Like A Rolling Stone Chords & Tabs

by Bob Dylan

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Suggested Pattern:
BPM: 96
Denominator: 16
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 202, 1, 202, 1, 101]
Alternative:
BPM: 96
Denominator: 16
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 101, 1, 202, 1, 202]
Like A Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan
Album: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

[Chords]
Fmaj7/C  x33210
Dm7      xx0211

[Intro]
C  Fmaj7/C   C   Fmaj7/C   C   Fmaj7/C   C    Fmaj7/C

[Verse]
C                    Dm7            
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
    Em                    F            G              
You threw the bums a dime in your prime,   didn't you?
C                    Dm7         
People'd call, say, "Beware doll,
       Em                         F             G             
you're bound to fall" You thought they were all  a kiddin' you
F           G            
You used to   laugh about
F                  G            
Everybody that was   hangin' out
F        Em   Dm7         C
Now you don't talk so loud
F        Em   Dm7          C
Now you don't seem so proud
     Dm7                      F           G   
About having to be scrounging   your next meal

[Chorus]
                CFG
How does it feel
                CFG
How does it feel
                    CFG
To be without a home
                       CFG
Like a complete unknown
                    CFG
Like a rolling stone

[Instrumental]
C  F  G

[Verse]
           C            Dm7                   Em            
Aww, You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
        F                         G             
But you know you only used to get   juiced in it
  C                        Dm7                    Em    
Nobody has ever taught you how to live out on the street
               F                 G           
And now you're gonna have to get   used to it
F                  G            
You said you'd never  compromise
F                                  G        
With the mystery tramp, but now you  realize
F        Em         Dm7     C
He's not selling any  alibis
F                     Em      Dm7       C
As you stare into the vacuum  of his eyes
    Dm7               F        G    
And say do you want to  make a deal?

[Chorus]
                CFG
How does it feel
                CFG
How does it feel
                 CFG
To be on your own
                      CFG
With no direction home
                  CFG
A complete unknown
                    CFG
Like a rolling stone

[Instrumental]
C  F  G

[Verse]
        C              Dm7                    Em
Aww, You never turned around to see the frowns
                        F                        G               
On the jugglers and the clowns when they all did   tricks for you
    C                        Dm7          
You never understood that it ain't no good
    Em                  F               G              
You shouldn't let other people get your   kicks for you
F                                              G         
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your   diplomat
F                             G            
Who carried on his shoulder a   Siamese cat
F            Em            Dm7      C
Ain't it hard  when you discover that
F         Em      Dm7         C
He really wasn't  where it's at
     Dm7                         F          G    
After he took from you everything  he could steal

[Chorus]
                CFG
How does it feel
                CFG
How does it feel
                       CFG
To have you on your own
                      CFG
With no direction home
                      CFG
Like a complete unknown
                    CFG
Like a rolling stone

[Instrumental]
C  F  G

[Verse]
   C                 Dm7                 Em           
Aww, Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
            F                            G            
They're all drinkin', thinkin' that they   got it made
C               Dm7          Em
Exchanging all precious gifts
                 F                      G                         
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
F             G         
You used to be so amused
F                  G                             
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
F                 Em             Dm7         C
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
F                  Em              Dm7            C
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
      Dm7                       F           G      
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal

[Chorus]
                CFG
How does it feel
                CFG
How does it feel
                 CFG
To be on your own
                      CFG
With no direction home
                      CFG
Like a complete unknown
                    CFG
Like a rolling stone

[Instrumental]
C  F  G