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Caribbean Wind (rehearsal with pedal steel) – Bob Dylan
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Written by: Bob Dylan
Recorded: 1980, Sept 23
Now on: “The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 (1979-1981): Trouble No More” (Disc 4)
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
capo: 3rd fret
play: C
key: Eb
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CHORDS
E-A-D-G-B-e
Csus4 x-3-3-0-1-1
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[Verse]
C Em7
She was from Haiti, fair brown and intense
F C
I don’t think she’d ever known about innocence
C C/B C/A C/G F | Bb F |
I was playin’ a show in Miami in the theater of mystery.
C Em7
Told her about Jesus, told about the rain
F C
She told me about the vision, told me about the pain
C C/B C/A C/G F | Bb F |
That had risen from the ashes and abided in her memory.
[Verse]
C Em7
Was she a virtuous woman? I really can’t say
F C
Something about her said trust me anyway.
C C/B C/A C/G F | Bb F |
As the days turned to minutes and the minutes turned back into hours.
C Em7
I pretended to be sleeping and he thought I was
F C
But I was only paying attention like a rattlesnake does
C C/B C/A C/G F | Bb F |
When he’s hearin’ footsteps trampling on the flowers.
[Chorus]
F G C F
And that Caribbean wind still blows from Mexico to Curaçao,
C/E F G
From Chinatown to the furnace of desire.
F G C F
And them distant ships of liberty on the iron waves so bold and free,
C/E F G C Csus4
Bringing everyone that's near to me closer to the fire.
[Verse]
C Em7
Well, our shadows move closer til they touched on the floor,
F C
The Prodigal Son’s waiting close to the door,
C C/B C/A C/G F | Bb F |
Preaching up sanity, he’s waiting for the night to arrive.
C Em7
He was well connected, but her heart was a snare
F C
She had left him to die in there,
C C/B C/A C/G F | Bb F |
But I knew I could get him out while he still was alive.
[Verse]
C Em7
Stars on my balcony, flies buzz my head,
F C
Ceiling fan’s broken, there’s heat in my bed
C C/B C/A C7/G F | Bb F |
Street band playin' "Nearer My God To Thee"
C Em7
She looked into my eyes, I hear the mission bells ring,
F C
She said "I know what you're thinking, but there ain't a thing
C C/B C/A C/G F | Bb F |
You can do about it, so you might as well let it be"
[Chorus]
F G C F
When the Caribbean wind still blows from Mexico to Curaçao,
C/E F G
From Chinatown to the furnace of desire.
F G C F
And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free,
C/E F Am G C Csus4
Bringing everything that ever was close to me closer to the fire.
[Verse]
C Em7
Atlantic City by the cruel sea,
F C
I hear a voice crying "Daddy", I always think it's for me,
C C/B C/A C/G F | Bb F |
But it's only the silence in the buttermilk hills that calls,
C Em7
Every new messenger bringin’ evil report
F C
About armies that are rioting, those fuses are short [?]
C C/B C/A C/G F | Bb F |
And them ugly gargoyles and hate words written on walls
[Verse]
C Em7
Would I have married her? I don't know I suppose,
F C
She had bells in her braids and fire in her clothes.
C C/B C/A C/G F | Bb F |
But the curtain was rising, like they say, the show must go on
C Em7
Then I felt it come over me, some kind of gloom,
F C
I was going to say "Come on with me, I got plenty of room"
C C/B C/A C/G F | Bb F |
But I knew I'd be lyin', and besides she'd already gone.
[Chorus]
F G C F
And them Caribbean wind still blows from Curaçao to Mexico,
C/E F G
From Chinatown to the furnace of desire.
F G C F
And them distant ships of liberty on iron waves so bold and free,
C/E F G C Csus4
Bringing everything that's near to me nearer to the fire.
[Fade out]
| C | Em7 | F | C |
| C C/B | C/A C/G | F | Bb F |
| C | Em7 | F | C |
| C C/B | C/A C/G | F | Bb F |