10/26/2018 Time Passes Slowly

Time Passes Slowly

Words and music Bob Dylan 
Released on New Morning (1970) and on Biograph (1985) 
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

Capo 1st fret (sounding key Eb major)

Chords:

D7/a x0421x
Em/g 322000
F#m/a x04222

D7/a

D C G Em
Time passes slowly up here in the mountains,
D C G Em
We sit beside bridges and walk beside fountains,
F#m Em/g F#m/a Em/g
Catch the wild fishes that float through the stream,
D C G F#m /a G
Time passes slowly when you're lost in a dream.

A D
: . . . .
|----53------------
|-------5----------
|--2---------------
|--------0-----0---
|-0--------30-3----
|------------------

D C G Em A
Once I had a sweetheart, she was fine and good-lookin',
D C G Em A
We sat in her kitchen while her mama was cookin',
G A(sus4 A) G A
Starin' out the window to the stars high above,
G F#m Asus4 A
Time passes slowly when you're searchin' for love.

[short, glorious piano break]

G D
Ain't no reason to go in a wagon to town,
G D
Ain't no reason to go to the fair.
G D
Ain't no reason to go up, ain't no reason to go down,
Asus4 A Asus4 A
Ain't no reason to go anywhere.

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D ..C..G . . Em . .
D ..C..G . . Em . .
F#m . . G . . Asus4. . . A .

D C G Em
Time passes slowly up here in the daylight,
D C G Em
We stare straight ahead and try so hard to stay right,
Asus4 G Asus4 G
Like the red rose of summer that blooms in the day,
Asus4 G F#m Em . . . . Asus4
Time passes slowly and fades away.

D..C..F..G..
D..C..FCDG.. D

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