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--------- Boots of Spanish Leather – Bob Dylan --------- Album: The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964) Tabbed by Robert Saunders Standard tuning with capo on 1st fret. Chords: G: 320003 C/G: 3X2013 Em9: 054030 D7/F#: 20021X Em: 022000 Notes: There is a good tab of this song on UG by Eyolf Østrem which seems to have been taken from dylanchords.info. This tab is different but I’ve gone with some of the notes from Eyolf’s tab where I’m unsure. Please post corrections below and I will update the tab. In live recordings Dylan seems to play Em7/D (X54030) instead of Em9, and C major (X3201) instead of D7/F#. These chords can be substituted into this tab to add variation. You can also add variation by adding the 5th string notes, particularly the B note in the Em9 and the C from in C/G chord. I also like to walk up from the Em to the C/G and improvise different picking patterns. The same chords are used (with capo on 3) in Girl from the North Country from the Freewheelin’ album (1963). Intro: G C/G G C/G G E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| B|-----0---------1-----1---------0|-----0h1-------1-----0----------| G|-----------0---------------0----|-----------0---------------0----| D|-----0—------2-------2-------0--|-----0h2-----2-------0-------0--| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-3-------3-------3-------3------| Verse: Em9 D7/F# E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| B|-----0---------------3----------|-----3---------------1----------| G|-----------0---------------0----|-----------0---------------2----| D|-----0-------0-------4-------4--|-----4-------4-------0-------0--| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-3-------3-------0-------0------|-0-------0-------2-------2------| Oh, I'm sailing away my own true love G C/G G Em9 E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| B|-----0---------1-----1---------0|-----0---------------3----------| G|-----------0---------------0----|-----------0---------------0----| D|-----0-------2-------2-------0--|-----0-------0-------4-------4--| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-3-------3-------0-------0------| I'm sailing a- D7/F# G C/G G E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| B|-----0---1-----------3---------1|-----1---------0-----0----------| G|---------------------------0----|-----------0---------------0----| D|-----0-------0-------0-------0--|-----2-------0-------0-------0--| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-0-------2-------3-------3------|-3-------3-------3-------3------| way in the morning Is there [NB In subsequent verses he plays the above D7/F# chord the same as he plays it in first line of the verse.] Em C/G G C/G E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| B|-----0---------------0----------|-----1---------0-----0---------1| G|-----------0---0-----------0----|-----------0---------------0----| D|-----2-------2-------2-------0--|-----2-------0-------0-------2--| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-0-------0-------0-------0------|-3-------3-------3-------3------| something I can send you from a- cross the sea C/G G Em9 D7/F# E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| B|-----1---------0-----0----------|-----3---------------1----------| G|-----------0---------------0----|-----------0---------------2---2| D|-----2-------0-------0-------0--|-----4-------0-------0-------0--| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-0-------0-------2-------2------| From the place that I'll be C/G G D7/F# G E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| B|-----1---------0-----0---------0|-0-----0-1-----1-----0----------| G|-----------0---------------0----|---0-------2---------------0----| D|-----2-------0-------0-------0--|-----0-------0-------0-------0--| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-3-------2-------3-------3------| landing Variations for final two bars of the verse: C/G G D7/F# G E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| B|-----1---------0-----0---------0|-0-----0h1-----1-----0----------| G|-----------0---------------0----|---0-------2---------------0----| D|-----2-------0-------0-------0--|-----0-------0-------0-------0--| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-3-------2-------3-------3------| or: C/G G C/G D7/F# G E|--------------------------------|------(0)-----------------------| B|-----1---------0-----0---------0|h1-----0h1-----1-----0----------| G|-----------0---------------0----|---0-------2---------------0----| D|-----2-------0-------0-------0--|-----2-------0-------0-------0--| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-3-------2-------3-------3------| [NB At the end of the second verse he plays an extra bar of G before going into the third verse.] The final line of the final verse is elongated as follows: C/G G Em9 Em9 E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| B|-----1---------0-----0----------|-----3---------------3----------| G|-----------0---------------0----|-----------0---0-----------0----| D|-----2-------0-------0-------0--|-----4-------0-------4-------0--| A|--------------------------------|---------2---------------2------| E|-3-------3-------3-------3------|-0---------------0--------------| Spanish boots of D7/F# C/G G E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| B|-----1---------------1---------0|-----1---------1-----0---------0| G|-----------2---2-----------2----|-----------0---------------0----| D|-----0-------0-------0-------0--|-----2-------2-------0-------0--| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-2-------2--------2-------2-----|-3-------3-------3-------3------| Spa........ nish leather Outro: C/G D7/F# G Em9 E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| B|h1-----0h1-----1-----0---------0|-----3---------------3---------2| G|---0-------2---------------0----|-----------0---------------0----| D|-----2-------0-------0-------0--|-----4-------4-------4-------4--| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-3-------2-------3-------3------|-0-------0-------0-------0------| Em9 C/G D7/F# G E|--------------------------------|------------3-------------------| B|-----3---------0h1-----0h1------|-----------3--------------------| G|-----------0-------0-------2----|----------0---------------------| D|-----4-------0-------2-------0--|---------0----------------------| A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------| E|-0-------0-------3-------2------|-3------------------------------| Lyrics & Chords: [Each chord below represents half a bar from the tab above apart from G D7/F# at the end of the last line which together are half a bar.]
Oh, I'm Em9 sailin' Em9away my D7/F#own true Glove C/G G I'm Em9sailin' aD7/F#way in the GmorninC/G' G Is there Emsomething I can Emsend you from aC/Gcross the Gsea C/G G Em9 D7/f# G/C G G D7/F# G From the place that I'll be landing?
No, there's nothing you can send me my own true love. There's nothing I'm a-wishin' to be ownin'. Just a-carry yourself back to me unspoiled From across that lonesome ocean. Ah, but I just thought you might want something fine Made of silver or of golden Either from the mountains of Madrid Or the coast of Barcelona. But if I had the stars of the darkest night And the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, For that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'. But I might be gone a long old time, And it's only that I'm askin'. Is there something I can send you to remember me by, To make your time more easy passin'? Oh how can, how can you ask me again? It only brings me sorrow. The same thing I would want today I would want again tomorrow. Oh I got a letter on a lonesome day. It was from her ship a'sailin', Sayin' "I don't know when I'll be comin' back again, It depends on how I'm a-feelin'." If you my love must think that a'way I'm sure your mind is a'roamin'. I'm sure your thoughts are not with me But with the country to where you're goin'. So take heed, take heed of the Western winds. Take heed of the stormy weather. And yes, there's something you can send back to me: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather.