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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">I Want You</h1>
  14
  15
  16 <p>Words and music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">Blonde on Blonde</a> (1966), <a class="recordlink" href="../99_greatesthits/index.htm">Greatest Hits</a>
  18 (1967) and <a class="recordlink" href="../28_biograph/index.htm">Biograph</a> (1985), and in live versions on <a class="recordlink" href="../21_budokan/index.htm">At Budokan</a> (1978) and <em>Dylan &amp; the Dead</em> (1988)<br />
  19 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  22
  23 <p>Capo 5th fret (sounding key F major). I can't guarantee that this is
  24 what he's playing, but it's the most convenient key, especially if you
  25 want to retain that characteristic little turn that goes through the
  26 whole song, which can be played with all the important chords in C
  27 major:</p>
  28 <pre class="tab">
  29   C                 Em                Am                G
  30   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  31 |-0-0---0---------|-0-0---0---------|-0-0---0---------|-3--
  32 |-1-1---1---------|-0-0---0---------|-1-1---1---------|-0--
  33 |-0-0---0---------|-0-0---0---------|-2-2---2---------|-0--
  34 |-2-2---2-32-0-2--|-2-2---2-32-0-2--|-2-2---2-32-0----|-0--etc
  35 |-3-3---3---------|-2-2---2---------|-0-0---0-------3-|-2--
  36 |-----------------|-0-0---0---------|-----------------|-3--
  37 </pre>
  38
  39 <p>On the album, this lick is played one octave higher (noted relative to
  40 capo, although it can of course be played without a capo):</p>
  41 <pre class="tab">
  42   C                 Em                Am                G
  43   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  44 |---0--0--10---0--|---0--0--10---0--|---0--0--10------|-----------------|
  45 |------------3----|------------3----|------------3--1-|-3--10-----------|
  46 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------20-------|
  47 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  48 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  49 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  50 </pre>
  51 <pre class="tab">
  52   F                 G                 Am                G
  53   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .     .
  54 |-----------------|-----------------|---0---0-10------|------------2nd------|---
  55 |---1--1--10----1-|---3--3--3-1-03--|------------3--1-|-3--10------guitar:--|---
  56 |------------2----|-----------------|-----------------|--------20-----------|-0-
  57 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------023|---
  58 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------023---|---
  59 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------013------|---
  60 </pre>
  61
  62 <p>The same guitar that plays the swoosh at the end, also plays this, at
  63 the C before the verses:</p>
  64 <pre class="tab">
  65   :   .   .   .
  66 |-----------------|---
  67 |-----------------|---
  68 |-----------------|---
  69 |-----------------|---
  70 |---------------03|~--
  71 |-------------03--|---
  72 </pre>
  73
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  75
  76 <pre class="verse">
  77     C
  78 The guilty undertaker sighs,
  79     Em
  80 The lonesome organ grinder cries,
  81     Am                               G
  82 The silver saxophones say I should refuse you.
  83     F
  84 The cracked bells and washed-out horns
  85 G
  86 Blow into my face with scorn,
  87          Am
  88 But it's not that way,
  89                  G
  90 I wasn't born to lose you.
  91   C           Em
  92 I want you, I want you,
  93   Am          G
  94 I want you so bad,
  95          C
  96 Honey, I want you.
  97
  98 The drunken politician leaps
  99 Upon the street where mothers weep
 100 And the saviors who are fast asleep,
 101 They wait for you.
 102 And I wait for them to interrupt
 103 Me drinkin' from my broken cup
 104 And ask me to
 105 Open up the gate for you.
 106 I want you, I want you,
 107 I want you so bad,
 108 Honey, I want you.
 109 </pre>
 110
 111 <pre class="bridge">
 112     Em
 113 Now all my fathers, they've gone down
 114      Am
 115 True love they've been without it.
 116     Em
 117 But all their daughters put me down
 118        F              G
 119 'Cause I don't think about it.
 120 </pre>
 121
 122 <pre class="verse">
 123 Well, I return to the Queen of Spades
 124 And talk with my chambermaid.
 125 She knows that I'm not afraid
 126 To look at her.
 127 She is good to me
 128 And there's nothing she doesn't see.
 129 She knows where I'd like to be
 130 But it doesn't matter.
 131 I want you, I want you,
 132 I want you so bad,
 133 Honey, I want you.
 134
 135 Now your dancing child with his Chinese suit,
 136 He spoke to me, I took his flute.
 137 No, I wasn't very cute to him,
 138 Was I?
 139 But I did it, though, because he lied
 140 Because he took you for a ride
 141 And because time was on his side
 142 And because I . . .
 143 I want you, I want you,
 144 I want you so bad,
 145 Honey, I want you.
 146 </pre>
 147
 148 <hr />
 149
 150 <h2 class="songversion">Budokan and Dylan &amp; the Dead versions</h2>
 151
 152 <p>The Dylan &amp; the Dead version is a fairly straightforward version in A
 153 major (chords: A, C#m, F#m, E, D, E, F#m, E etc.).</p>
 154
 155 <p>Budokan is played &ndash; slowly &ndash; in E major (Chords: E, G#m, C#m, B, A, B, C#m, B etc.)</p>
 156
 157 <hr />
 158
 159 <h2 class="songversion"><a class="recordlink" href="../37_unplugged/index.htm">Unplugged</a> version (outtake)</h2>
 160
 161 <p>If you don't have this one, do yourself the favor of getting it. It's
 162 worth it, whichever price you have to pay. (Almost).</p>
 163
 164 <p>Slow and sweet.</p>
 165 <pre class="tab">
 166   C                                  Em                                 Am
 167   :   .   .   .    :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .    :   .   .   .
 168 |-0--------------|-----------------|-0--------------|-----------------|-0-
 169 |-1--------------|-----------------|-0--------------|-----------------|-1-
 170 |-0--------------|-----------------|-0--------------|-----------------|-2- etc
 171 |-2--------------|---------023-2-0-|-2--------------|---------023-2-0-|-2-
 172 |-3--------------|----------------3|-2--------------|----------------3|-0-
 173 |----------------|-----------------|-0--------------|-----------------|---
 174 </pre>
 175 <pre class="verse">
 176 C
 177  The guilty undertaker sighs,
 178                            /b
 179 The lonesome organ grinder cries,
 180     Am
 181 The silver saxophones say I
 182 G        F         Am   G
 183 should refuse you.
 184     C
 185 The cracked bells and washed-out horns
 186                        /b
 187 Blow into my face with scorn,
 188          Am
 189 But it's not that way, I wasn't born
 190 G    F            Am   G
 191 to lose you.
 192   C           Em
 193 I want you, I want you,
 194 (E) Am          G
 195 I   want you so bad,
 196          C
 197 Honey, I want you.
 198
 199 . . .
 200 </pre>
 201
 202 <pre class="bridge">
 203     Em
 204 Now all my fathers, they've gone down
 205      F
 206 True love they've been without it.
 207     Em
 208 But all their daughters put me down
 209        F              G
 210 'Cause I don't think about it.
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