All Along The Watchtower Chords
All Along The Watchtower by Brewer and Shipley is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, F, Bm, C and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: Am F Am Bm F Am
Am C F
There must be some way out of here
Am G F
Said the joker to the thief
Am F
There's too much confusion
Am F
I can't get no relief
Am F G
Businessmen they drink my wine
Am F
Plowmen dig my earth
Am G F
None of them along the line
Am F
Know what any of it is worth
Am G F F
Am G F
No reason to get excited
Am G F C ( Am G F G repeated)
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late
F Am F
All along the watchtower
All along the watchtower
All along the watchtower
(Am C F transition)
Am G F
All along the watchtower ( Am G F G repeated)
Am G F G
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants too
Outside in the distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
The wind began to howl
Am G F
All along the watchtower
Am G F G
There must be some way out of here
( Am G F G repeated)
F Am F
All along the watchtower
Said the joker to the thief
All along the watchtower
There's too much confusion
All along the watchtower
I can't get no relief
All along the watchtower
Too much confusion
All along the watchtower