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The chords are the same as the Rolling Thunder version just capo 1st.

 

Rolling Thunder Revue version (1975)

 

Standard tuning

 

G

They sat together in the park

Bm

As the evening sky grew dark,

G7

She looked at him and he felt a spark

C /b Am

tingle to his bones.

C /b Am

'Twas then he felt alone

G D C

and wished that he'd gone straight

G Am G

And watched out for a simple twist of fate.

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Here is the best version of this song, IMHO:

 

Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan

  Open D (D-A-d-f#-a-d') Capo II
or Open E (E-B-e-g#-b-e') No Capo

Chords:
E	   054000
Emaj7   044000
E7	  034000
A	   020120
Am	  xx5450
B(ii)   x42000
A'	  020100 (Aadd9)
B11	 x02120
B11'	x02100 (B7add11)  

 
E
They sat together in the park
Emaj7
As the evening sky grew dark,
E7									
She looked at him and he felt a spark 
A					 A'
tingle to his bones.
Am
'Twas then he felt alone 
E		   B(ii)	 A		A'
and wished that he'd gone straight
E				 B11			 B11' E
And watched out for a simple twist of	  fate.

They walked along by the old canal
A little confused, I remember well
And stopped into a strange hotel 
with a neon burnin' bright.
He felt the heat of the night 
hit him like a freight train
Moving with a simple twist of fate.

A saxophone someplace far off played
As she was walkin' by the arcade.
As the light bust through a beat-up shade 
where he was wakin' up,
She dropped a coin into the cup 
of a blind man at the gate
And forgot about a simple twist of fate.

He woke up, the room was bare
He didn't see her anywhere.
He told himself he didn't care, 
pushed the window open wide,
Felt an emptiness inside 
to which he just could not relate
Brought on by a simple twist of fate.

He hears the ticking of the clocks
And walks along with a parrot that talks,
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks 
where the sailers all come in.
Maybe she'll pick him out again, 
how long must he wait
Once more for a simple twist of fate.

People tell me it's a sin
To know and feel too much within.
I still believe she was my twin, 
but I lost the ring.
She was born in spring, 
but I was born too late
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.

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Here is the best version of this song, IMHO:

 

Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan

 

Open D (D-A-d-f#-a-d') Capo II

or Open E (E-B-e-g#-b-e') No Capo

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ive been trying for a while to get the tuning right, are you sure either of these tunings are correct? I tried for 30 minutes, and i can kinda hear that famous simple twist of fate groove, but one of the e, b, or g (well, e, b or g in standard tuning anyways) strings seems off, and ive been tinkering but I can't find the exact sound, any help? Anyways I gave up with this for now and learned love minus zero trying to build my dylan chops :D

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ive been trying for a while to get the tuning right, are you sure either of these tunings are correct? I tried for 30 minutes, and i can kinda hear that famous simple twist of fate groove, but one of the e, b, or g (well, e, b or g in standard tuning anyways) strings seems off, and ive been tinkering but I can't find the exact sound, any help? Anyways I gave up with this for now and learned love minus zero trying to build my dylan chops :D

 

Pretty sure it is correct. I usually use the Open D capo II configuration (less tension makes me feel better). I think the key for getting the groove is to ignore the 6th string and emphasize the walking bass notes.

 

This progression is the key:

E x54000

Emaj7 x44000

E7 x34000

A x20120

 

Also, I tend to travis pick this tune. You may want to try that.

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ive been trying for a while to get the tuning right, are you sure either of these tunings are correct? I tried for 30 minutes, and i can kinda hear that famous simple twist of fate groove, but one of the e, b, or g (well, e, b or g in standard tuning anyways) strings seems off, and ive been tinkering but I can't find the exact sound, any help? Anyways I gave up with this for now and learned love minus zero trying to build my dylan chops :D

 

Hey there,

 

In any standard triadic open tuning (open d/g/c or any whole/half step up or down) you have to figure out how you want your third tuned. (f# in D, b in G, e in C, etc...). If you'll be playing on the string a lot, tune it for a perfect fifth on the third fret. (So you fret the f# up to an A note and tune to all D and A--very easy to tune). If you'll be leaving the third open a lot, tune it as sweetly as possible (or to the mood of the song). Usually, you'll want to tune the third to slightly less flat of an equal temperament third (the one your KORG tuner would say). This is the overtone third. It harmonizes with the other strings better.

 

Give it a shot in all yr open tunings, it's very noticeable.

 

-Sean

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This is correct, but I think Tangled up in Blue is also standard.

 

 

Right

 

It may be on the album, but I play it in open D (or E). I think it sounds best that way. Open D is Blood on the Tracks after all, and it gives the song the right feel. Even if its technically in standard tuning on the album.

 

I thank the stars above for dylanchords.info. That place is heaven wrapped in bacon. That site gives the open D/E tuning for Tangled Up in Blue (as well as standard tuning). As well as tabs for every other Dylan song.

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I thank the stars above for dylanchords.info. That place is heaven wrapped in bacon. That site gives the open D/E tuning for Tangled Up in Blue (as well as standard tuning). As well as tabs for every other Dylan song.

Oh, yeah that's my holy grail. Also has Beatles/Lennon solo/McCartney solo/Harrison solo. Can't get enough of that site.

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Whoa, what? You just blew my mind. That page also has Beatle tabs? I never saw that.

On the top left of the page, there's a link to Lennonchords mirror. It'll take you to these:

Lennon Solo & Beatles tunes

McCartney Solo & Beatles tunes

Harrison

 

They're not as detailed as the Dylan pages, just chord changes. But at the end of each tab there is a quote from an interview concerning each song such as:

 

NOTE: "[This song was one I wrote when I had first been

introduced to pot. I'd been a rather straight working-class

lad but when we started to get into pot it seemed to me to be

quite uplifting. [...] So [it] is really a song about that,

it's not to a person." (Paul McCartney, 1997)

 

NOTE: "[...] A gun magazine was sitting around and the cover

was the picture of a smoking gun. The title of the article,

which I never read, was 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun'. I took it

as the idea of happiness after having shot somebody. Or some

animal. [...] Oh well, by then I'm into double meanings. The

initial inspiration was from the magazine cover. But that was

the beginning of my relationship with Yoko and I was very

sexually oriented then. [...]" (John Lennon, 1980)

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