ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER – BOB DYLAN – Harmonica and Guitar Lesson

All Along The Watchtower – Lesson on Guitar and Harmonica – Guitar Chords, Harmonica Tabs, Lyrics, Sheet Music, MP3 Downloads and More

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Quick Facts

• Written by Bob Dylan while he was recuperating from his life threatening motorcycle accident in 1966
• Recorded at Columbia Studios in Nashville on November 5, 1967 and first appearing on the 1967 release, John Wesley Harding.
• Covered by numerous artists, the most famous by Jimi Hendrix on Electric Ladyland, whose version is rated 48th in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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Musical Instruments and Recording Setup

The advent of computers to sound and video recording has drastically reduced the price of getting good sound and picture. The gear below very closely matches what I used to put this video together.

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Sheet Music

Definitive Bob Dylan Songbook (Music Sales America) Melody line, chord symbols, and lyrics in this small format edition complete songbook features over 300 Dylan originals including
- All Along The Watchtower
- I Shall Be Released
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
- Like A Rolling Stone
- Blowin’ in the Wind
You name it, it’s in there

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All Along The Watchtower – Guitar Chords, Lyrics, Harmonica Tabs

All Along The Watchtower music and lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and provided for educational purposes and personal use only.
The following is my transcription of my version of this awesome song. If you want how the author intended, check out the links above.

Guitar Chords throughout – Am G F G Am
Verse 1
There must be some way out of here
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Said the joker to the thief
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There’s too much confusion
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I can’t get no relief
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Businessmen, they drink my wine
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Plowmen dig my earth
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None of them along the line know what
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Any of it is worth.
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Verse 2
No reason to get excited
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The thief he kindly spoke
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There are many here among us
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Who feel that life is but a joke
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But you and I, we’ve been through that
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And this is not our fate
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So let us not talk falsely now
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The hour is getting late.
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Verse 3
All along the watchtower
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Princes kept the view
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While all the women came and went
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Barefoot servants, too.
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Outside in the cold distance
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A wildcat did growl
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Two riders were approaching
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And the wind began to howl.
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Getting Started

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Video Transcription

Hi George here. Welcome to this video where I show you how to play All Along The Watchtower by Bob Dylan on guitar and harmonica.
So let’s start off with the guitar chords. There’s three chords, nice and easy. We start of in A minor, then G, and F. Then it will go back to G to A minor and goes around and around.
Ok, so let’s figure out the rhythm to that. So, it’s 1, 2, 3, &, 4, &, &, 2, &, 4, &. All the way through, around and around so that once you’ve got that, you’re good, you get the song.
We are in the key of A minor which is the relative minor to the key of C, so I am playing a C harmonica – Hohner Special 20, key of C.
So, let’s just rip through this and I will put the harmonica on and I will just play through some of the melody and put the tabs on the website and all that so you can follow along there. Ok? Let’s see how this all works out. 1, 2, 3, 4.

Alright, Bob Dylan’s All Along The Watchtower
- key of A minor
- three chords – A minor, G and F
- C diatonic harmonica
- Super song
- Quick and easy to learn

So, I hope you can use that to put that together to create your own version.

Thanks for watching. Please share the video with your friends, like the video, pass it around. Right on!
Thanks again for watching. See you next time. Peace.

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