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Lyr/Chords Req: Farewell Angelina (Bob Dylan)

02 Aug 01 - 06:25 PM (#520004)
Subject: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: rock chick

Hi there one and all, I'v been away for a while,not locked up just very busy, anyway can anyone help with the chords for farewell angelina it's such a great song thought I might TRY to play it.

Thanks


02 Aug 01 - 06:36 PM (#520010)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Sorcha

Lyrics are in the DT, chords available here!


02 Aug 01 - 06:39 PM (#520013)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: simon-pierre

you beat me Sorcha. I should get a cable connection... BTW rock chick, never neglect Google!


02 Aug 01 - 06:46 PM (#520017)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Little Hawk

Okay, let's try it in key of C...

(C) Farewell, Angelina the (F) bells of the (C) crown

Are being stolen by bandits I must (F) follow the (C)

sound

The triangle (C7) tingles and the (F) trumpets play (G)

slow fare (Am) well Ange (Em) lina the (Am) sky is

on (Em) fire (F) and I (G) must (C) go

That's an okay key to play it in...G might also be good or D...

One of the most utterly beautiful songs Bob ever wrote. Joan Baez made it her own.

- LH


02 Aug 01 - 06:47 PM (#520018)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Sorcha

Hey, S-P!Where have you been? Missed your smiling face! Welcome back! Sheesh, you had 11 minutes there, what were you doing? (grin)


02 Aug 01 - 06:47 PM (#520020)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Little Hawk

Woo! You guys are too quick for me!

- LH


02 Aug 01 - 06:48 PM (#520021)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: rock chick

By gum how quick was that Sorcha, your right Simon-pierre I think I need the same connection.

Thanks


02 Aug 01 - 06:50 PM (#520023)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Little Hawk

Y'know, I think I like my version better...

- LH


02 Aug 01 - 06:51 PM (#520029)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Little Hawk

The chords, I mean...

- LH


02 Aug 01 - 06:53 PM (#520034)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: flattop

Nice song but, like many of Dylan's, more than a bit twisted.

'What cannot be imitated perfectly must die,' sure, we all believe that. What can be imitated perfectly won't die? Yeah, better go where it's dry, better go where it's dry.


02 Aug 01 - 06:55 PM (#520036)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: rock chick

Thanks Little Hawk I'll try your version also, you guys are just so quick, what can I say !


02 Aug 01 - 07:01 PM (#520039)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Little Hawk

What are you going on about now, flattop, and where is that quote from anyway?

- LH


02 Aug 01 - 07:03 PM (#520042)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: flattop

Sorcha and Dylan, Georgie Boy. Pay attention to the lyrics. Words can mean something.


02 Aug 01 - 07:06 PM (#520043)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: rock chick

Earth calling flattop, earth calling flattop....Come down from the plannet Zog flattop


02 Aug 01 - 07:14 PM (#520048)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: flattop

Too obscure?

Reminds me of a footnote in the Penguin edition of Juvenal's Satires. One of the Emperors was crossing a bridge in his 16 horsepower chariot when a woman tried to stop him. He yelled out, 'Make way. I'm the Emperor. I don't have time.' (Or the Italian equivalent.) The woman yells back, 'Then you don't have time to be Emperor.'

If you guys, LH and rock chick, don't have the brains to follow Sorcha's Bluie, how the hell will you ever make sense of a Dylan lyric?


02 Aug 01 - 07:22 PM (#520056)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: rock chick

Dear dear don't get to upset flattop we can't all have the brains of a zog!!

All lyrics have different meanings to different people, we can't all be the same, life would be far too boreing for that


02 Aug 01 - 07:24 PM (#520060)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Little Hawk

Don't try to teach your grandmother how to suck eggs, flatso.

-LH


02 Aug 01 - 07:32 PM (#520063)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: flattop

Is that a quote from a Dylan song, Little Hawk? If my nana sucked eggs, she only spoke of it in the Gaelic.


02 Aug 01 - 07:38 PM (#520069)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Little Hawk

No, it's a quote from "Love At First Bite". The reason I did not consult the blue clickie before posting was that I was typing out my chord and lyric thing during the time that Sorcha posted, and then when I posted...lo and behold she had nipped in ahead of me.

- LH


02 Aug 01 - 07:47 PM (#520071)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: flattop

"Love At First Bite," now you're scaring me. I'm out of here. Won't be back on tonight. It's part of being semi-homeless.


02 Aug 01 - 07:55 PM (#520076)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Little Hawk

Yeah. I feel like that sometimes too. It's a tough thing to deal with. See you next time...

- LH


03 Aug 01 - 12:41 PM (#520480)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: flattop

What do you sometimes feel like, Little Hawk? Frightened when a guy quotes Love at First Bite, semi_homeless, or that 'What cannot be imitated perfectly must die?'


03 Aug 01 - 01:51 PM (#520514)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Big Tim

"If I'da paid attention to what others were thinking' the heart inside of me would have died". "Someone had to reach for the rising stars I guess it was up to me" (Dylan, "Up to Me). This man is impervious to criticism.


03 Aug 01 - 02:43 PM (#520563)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: Little Hawk

True. He is indeed. Somebody tell Dick Greenhaus...

flattop - I was referring to the feeling of being semi-homeless.

If I did think that anything could be imitated perfectly, then I would give some consideration to that notion about not dying, but........I don't. To put it simply. Without death, how can rebirth occur? Dorian Gray was enamoured of not dying, and look where it got him.

Here's a Dylan quote that is so easy to understand that it really leaves little to debate about...

"There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Whole lot of people seeing double tonight
From the disease of conceit,
If your delusions of grandeur
And an evil eye
Give you the idea that
You're too good to die,
Then they bury you from your head down to your feet
From the disease of conceit."

(- Bob Dylan)

- LH


03 Aug 01 - 06:09 PM (#520707)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: CHORDS FOR FAREWELL ANGELINA
From: flattop

Ah but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.