I Shall Be Released

Bob Dylan

Key of A · Chords: I IV V ii iii

Verse 1

A                          Bm
They say everything can be replaced
C#m            D        E      A
They say every distance is not near
A                   Bm
So I remember every face
C#m      D       E      A
Of every man who put me here

Verse 2

A                   Bm
I see my light come shining
C#m      D         E   A
From the west unto the east
A
Any day now, Any day now,
C#m     D  A
I shall be released

Verse 3

They say every man needs protection.
They say that every man must fall.
Yet I swear I see my reflection,
Someplace so high above this wall.

Chorus

Down here next to me in this lonely crowd
Is a man who swears he's not to blame
All day long I hear him cry out so loud,
Calling out that he's been framed