Dignity

From: jfair@vt.edu (John Fair)
 
 
 			Dignity
 
 		Words and Music By Bob Dylan
 
 	Capo 1
 
 		D
 		Fat man lookin’ in a blade of steel
 
 		Thin man lookin’ at his last meal
 		G			        D
 		Hollow man lookin’ in a cottonfield
 			        G  D
 		For dig-ni-ty
 
 		D
 		Wise man lookin’ in a blade of grass
 
 		young man lookin’ in the shadows that pass
 		G                                D
 		poor man lookin’ through painted glass
 		            G  D
 		For dignity
 
 			A
 			Somebody got murdered on New Year’s Eve
 			G                             D
 			Somebody said dignity was the first to leave
 			G                     F#m
 			I went into the city, went into the town
 			Em					   A
 			went into the land of the midnight sun
 
 		D
 		Searchin’ high, searchin’ low
 
 		Searchin’ everywhere I know
 		G
 		Askin’ the cops wherever I go
 					 G  D
    		Have you seen Dignity?
 
                (et al.)=7F
 
 		Blind man breakin’ out of a trance
 		Puts both his hands in the pocket of chance
 		Hopin’ to find one circumstance
 		Of dignity
 
 		I went to the wedding of Mary-lou
 		She said  I don’t want nobody see me talkin’ to you
 		Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew
 		About dignity
 
 			I went down where the vultures feed
 			I would’ve gone deeper, but there wasn’t any need
 			Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men
 			Wasn’t any difference to me
 
 		Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade
 		House on fire, debts unpaid
 		Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid
 		Have you seen dignity
 
 		Drinkin’ man listens to the voice he hears
 		In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors
 		Lookin’ into the lost forgotten years
 		For Dignity
 
 		Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
 		Said he’d give me information if his name wasn’t used
 		He wanted money up front, said he was abused
 		By dignity
 		=09
 			Footprints runnin’ cross the silver sand
 			Steps goin’ down into tatoo land
 			I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light
 			In the bordertowns of despair
 
 		Got no place to fade, got no coat
 		I’m on the rollin’ river in a jerkin’ boat
 		Tryin’ to read a note somebody wrote
 		About dignity
 
 		Sick man lookin’ for the doctor’s cure
 		Lookin’ at his hands for the lines that were
 		And into every masterpiece of literature=7F
 		For dignity
 
 		Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind
 		Combin’ his hair back, his future looks thin
 		Bites the bullet and he looks within
 		For dignity
 
 			Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed
 			Dignity never been photographed
 			I went into the red, went into the black
 			Into the valley of dry bone dreams
 
 		So many roads, So much at stake
 		So many dead ends, I’m at the edge of the lake
 		Sometimes I wonder what it’s gonna take
 		To find dignity
 
 
 Roofing:
 John Fair		jfair@vt.edu
 B-O-B                 rgilchri@vt.edu