Dirt Road Blues Chords

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Dirt Road Blues by Bob Dylan is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A and B7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			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 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante