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                What Good Am I? - Bob Dylan
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Written by: Bob Dylan
From: "Oh Mercy" (1989)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

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[Intro]
          A        E       A        E          A    E
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B|----------------|--------2-0-2-0-|---------------|--------------|
G|--------2---2-1-|--------2-2-2---|-----------2-2-| 1-------------|
D|--------2---2-2-|----------------|-----------2---| 2-------------|
A|--------0-------|--------0-------|-----------0---|--------------|
E|----------------| 0---------------|0--------------|0-------------|

Lick
  E          A    E 
E|------------0--|-(0)----------|
B|---------------|--------------|
G|-----------2-2-| 1-------------|
D|-----------2---| 2-------------|
A|-----------0---|--------------|
E|0--------------| 0-------------|

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[Intro]
| - A | E  A | E A | E |

[Verse]
E                 A                E       A  E
What good am I if I'm like all the rest   (lick)
      E                     A              E        A  E
If I just turn away, when I see how you're dressed (lick)
     C#m                                 G#m
If I shut myself off so I can't hear you cry
A    E    A  E     A  E
What good am I?   (lick)


[Verse]
E                   A              E       A  E
What good am I if I know and don't do     (lick)
      E                      A                  E      A  E
If I see and don't say, if I look right through you   (lick)
     C#m                               G#m
If I turn a deaf ear to the thunderin' sky
A    E    A  E     A  E
What good am I?   (lick)


[Verse]
E                    A          E      A  E
What good am I while you softly weep  (lick)
      E                        A           E       A  E
And I hear in my head what you say in your sleep  (lick)
      C#m                                          G#m
And I freeze in the moment like the rest who don't try
A    E    A  E     A  E
What good am I?   (lick)


[Middle 8]
     C#m
What good am I then to others and me
        C#m                      G#m
If I've had every chance and yet still fail to see
   C#m
If my hands are tied must I not wonder within
    C#m                   G#m               F#m
Who tied them and why and where must I have been?


[Verse]
E                   A           E       A  E
What good am I if I say foolish things (lick)
      E                    A           E        A  E
And I laugh in the face of what sorrow brings  (lick)
      C#m                                  G#m
And I just turn my back while you silently die 
A    E    A  E     A  E
What good am I?   (lick)


[Coda] solo
     2/4   4/4
| E | A | E   A | E |
     2/4   4/4
| E | A | E    A | E |
        2/4   4/4
| C#m | C#m | G#m | G#m |
        2/4    4/4
| A E |  A |  E    A | E    A | E   A | E    A | E    A | E
                  (lick)   (lick)   lick)   (lick)   (lick)