Mama Youve Been On My Mind

Written by: Bob Dylan
Demo, recorded ca. 1983
From: "Early Takes, Vol 1"
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Capo 2nd fret
Play: C
Key: D
For chords in original key transpose +2
CHORDS
       E-A-D-G-B-e
C      x-3-2-0-1-3
C/B    x-2-x-0-1-3
Am     x-0-2-2-1-0
Am/G   3-x-2-2-1-0
F      1-3-3-2-1-1
F/E    0-3-3-x-x-x
C/G    3-x-2-0-1-0
D7/F#  2-x-0-2-1-2
G/B    x-2-0-0-0-3
G/E    x-x-2-0-0-3
G/D    x-x-0-0-0-3
G/F    x-x-3-0-0-3

Intro

                   2/4
| C C/B Am Am/G | F F/E F | C/G |
 2/4
| C | G/B  G/E G/D |
| C   C/B | Am   Am/G | F  F/E F | G |

Verse 1

   C
Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat
C/B | Am | % |   | D7/F# | % |
An'  cov'rin'  the crossroads I'm standing at,
   C     C/B      Am      Am/G F   F/E   F    C/G
Or maybe it's the weather or   something like that,
    G/B               G/E G/D [ C ]
But mama, you’re just on  my  mind

Interlude

| C   C/B | Am   Am/G | F  F/E F | G G/E | G/F  G/E G/D |

Verse 2

  C
I don't mean trouble, please don't put me down or get upset,
  C/B   | Am | % | | D7/F# | % |
I am not pleadin' or sayin', "I can't forget"
  C      C/B      Am    Am/G  F        F/E   F   C/G
I do not walk the floor bowed down an' bent, but yet,
G/B            G/E G/D [ C ]
Mama, you been on  my  mind

Interlude

| C   C/B | Am   Am/G | F   F/E F | G G/E | G/F  G/E G/D |

Verse 3

  C
I am not asking you to say words like "yes" or "no,"
       C/B  Am                | D7/F# | % |
Please understand me, I’m not calling for you to go
         C         C/B  Am       Am/G    F        F/E F     C/G
I'm just breathing to myself, pretendin' not that I   don't know,
G/B               G/E G/D [ C ]
Mama, you’re just on  my  mind

Interlude

                    2/4
| C C/B Am Am/G | F F/E F | G G/E | G/F  G/E G/D |

Verse 4

         C
When you wake up in the mornin', baby, look inside your mirror
    C/B   | Am | % |               | D7/F# | % |
You know I won't be next to you, you know I won't be there
            C   C/B    Am      Am/G    F       F/E  F  C/G
I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
   G/B             G/E     G/D   [ C ]
As someone who has had you on his mind

Coda

| C   C/B | Am   Am/G | F   F/E F | G G/E |
G/F             G/E     G/D    C
Someone who has had you on his mind
| C | C C/B | Am | % | D7/F# | % |
   C     C/B      Am      Am/G F   F/E   F    C/G
Or maybe it's the weather or   something like that,
    G/B               G/E G/D [ C ]
But mama, you’re just on  my  mind
                    2/4
| C C/B Am Am/G | F F/E F | G G/E | G/F  G/E G/D | C | C

Coda

This verse, from Dylan's original (between Harrison’s verses 2 and 3),
is left out in Harrison’s version:
Even though my mind is hazy an' my thoughts they might be narrow,
Where you been don't bother me nor bring me down in sorrow
It don't even matter to me where you're wakin' up tomorrow,
But mama, you're just on my mind