Its All Over Now Baby Blue Chords & Tabs

by Bob Dylan

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Suggested Pattern:
BPM: 123
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 2, 101, 1, 202, 2, 101]
Alternative:
BPM: 123
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 2, 101, 1, 101, 2, 101]
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Bob Dylan
Transcription by jwblair@ix.netcom.com
Bringing It All Back Home version
Capo 4, bottom E tuned down to C
or capo all strings except for bottom E to create C drone
       CADGB 
C      032010
Cadd4  033010 (add the little finger on the 4th string)
G      220000 (actually an Em7, but this is what he plays for G)
F      003211
Dm     200231 (use the thumb to fret the 6th string)
E      x22100 (or maybe E7: x22130)
(Note: be sure to strum the 6th string to keep the distinctive
droning C note going.)

[Intro]
C Cadd4                                        
(hammering onto the 4th string at the 2nd fret)

[Verse 1]
G                                           F          C   
You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
        G                          F      C           
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Dm                 F               C  
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Dm            F           C  
Crying like a fire in the sun
E7                      F      G      
Look out the saints are coming through
    Dm            F         C    
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

[Verse 2]
G                            F      C              
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
G                           F      C         
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
    Dm           F                 C      
The empty-handed painter from your streets
   Dm            F                C      
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
E7                       F     G  
The sky, too, is folding under you
    Dm            F         C    
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

[Verse 3]
G                         F        C           
All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
     G                    F           C          
Your empty handed armies, they're all going home.
     Dm        F                   C   
Your lover who just walked out the door
    Dm            F                 C     
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
    E7                    F      G  
The carpet, too, is moving under you
    Dm            F         C    
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

[Harmonica Solo]
G     F   C
G     F   C
Dm    F   C
Dm    F   C
E7    F   G
Dm    F   C

[Verse 4]
           G                           F              C             
Leave your stepping stones behind, now something that calls for you.
   G                              F        C          
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
    Dm             F               C   
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
   Dm              F                     C    
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
E7                       F      G  
Strike another match, go start anew
    Dm            F         C    
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.