Level: 2
Tuning: Standard

The 1964 "Another Side of Bob Dylan" album marked the end of Dylan as a "protest singer." The album included only one political song ("Chimes of Freedom," and even that was impressionistic and not, as Dylan said, "a fingerpointing song." In "My Back Pages," Dylan pointedly rejects his image as "voice of the movement," and apologizes for preaching and assuming he knew everything. From this point on his songs are personal, often ambiguous and filled with psychedelic imagery. Dylan strummed "My Back Pages" in 3/4 time, but this fingerpicked version in G resembles the Byrds rock-style cover of the song, right from the two opening bars. The alternating thumb/bass pattern has a straight time feel, and all the chords are first-position except for a D9 at the 3rd, 4th and 5th frets.