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New: Christmas in the Heart

Jan 18 2010: I had left out a line from the beginning of the verse in the tab of Suze. Corrected, and cleaned out some unnecessarily detailed stuff.

Jan 14 2010: I refused to do it for quite a while, but all of a sudden there didn’t seem to be any reason not to do it, and besides it might come in handy for the upcoming fingerpicking installment of my series of guitar lessons, so here it is: one of the most frequently requested items: the full tab of Suze (The Cough Song).
I’ve also added small bits of tab to Corrina, Corrina and Love minus Zero/No Limit, perhaps some other songs too, that I’ve forgotten about.

Dec 10: CitH is fairly complete now. As an experiment, I’ve placed the chord charts in a fixed box to the right, so that they are visible all the time. Let me know what you think about it: is it of any help, or just annoying?
I’ve fixed the stylsheet for printing so that the chordbox is printed in the ordinary location.

Dec 7: It’s soon Christmas, and I’ve started making my Christmas gifts. I haven’t proofread them yet, so consider them as sneak-peeks. If you spot errors, please

Sept 17: Done …

June 8: I know I shouldn't do this while I still have songs left on TTL, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, and I had to do it: There are some hauntingly beautiful songs on Johnny Cash's latest (it's too early to say "last" yet – he may be dead, but he’s not gone), American Recordings V: A Hundred Highways (2006), such as If You Could Read My Mind and Love’s Been Good to Me.

May 29: As some of you may have noticed, I've started working on the songs from Together Through Life. Additionally, I started cleaning up my request list, so here are two old gems: Ballad of the Gliding Swan from Madhouse on Castle Street (1962) and Remember me (When the Candle Lights are Gleaming).

March 28: For the Norwegians out there: I always wanted to play Lillebjørn Nilsen's Stilleste Gutt På Sovesal En, since my cousins, who were a few years older than me and cool (hi, Hallvard! Hi, Birgit!), could play it. Now I can too (and so can my youngest son – hi, Bendik!).

March 19, 2009: Updated Love Henry, World Gone Wrong and some of the other songs on that album with more complete tabs. There is also a brand new Introductory note to World Gone Wrong.

Reminder #1: There's more to this site than just the chords. Check out the professors section, with the articles about Dylan and his music. Most of it is collected and nicely typeset (if I may say so) in a pdf book, but I have also prepared html versions of the individual articles.
I can recommend the chapters about the guitar playing on Don't Think Twice, about the “mathematical music” in Chronicles, and the discussion about plagiarism on Modern Times and the previous albums. And if you still have time, or want a general overview over Dylan's musical carreer, that's what The Uneven Heart is meant to give.

Reminder #2: There's also the blog, with my Last words on “Can’t Wait”, and, ehem, a brilliant new piece about a cursed class traitor …

I welcome comments.

Feb 8 2009: Some more Tell Tale tabs: Mississippi, Can’t wait in two versions that are musically quite different yet almost the same, and lyrically far superior to the version on Time Out Of Mind.

Oct 12: Finally some action. First of all, I got rid of that extra menu that used to be here to the right, which wasn't just ugly, it was also a disaster from a usability point of view. I was in the middle of some experimenting back when I decided to close down a couple of years ago, and when the site resurfaced, there was nobody there to clean up the mess.
That done, I did some tabbing. Slow and steady, a couple of tabs a day, no frenzy. Tell Tale Signs.

Oct 7: Yeah, I know, there’s a new album out but where are the chords? Sorry, folks, I've been too busy to have the all the chords ready for ya on release day this time around. I promise you, though, they will all be here, eventually. Quite soon too. Quite a good album too.

June 14: The zip file has been updated, and so has Seal, which should now work well even on Windows.

What you are looking at is an unofficial mirror of Eyolf Østrem's dylanchords.com, much of which is temporarily unavailable due to the American Music Publishers' Association (MPA)'s "rattling of sabres against tab sites". Thankfully I have been able to track down a recent copy of the site, which I have uploaded as a service to fellow guitar-playing Dylan fans who may be experiencing withdrawal symptoms.

This mirror is also available as a ZIP file which you are encouraged to download in case this mirror is forced offline.

Please see the Mail page if you would like to contact Eyolf Østrem, the creator of the original Dylanchords site.