My Own Version Of You Cifras

My Own Version Of You   Bob Dylan 2020
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Authors Notes:
Throughout the song, Dylan references creating a person
out of disparate parts.
Perhaps in reference to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
 
Capo on the 4th fret
It's difficult to get Bob's lyrics into a rhythm pattern.
Licks 1 & 2 run consistently through the verses
 
¾ Beat
x = muted string  e.g. 3-- = let the string sound
 
Lick 1            =>  Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
e|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|
B|-x-1-1-|-x-1-1-|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|
G|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-1-1-|
D|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-3-3-|
A|-0-----|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|
E|-x-x-x-|-3-----|-2-----|-1-----|
 
Lick 2            =>  Dm  Dm7/C  Dm/B  Bbmaj7
e|-x-1-1-|-x-1-1-|-x-1-1-|-x-1-1-|
B|-x-3-3-|-x-3-3-|-x-3-3-|-x-3-3-|
G|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|-x-2-2-|
D|-0-----|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|
A|-------|-3-----|-2-----|-1-----|
E|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|-x-x-x-|
 
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              Adim     x03545
 im Intro 2x  Am       x02215     
 
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[Intro]
 Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
 Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
 
 
[Verse 1]
Am                      Am7/G     Am/F#   F7
  All through the summers   into January
            Am      Am7/G          Am/F#   F7
I've been visiting morgues and    monasteries
Dm                 Dm7/C   Dm/B      Bbmaj7
Looking for the necessary body parts
Am                Am7/G           Am/F#      F7
 Limbs and livers and brains and hearts
       F7
I'll bring someone to life, is what I wanna do
           Adim                Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
I wanna create my own version of you
 
[Verse 2]
 
          Am         Am7/G          Am/F#     F7
Well, it must be the winter of my  discontent
   Am                    Am7/G        Am/F#         F7
I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went
      Dm      Dm7/C          Dm/B       Bbmaj7
They talk all night and they talk all day
 Am             Am7/G         Am/F#             F7
Not for a minute do I believe anything they say
                F7
I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen
                 Adim                           Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean
 
[Verse 3]
 
               Am       Am7/G          Am/F#      F7
I'll take the Scarface Pacino and The Godfather Brando
       Am       Am7/G         Am/F#  F7
Mix it up in a tank and get a robot commando
Dm           Dm7/C             Dm/B         Bbmaj7
If I do it upright and put the head on straight
         Am           Am7/G             Am/F#    F7
I'll be saved by the creature that I create
 
[Verse 4]
 
          Am           Am7/G     Am/F#       F7
I'll get blood from a cactus, gunpowder from ice
         Am             Am7/G      Am/F#           F7
I don't gamble with cards   and I don't shoot no dice
         Dm             Dm7/C          Dm/B      Bbmaj7
Can you look at my face     with your sightless eyes?
Am                  Am7/G     Am/F#       F7
 Can you cross your heart and hope to die?
F7
  I'll bring someone to life, someone for real
Adim                                  Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7    Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
Someone who feels the way that I feel
 
[Verse 5]
 
          Am            Am7/G     Am/F#        F7
I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind
        Am                   Am7/G   Am/F#     F7
I wanna do things for the benefit of all mankind
   Dm               Dm7/C   Dm/B           Bbmaj7
I say to the willow tree,  "Don't weep for me"
      Am              Am7/G             Am/F#     F7
I'm saying to hell to all things that I used to be
 
[Verse 6]
 
        Am              Am7/G       Am/F#      F7
Well, I get into trouble     then I hit the wall
Am           Am7/G     Am/F#     F7
No place to turn, no place at all
             Dm        Dm7/C   Dm/B     Bbmaj7
I'll pick a number between   a-one and two
      Am           Am7/G          Am/F#      F7
And I ask myself, "What would Julius Caesar do?"
         F7
I will bring someone to life in more ways than one
       Adim
Don't matter how long it takes,
                            Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7   Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
it'll be done when it's done
 
[Verse 7]
 
           Am                   Am7/G       Am/F#       F7
I'm gonna make you play the piano    like  Leon  Russell
Am        Am7/G            Am/F#          F7
Like Liberace, like St. John the Apostle
       Dm        Dm7/C              Dm/B   Bbmaj7
I'll play every number that  I  can play
Bm            Am7/G    Am/F#      F7
I'll see you maybe on Judgment Day
 
[Verse 8]
 
Am               Am7/G             Am/F#     F7
 After midnight, if you still wanna meet
                Am          Am7/G        Am/F#        F7
I'll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street
Dm        Dm7/C   Dm/B           Bbmaj7
Two doors down,   not that far a walk
Am              Am7/G          Am/F#          F7
 I'll hear your footsteps, you won't have to knock
F7
  I'll bring someone to life, balance the scales
                 Adim                               Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7    Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
I'm not gonna get involved any insignificant details
 
[Verse 9]
 
          Am             Am7/G          Am/F#          F7
You can bring it to St. Peter   You can bring it to Jerome
          Am              Am7/G              Am/F#          F7
You can bring it all the way over   bring it all the way home
Dm              Dm7/C             Dm/B       Bbmaj7
Bring it to the corner where the children play
         Am         Am7/G   Am/F#   F7
You can bring it to me on a silver tray
            F7
I'll bring someone to life, spare no expense
 Adim
Do it with decency and common sense
 
[Instrumental]
Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
 
 
[Verse 10]
 
         Am                 Am7/G        Am/F#      F7
Can you tell me what it means   to be or not to be?
Am              Am7/G     Am/F#     F7
 You won't get away with fooling me
         Dm         Dm7/C       Dm/B         Bbmaj7
Can you help me walk      that moonlight mile?
         Am              Am7/G        Am/F#   F7
Can you give me the blessings of your smile?
            F7
I'll bring someone to life, use all of my powers
 Adim                                     Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7   Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
Do it in the dark, in the wee, small hours
 
 
[Verse 11]
 
Am              Am7/G         Am/F#          F7
 I can see the history of the whole human race
     Am              Am7/G      Am/F#            F7
It's all right there      it's carved into your face
  Dm                      Dm7/C          Dm/B           Bbmaj7
Should I break it all down?     Should I fall on my knees?
Am                    Am7/G               Am/F#             F7
Is there light at the end of the tunnel, can you tell me, please?
 
[Verse 12]
 
Am              Am7/G        Am/F#     F7
Stand over there  by  the cypress tree
                  Am                     Am7/G      Am/F#    F7
Where the Trojan women and children were sold into slavery
Dm              Dm7/C         Dm/B   Bbmaj7
Long before the first   Crusade
    Am          Am7/G        Am/F#         F7
Way back before England or America were made
 
[Verse 13]
 
Am          Am7/G     Am/F#       F7
Step right in  to the burning hell
                  Am         Am7/G       Am/F#   F7
Where some of the best-known enemies of mankind dwell
     Dm             Dm7/C      Dm/B          Bbmaj7
Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his axe
        Am            Am7/G        Am/F#        F7
See the raw hide lash rip the skin from their backs
 
[Verse 14]
 
Am              Am7/G          Am/F#             F7
 Got the right spirit, you can feel it, you can hear it
       Am            Am7/G      Am/F#       F7
You've got what they call the immortal spirit
         Dm              Dm7/C         Dm/B           Bbmaj7
You can feel it all night      you can feel it in the morn'
     Am           Am7/G    Am/F#         F7
It creeps in your body the day you were born
 
[Verse 15]
 
Am             Am7/G       Am/F#       F7
One strike of lightning is all that I need
       Am          Am7/G        Am/F#         F7
And a blast of electricity that runs at top speed
Dm              Dm7/C      Dm/B           Bbmaj7
Shimmy your ribs     I'll stick in the knife
       Am         Am7/G      Am/F#   F7
Gonna jumpstart my  creation to life
          F7
I wanna bring someone to life, turn back the years
 Adim
Do it with laughter and do it with tears
 
[Outro]
(Fade out)
 Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
 Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
 Am  Am7/G  Am/F#  F7
 
 
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