Song: All along the watchtower
Artist: Paul Weller
Composer: Bob Dylan
Album: Studio 150
Tabbed by DJ ('DiddyD' on ultimateGuitar.com)
31th July 2017
Paul Weller's cover of the Dylan track is basically
based on a riff resembling Blue Öyster Cult's
'Don't fear the reaper' played on an acoustic guitar.
N.B.
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A5 G F6/9 G
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[Intro]
N.C.
All along the watchtower!
[Verse 1]
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"There must be some way out of here!"
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Said the joker to the thief,
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"There's too much con - fusion,
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I can't get no re - lief,
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Business - men they drink my wine,
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Ploughmen dig my earth,
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None of them, a - long the line,
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Know what any of it is worth!
[Verse 2]
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"No reason to get ex - cited,"
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The thief, he kindly spoke,
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"There are many here a - mong us...
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Who feel that life is but a joke,
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But you and I we've been through that,
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And this is not our fate,
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So let us not talk falsely now,
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The hour is getting late---------!"
[Break]
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[Verse 3]
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All a - long the watchtower,
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Princes kept their view,
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While all the women came and went,
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Barefoot servants too,
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Outside in the cold distance...
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A wild - cat did growl,
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Two riders were ap - proaching,
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The wind be - gan to howl---------!
[Break]
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[Verse 4]
A5 G F6/9 G
All a - long the watchtower,
A5 G F6/9 G
(All a - long the watchtower-------!)
A5 G F6/9 G
All a - long the watchtower,
A5 G F6/9 G
(All a - long the watchtower-------!)
A5 G F6/9 G
All a - long the watchtower,
A5 G F6/9 G
(All a - long the watchtower-------!)
A5 G F6/9 G
Oh, all a - long the watchtower,
A5 G F6/9 G
(All a - long the watchtower-------!)
[Verse 5]
A5 G F6/9 G
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A5 G F6/9 G
(All a - long the watchtower-------!)
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A5 G F6/9 G
(All a - long the watchtower-------!)
[Break]
A5 G F6/9 G
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[Verse 6]
A5 G F6/9 G
All a - long the watchtower,
A5 G F6/9 G
(All a - long the watchtower-------!)
A5 G F6/9 G
All a - long the watchtower,
A5 G F6/9 G
(All a - long the watchtower-------!)
A5 G F6/9 G
All a - long the watchtower,
A5 G F6/9 G
(All a - long the watchtower-------!)
A5 G F6/9 G
All a - long the watchtower,
A5 G F6/9 G
(All a - long the watchtower-------!)
[Coda]
A5 G F6/9 G
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