Bm/G
I don't gamble with cards and I don't shoot no dice
       E              Em/D       A/C#          C
If you look at my face with your sightless eye
Bm                  A#aug     Bm/A       Bm/G#
 Can you cross your heart and hope to die?

[Turnaround 3]
G
 I'll bring someone to life, someone for real
G7                              | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G |
Someone who feels the way that I feel

[Verse 5]
        Bm            Bm/A       Bm/G#      Bm/G
I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind
        Bm                Bm/A       Bm/G#    Bm/G
I wanna do things for the benefit of all mankind
  E                 Em/D   A/C#           C
I say to the willow tree, "Don't weep for me"
    Bm                  Bm/A              Bm/G#    Bm/G
I'm saying: “To hell to all things that I used to be

[Verse 6]
        Bm              Bm/A     Bm/G#      Bm/G
Well, I get into trouble, then I hit the wall
Bm              Bm/A Bm/G#      Bm/G
No place to turn, no place at all
            E        Em/D    A/C#    C
I'll pick a number between a-one and two
      Bm           A#aug             Bm/A   Bm/G#
And I ask myself, "What would Julius Caesar do?"

[Turnaround 4]
             G
I will bring someone to life in more ways than one
      G7                                               | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G |
Don't matter how long it takes, it'll be done when it's done

[Verse 7]
          Bm                Bm/A       Bm/G# Bm/G
I'm gonna make you play the piano like Leon  Russell
Bm       Bm/A           Bm/G#       Bm/G
Like Liberace, like St. John the Apostle
     E          Em/D                A/C#  C
I'll play every number that I can play
Bm           Bm/A     Bm/G#     Bm/G
I'll see you maybe on Judgment Day

[Verse 8]
Bm             Bm/A     Bm/G#        Bm/G
 After midnight, if you still wanna meet
               Bm                Bm/A    Bm/G#      Bm/G
I'll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street
E            Em/D A/C#           C
Two doors down,   not that far a walk
Bm             A#aug          Bm/A          Bm/G#
I'll hear your footsteps, you won't have to knock

[Turnaround 5]
G
 I'll bring someone to life, balance the scales
        G7                                  | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G |
I'm not gonna get involved any insignificant details

[Verse 9]
        Bm              Bm/A           Bm/G#         Bm/G
You can bring it to St. Peter, you can bring it to Jerome
        Bm                   Bm/A           Bm/G#           Bm/G
You can bring it all the way over, bring it all the way home
E               Em/D             A/C#         C
Bring it to the corner where the children play
        Bm          A#aug   Bm/A     Bm/G#
You can bring it to me on a silver tray

[Turnaround 6]
           G
I'll bring someone to life, spare no expense
G7                           | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G |
Do it with decency and common sense

| Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G |

[Verse 10]
        Bm                   Bm/A       Bm/G#      Bm/G
Can you tell me what it means, to be or not to be?
Bm              Bm/A     Bm/G#      Bm/G
 You won't get away with fooling me
        E           Em/D  A/C#        C
Can you help me walk that moonlight mile?
        Bm          A#aug     Bm/A    Bm/G#
Can you give me the blessings of your smile?

[Turnaround 7]
           G
I'll bring someone to life, use all of my powers
G7                       | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G |
Do it in the dark, in the wee, small hours

[Verse 11]
Bm            Bm/A           Bm/G#           Bm/G
I can see the history of the whole human race
     Bm        Bm/A        Bm/G#            Bm/G
It's all right there, it's carved into your face
E                     Em/D           A/C#       C
Should I break it all down? Should I fall on my knees?
Bm                    Bm/A               Bm/G#            Bm/G
Is there light at the end of the tunnel, can you tell me, please?

[Verse 12]
Bm         Bm/A         Bm/G# Bm/G
Stand over there by the cypress tree
                 Bm                      Bm/A      Bm/G#  Bm/G
Where the Trojan women and children were sold into slavery
E               Em/D     A/C#   C
Long before the first Crusade
    Bm          Bm/A        Bm/G#       Bm/G
Way back before England or America were made

[Verse 13]
Bm         Bm/A     Bm/G#      Bm/G
Step right into the burning hell
                   Bm        Bm/A       Bm/G#     Bm/G
Where some of the best-known enemies of mankind dwell
    E              Em/D        A/C#          C
Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his axe
        Bm            Bm/A         Bm/G#      Bm/G
See the raw hide lash rip the skin from their backs

[Verse 14]
Bm             Bm/A            Bm/G#                  Bm/G
 Got the right spirit, you can feel it, you can hear it
       Bm            Bm/A       Bm/G#      Bm/G
You've got what they call the immortal spirit
        E           Em/D           A/C#           C
You can feel it all night, you can feel it in the morn'
   Bm             Bm/A     Bm/G#        Bm/G
It creeps in your body the day you were born

[Verse 15]
Bm            Bm/A         Bm/G#      Bm/G
One strike of lightning is all that I need
      Bm           Bm/A         Bm/G#       Bm/G
And a blast of electricity that runs at top speed
E             Em/D      A/C#         C
Shimmy your ribs, I'll stick in the knife
      Bm        A#aug Bm/A       Bm/G#
Gonna jumpstart my creation to life

[Turnaround 8]
        G
I wanna bring someone to life, turn back the years
G7                              | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G |
Do it with laughter and do it with tears            (repeat and fade)