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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Early one mornin' the sun was shinin',
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I was layin' in bed
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Wond'rin' if she'd changed at all
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If her hair was still red.
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Her folks they said our lives together
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Sure was gonna be rough
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They never did like Mama's homemade dress
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Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough.
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And I was standin' on the side of the road
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Rain fallin' on my shoes
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Heading out for the East Coast
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Lord knows I've paid some dues gettin' through,
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Tangled up in blue.

[Verse 2]
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She was married when we first met
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Soon to be divorced
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I helped her out of a jam, I guess,
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But I used a little too much force.
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We drove that car as far as we could
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Abandoned it out West
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Split up on a dark sad night
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Both agreeing it was best.
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She turned around to look at me
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As I was walkin' away
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I heard her say over my shoulder,
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"We'll meet again someday on the avenue,"
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Tangled up in blue.

[Verse 3]
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I had a job in the great north woods
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Working as a cook for a spell
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But I never did like it all that much
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And one day the ax just fell.
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So I drifted down to New Orleans
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Where I happened to be employed
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Workin' for a while on a fishin' boat
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Right outside of Delacroix.
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But all the while I was alone
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The past was close behind,
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I seen a lot of women
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But she never escaped my mind, and I just grew
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Tangled up in blue.

[Verse 4]
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She was workin' in a topless place
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And I stopped in for a beer,
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I just kept lookin' at the side of her face
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In the spotlight so clear.
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And later on as the crowd thinned out
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I's just about to do the same,
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She was standing there in back of my chair
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Said to me, "Don't I know your name?"
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I muttered somethin' underneath my breath,
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She studied the lines on my face.
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I must admit I felt a little uneasy
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When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe,
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Tangled up in blue.

[Verse 5]
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She lit a burner on the stove 
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and offered me a pipe
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"I thought you'd never say hello," she said
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"You look like the silent type."
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Then she opened up a book of poems
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And handed it to me
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Written by an Italian poet
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From the thirteenth century.       
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And every one of them words rang true
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And glowed like burnin' coal
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Pourin' off of every page
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Like it was written in my soul from me to you,
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Tangled up in blue.

[Verse 6]
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I lived with them on Montague Street
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In a basement down the stairs,
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There was music in the cafes at night
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And revolution in the air.
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Then he started into dealing with slaves
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And something inside of him died.
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She had to sell everything she owned
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And froze up inside.
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And when finally the bottom fell out
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I became withdrawn,
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The only thing I knew how to do
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Was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew,
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Tangled up in blue.

[Verse 7]
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So now I'm goin' back again,
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I got to get to her somehow.
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All the people we used to know
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They're an illusion to me now.
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Some are mathematicians
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Some are carpenter's wives.
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Don't know how it all got started,
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I don't know what they're doin' with their lives.
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But me, I'm still on the road
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Headin' for another joint
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We always did feel the same,
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We just saw it from a different point of view,
G       D     A    Asus  A  Asus
Tangled up in blue.