Dirt Road Blues

Bob Dylan

RockMedium for beginners3 chords

How to play it

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

B7Diagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
              Verse: 1 
 
E 
Gonna walk down that dirt road, 'til someone lets me ride 
      A                                              E 
Gonna walk down that dirt road, 'til someone lets me ride 
   B7 
If I can't find my baby, 
                       E 
I'm gonna run away and hide 
 
 
Verse: 2 
 
E 
I have been pacing around the room,  hoping maybe she'd come back 
A                                                E 
Pacing around the room,  hoping maybe she'd come back 
      B7 
Well, I have been praying for salvation, 
                                    E 
laying âround in a one-room country shack 
 
 
Verse: 3 
E 
Gonna walk down that dirt road,   until my eyes begin to bleed 
      A                                                  E 
Gonna walk down that dirt road,   until my eyes begin to bleed 
              B7 
'Till there's nothing left to see, 
                                                    E 
'tIl the chains have been shattered,  and I've been freed 
 
 
Verse: 4 
 
E 
I been looking at my shadow,  I've been watching the clouds up above 
        A                                      E 
Looking at my shadow,   watching the clouds up above 
        B7 
Rolling through the rain and hail, 
                              E 
looking for the sunny side of love 
 
 
Verse: 5 
 
E 
Gonna walk down that dirt road,   'til everything becomes the same 
      A                                                       E 
Gonna walk down that dirt road,   'til everything becomes the same 
     B7 
I'll keep on walking 
                              E 
'til I hear her holler out my name

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Chord set

E · A · B7

Practice tip

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