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I Shall Be Released

Bob Dylan

Originally recorded in key of A.  Changed to key of C to avoid barre chords.

C                                                 Dm

    They say everything can be replaced

Em (½)                     G (½)                   C

     They say every distance is not near

C                                    Dm

    So I remember every face

Em (½)           G (½)                      C

    Of every man who put me here

C                                              Dm

  They say every man needs protection

Em (½)                            G (½)          C

     They say that every man must fall

C                                     Dm

   Yet I swear I see my reflection

Em (½)                  G (½)                    C

    Somewhere so high above this wall

Chorus

Instrumental Verse x2

C                                                   Dm

    Now yonder stands a man in his lonely room

Em (½)                  G (½)                         C

      A man who swears he's not to blame

C                                        Dm

    All day long I hear him shouting so loud

Em (½)       G (½)                        C

    Cryin’ out that he was framed

Chorus x2