Words and music Bob Dylan
Recorded jan 13 1965 and released on The Bootleg Series 1-3 (1991)
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem
The melody is clearly based upon his earlier unfinished I Rode Out One Morning.
Dropped C tuning (C-A-d-g-b-e')
Capo 7th fret (sounding key G major)
C 032010 Csus4 033010 Fmaj7 003210 F 003211 Em/b (0)22000
C
C Fmaj7 C
Farewell Angeli - na
Fmaj7 C
The bells of the crown
C Fmaj7 C
Are being stolen by ban - dits
Fmaj7 C
I must follow the sound
C
The triangle tingles
Fmaj7 C
the music play slow
C Am
But farewell Angelina
C Em/b
The night is on fire
F C Csus4 C
And I must go.
C
There is no use in talkin'
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 C
and there's no need for blame
There is nothing to prove,
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 C
Ev'rything still is the same
C
A table stands empty
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
By the edge of the stream
C Em/b
But farewell Angelina
C Am
The sky's changing colours
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
And I must leave.
C
The jacks and the queens
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 C
they forsake the courtyard
C
Fifty-two gypsies
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 C
Now file past the guards
C
In the space where the deuce
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 C
And the ace once ran wild
C Em/b
Farewell Angelina
C Am
The sky is folding
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
I'll see you after a while.
C
See the cross-eyed pirates sit
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
Perched in the sun
C Fmaj7
Shooting tin cans
C Fmaj7 C
With a sawed-off shotgun
C
And the corporals and neighbors
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
clap and cheer with each blast
C Em/b
But farewell Angelina
C Am
The sky it is trembling
Fmaj7 C
And I must leave fast.
C
King Kong, little elves
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
In the rooftoops they dance
C
Valentino-type tangos
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
While the hero's clean hands
Shut the eyes of the dead
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
Not to embarrass anyone
C Am
Farewell Angelina
C Am
The sky is flooding over
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
And I must be gone.
C
The camouflaged parrot
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
He flutters from fear
C Am
when something he doesn't know about
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
suddenly appears
C
What cannot be imitated
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
perfect must die
C Am
Farewell Angelina
C Am
The sky's flooding over
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
and I must go where it is dry
C Am
Machine guns are roaring
Fmaj7 C Csus4 C
Puppets heave rocks
C
At misunderstood visions
F C F C
and at the faces of clocks
C Am
Call me any name you like
F(maj7) C F C
I will never deny it
C Am
But farewell Angelina
C Am
The sky is erupting
F(maj7) C
And I must go where it's quiet.
Am F C