“There must be (G5)some kind of way
out of here,”
said the jok er to the thief.
“Too much con fu sion,
I can’t get no
re lief.
Bus’ ness men, they drink my wine
and plow men, they dig my
earth.
None of them a long the line
know (G5)what an y of it’s (F5)worth.”
“No rea son (G)to get ex cit (F)ed,”
the thief, he kind ly spoke.
“There are man (G)y here
a mong us
who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we’ve been through all that, yes, we have, oh, and this is not our fate.
So let us (G)not talk false ly now,
(G)the (Am)ho ur’s
get ting late,
(Am)late.
All a long the watch tow er,
princ es kept the view, (G)oh, while all the wom en, all the wom en, all the wom en came and they went.
Bare foot ser vants, too.
Out side in the cold
dis tance, (G)a wild (G)cat did growl.
La, la, la.
Two rid (G)ers were ap proach ing;
the (A5)wind (CN.C.)be gan to howl.
No rea son (G)to get ex cit ed.
This page shows “All Along The Watchtower” by Dave Matthews Band in our color-coded kid songbook view — every note is colored by pitch (red C, orange D, yellow E, green F, blue G, purple A, pink B) and the lyrics sit directly under each note, so children can sing along while they play. The song is in the key of C at 90 BPM, a medium-difficulty arrangement — try slowing the tempo down using the BPM control.