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Bob Dylan My Back Pages
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Welcome to my Bob Dylan My Back Pages page you'll find the lyrics to this song, a free pdf chords and lyrics sheet along with tutorial demos and a link to purchase full lessons in .mp4 format.  


Bob Dylan My Back Pages
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My Back Pages was first released back in 1964 from the album "Another Side Of Bob Dylan". It can also be found on "The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration" album from 1993.

The song does not appeared to have been released as a single. The song was never performed live by Dylan until 1988, almost 25 years after it was written.

Artists who have cover versions of this song include Keith Jarrett, The Ramones, The Nice, Steve Earle, Eric Johnson, The Hollies, The Box Tops, America, Jackson Browne, Po!, Joan Osnorne, Marshall Crenshaw, Anna Nalick, Dick Gaughan, La Mancha de Rolando and The Byrds. The 1967 version by The Byrds was their last US top 40 hit song.

My Back Pages Lyrics

Crimson flames tied through my ears, rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon, " said I, proud 'neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now

Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth, "rip down all hate, " I screamed
Lies that life is black and white spoke from my skull, I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers foundationed deep, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now

Girls' faces formed the forward path from phony jealousy
To memorizing politics of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists, unthought of, though somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now

A self-ordained professor's tongue too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty is just equality in school
"Equality, " I spoke the word as if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now

In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach
My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now

Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now

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My Back Pages Tips

As you'll notice in my demo I'm playing this one with a capo on the 2nd fret in a D chord structure so technically in the key of E. The other chords in this one are Bm, Gbm, G and an A7. For a rhythm pattern you can get away with a down down up down up down up and repeat.

I put in a short picking break as best as I can with one guitar as playing lead when using Gbm and Bm while maintaining some sort of rhythm can get a bit odd. This is fully explained in the full tutorial lesson.

Thanks for stopping by my Bob Dylan My Back pages page and I hope the info here was helpful and useful.

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