Wallflower
Words and music Bob Dylan
Recorded Nov 4, 1971 after the sessions for New
Morning (1970), and released on The Bootleg
Series 1-3 (1991)
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem
Either the tape is slow or the instruments have been tuned down a semitone. Either way, the sounding key is F# major, but the tab is in G.
Chords:
Dadd9/c x30230
G6/b x20030
G D G
: . . : . . : . .
|---7-----7---|---6-----5---|-3-------
|-------------|-------------|---------
|-7-----7-----|-6-----5-----|-4------- etc.
|-------------|-------------|---------
|-------------|-------------|---------
|-------------|-------------|---------
G
G
Wallflower, wallflower
C G C/g-G
Won't you dance with me?
D
I'm sad and lonely too.
G
Wallflower, wallflower
C G C/g-G
Won't you dance with me?
G D G
I'm fallin' in love with you.
D G
Just like you I'm wondrin' what I'm doin' here.
A D Dadd9/c G6/b D/a
Just like you I'm wondrin' what's goin' on.
Wallflower, wallflower
Won't you dance with me?
The night will soon be gone.
I have seen you standing in the smoky haze
And I know that you're gonna be mine one of these days,
Mine alone.
Wallflower, wallflower
Take a chance on me.
Please let me ride you home.