I Want You Uke tab by Bob Dylan

5 Chords used in the song: C, Em, Am, G, F

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Artist: 
Year:  1966
Difficulty: 
2.9
(Beginner)
Key: C, AmChords
Original key: +2.5 step(s) (original tuning)
Chord progression arranged for the Ukulele
C chordC
The guilty undertaker sighs,
Em chordEm
The lonesome organ grinder cries,
Am chordAm G chordG
The silver saxophones say I should refuse you.
F chordF
The cracked bells and washed-out horns
G chordG*
Blow into my face with scorn,
Em chordEm
But it's not that way,
G chordG
I wasn't born to lose you.


C chordC Em chordEm
I want you, I want you,
Am chordAm G chordG
I want you so bad,
C chordC Em chordEm Am chordAm G chordG
Honey, I want you.

C chordC
The drunken politician leaps
Em chordEm
Upon the street where mothers weep
Am chordAm
And the saviors who are fast asleep,
G chordG
They wait for you.
F chordF
And I wait for them to interrupt
G chordG*
Me drinkin' from that broken cup
Em chordEm
And ask me to
G chordG
Open up the gate for you.


C chordC Em chordEm
I want you, I want you,
Am chordAm G chordG
I want you so bad,
C chordC Em chordEm Am chordAm G chordG
Honey, I want you.

Em chordEm
Now all my fathers, they've gone down,
Am chordAm
True love they've been without it.
Em chordEm
But all their daughters put me down
F chordF G chordG
'Cause I don't think about it.

C chordC
Well, I return to the Queen of Spades
Em chordEm
And talk with my chambermaid.
Am chordAm
She knows that I'm not afraid
G chordG
To look at her
F chordF
She is good to me
G chordG*
And there's nothing she doesn't see.
Em chordEm
She knows where I'd like to be
G chordG
But it doesn't matter.


C chordC Em chordEm
I want you, I want you,
Am chordAm G chordG
I want you so bad
C chordC Em chordEm Am chordAm G chordG
Honey, I want you.

C chordC
Now your dancing child with his Chinese suit,
Em chordEm
He spoke to me, I took his flute.
Am chordAm
No, I wasn't very cute to him,
G chordG
Was I?
F chordF
But I did it, though, because he lied
G chordG*
Because he took you for a ride
Em chordEm
And because tine was on his side
G chordG
And because I...


C chordC Em chordEm
I want you, I want you,
Am chordAm G chordG
I want you so bad
C chordC Em chordEm Am chordAm G chordG
Honey, I want you.

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About this song: I Want You

"I Want You" is a 1966 song recorded by Bob Dylan which appeared on the album Blonde on Blonde.
It was also released as a single with a live version of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" in June, reaching number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 and number sixteen in the UK.
A live version later appeared on the album, Dylan and the Dead, a collaboration with the Grateful Dead. It has been argued that the song is about Anita Pallenberg, at the time the girlfriend of Brian Jones, because of the line "Now your dancing child with his chinese suit/ He spoke to me, I took his flute.

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