Chords for Bob Dylan - Stealin' & Conversation
Tempo:
114 bpm
Chords used:
G
D
C
A
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[G]
[B]
This [D] one here is a
[A] [G] [E]
little jug band.
[G]
[D]
[G] [D]
[C] [D] [G] [D] [G]
[C]
[D] [G] [C] [G]
[C] [G] [D]
[G]
[C] [D] [Em]
[D] [G]
[C] [G] [A] [G]
[D] [G]
[C] [D] [G]
[D] [G]
[D] [G]
[C]
[D] [G] [D]
[G] [C]
[A] [G] [D] [G]
[C]
[D] This one here is a little jug band.
[G]
My [D] girl used to be [G] stealing
Stealedbertie
[C] mamma don't tell me [G] that I'm
stealing [D] back my girl [G] used
to be
[C]
[G]
[C] [A]
[G] [D] [G]
[D] [G]
[C] [G] [A] [G] [D]
[G]
[Em] [G] Haven't [C] you got
to tell me [G] that I'm stealing
[D] back my girl used [G] to be
[D] [G]
That's called [N] stealing.
You haven't been playing the harmonica too long, have you?
Oh yeah.
Oh really?
Yeah, I haven't played harmonica for a long time.
I just haven't never had, couldn't play them at the same time.
I used to play the smaller honers.
I never knew harmonica holders existed, the real kind like this.
I used to play with the coat hangers.
That never really held out so good.
I used to put tape around it, you know.
Yeah.
But then, you know, there were smaller harmonicas than these, you know, they're about this far.
And I used to put them in my mouth.
But I got bad teeth, you know, and some kind of thing back there.
I don't know what it was, but it was a filling or something.
I don't know what it was in there, but it used to magnify.
Oh yes.
Or not magnify, but magnet, you know.
Man, this whole harmonica would go wham, you know, drop in my mouth like that.
So I couldn't hold on to my teeth very much.
[G]
Yeah, it's like [C] sometimes you get a piece of tinfoil in [E] your mouth and it goes wow.
It's terrible.
Let's not talk about that.
No, I don't want to talk about [N] that either.
At the carnival, did you learn songs?
No, I learned how to sing though.
That was more important.
Yeah.
You made up the songs even then?
Actually, I wrote a song once.
I'm trying to find a real good song I wrote.
Yeah.
It's about this lady I knew in the carnival.
And they had a side show.
I was at this one, Roy B.
Thomas' show.
And they had a freak show in it.
You know, all the midgets and all that kind of stuff.
There was one lady in there, really bad shape.
Her skin had been all burned.
And she was a little baby.
It didn't grow right.
So she was like a freak.
And all these people would pay money to come and see.
And that really sort of got me.
They'd come and see.
She didn't really look like normal.
She had this funny kind of skin.
And they passed her off as an elephant lady.
She was just burned completely.
She was just a little baby.
And it's a funny thing about them.
I know how those people think.
They want to sell you stuff.
They're spectators.
And I don't see why people don't buy you something.
They sell little cards of themselves for like ten cents.
They've got a picture on it and it's got some story.
And they have very funny thinking.
They get up there.
A lot of them are very smart.
Because they've had to do this.
A lot of them are great people.
But they've got a funny thing in their minds.
Here they are on stage.
They want to make you have two thoughts.
They want to make you think that they don't
feel bad about themselves.
They want you to think that they just go on and they're living every day.
And they don't ever think about what's bothering them.
They don't ever think about their condition.
And also they want to make you feel sorry for them.
And they've got to do that two ways.
And they do it.
A lot of them do it.
I had a good friend.
This woman.
I wrote a song for her.
A long time ago.
Lost it someplace.
It's just about speaking from the first person.
Like here I am.
It was called, Won't You Buy a Postcard?
That was the name of the song I wrote.
I can't remember that one though.
There's a lot of circus literature about how freaks don't mind being freaks.
But it's very hard to believe.
You're absolutely right.
They would have to look at it two ways at the same time.
Did you manage to get both ways into the song?
Yeah.
I hope you find it.
When you find it, sing it for me.
I've got a verse [C] here.
You know Ian and Sylvia?
[F]
[C] Ian [F#m] [C] and Sylvia are [F] at the bitter [C] end now.
[G] I sort of borrowed this.
[N]
He's looking for a harmonica.
I don't have to take the necklace off.
[C] You [N] might have heard him
[B]
This [D] one here is a
[A] [G] [E]
little jug band.
[G]
[D]
[G] [D]
[C] [D] [G] [D] [G]
[C]
[D] [G] [C] [G]
[C] [G] [D]
[G]
[C] [D] [Em]
[D] [G]
[C] [G] [A] [G]
[D] [G]
[C] [D] [G]
[D] [G]
[D] [G]
[C]
[D] [G] [D]
[G] [C]
[A] [G] [D] [G]
[C]
[D] This one here is a little jug band.
[G]
My [D] girl used to be [G] stealing
Stealedbertie
[C] mamma don't tell me [G] that I'm
stealing [D] back my girl [G] used
to be
[C]
[G]
[C] [A]
[G] [D] [G]
[D] [G]
[C] [G] [A] [G] [D]
[G]
[Em] [G] Haven't [C] you got
to tell me [G] that I'm stealing
[D] back my girl used [G] to be
[D] [G]
That's called [N] stealing.
You haven't been playing the harmonica too long, have you?
Oh yeah.
Oh really?
Yeah, I haven't played harmonica for a long time.
I just haven't never had, couldn't play them at the same time.
I used to play the smaller honers.
I never knew harmonica holders existed, the real kind like this.
I used to play with the coat hangers.
That never really held out so good.
I used to put tape around it, you know.
Yeah.
But then, you know, there were smaller harmonicas than these, you know, they're about this far.
And I used to put them in my mouth.
But I got bad teeth, you know, and some kind of thing back there.
I don't know what it was, but it was a filling or something.
I don't know what it was in there, but it used to magnify.
Oh yes.
Or not magnify, but magnet, you know.
Man, this whole harmonica would go wham, you know, drop in my mouth like that.
So I couldn't hold on to my teeth very much.
[G]
Yeah, it's like [C] sometimes you get a piece of tinfoil in [E] your mouth and it goes wow.
It's terrible.
Let's not talk about that.
No, I don't want to talk about [N] that either.
At the carnival, did you learn songs?
No, I learned how to sing though.
That was more important.
Yeah.
You made up the songs even then?
Actually, I wrote a song once.
I'm trying to find a real good song I wrote.
Yeah.
It's about this lady I knew in the carnival.
And they had a side show.
I was at this one, Roy B.
Thomas' show.
And they had a freak show in it.
You know, all the midgets and all that kind of stuff.
There was one lady in there, really bad shape.
Her skin had been all burned.
And she was a little baby.
It didn't grow right.
So she was like a freak.
And all these people would pay money to come and see.
And that really sort of got me.
They'd come and see.
She didn't really look like normal.
She had this funny kind of skin.
And they passed her off as an elephant lady.
She was just burned completely.
She was just a little baby.
And it's a funny thing about them.
I know how those people think.
They want to sell you stuff.
They're spectators.
And I don't see why people don't buy you something.
They sell little cards of themselves for like ten cents.
They've got a picture on it and it's got some story.
And they have very funny thinking.
They get up there.
A lot of them are very smart.
Because they've had to do this.
A lot of them are great people.
But they've got a funny thing in their minds.
Here they are on stage.
They want to make you have two thoughts.
They want to make you think that they don't
feel bad about themselves.
They want you to think that they just go on and they're living every day.
And they don't ever think about what's bothering them.
They don't ever think about their condition.
And also they want to make you feel sorry for them.
And they've got to do that two ways.
And they do it.
A lot of them do it.
I had a good friend.
This woman.
I wrote a song for her.
A long time ago.
Lost it someplace.
It's just about speaking from the first person.
Like here I am.
It was called, Won't You Buy a Postcard?
That was the name of the song I wrote.
I can't remember that one though.
There's a lot of circus literature about how freaks don't mind being freaks.
But it's very hard to believe.
You're absolutely right.
They would have to look at it two ways at the same time.
Did you manage to get both ways into the song?
Yeah.
I hope you find it.
When you find it, sing it for me.
I've got a verse [C] here.
You know Ian and Sylvia?
[F]
[C] Ian [F#m] [C] and Sylvia are [F] at the bitter [C] end now.
[G] I sort of borrowed this.
[N]
He's looking for a harmonica.
I don't have to take the necklace off.
[C] You [N] might have heard him
Key:
G
D
C
A
E
G
D
C
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ This [D] one here is a _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
_ little jug band.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ [D] _ [G] _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [Em] _
[D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [A] _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] This one here is a little jug band. _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ My [D] girl used to be_ [G] stealing _ _ _
_ _ Stealedbertie
[C] mamma don't tell me [G] that I'm
stealing [D] back my girl [G] used
to be _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ [A] _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [G] _ Haven't [C] you got
to tell me [G] that I'm stealing
[D] back my girl used [G] to be
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
That's called [N] stealing.
_ You haven't been playing the harmonica too long, have you?
Oh yeah.
Oh really?
Yeah, _ _ I haven't played harmonica for a long time.
I just haven't never had, couldn't play them at the same time.
I used to play the smaller honers.
I never knew harmonica holders existed, the real kind like this.
I used to play with the coat hangers.
That never really held out so good.
I used to put tape around it, you know.
Yeah.
But then, you know, there were smaller harmonicas than these, you know, they're about this far.
And I used to put them in my mouth.
But I got bad teeth, you know, and some kind of thing back there.
I don't know what it was, but it was a filling or something.
I don't know what it was in there, but it used to magnify.
Oh yes.
Or not magnify, but magnet, you know.
Man, this whole harmonica would go wham, you know, drop in my mouth like that. _
So I couldn't hold on to my teeth very much.
[G] _ _
Yeah, it's like [C] sometimes you get a piece of tinfoil in [E] your mouth and it goes wow.
It's terrible.
_ Let's not talk about that.
No, I don't want to talk about [N] that either. _ _ _ _
At the carnival, did you learn songs?
No, I learned how to sing though.
_ That was more important.
Yeah.
You made up the songs even then? _ _ _
Actually, I wrote a song once.
I'm trying to find a real good song I wrote.
Yeah.
It's about this lady I knew in the carnival.
And _ they had a side show.
I was at this one, _ Roy B.
Thomas' show.
And they had a freak show in it.
You know, all the midgets and all that kind of stuff.
There was one lady in there, really bad shape.
Her skin had been all burned.
And she was a little baby.
It didn't grow right.
So she was like a freak.
And all these people would pay money to come and see.
And that really sort of got me.
They'd come and see. _
She didn't really look like normal.
She had this funny kind of skin.
And they passed her off as an elephant lady. _ _ _ _
She was just burned completely.
She was just a little baby.
And it's a funny thing about them.
I know how those people think.
_ They want to sell you stuff.
They're spectators.
And I don't see why people don't buy you something.
They sell little cards of themselves for like ten cents.
They've got a picture on it and it's got some story.
And they have very funny thinking.
They get up there.
A lot of them are very smart.
Because they've had to do this. _
A lot of them are great people.
_ But _ they've got a funny thing in their minds. _ _
Here they are on stage.
They want to make you have two thoughts.
They want to make you _ _ think _ that _ they don't_
feel bad about themselves.
They want you to think that they just go on and they're living every day.
And they don't ever think about what's bothering them.
They don't ever think about their condition.
And also they want to make you feel sorry for them.
And they've got to do that two ways.
_ And _ _ _ _ they do it.
A lot of them do it.
_ _ _ I had a good friend.
_ _ This woman.
I wrote a song for her.
A long time ago.
Lost it someplace.
_ _ It's just about speaking from the first person.
Like here I am.
It was _ _ called, Won't You Buy a Postcard?
That was the name of the song I wrote. _ _
_ I can't remember that one though.
_ There's a lot of circus literature about how freaks don't mind being freaks.
But it's very hard to believe. _
You're absolutely right.
They would have to look at it two ways at the same time.
Did you manage to get both ways into the song?
Yeah.
I hope you find it.
When you find it, sing it for me. _ _
I've got a verse [C] here.
You know Ian and Sylvia?
[F] _
[C] _ Ian [F#m] [C] and Sylvia are [F] at the bitter [C] end now. _
[G] I sort of borrowed this.
_ [N] _ _
He's looking for a harmonica.
I don't have to take the necklace off. _
_ [C] You _ _ _ [N] might have heard him
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ This [D] one here is a _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
_ little jug band.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ [D] _ [G] _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ [Em] _
[D] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [A] _ _ [G] _
_ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [A] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] This one here is a little jug band. _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ My [D] girl used to be_ [G] stealing _ _ _
_ _ Stealedbertie
[C] mamma don't tell me [G] that I'm
stealing [D] back my girl [G] used
to be _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ [A] _ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [G] _ Haven't [C] you got
to tell me [G] that I'm stealing
[D] back my girl used [G] to be
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
That's called [N] stealing.
_ You haven't been playing the harmonica too long, have you?
Oh yeah.
Oh really?
Yeah, _ _ I haven't played harmonica for a long time.
I just haven't never had, couldn't play them at the same time.
I used to play the smaller honers.
I never knew harmonica holders existed, the real kind like this.
I used to play with the coat hangers.
That never really held out so good.
I used to put tape around it, you know.
Yeah.
But then, you know, there were smaller harmonicas than these, you know, they're about this far.
And I used to put them in my mouth.
But I got bad teeth, you know, and some kind of thing back there.
I don't know what it was, but it was a filling or something.
I don't know what it was in there, but it used to magnify.
Oh yes.
Or not magnify, but magnet, you know.
Man, this whole harmonica would go wham, you know, drop in my mouth like that. _
So I couldn't hold on to my teeth very much.
[G] _ _
Yeah, it's like [C] sometimes you get a piece of tinfoil in [E] your mouth and it goes wow.
It's terrible.
_ Let's not talk about that.
No, I don't want to talk about [N] that either. _ _ _ _
At the carnival, did you learn songs?
No, I learned how to sing though.
_ That was more important.
Yeah.
You made up the songs even then? _ _ _
Actually, I wrote a song once.
I'm trying to find a real good song I wrote.
Yeah.
It's about this lady I knew in the carnival.
And _ they had a side show.
I was at this one, _ Roy B.
Thomas' show.
And they had a freak show in it.
You know, all the midgets and all that kind of stuff.
There was one lady in there, really bad shape.
Her skin had been all burned.
And she was a little baby.
It didn't grow right.
So she was like a freak.
And all these people would pay money to come and see.
And that really sort of got me.
They'd come and see. _
She didn't really look like normal.
She had this funny kind of skin.
And they passed her off as an elephant lady. _ _ _ _
She was just burned completely.
She was just a little baby.
And it's a funny thing about them.
I know how those people think.
_ They want to sell you stuff.
They're spectators.
And I don't see why people don't buy you something.
They sell little cards of themselves for like ten cents.
They've got a picture on it and it's got some story.
And they have very funny thinking.
They get up there.
A lot of them are very smart.
Because they've had to do this. _
A lot of them are great people.
_ But _ they've got a funny thing in their minds. _ _
Here they are on stage.
They want to make you have two thoughts.
They want to make you _ _ think _ that _ they don't_
feel bad about themselves.
They want you to think that they just go on and they're living every day.
And they don't ever think about what's bothering them.
They don't ever think about their condition.
And also they want to make you feel sorry for them.
And they've got to do that two ways.
_ And _ _ _ _ they do it.
A lot of them do it.
_ _ _ I had a good friend.
_ _ This woman.
I wrote a song for her.
A long time ago.
Lost it someplace.
_ _ It's just about speaking from the first person.
Like here I am.
It was _ _ called, Won't You Buy a Postcard?
That was the name of the song I wrote. _ _
_ I can't remember that one though.
_ There's a lot of circus literature about how freaks don't mind being freaks.
But it's very hard to believe. _
You're absolutely right.
They would have to look at it two ways at the same time.
Did you manage to get both ways into the song?
Yeah.
I hope you find it.
When you find it, sing it for me. _ _
I've got a verse [C] here.
You know Ian and Sylvia?
[F] _
[C] _ Ian [F#m] [C] and Sylvia are [F] at the bitter [C] end now. _
[G] I sort of borrowed this.
_ [N] _ _
He's looking for a harmonica.
I don't have to take the necklace off. _
_ [C] You _ _ _ [N] might have heard him