Be Your Own Girl
words and music by Jakob Dylan
Standard Tuning
Intro (Guitar One) (play two times) Guitar two pick chords below
Organ plays this throughout the song
e----0----------------
B---------------------
G-7~~--7--9--7--------
D-------------------9-
A---------------------
E---------------------
G C G
Well I know your tired of waking up on the floor
C G
pushed to the edge with nothing heading home
C G
using your clothes as a blanket and a bed
C G
holding your hands just to lay your head
C C/B Am
I know you donÕt remember ever falling down
C D
Who picked you up, who gathered around
D C
But, you donÕt have to be his girl
D C
You donÕt have to be my girl
n/c G
You can always be your own girl
(intro)
With the sound of the feet to follow your self to sleep
Restless and ageless looking for something to keep
When you finally fall asleep your waking dreams
Hanging by the ankles in a skelaton ravine
I know you canÕt relax with felt on your shoes
Punched out the colors leaving you the blues
(chorus)
(intro)
ThereÕs a soft melody thatÕs ringing in your ears
Simple and slow and it always brings you here
With broken crayons you scribbled on the wall
Shapes of nothing, shadowbox them all
Your fingertips are broke, and your knees donÕt bend
Your imagination took the worst hit, and cut itÕs skin
(chorus)
intro (played only by organ)
ThereÕs a soft melody thatÕs ringing in my ears
It the same one you could never afford in yours
If you lay down, you can hear it tell the tales
About a tatto riverman driven by color wheels
Your knot is broken on a bottom of the rope
You canÕt tie another, another knot of hope
(chorus)
(intro)
Play chords throughout to the end of the song then intro once