Chords for Dave Alvin — Highway 61 Revisited (Official Video)

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_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] God said Abraham [C] kill me a son and Abe said man you must be putting me on.
_ God said no.
_ Abe said what?
_ God said you can do what you want Abe but _ [Bb] _ _ _
next [C] time
you see me coming you better run. _
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Abe said where you want this killing [Bb] done and _ God
said out on highway _ [C] [F] 61. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ Well George is saying he had a [Fm] bloody nose [C] and the
welfare department wouldn't give him no clothes so he asked poor Howard _ where can I go [N] and
Howard said there's only one place I know _ [Bb] _ and Sam said tell me quick man [F] I gotta run. _
[Cm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Ab] _ Well [Eb] old Howard just pointed with his gun and [Bb] said that way down [C] highway [F] 61. _
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ Well [D] Mack
the finger said to Louis the King _ [C] I got [E] 40 red white and blue [G] shoe strings and a [C] thousand
telephones that don't ring.
Now [F] do you know where I could maybe get rid of these things?
[Bb] _ Louis the King said let me think for [C] a minute son _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ [Cm] and he said yeah I think it can be easily
[Bb] done just take everything down to highway [F] _ [Cm] 61.
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ His daughter on the 12th night told the first
father that things weren't right.
My complexion she says is much too white and he said come here
and step in the [F] light.
[Bb] Yeah you're right.
Let me tell the second mother [C] this has been done.
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Fm] But the second [Cm] mother's with the [Eb] seventh son [Bb] they were both out on highway _ [C] [F] 61. _
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ [Cm] the roving gambler he was very [F] bored.
[Cm] He was trying to create the [Am] next world war [Cm] so he found a
promoter who nearly fell out the [F] floor [Cm] who said well I've never engaged in this kind of thing
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but yeah I think it can be very [Cm] easily done.
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[Eb] Get some leechers out in the sun and [Bb] _
have it out on highway _ [G] 61. _
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