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GUEST,PoppaGator Chord Req: 'Spanish Harlem Incident' (8) Chord Req: 'Spanish Harlem Incident' 30 Jun 05


Well, it's barely a three-chord song, mostly just I-V with a very brief VII thrown in, so I don't really need "chords" so much as "tab," or at least one or two specific up-the-neck guitar chord inversions.

I've been playing the song for many years (in G ~ G/C/D7), but never found a way to play the little up-the-neck riff that Dylan throws in between each verse.

I've always played a lot of Dylan songs, but never really tried to sing them just like Bob. (Never learned to play the harmonica, either.)

After The Band had appeared on the scene, I began making a half-conscious effort to sing my Dylan cover songs (not just those already done by the Band) like Rick or Levon or Robbie would. (I'm not capable of singing like the late Richard Manuel.) But I was never a Dylan "imitator" ~ I couldn't do it, and wouldn't especially want to anyway.

However, this is one instance where I'd like to do the guitar part more like Bob's original than I do now. I don't mind transposing to another key, with or without capo. My own old approach to playing it is so ingrained that I have little confidence that I could come up with an improved version on my own at this late date, and I'm hoping that somebody out there who is (or was) a true Dylan fanatic can clue me in. Little Hawk? Bobert in an earlier incarnation?


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