Chords for My Back Pages (Dylan Byrds) - Bill Mallonee / Victory Garden

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_ _ _ I went to Catholic school and it was actually a pretty good experience, but I did spend a good bit of time
in detention hall
Detention hall is where I learned to love music.
My dad was a jazz drummer
And so he's also a scientist so he had his playing in like five four [Gb] time and all sort of weird stuff _ _ _ _
but it's next song [F] I
[Bb] Got into the Americana thing and country [E] music pretty much through the back door to guys like Neil Young and Bob Dylan
This next song is a [Eb] Dylan song, but I learned it off a birds record _
[E] And you guys have probably heard it before Dylan does kind of [Bb] morose version of it on another side of Bob Dylan
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[N] And the birds took a lot of that stuff and made it a little more popular
[Bb] Of course Roger McGuinn the guitar [Gb] player is phenomenal _ _
_ _ _ And just his [A] sound in general inspired a friend [Ab] of mine who used to live in Athens a guy named [A] Pete Buck from [Gm] REM
_ [Eb] _ Word that journalists [F] coined with rickett Buckers has a particular guitar an electric guitar that jangles a lot
It has [Ab] a lot of single coil pickup kind of sound
Well, it makes you feel like rolling the window down put the [G] top down of your car
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[A] This [N] is the Dylan song that I learned I still don't know all well, you know
I mean, I know most of the [D] lyrics to the tune
_ [G] I'm not sure what it all means, but it still feels great [Ab] to sing it before it's called my back pages
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_ _ You want to join the course?
It's the Dylan is the king of the one-line courses
You know this course
_ _ Crimson flame [Bm] tied through my ears
[G] rolling high [B] in mighty traps
[D] _ _ Passed with fire [Bm] on flaming roads using [D] ideas as my [A] map _
[G] We'll meet on [B] edges soon said I
[D] Proud knee [G] fevered brow and your part would [B] be I [D] but I was so [G] much older
Then I'm [G] younger than [D] that now
_ _ _ _ half for a prejudice [Bm] leapfrog
Rip [Dbm] down all hatred [D] I stream _
Lies that [Bm] life is black and white
[G] rose from my skull I [A] dream _
[G] Romantic [A] facts of musketeers.
[D] Yeah foundation deep [G] somehow
[D] But I was so much older than I'm younger [Gbm] than that [D] now
_ _ _ _ Hey self-ordained
[Bm] professor's tongue
[A] Too serious to [D] fool _ _
Spouting out that [Bm] Liberty just [G] a quality in [A] school _ _
[G] Your quality.
[A] Well, I spoke were [D] Yeah
as [B] if a [G] wedding vow
[D] But I was so much older than I'm younger [B] than that [D] now
_ _ _ _ girls faces form [Bm] the forward path _
[G] Phony [D] jealousy _
To memorize [Bm] in politics
[D] invention _ [A] history
thrown [G] down by [A] corpse evangelist
[D] Yeah, the [B] truth's intact [G] somehow.
Ah
But [D] I was so much older than I'm younger than that now
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the [D] [B] mongrel dogs [D] who teach _
Fearing that I'd become [Bm] my enemy [G] in the instant that I [A] preached
[G] the system [B] plagued by
Confusion [D] boats its mutiny from [G] stern bow.
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But I was so much older than I'm younger
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_ _ _ _ My guard stood hard against [Bm] abstract threats [Dbm] too noble [D] to neglect _
To see you guys into [Bm] thinking we [G] had something to
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[Bm] Good [G] and [A] bad I define the terms.
[D] Yeah, it's quite [Eb] clear.
No doubt [G] somehow _
[D] But I was so much older than I'm [G] younger than that now
Hi, but I was so much older than I'm [B] younger than that [D] now
But I was so [G] much older than I'm younger _
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