Talkin World War Iii Blues Cifras

From the album: Bob Dylan - 50th Annniversary Collection (1963)
He modified the lyrics in this version.
 
This song is in the key of G
Play along at:
https://youtu.be/Iyng_cdupo8
 
[Intro]
G C D G C D G
 
[Verse]
G                    C
One time ago a crazy dream came to me
C
I dreamt I was walking to World War Three
G                        C
I went to the doctor the very next day
   D
To see what kind of words he could say
D
He said it was a bad dream
G C D G
 
[Verse]
G                            C
I said “Hold it Doc, a World War passed through my brain”
C        D
He said “Nurse, get your pad, the boy’s insane”
G                  C
He grabbed my arm, I said “Ouch!”
D
As I landed on the psychiatric couch
D
He said “Tell me all about your dream”
G C D G
 
[Verse]
G                                C
Well, the whole thing started at 3 o’clock fast
C           D
It was all over by a quarter past
G                            C
I was down in the sewer with some little lover
D
When I peeked out from a manhole cover
G
Wondering who turned the lights on us
G C D G
 
[Verse]
G                    C
Well, I got up and I walked around
D
Up and down the lonesome town
G                                C
I stood a-wondering which way to go
D
I lit a cigarette on a parking meter
D
And walked on down the road
G
It was a normal day
C
Just like any other one
D G
 
[Verse]
G                        C
Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell
C               D
And I leaned my head and I give a yell
G                           C
“Give me a tv dinner, I’m a hungry man”
D                                G
A shotgun fired, and away I ran
C
He didn't know me so ma’m
D G
 
[Verse]
G                C
Well, I spied me another man
C          D
Turned the corner by the hot-dog stand
D        G                         C
I said “Howdy friend, I guess it’s just us two”
D
He screamed down the road he flew
G                             C
He thought I was a Communist
D G
 
[Verse]
G                           C
Well, I spied me a girl and before she could leave
C       D
I said “Let’s go and play Adam and Eve”
G                              C
I took her by the hand, and my heart was thumping
C              D
When she said “Hey man, you crazy or something?
G                                     C
You seen what happened last time they started”
D G
 
[Verse]
G                             C
Well, I remember seeing some newspaper ad
D
So I turned on my Conelrad
G                           C
But I didn’t pay the Con Ed bill
D      D                    G
So the radio didn’t work so well
G                   C
Turned on my record player —
C
It was Fabian singing “I love me and I love you”
d
Our Love’s A-going to Grow, “Sho be dooo Sho be dooo”
G C D G
 
[Verse]
G
I was feeling kind of lonesome and blue
C         D
I needed somebody to talk to
D    G                         C
So I called up the operator of time
C                D
Just to hear a voice of some kind
G                  C
“When you hear the beep it will be three o’clock”
D
She said that for over an hour
 
And I hung up
G C D G
 
[Verse]
G                               C
Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then
D
Saying “I’ve been having the same old dreams
G                                    C
But mine was a little different, you see
C                 D
I dreamt the only person left after the war was me
G                        C
And you were around, nowhere.
G C D G
 
[Verse]
G                                C
Well, now time passed and now it seems
D
Everybody’s having them dreams
G              C
Everybody sees their self
D
Walking around with no one else
G C D G
 
[Outro]
C
All of the people can be half right some of the time
D
And some of the people can be all right part of the time
D
And part of the people can be some right all of the time
D
But all of the people can’t be all right all of the time"
D
Abraham Lincoln said that
D
“I’ll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours”
D
I said that
G C D G
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