Level: 2
Tuning: Standard

Often listed as one of Dylan's greatest songs, "Mr. Tambourine Man" was released in 1965 on "Bringing It All Back Home," Dylan's first electric album - an album that raised the bar for pop music, combining rock with surreal and psychedelic poetry. The Byrds jangly rock cover of the song, in the same year, became the first #1 charting Dylan song, and it is often said to have ushered in the folk rock genre that influenced pop music for at least a decade. This fingerpicking version in G has the rhythmic feel of Dylan's recording. The simple, three-chord song is played with easy G, C and D chords with a typical alternating thumb/bass.