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All Along The Watchtower

Bob Dylan

RockMedium for beginners3 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Am×
G
F

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Am                G                F           G   Am 
   There must be some kind of way out of here, 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   Said the joker to the thief. 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   There's too much confusion; 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   I can't get no relief. 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   Business men, they drink my wine, 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   Plowmen dig my earth. 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   None of them  along the line. 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   Know what any of it is worth. 
 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   No reason to get excited, 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   The thief, he kindly spoke. 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   There are many here among us 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   Who feel that life is but a joke, 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   But you and I, we've been through that 
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   And this is not our fate, 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   So let us stop talking falsely now? 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   The hour is getting late. 
 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   All along the watchtower 
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   princes kept the view 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   while all the women came and went, 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   barefoot servants too. 
 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
  Outside in the cold distance 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   a wildcat did growl. 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   Two riders were approaching 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   and the wind began to howl. 
 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   All along the watchtower, 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   All along the watchtower, 
Am                G                F           G   Am 
   All along the watchtower. 
 
          
 

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Chord set

Am · G · F

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.