Outlaw Blues

Words and music Bob Dylan
Released on Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

As usual in this kind of blues song, there's a whole lot of Em in the E.


Intro and basic riff:

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         E
Ain't it hard to stumble

And land in some funny lagoon?
         A
Ain't it hard to stumble
                         E
And land in some muddy lagoon?
                     B7
Especially when it's nine below zero
    A (n.c.)                         E
And   three o'clock in the afternoon.

Ain't gonna hang no picture,
Ain't gonna hang no picture frame.
Ain't gonna hang no picture,
Ain't gonna hang no picture frame.
Well, I might look like Robert Ford
But I feel just like a Jesse James.

Well, I wish I was on some
Australian mountain range.
Oh, I wish I was on some
Australian mountain range.
I got no reason to be there, but I
Imagine it would be some kind of change.

I got my dark sunglasses,
I got for good luck my black tooth.
I got my dark sunglasses,
I'm carryin' for good luck my black tooth.
Don't ask me nothin' about nothin',
I just might tell you the truth.

I got a woman in Jackson,
I ain't gonna say her name.
I got a woman in Jackson,
I ain't gonna say her name.
She's a brown-skin woman,
but I love her just the same.

Outtake version

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Ain't it hard to stumble 
On the black side of the lagoon?
'specially when it's nine below zero
And   three o'clock in the afternoon.

Ain't gonna hang no picture,
Ain't gonna hang no picture frame.
Well, I might look like Robert Ford
But I feel like Jesse James.

Well, I wish I was on some
Austrian mountain range.
Well, I got no reason to be there, but I
Imagine it would be some kind of change.

Well I paid fifteen cents,
I didn't care if I was right or wrong
Then I saddled up a night-mare,
and I rode her all night long

I got a girl in Jackson,
I ain't gonna say her name.
She's a brown-skin woman,
but I love her just the same.