In Search of Little Sadie

by Bob Dylan (Traditional) · posted by deleted

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

 6   -6   -7    7   6   -6  -6 -7 -7   7			
Went out last night to take a little round.
6 -5  -5 -4 -4  5-4  -4  4   4      4    3
I met my little Sadie and I brought her down.
6  -6  -7    7    6  -6  -6 -7  -7 
I ran right home and I went to bed
 6   -5  6 6   6     -5  6    -5 5  5   6
With a forty-four smokeless under my head.
 
6  -6 -6 -7  7    -6  -7  7   -7   7 
I began to think what a deed I'd done.
6     -6   6   6  -5 -5 -5 5  5  -4 
I grabbed my hat and I began to run.
6  -6  -6  -7  -7  -6 -7 7   -7  -6
I made a good run but I ran too slow;  
 6    -5 -5 5  5  -4  -4 -5 5 -4
They overtook me down in Jericho
 
 6  -6   5  -5 6 -6  6 -7  -6  6   -7
Standing on a corner a ringin' my bell,
 6    6     -5   5 5    -4   -4  5  -4
Up stepped the sheriff from Thomasville.
 6   6    -6    -6 -7  -7   -7   7
He said 'Young man is you name Brown?
 6 -6 6   -5   -5     5 5   -4 4   -4 
Remember you blowed little Sadie down."
 
  6  -6  -7  6   -6  -7  7
"Oh yes sir, my name is Lee.
 6 -6  -7    7  7  7 -7 -6  6   -5    5  -4
I murdered little Sadie in the first degree.
 7    -7  7   6   -6  6  -6 6
First degree and second degree.
 6    -6    6  -5-5 5  5    6   6   -5    -5  5  -4
If  you've got any papers will you serve them to me?"
 
 6     -6   6  -5   6   -5     5    5    6    -5  -5  5 
Well they took me down town  and they dressed me in black,
  6  -6  6  6  -5   -5   6  -5   -5   5  -4
They put me on a train and they sent me back.
 6  6 -6  6   6  -5 -5  5   -4
I had no one for to go my bail;
 6      -5   -5   -5  5 5  6   -5  5   -4
They crammed me back into the county jail.
 6   -6   6   -5
Oh, yes they did.
 
  6   -6   6   6   -6 6  5    5     -5   6
The judge and the jury they took their stand.
 6    -6   6   -5  5   5  6  5    -5   -4
The judge had the papers in his right hand.
 -6 -7  7   -7    -6 -7   7   -7
Forty-one days, forty-one nights;
 -6 -7  7    -7   6  6    6   -6   -6  -7    -6
Forty-one years to wear the ball and the stripes;
 7  -6
Oh, no!
 
 6   -6   -7    7   6   -6  -6  6  6   -6
Went out last night to take a little round.
6  -6  6  6   -5 5  5  5   -5    5   -4 
I met little Sadie and I blowed her down.
6  -6   -7    7   6  6   6  -6  6 
I ran right home and I went to bed,
6  -6 6  -6    -5   5   -6 6 -5   6
A forty-four smokeless under my head.