Here's my conundrum, I can't figure this out. It is connected to bass runs. This happens in many songs, but, for the hell of it, in Dylan's Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, (in the key of D), the song begins:


With your mercury mouth in the missionary times


The notes of the song go up, D, E, F#, E, F#, G, G, A, G, F#, G, F#, E; while the bass run goes down, D, C#, B, etc. My concern is with this first little bit. The first chord is a D, duh, makes sense. The next chord (over "mouth") in the various transcriptions one can find has a A/C# (i.e. we have an A chord, with a C# note, which is part of the bass run going from D, down to C#, then to B). My question: How come an A chord? Or an A7 chord. There is no F# in an A chord, or in an A7 chord. What do a C# and an F# have to do together, with an A chord? I see this over and over again in this kind of song. Am I missing something? yours, Peter T.