Lirik dan Chord Lagu Goodbye Jimmy Reed - Bob Dylan

Meski sudah berkarier sejak puluhan tahun silam, Bob Dylan masih tetap meluncurkan album baru.

Album Rough and Rowdy Ways menjadi salah satu bukti keaktifan dirinya di industri musik masa kini.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Goodbye Jimmy Reed" dari Bob Dylan.

[Verse 1]
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I live on a street named after a saint
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Women in the churches wear powder and paint ?
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?Where the Jews and the Catholics and Muslims all pray?
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?I can tell a Proddy from a mile away ?
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?Goodbye Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Reed indeed?
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?Gimme that old time religion, it’s just what I need?

[Verse 2]
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?For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory ?
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?Go tell it on the mountain, go tell the real story ?
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?Tell in that straightforward Puritanical tone
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?In the mystic hours, when a person’s alone ?
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?Goodbye Jimmy Reed, Godspeed?
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?Thump on the bible, proclaim a creed?

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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?You won’t amount to much, the people all said
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?Cuz I didn’t play guitar behind my head?
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?Never pandered, never acted proud?
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?Never took off my shoes throw them in the crowds
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?Goodbye Jimmy Reed, goodbye and good night?
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?Put a jewel in your crown and I’ll put out the light ?

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
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?They threw everything at me, everything in the book
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I had nothing to fight with but a butcher’s hook
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They had no pity, they never lent a hand
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I can’t sing a song I don’t understand
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Goodbye Jimmy Reed, goodbye and good luck
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I can’t play the record cuz my needle got stuck

[Verse 5]
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?Transparent woman in a transparent dress
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?Suits you well I must confess
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?I break open your grapes, I suck out the juice
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I need you like my head needs a noose
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Goodbye Jimmy Reed, goodbye and so long
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I thought I could resist her but I was so wrong

[Verse 6]
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?God be with you, brother dear?
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If you don’t mind me asking, what brings you here??
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Ah nothing much, I’m just looking for the man
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Came to see where he’s lying in this lost land
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Goodbye Jimmy Reed, and everything within ya?
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Can’t you hear me calling from down in Virginia

[Outro]
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