Spirit On The Water

Bob Dylan

Tom: G

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        D               G        C                       D                 G
    Spirit on the water, darkness on the face of the deep,
C              D#                 G            Em        Am                  D   G   Em  Am
    I keep thinking 'bout you, baby,     and I can't hardly sleep.
            D                G       C                                D                 G
    I'm travelling by land, travelling through the dawn of the day,
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    you're always on my mind,                 I  can't       stay away.

     E                                  Am
    I'd forgotten 'bout you, then you turned up again,
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    I always knew          we were meant to be more than friends.

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    When you're near, it's just as plain as it can be,
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    I'm wild about you, gal,         you ought to be a fool about me.
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    Can't explain the sources of this hidden pain,
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    you burned your way         into my heart,
    Am               D               G         Em   Am
    you got the key to my brain.
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    I've been trampling through mud praying to the powers above
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    I'm sweating blood,           you got a face that begs for love.

E                             Am
    Life without you doesn't mean a thing to me,
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    if I can't have you, I'll throw my love into the deep blue sea.

      D7                G          C                    D          G
    Sometimes I wonder why you can't treat me right,
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    you do good all day,        and then you do wrong all night
         D7                   G
    When you're with me,
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    I'm a thousand times happier than I could ever say,
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    what does it matter,                  what price I pay ?
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    They brag about your sugar, brag about it all over town
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    put some sugar in my bowl,         I feel like layin' down.

                E                                      Am
    I'm as pale as a ghost holding a blossom on a stem.
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    You ever seen a ghost? No?        but you have heard of them.

    D7               G            C                    D          G
    I see you there, I'm blinded by the colors I see,
C    D#             G       Em       Am      D           G       Em   Am   D
    I take good care           of what belongs to me.

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    D                 G       C                      D            G
    I hear your name ringing up and down the line,
C        D#            G      Em           Am                       D           G     Em   Am
    I'm saying it plain,          these ties are strong enough to bind.
    D7             G                       C                        D        G
    Your sweet voice calls out from some old familiar shrine,
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    I have no choice,
                           Am                                 D                      G       C   G
    can't believe these things would ever fade from your mind.

E                                Am
    I could live forever with you perfectly,
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    you don't ever have to make a fuss over me.

      D7                 G     C                       D         G
    From east to west, ever since the world began,
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    I only mean it for the best,
       Am                        D             G        Em    Am   D
    I won't be with you any way I can.

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            D7             G         C                 D              G
    I've been in a brawl,         now I'm feeling the wall,
C        D#                G       Em    Am          D         G      Em   Am
    I'm going away, baby,         I won't be back till fall.
      D                G                  C                  D                 G
    High on the hill, you can carry all my thoughts with you,
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    you know my will,          this love could tear me in two.

                      E                                Am
    I won't be with you in paradise,           and it seems so unfair,
       B7            Em                           A                                    D
    I can't go to paradise no more,        I killed a man back there.

                           D7         G     C            D          G
    You think I'm over the hill, think I'm past my prime,
    C        D#                 G      Em
   let me see what you got,
    Am                       D                  G         Em   Am   D
    we can have a whoppin' good time.

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