Trying To Get To Heaven
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan - Trying to get to heaven
From the album Time Out Of mind
Chords:
G# - 466544
G# - 8 11 10 8 9 8
G#maj - 8 11 10 8 8 8
A# - 688766
D# - 668886
Cdim - 8 9 10 8 10 8
Fm - 8 8 10 10 9 8
Intro: Ab G#maj Bb Eb
Ab Bb
The air is getting hotter
Ab Eb
There's a rumbling in the skies
Ab Bb
I've been wading through the high muddy water
Ab Eb
With the heat rising in my eyes
Cdim Ab
Every day your memory grows dimmer
Fm Eb
It doesn't haunt me like it did before
Ab Bb
I've been walking through the middle of nowhere
Ab Eb
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Ab Bb
When I was in Missouri
Ab Eb
They would not let me be
Ab Bb
I had to leave there in a hurry
Ab Eb
I only saw what they let me see
Cdim Ab
You broke a heart that loved you
Fm Eb
Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore
Ab Bb
I've been walking that lonesome valley
Ab Eb
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Ab Bb
People on the platforms
Ab Eb
Waiting for the trains
Ab Bb
I can hear their hearts a-beatin'
Ab Eb
Like pendulums swinging on chains
Cdim Ab
When you think that you lost everything
Fm Eb
You find out you can always lose a little more
Ab Bb
I'm just going down the road feeling bad
Ab Eb
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Ab Bb
I'm going down the river
Ab Eb
Down to New Orleans
Ab Bb
They tell me everything is gonna be all right
Ab Eb
But I don't know what "all right" even means
Cdim Ab
I was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary-Jane
Fm Eb
Miss Mary-Jane got a house in Baltimore
Ab Bb
I been all around the world, boys
Ab Eb
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door
Ab Bb
Gonna sleep down in the parlor
Ab Eb
And relive my dreams
Ab Bb
I'll close my eyes and I wonder
Ab Eb
If everything is as hollow as it seems
Cdim Ab
Some trains don't pull no gamblers
Fm Eb
No midnight ramblers, like they did before
Ab Bb
I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down
Ab Eb
Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door