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Song title:      He Was A Friend Of Mine
Original Album:	 The Bootleg Series 1-3 -Rare & Unreleased- 1961-1991.
Other Albums:    Brokeback Mountain Soundtrack (Willie Nelson)
                 ? (Cat Power)
                 Essential Mercury Rev (Mercury Rev, 2006)

Words and Music by (Traditional)
Copyright © 1962 Songs of Universal Inc.
Published by Universal Music Group

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
A traditional song that has been recorded by everyone from Willie Nelson
through Bob Dylan to Cat Power and Mercury Rev.
This transcription is of the Bob Dylan version (by request).

The song is in A, but if you slap a capo on 2, it might arguably make the
chords a little easier... Chords and tab are relative to capo. Timing is 4/4.

Keep the bass-notes going on every beat.


INTRO:

[play: Guitar Figure 1]


Guitar Figure 1

  G7
|---------1-------1--------------|---------1-------1--------------|
|---------0-------0--------------|---------0-------0--------------|
|-----0-------0---------------0--|-----0-------0---------------0--|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-3-------3-------3-------3------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  C/G
|---------0---------------0------|---------0---------------0------|
|---------1---------------1------|---------1---------------1------|
|-----0-------0---------------0--|-----0-------0---------------0--|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------3---------------3------|---------3---------------3------|
|-3---------------3--------------|-3---------------3--------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  F                                C/G
|---------1---------------1------|---------0---------------0------|
|---------1---------------1------|---------1---------------1------|
|-----2-------2---------------2--|-----0-------0---------------0--|
|---------3---------------3------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|---------3---------------3------|
|-1---------------1--------------|-3---------------3--------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  E7                               Am
|---------0---------------0------|---------0---------------0------|
|---------0---------------0------|---------1---------------1------|
|-----1-------1---------------1--|-----2-------2---------------2--|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|---------2---------------2------|-0-------0-------0-------0------|
|-0---------------0--------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  F                                C/G
|---------1---------------1------|---------0---------------0------|
|---------1---------------1------|---------1---------------1------|
|-----2-------2---------------2--|-----0-------0---------------0--|
|---------3---------------3------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|---------3---------------3------|
|-1---------------1--------------|-3---------------3--------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  G7                               C/G
|---------1-------1--------------|---------0-------0--------------|
|---------0-------0--------------|---------1-------1--------------|
|-----0-------0---------------0--|-----0-------0---------------0--|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|---------3---------------3------|
|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-3---------------3--------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|



VERSE1:
Notes:
Play chords as in Guitar Figure 1.

Chords:
G7  320001    E7  020100
C   x32010    Am  x02210
F   x33211    C/G 332010

G7                 C
He was a friend of mine
G7                 C
He was a friend of mine
      F                  C
Every time I think about him
       E7              Am
I just can't keep from cryin'
       C/G       G7        C
'Cause he  was a friend of mine


VERSE2:
G7             C
He died on the road
G7             C
He died on the road
F                    C
  He just kept on movin'
E7                            Am
Never reaped what he he could sow
    C/G      G7        C
And he was a friend of mine


[Harmonica SOLO over these chords:]



4/4| C/G | G F/G | Em/G Dm/G | C |

   | C | G | Dm/G G7 | C |

   | C | F | C | E7 | Am | C/G | % G7 | C | % | 


VERSE3:
Notes:
Play chords as in Guitar Figure 1.

Chords:
G7  320001    E7  020100
C   x32010    Am  x02210
F   x33211    C/G 332010

G7               C
I stole away and cried
G7               C
I stole away and cried
F                            C
 'Cause I never had too much money
  E7                    Am    
I never been quite satisfied
    C/G      G7        C
And he was a friend of mine


VERSE4:
G7               C
He never done no wrong
G7               C
He never done no wrong
F                       C
  A thousand miles from home
    E7                 Am
And he never harmed no one
    C/G                C
And he was a friend of mine


[repeat VERSE1]

[end on C]