North Country Blues Bob Dylan by Daz This is a great song and very simple,there is a little intro and the fill at the end of each verse but you should also hit the note Root of each chord on the beat throughout the song and you can also hammer on this note as well. Don't worry too much about it I'm sure Dylan hardly played it the same way too often.listen to the song and you should get the idea pretty quick. Capo 3rd Fret Fill at the end of each verse played over the chord Come gather 'round friends and I'll tell you a tale Of when the red iron-ore pits ran a-plenty But the cardboard-filled windows and old men on the benches Tell you now that the whole town is empty In the north end of town my own children are grown But I was raised on the other In the wee hours of youth my mother took sick And I was brought up by my brother All iron ore poured as the years passed the door The drag lines and shovels they was a-humming 'Till one day my brother failed to come home The same as my father before him With, a long winter's wait from the window I watched My friends they couldn't have been kinder And my schooling was cut as I quit in the spring To marry John Thomas, a miner the years passed again, and the giving was good With the lunch bucket filled every season What with three babies born, the work was cut down To a half a day's shift with no reason Then the shaft was soon shut, and more work was cut And the fire in the air, it felt frozen 'Till a man come to speak, and he said in one week That number eleven was closing They say in the East, they are paying too high They say that your ore ain't worth digging That it's much cheaper down in the South American towns Where the miners work almost for nothing So the mining gates locked, and the red iron rotted And the room smelled heavy from drinking And the sad, silent song made the hour twice as long As I waited for the sun to go sinking I lived by the window as he talked to himself This silence of tongues it was building 'Till one morning's wake, the bed it was bare And I was left alone with three children The summer is gone, the ground's turning cold The stores one by one they're a folding My children will go as soon as they grow Well, there ain't nothing here now to hold them