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Boots Of Spanish Leather

Boots of Spanish Leather is a love ballad written and performed by Bob Dylan, featured on his 1964 album The Times They Are a-Changin. The song is a dialogue between two lovers, where one is going abroad and offers to send gifts from the trip, but the other only wishes for their safe return. It is often seen as reflecting Dylans relationship with Suze Rotolo, a significant figure in his life and music, who was in Italy at the time of its writing.

Key: G

Introduction:

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        Em                C         G 
Oh I' m sailin'  away my own true love
     Em       D/F#         G 
I' m sailin'  away in the morning
          Em                              C          G 
is there something I can send you from across the sea
         Em           D/F#     G 
From the place that I' ll be landing?
            Em                            C         G 
No, there' s nothin'  you can send me, my own true love
         Em       D/F#          G 
There' s nothin'  I wish to be ownin' 
      Em                      C       G 
Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled
       Em           D/F#     G 
From across that lonesome ocean.
          Em                       C         G 
Oh, but I just thought you might want something fine
       Em        D/F#     G 
Made of silver or of golden
        Em             C            G 
Either from the mountains of Madrid
         Em           D/F#     G 
Or from the coast of Barcelona?
           Em                         C         G 
Oh, but if I had the stars from the darkest night
         Em                  D/F#     G 
And the diamonds from the deepest ocean
     Em                     C          G 
I' d forsake them all for your sweet kiss
            Em         D/F#         G 
For that' s all I' m wishin'  to be ownin' .
        Em                C       G 
That I might be gone a long time
      Em         D/F#     G 
And it' s only that I' m askin' 
          Em                 C             G 
Is there something I can send you to remember me by
         Em             D/F#    G 
To make your time more easy passin' ?
         Em                C       G 
Oh, how can, how can you ask me again
     Em      D/F#     G 
It only brings me sorrow
         Em                  C      G 
But the same thing I would want today
        Em      D/F#     G 
I would want again tomorrow.
        Em                 C         G 
When I got a letter on a lonesome day
        Em        D/F#     G 
It was from her ship a-sailin' 
        Em                          C           G 
Saying I don' t know when I' ll be comin'  back again
        Em       D/F#     G 
It depends on how I' m a-feelin' .
          Em                   C          G 
Well, if you, my love, must think that-a-way
       Em       D/F#     G 
I' m sure your mind is roamin' 
        Em                    C        G 
I' m sure your thoughts are not with me
            Em             D/F#        G 
But with the country to where you' re goin' .
          Em                     C         G 
So take heed, take heed of the western wind
        Em        D/F#     G 
Take heed of the stormy weather
      Em                              C         G 
And yes, there' s something you can send back to me
          Em        D/F#     G 
Spanish boots of Spanish leather.