Chimes of Freedom

By Bob Dylan

Guitar

Ukulele

Verse 1

G/D

Far between sundown's

D7

finish, and

G/D

midnight's

C/D

broken

G

toll

We

G/D

ducked

C/D

inside the

G/D

doorway,

D/F#

thunder

G

crashin'

C/G

G

As ma

G/D

jestic bells of

C/D

bolts struck

G/D

shadows

C/D

in the

G/D

sounds

C/D

G/D

Seeming to be

C/D

the

G/D

chimes of

D/F#

freedom

G

flashin'

C/G

G

C/G

Flashing for the warriors whose

G

strength is

C/G

not to

G

fight

C/G

Flashing for the re

G

fugees in the

Am

unarmed road of

D7

flight

And for

G

each and every

D7

underdog

G

soldier in the

C/G

night

And we

G

gazed upon the

D7

chimes of freedom

G

flashin'

C/G

G

Verse 2

Through the

G/D

city's melted

C/D

furnace, unexp

G/D

ectedly

C/D

we

G/D

watched

C/D

With

G/D

faces

C/D

hidden

D/F#

as the walls were tight

G

ening

C/G

G

As the

G/D

echo of the

C/D

wedding bells be

G/D

fore the blow

C/D

in' rain

G/D

C/D

Dis

G/D

solved in

C/D

to the

D/F#

bells of the

G

lighting

C/G

G

D

Tolling for the rebel,

G

tolling for the rake

C/G

Tolling for the luckless,

G

the

Am

abandoned and

D7

forsaked

G

Tolling for the

C/G

outcast, burnin'

G

constantly at

C/G

stake

And we

G

gazed upon the

C

chimes

G/B

of free

D7

dom

G

flashing.

C/G

G

Verse 3

Through the

G

/D

C/D

hammering of the

G/D

wild

C/D

ripping

G/D

hail

C/D

The

G/D

sky

C/D

cracked its

D/F#

poems in naked won

G

der

C/G

G

That the

G/D

clinging of the church

C/D

bells blew

G/D

far into

C/D

the

G/D

breeze

C/D

Leaving

G/D

only

C/D

bells of

D/F#

lightning and its

G

thunder

C/G

G

D

Striking for the gentle,

G

striking for the kind

C/D

Striking for the guard

G

ians and

Am

protectors of the

D

mind

And the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time

And we

G

gazed upon the

C

chimes

G/B

of free

D7

dom

G

flashing.

C/G

G

Verse 4

In the

G/D

wild cathedral

C/D

evening the

G/D

rain un

C/D

raveled

G/D

tales

C/D

For the

G/D

disrobed

C/D

faceless

D/F#

forms of no posit

G

ion

C/G

G

D7

G/D

Tolling for the

C/D

tongues with no

G/D

place to

C/D

bring their

G/D

thoughts

C/D

All

G/D

down in

C/D

taken-for-

D/F#

granted situa

G

tions

C/G

G

D

Tolling for the deaf and blind,

G

tolling for the mute

For the

C/G

mistreated, mateless mot

G

her, the mis

Am

titled prosti

D

tute

For the

G

misdemeanor out

D7

law, chased an'

G

cheated by pursuit

C/G

And we

G

gazed upon the

C

chimes

G/B

of free

D7

dom

G

flashing.

C/G

G

Verse 5

Even

G/D

though a cloud's white

C/D

curtain in a

G/D

far-off

C/D

corner

G/D

flared

C/D

AnD the

G/D

hypnotic

C/D

splattered

D/F#

mist was slowly lif

G

ting

C/G

G

Electric

G/D

light still struck like

C/D

arrows,

G/D

fired

C/D

but for the

G/D

ones

C/D

Con

G/D

demned to

C/D

drift or

D/F#

else be kept from

G

drifting

C/G

G

D

Tolling for the searching ones, on their

G

speechless, seeking trail

For the

C/G

lonesome-hearted lov

G

ers with too

Am

personal a tale

D7

AnD

G

for each unharmful,

D

gentle soul mis

G

placed inside a

C/G

jail

And we

G

gazed upon the

C

chimes

G/B

of free

D7

dom

G

flashing.

C/G

G

Verse 6

G/D

Starry-eyed anD

C/D

laughing as I re

G/D

call when

C/D

we were caugh

G/D

t

C/D

G/D

Trapped by no

C/D

track of

D/F#

hours for they hanged sus

G

pended

C/G

G

As we

G/D

listened one last

C/D

time and we

G/D

watched with

C/D

one last

G/D

look

C/D

G/D

Spellbound

C/D

and

D/F#

swallowed 'til the tolling

G

ended

C/G

G

D

Tolling for the aching ones whose

G

wounds cannot be nursed

For the

C/G

countless confused, ac

G

cused, misused,

Am

strung-out ones an'

D7

worse

An' for

G

every hung-up per

D7

son in the whole

G

wide uni

C/G

verse

And we

G

gazed upon the

C

chimes

G/B

of free

D7

dom

G

flashing.

C/G

D7

G