Dropped D tuning (D-A-d-g-b-e') capo 2nd fret (sounding key E minor) Bob Dylan It's Alright, Ma (i'm Only Bleeding) Lyrics. Album version. It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing. Lyrics to "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" by BOB DYLAN: Darkness at the break of noon / Shadows even the silver spoon / The handmade blade, the child's balloon / Eclipses both the sun and moon / To understand you know too soon / There is no sense in trying. “So don't fear if you hear A foreign sound to your ear It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.” The “it’s alright, ma,” part of the song I think is a device to appeal to a higher power. ... Dylan has done to music in the last 40 years is impossible twie down jus listn to some of these great sometimes funny lyrics. And so the harmonica has been put away, it was only there for the first verses, it now serves no purpose, there is no need to end each verse with its plaintive sound, because we are beyond plaintiveness. About It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and first released on his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. The Byrds - It`s Alright Ma, I`m Only Bleeding Lyrics. It is described by Dylan biographer Howard Sounes as a "grim masterpiece". It is just life. But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Words and music Bob Dylan Released on Bringing It All Back Home (1966) and in live versions on Before the Flood (1974), Budokan (1978) and Live 1964 (2004) Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem. The Lyrics for It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) by Bob Dylan have been translated into 3 languages Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon listen to on the road again its hilarious; Cameron from Pittsburgh, Pa Martijn: Your sources are quite incorrect. It was written in the summer of 1964, first performed live on October 10, 1964, and recorded on January 15, 1965. As some warn victory, some downfall Private reasons great or small Can be seen in the eyes of those that call To make all that should be killed to crawl While others say don't hate nothing at all, except hatred. It's Alright, Ma (i'm Only Bleeding) lyrics performed by Bob Dylan: Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) by Bob Dylan. "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and first released on his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. No copyright infringement intended. Just downloaded the video from: NanchatteDesu and added the lyrics to it. A mother is generally seen as a nurturing figure, and Dylan may be very well distraught with what he’s putting onto paper. It was written in the summer of 1964, first performed live on October 10, 1964, and recorded on January 15, 1965. Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The hand made blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To under