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You're A Big Girl Now

Words and music Bob Dylan
Recorded in New York Sept 17th 1974 (released on Biograph, 1985) and in Minneapolis Dec 27 1974 (released on Blood on the Tracks, 1975)
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem


Album version

Bm              Am
Our conversation  was short and sweet
Bm                Am
It nearly swept me  off-a my feet.
        G                    C
And I'm back in the rain, oh
                   G        C
And you are on dry land, 
                      Am
You made it there somehow
Bm         Am      D7/f# G . . . D/f# . . . 
  You're a big girl now.

Original New York version

Open E/D tuning

Chords:

Emaj7  004340
B7     002120
E5     054000
B4     042000
A      020120
F#m7   xx2120
E      000000
Bvii   777777

Emaj7 . . B7 | E5 . . . |
Emaj7           B7
Our conversation was short and sweet
Emaj7             B7
It nearly swept me off-a my feet.
        E5                B4 A
And I'm back in the rain, mm-mm
                   E5    B4 A
And you are on dry land, mm-mm 
                      F#m7 *)
You made it there somehow
Emaj7    B7            E5 . . A | E Bvii . . |
You're a big girl now.

Bird on the horizon, sittin' on a fence,
He's singin' his song for me at his own expense
And I'm just like that bird, oh, oh,
Singin' just for you, mm-mm.
I hope that you can hear,
Hear me singin' through these tears.

Love is so simple, to quote a phrase,
You've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days .
Oh, I know where I can find You, oh, oh,
In somebody's room. m-mm
It's a price I have to pay
You're a big girl all the way.
Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast
Oh, but what a shame that all we've shared can't last.
I can change, I swear, mm-mm
See what you can do, mm-mm.
I can make it through,
You can make it too.

A change in the weather can be extreme
But it ain't like changing horses in midstream
I'm going out of my mind, mm-mm
With a pain that stops and starts, mm-aa
Like a corkscrew to my heart
Ever since we've been apart.

*) or (to get the bass more clearly) 222100 (or 220100 or 222120)