[ { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cross-green-mountain/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "‘Cross the Green Mountain", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I crossed the green mountain, I slept by the stream", "Heaven blazin’ in my head, I dreamt a monstrous dream", "Something came up out of the sea", "Swept through the land of the rich and the free" ], [ "I look into the eyes of my merciful friend", "And then I ask myself, is this the end?", "Memories linger, sad yet sweet", "And I think of the souls in heaven who will meet" ], [ "Altars are burning with flames falling wide", "The foe has crossed over from the other side", "They tip their caps from the top of the hill", "You can feel them come, more brave blood to spill" ], [ "Along the dim Atlantic line", "The ravaged land lies for miles behind", "The light’s comin’ forward and the streets are broad", "All must yield to the avenging God" ], [ "The world is old, the world is gray", "Lessons of life can’t be learned in a day", "I watch and I wait and I listen while I stand", "To the music that comes from a far better land" ], [ "Close the eyes of our Captain, peace may he know", "His long night is done, the great leader is laid low", "He was ready to fall, he was quick to defend", "Killed outright he was by his own men" ], [ "It’s the last day’s last hour of the last happy year", "I feel that the unknown world is so near", "Pride will vanish and glory will rot", "But virtue lives and cannot be forgot" ], [ "The bells of evening have rung", "There’s blasphemy on every tongue", "Let them say that I walked in fair nature’s light", "And that I was loyal to truth and to right" ], [ "Serve God and be cheerful, look upward beyond", "Beyond the darkness that masks the surprises of dawn", "In the deep green grasses of the blood stained wood", "They never dreamed of surrendering. They fell where they stood" ], [ "Stars fell over Alabama, I saw each star", "You’re walkin’ in dreams whoever you are", "Chilled are the skies, keen is the frost", "The ground’s froze hard and the morning is lost" ], [ "A letter to mother came today", "Gunshot wound to the breast is what it did say", "But he’ll be better soon he’s in a hospital bed", "But he’ll never be better, he’s already dead" ], [ "I’m ten miles outside the city and I’m lifted away", "In an ancient light that is not of day", "They were calm, they were blunt, we knew ’em all too well", "We loved each other more than we ever dared to tell" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/til-i-fell-love-you/", "album": "Time out of Mind", "year": 1997, "title": "‘Til I Fell in Love with You", "plays": 194, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, my nerves are exploding and my body’s tense", "I feel like the whole world got me pinned up against the fence", "I’ve been hit too hard, I’ve seen too much", "Nothing can heal me now, but your touch", "I don’t know what I’m gonna do", "I was all right ’til I fell in love with you" ], [ "Well, my house is on fire, burning to the sky", "I thought it would rain but the clouds passed by", "Now I feel like I’m coming to the end of my way", "But I know God is my shield and he won’t lead me astray", "Still I don’t know what I’m gonna do", "I was all right ’til I fell in love with you" ], [ "Boys in the street beginning to play", "Girls like birds flying away", "When I’m gone you will remember my name", "I’m gonna win my way to wealth and fame", "I don’t know what I’m gonna do", "I was all right ’til I fell in love with you" ], [ "Junk is piling up, taking up space", "My eyes feel like they’re falling off my face", "Sweat falling down, I’m staring at the floor", "I’m thinking about that girl who won’t be back no more", "I don’t know what I’m gonna do", "I was all right ’til I fell in love with you" ], [ "Well, I’m tired of talking, I’m tired of trying to explain", "My attempts to please you were all in vain", "Tomorrow night before the sun goes down", "If I’m still among the living, I’ll be Dixie bound", "I just don’t know what I’m gonna do", "I was all right ’til I fell in love with you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/10000-men/", "album": "Under the Red Sky", "year": 1990, "title": "10,000 Men", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Ten thousand men on a hill", "Ten thousand men on a hill", "Some of ’m goin’ down, some of ’m gonna get killed" ], [ "Ten thousand men dressed in oxford blue", "Ten thousand men dressed in oxford blue", "Drummin’ in the morning, in the evening they’ll be coming for you" ], [ "Ten thousand men on the move", "Ten thousand men on the move", "None of them doing nothin’ that your mama wouldn’t disapprove" ], [ "Ten thousand men digging for silver and gold", "Ten thousand men digging for silver and gold", "All clean shaven, all coming in from the cold" ], [ "Hey! Who could your lover be?", "Hey! Who could your lover be?", "Let me eat off his head so you can really see!" ], [ "Ten thousand women all dressed in white", "Ten thousand women all dressed in white", "Standin’ at my window wishing me goodnight" ], [ "Ten thousand men looking so lean and frail", "Ten thousand men looking so lean and frail", "Each one of ’m got seven wives, each one of ’m just out of jail" ], [ "Ten thousand women all sweepin’ my room", "Ten thousand women all sweepin’ my room", "Spilling my buttermilk, sweeping it up with a broom" ], [ "Ooh, baby, thank you for my tea!", "Baby, thank you for my tea!", "It’s so sweet of you to be so nice to me" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/2-dollars-and-99-cents/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "2 Dollars and 99 Cents", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/2-x-2/", "album": "Under the Red Sky", "year": 1990, "title": "2 X 2", "plays": 4, "lyrics": [ [ "One by one, they followed the sun", "One by one, until there were none", "Two by two, to their lovers they flew", "Two by two, into the foggy dew", "Three by three, they danced on the sea", "Four by four, they danced on the shore", "Five by five, they tried to survive", "Six by six, they were playing with tricks" ], [ "How many paths did they try and fail?", "How many of their brothers and sisters lingered in jail?", "How much poison did they inhale?", "How many black cats crossed their trail?" ], [ "Seven by seven, they headed for heaven", "Eight by eight, they got to the gate", "Nine by nine, they drank the wine", "Ten by ten, they drank it again" ], [ "How many tomorrows have they given away?", "How many compared to yesterday?", "How many more without any reward?", "How many more can they afford?" ], [ "Two by two, they stepped into the ark", "Two by two, they step in the dark", "Three by three, they’re turning the key", "Four by four, they turn it some more" ], [ "One by one, they follow the sun", "Two by two, to another rendezvous" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/32-20-blues/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "32-20 Blues", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/900-miles-my-home/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "900 Miles from My Home", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/fool-such-i/", "album": "Dylan", "year": 1973, "title": "A Fool Such As I", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hard-rains-gonna-fall/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall", "plays": 457, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?", "Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?", "I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains", "I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways", "I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests", "I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans", "I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard", "And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard", "And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall" ], [ "Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?", "Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?", "I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it", "I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it", "I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’", "I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’", "I saw a white ladder all covered with water", "I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken", "I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children", "And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard", "And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall" ], [ "And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?", "And what did you hear, my darling young one?", "I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’", "Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world", "Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’", "Heard ten thousand whisperin’ and nobody listenin’", "Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin’", "Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter", "Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley", "And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard", "And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall" ], [ "Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?", "Who did you meet, my darling young one?", "I met a young child beside a dead pony", "I met a white man who walked a black dog", "I met a young woman whose body was burning", "I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow", "I met one man who was wounded in love", "I met another man who was wounded with hatred", "And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard", "It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall" ], [ "Oh, what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?", "Oh, what’ll you do now, my darling young one?", "I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’", "I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest", "Where the people are many and their hands are all empty", "Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters", "Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison", "Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden", "Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten", "Where black is the color, where none is the number", "And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it", "And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it", "Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’", "But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’", "And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard", "It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/satisfied-mind/", "album": "Saved", "year": 1980, "title": "A Satisfied Mind", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "How many times have you heard someone say", "If I had his money I'd do things my way", "Hmm, but little they know", "Hmm, it's so hard to find", "One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind." ], [ "Hmm, once I was wadding in fortune and fame", "Everything that I dreamed of to get a start in lifes game", "But suddenly it happened", "Hmm, I lost every dime", "But I'm richer by far with a satisfied mind." ], [ "Hmm, when my life is over and my time has run out", "My friends and my love ones", "I'll leave there ain't no doubt", "But one thing for certain", "When it comes my time", "I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/abandoned-love/", "album": "Biograph", "year": 1985, "title": "Abandoned Love", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I can hear the turning of the key", "I’ve been deceived by the clown inside of me", "I thought that he was righteous but he’s vain", "Oh, something’s a-telling me I wear the ball and chain" ], [ "My patron saint is a-fighting with a ghost", "He’s always off somewhere when I need him most", "The Spanish moon is rising on the hill", "But my heart is a-tellin’ me I love ya still" ], [ "I come back to the town from the flaming moon", "I see you in the streets, I begin to swoon", "I love to see you dress before the mirror", "Won’t you let me in your room one time ’fore I finally disappear?" ], [ "Everybody’s wearing a disguise", "To hide what they’ve got left behind their eyes", "But me, I can’t cover what I am", "Wherever the children go I’ll follow them" ], [ "I march in the parade of liberty", "But as long as I love you I’m not free", "How long must I suffer such abuse", "Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?" ], [ "I’ve given up the game, I’ve got to leave", "The pot of gold is only make-believe", "The treasure can’t be found by men who search", "Whose gods are dead and whose queens are in the church" ], [ "We sat in an empty theater and we kissed", "I asked ya please to cross me off-a your list", "My head tells me it’s time to make a change", "But my heart is telling me I love ya but you’re strange" ], [ "One more time at midnight, near the wall", "Take off your heavy makeup and your shawl", "Won’t you descend from the throne, from where you sit?", "Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/absolutely-sweet-marie/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Absolutely Sweet Marie", "plays": 181, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can’t jump it", "Sometimes it gets so hard, you see", "I’m just sitting here beating on my trumpet", "With all these promises you left for me", "But where are you tonight, sweet Marie?" ], [ "Well, I waited for you when I was half sick", "Yes, I waited for you when you hated me", "Well, I waited for you inside of the frozen traffic", "When you knew I had some other place to be", "Now, where are you tonight, sweet Marie?" ], [ "Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously", "But then, now again, not too many can be like you, fortunately" ], [ "Well, six white horses that you did promise", "Were fin’lly delivered down to the penitentiary", "But to live outside the law, you must be honest", "I know you always say that you agree", "But where are you tonight, sweet Marie?" ], [ "Well, I don’t know how it happened", "But the riverboat captain, he knows my fate", "But ev’rybody else, even yourself", "They’re just gonna have to wait" ], [ "Well, I got the fever down in my pockets", "The Persian drunkard, he follows me", "Yes, I can take him to your house but I can’t unlock it", "You see, you forgot to leave me with the key", "Oh, where are you tonight, sweet Marie?" ], [ "Now, I been in jail when all my mail showed", "That a man can’t give his address out to bad company", "And now I stand here lookin’ at your yellow railroad", "In the ruins of your balcony", "Wond’ring where you are tonight, sweet Marie" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/aint-gonna-go-to-hell-for-anybody/", "album": "", "title": "Ain’t Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody", "plays": 46, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/aint-gonna-grieve/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Ain’t Gonna Grieve", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "Ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "Ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "And ain’t a-gonna grieve no more" ], [ "Come on brothers, join the band", "Come on sisters, clap your hands", "Tell everybody that’s in the land", "You ain’t a-gonna grieve no more" ], [ "Well, I ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "Ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "Ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "And ain’t a-gonna grieve no more" ], [ "Brown and blue and white and black", "All one color on the one-way track", "We got this far and ain’t a-goin’ back", "And I ain’t a-gonna grieve no more" ], [ "Well, I ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "Ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "Ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "I ain’t a-gonna grieve no more" ], [ "We’re gonna notify your next of kin", "You’re gonna raise the roof until the house falls in", "If you get knocked down get up again", "We ain’t a-gonna grieve no more" ], [ "Well, I ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "Ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "Ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "I ain’t a-gonna grieve no more" ], [ "We’ll sing this song all night long", "Sing it to my baby from midnight on", "She’ll sing it to you when I’m dead and gone", "Ain’t a-gonna grieve no more" ], [ "Well, I ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "Ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "Ain’t a-gonna grieve no more, no more", "I ain’t a-gonna grieve no more" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/aint-no-man-righteous-no-not-one/", "album": "", "title": "Ain’t No Man Righteous, No Not One", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "When a man he serves the Lord, it makes his life worthwhile", "It don’t matter ’bout his position, it don’t matter ’bout his lifestyle", "Talk about perfection, I ain’t never seen none", "And there ain’t no man righteous, no not one" ], [ "Sometimes the devil likes to drive you from the neighborhood", "He’ll even work his ways through those whose intentions are good", "Some like to worship on the moon, others are worshipping the sun", "And there ain’t no man righteous, no not one" ], [ "Look around, ya see so many social hypocrites", "Like to make rules for others while they do just the opposite" ], [ "You can’t get to glory by the raising and the lowering of no flag", "Put your goodness next to God’s and it comes out like a filthy rag", "In a city of darkness there’s no need of the sun", "And there ain’t no man righteous, no not one" ], [ "Done so many evil things in the name of love, it’s a crying shame", "I never did see no fire that could put out a flame" ], [ "Pull your hat down, baby, pull the wool down over your eyes", "Keep a-talking, baby, ’til you run right out of alibis", "Someday you’ll account for all the deeds that you done", "Well, there ain’t no man righteous, no not one" ], [ "God got the power, man has got his vanity", "Man gotta choose before God can set him free", "Don’t you know there’s nothing new that’s under the sun?", "Well, there ain’t no man righteous, no not one" ], [ "When I’m gone don’t wonder where I be", "Just say that I trusted in God and that Christ was in me", "Say He defeated the devil, He was God’s chosen Son", "And that there ain’t no man righteous, no not one" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/aint-no-more-cane/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Ain’t No More Cane", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Ain't no more cane on the brazos", "Oh, oh, oh, oh...", "Its all been ground down to molasses", "Oh, oh- oh, oh- oh..." ], [ "You shoulda been on the river in 1910", "They were driving the women just like they drove the men." ], [ "Go down old hannah, don'cha rise no more", "Don't you rise up til judgment day's for sure" ], [ "Ain't no more cane on the brazos", "Its all been ground down to molasses" ], [ "Captain, don't you do me like you done poor old shine", "Well ya drove that bully til he went stone blind" ], [ "Wake up on a lifetime, hold up your own head", "Well you may get a pardon and then you might drop dead" ], [ "Ain't no more cane on the brazos", "Its all been ground down to molasses." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/aint-talkin/", "album": "Modern Times", "year": 2006, "title": "Ain’t Talkin’", "plays": 118, "lyrics": [ [ "As I walked out tonight in the mystic garden", "The wounded flowers were dangling from the vines", "I was passing by yon cool and crystal fountain", "Someone hit me from behind" ], [ "Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’", "Through this weary world of woe", "Heart burnin’, still yearnin’", "No one on earth would ever know" ], [ "They say prayer has the power to help", "So pray for me mother", "In the human heart an evil spirit can dwell", "I’m trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others", "But oh, mother, things ain’t going well" ], [ "Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’", "I’ll burn that bridge before you can cross", "Heart burnin’, still yearnin’", "They’ll be no mercy for you once you’ve lost" ], [ "Now I’m all worn down by weepin’", "My eyes are filled with tears, my lips are dry", "If I catch my opponents ever sleepin’", "I’ll just slaughter them where they lie" ], [ "Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’", "Through a world mysterious and vague", "Heart burnin’, still yearnin’", "Walking through the cities of the plague" ], [ "The whole world is filled with speculation", "The whole wide world which people say is round", "They will tear your mind away from contemplation", "They will jump on your misfortune when you’re down" ], [ "Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’", "Eatin’ hog-eyed grease in hog-eyed town", "Heart burnin’, still yearnin’", "Someday you’ll be glad to have me around" ], [ "They will crush you with wealth and power", "Every waking moment you could crack", "I’ll make the most of one last extra hour", "I’ll avenge my father’s death then I’ll step back" ], [ "Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’", "Hand me down my walkin’ cane", "Heart burnin’, still yearnin’", "Got to get you out of my miserable brain" ], [ "It’s bright in the heavens and the wheels are flying", "Fame and honor never seem to fade", "The fire’s gone out but the light is never dying", "Who says I can’t get heavenly aid?" ], [ "Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’", "Carrying a dead man’s shield", "Heart burnin’, still yearnin’", "Walkin’ with a toothache in my heel" ], [ "The suffering is unending", "Every nook and cranny has its tears", "I’m not playing, I’m not pretending", "I’m not nursing any superfluous fears" ], [ "Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’", "Walkin’ ever since the other night", "Heart burnin’, still yearnin’", "Walkin’ ’til I’m clean out of sight" ], [ "As I walked out in the mystic garden", "On a hot summer day, hot summer lawn", "Excuse me, ma’am, I beg your pardon", "There’s no one here, the gardener is gone" ], [ "Ain’t talkin’, just walkin’", "Up the road around the bend", "Heart burnin’, still yearnin’", "In the last outback, at the world’s end" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/alberta-1/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Alberta #1", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Alberta let your hair hang low", "Alberta let your hair hang low", "I'll give you more gold", "Than your apron can hold", "If you'd only let your hair hang low" ], [ "Alberta what's on your mind", "Alberta what's on your mind", "You keep me worried and bothered", "All of the time", "Alberta what's on your mind" ], [ "Alberta don't you treat me unkind", "Alberta don't you treat me unkind", "Oh my heart is so sad", "Cause I want you so bad", "Alberta don't you treat me unkind" ], [ "Alberta let your hair hang low", "Alberta let your hair hang low", "I'll give you more gold", "Than your apron can hold", "If you'll only let your hair hang low" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/alberta-2/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Alberta #2", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Alberta let your hair hang low", "Alberta let your hair hang low", "I'll give you more gold", "Than your apron can hold", "If you'd only let your hair hang low" ], [ "Alberta what's on your mind", "Alberta what's on your mind", "You keep me worried and bothered", "All of the time", "Alberta what's on your mind" ], [ "Alberta don't you treat me unkind", "Alberta don't you treat me unkind", "Oh my heart is so sad", "Cause I want you so bad", "Alberta don't you treat me unkind" ], [ "Alberta let your hair hang low", "Alberta let your hair hang low", "I'll give you more gold", "Than your apron can hold", "If you'll only let your hair hang low" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/alberta-3/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait", "year": 2013, "title": "Alberta #3", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-along-watchtower/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "All Along the Watchtower", "plays": 2268, "lyrics": [ [ "“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief", "“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief", "Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth", "None of them along the line know what any of it is worth”" ], [ "“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke", "“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke", "But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate", "So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late”" ], [ "All along the watchtower, princes kept the view", "While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too" ], [ "Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl", "Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-american-boy/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "All American Boy", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-i-really-want-do/", "album": "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "year": 1964, "title": "All I Really Want to Do", "plays": 102, "lyrics": [ [ "I ain’t lookin’ to compete with you", "Beat or cheat or mistreat you", "Simplify you, classify you", "Deny, defy or crucify you", "All I really want to do", "Is, baby, be friends with you" ], [ "No, and I ain’t lookin’ to fight with you", "Frighten you or tighten you", "Drag you down or drain you down", "Chain you down or bring you down", "All I really want to do", "Is, baby, be friends with you" ], [ "I ain’t lookin’ to block you up", "Shock or knock or lock you up", "Analyze you, categorize you", "Finalize you or advertise you", "All I really want to do", "Is, baby, be friends with you" ], [ "I don’t want to straight-face you", "Race or chase you, track or trace you", "Or disgrace you or displace you", "Or define you or confine you", "All I really want to do", "Is, baby, be friends with you" ], [ "I don’t want to meet your kin", "Make you spin or do you in", "Or select you or dissect you", "Or inspect you or reject you", "All I really want to do", "Is, baby, be friends with you" ], [ "I don’t want to fake you out", "Take or shake or forsake you out", "I ain’t lookin’ for you to feel like me", "See like me or be like me", "All I really want to do", "Is, baby, be friends with you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-or-nothing-at-all/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "All Or Nothing At All", "plays": 122, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-over-you/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "All Over You", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, if I had to do it all over again", "Babe, I’d do it all over you", "And if I had to wait for ten thousand years", "Babe, I’d even do that too", "Well, a dog’s got his bone in the alley", "A cat, she’s got nine lives", "A millionaire’s got a million dollars", "King Saud’s got four hundred wives", "Well, ev’rybody’s got somethin’", "That they’re lookin’ forward to", "I’m lookin’ forward to when I can do it all again", "And babe, I’ll do it all over you" ], [ "Well, if I had my way tomorrow or today", "Babe, I’d run circles all around", "I’d jump up in the wind, do a somersault and spin", "I’d even dance a jig on the ground", "Well, everybody gets their hour", "Everybody gets their time", "Little David when he picked up his pebbles", "Even Sampson after he went blind", "Well, everybody gets the chance", "To do what they want to do", "When my time arrives you better run for your life", "’Cause babe, I’ll do it all over you" ], [ "Well, I don’t need no money, I just need a day that’s sunny", "Baby, and my days are gonna come", "And I grab me a pint, you know that I’m a giant", "When you hear me yellin’, “Fee-fi-fo-fum”", "Well, you cut me like a jigsaw puzzle", "You made me to a walkin’ wreck", "Then you pushed my heart through my backbone", "Then you knocked off my head from my neck", "Well, if I’m ever standin’ steady", "A-doin’ what I want to do", "Well, I tell you little lover that you better run for cover", "’Cause babe, I’ll do it all over you" ], [ "I’m just restin’ at your gate so that I won’t be late", "And, momma, I’m a-just sittin’ on the shelf", "Look out your window fair and you’ll see me squattin’ there", "Just a-fumblin’ and a-mumblin’ to myself", "Well, after my cigarette’s been smoked up", "After all my liquor’s been drunk", "After my dreams are dreamed out", "After all my thoughts have been thunk", "Well, after I do some of these things", "I’m gonna do what I have to do", "And I tell you on the side, that you better run and hide", "’Cause babe, I’ll do it all over you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-tired-horses/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "All the Tired Horses", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "All the tired horses in the sun", "How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-the-way/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "All the Way", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-you-have-do-dream/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "All You Have to Do is Dream", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/angelina/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Angelina", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, it’s always been my nature to take chances", "My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances", "Where the current is strong and the monkey dances", "To the tune of a concertina" ], [ "Blood dryin’ in my yellow hair as I go from shore to shore", "I know what it is that has drawn me to your door", "But whatever it could be, makes me think you’ve seen me before", "Angelina" ], [ "Oh, Angelina. Oh, Angelina" ], [ "His eyes were two slits that would make a snake proud", "With a face that any painter would paint as he walked through the crowd", "Worshipping a god with the body of a woman well endowed", "And the head of a hyena" ], [ "Do I need your permission to turn the other cheek?", "If you can read my mind, why must I speak?", "No, I have heard nothing about the man that you seek", "Angelina" ], [ "Oh, Angelina. Oh, Angelina" ], [ "In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode", "The peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed", "I was only following instructions when the judge sent me down the road", "With your subpoena" ], [ "When you cease to exist, then who will you blame", "I’ve tried my best to love you but I cannot play this game", "Your best friend and my worst enemy is one and the same", "Angelina" ], [ "Oh, Angelina. Oh, Angelina" ], [ "There’s a black Mercedes rollin’ through the combat zone", "Your servants are half dead, you’re down to the bone", "Tell me, tall men, where would you like to be overthrown", "Maybe down in Jerusalem or Argentina?" ], [ "She was stolen from her mother when she was three days old", "Now her vengeance has been satisfied and her possessions have been sold", "He’s surrounded by God’s angels and she’s wearin’ a blindfold", "And so are you, Angelina" ], [ "Oh, Angelina. Oh, Angelina" ], [ "I see pieces of men marching, trying to take heaven by force", "I can see the unknown rider, I can see the pale white horse", "In God’s truth tell me what you want and you’ll have it of course", "Just step into the arena" ], [ "Beat a path of retreat up them spiral staircases", "Pass the tree of smoke, pass the angel with four faces", "Begging God for mercy and weepin’ in unholy places", "Angelina" ], [ "Oh, Angelina. Oh, Angelina" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/annie-s-going-sing-her-song/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait", "year": 2013, "title": "Annie’s Going to Sing Her Song", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/another-man-done-gone/", "album": "", "title": "Another Man Done Gone", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/any-time/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Any Time", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/apple-suckling-tree/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Apple Suckling Tree", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Old man sailin’ in a dinghy boat", "Down there", "Old man down is baitin’ a hook", "On there", "Gonna pull man down on a suckling hook", "Gonna pull man into the suckling brook", "Oh yeah!" ], [ "Now, he’s underneath that apple suckling tree", "Oh yeah!", "Under that apple suckling tree", "Oh yeah!", "That’s underneath that tree", "There’s gonna be just you and me", "Underneath that apple suckling tree", "Oh yeah!" ], [ "I push him back and I stand in line", "Oh yeah!", "Then I hush my Sadie and stand in line", "Oh yeah!", "Then I hush my Sadie and stand in line", "I get on board in two-eyed time", "Oh yeah!" ], [ "Under that apple suckling tree", "Oh yeah!", "Under that apple suckling tree", "Oh yeah!", "Underneath that tree", "There’s just gonna be you and me", "Underneath that apple suckling tree", "Oh yeah!" ], [ "Now, who’s on the table, who’s to tell me?", "Oh yeah!", "Who’s on the table, who’s to tell me?", "Oh yeah!", "Who should I tell, oh, who should I tell?", "The forty-nine of you like bats out of hell", "Oh underneath that old apple suckling tree" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/are-you-ready/", "album": "Saved", "year": 1980, "title": "Are You Ready?", "plays": 30, "lyrics": [ [ "Are you ready, are you ready?", "Are you ready, are you ready?" ], [ "Are you ready to meet Jesus?", "Are you where you ought to be?", "Will He know you when He sees you", "Or will He say, “Depart from Me”?" ], [ "Are you ready, hope you’re ready", "Am I ready, am I ready?", "Am I ready, am I ready?" ], [ "Am I ready to lay down my life for the brethren", "And to take up my cross?", "Have I surrendered to the will of God", "Or am I still acting like the boss?" ], [ "Am I ready, hope I’m ready" ], [ "When destruction cometh swiftly", "And there’s no time to say a fare-thee-well", "Have you decided whether you want to be", "In heaven or in hell?" ], [ "Are you ready, are you ready?" ], [ "Have you got some unfinished business?", "Is there something holding you back?", "Are you thinking for yourself", "Or are you following the pack?" ], [ "Are you ready, hope you’re ready", "Are you ready?" ], [ "Are you ready for the judgment?", "Are you ready for that terrible swift sword?", "Are you ready for Armageddon?", "Are you ready for the day of the Lord?" ], [ "Are you ready, I hope you’re ready" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/arthur-mcbride/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Arthur McBride", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, me and my cousin, one Arthur McBride,", "As we went a-walkin' down by the seaside,", "Mark now what followed and what did betide,", "For it bein' on Christmas mornin'", "Now, for recreation, we went on a tramp,", "And we met Sergeant Napper and Corporal Vamp", "And a little wee drummer intending to camp,", "For the day bein' pleasant and charmin'." ], [ "\"Good morning, good morning,\" the Sergeant he cried.", "\"And the same to you, gentlemen,\" we did reply,", "Intending no harm but meant to pass by,", "For it bein' on Christmas mornin'", "\"But,\" says he, \"My fine fellows, if you will enlist,", "Ten guineas in gold I'll stick to your fist,", "And a crown in the bargain for to kick up the dust,", "And drink the king's health in the morning." ], [ "\"For a soldier, he leads a very fine life,", "And he always is blessed with a charming young wife,", "And he pays all his debts without sorrow or strife,", "And he always lives pleasant and charmin',", "And a soldier, he always is decent and clean,", "In the finest of clothing he's constantly seen.", "While other poor fellows go dirty and mean,", "And sup on thin gruel in the morning.\"" ], [ "\"But,\" says Arthur, \"I wouldn't be proud of your clothes,", "For you've only the lend of them, as I suppose,", "But you dare not change them one night, for you know", "If you do, you'll be flogged in the morning,", "And although that we're single and free,", "We take great delight in our own company,", "We have no desire strange places to see,", "Although that your offers are charming." ], [ "\"And we have no desire to take your advance,", "All hazards and dangers we barter on chance,", "For you'd have no scruples for to send us to France,", "Where we would get shot without warning,\"", "\"Oh no,\" says the Sergeant. \"I'll have no such chat,", "And neither will I take it from snappy young brats,", "For if you insult me with one other word,", "I'll cut off your heads in the morning.\"" ], [ "And Arthur and I, we soon drew our hogs,", "And we scarce gave them time to draw their own blades", "When a trusty shillelagh came over their head", "And bid them take that as fair warning.", "And their old rusty rapiers that hung by their sides,", "We flung them as far as we could in the tide,", "\"Now take them up, devils!\" cried Arthur McBride,", "\"And temper their edge in the mornin'!\"" ], [ "And the little wee drummer, we flattened his bow,", "And we made a football of his rowdy-dow-dow,", "Threw it in the tide for to rock and to roll,", "And bade it a tedious returning,", "And we havin' no money, paid them off in cracks.", "We paid no respect to their two bloody backs,", "And we lathered them there like a pair of wet sacks,", "And left them for dead in the morning." ], [ "And so, to conclude and to finish disputes,", "We obligingly asked if they wanted recruits,", "For we were the lads who would give them hard clouts", "And bid them look sharp in the mornin'." ], [ "Oh, me and my cousin, one Arthur McBride,", "As we went a-walkin' down by the seaside,", "Mark now what followed and what did betide,", "For it bein' on Christmas mornin'" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-went-out-one-morning/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "As I Went Out One Morning", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "As I went out one morning", "To breathe the air around Tom Paine’s", "I spied the fairest damsel", "That ever did walk in chains", "I offer’d her my hand", "She took me by the arm", "I knew that very instant", "She meant to do me harm" ], [ "“Depart from me this moment”", "I told her with my voice", "Said she, “But I don’t wish to”", "Said I, “But you have no choice”", "“I beg you, sir,” she pleaded", "From the corners of her mouth", "“I will secretly accept you", "And together we’ll fly south”" ], [ "Just then Tom Paine, himself", "Came running from across the field", "Shouting at this lovely girl", "And commanding her to yield", "And as she was letting go her grip", "Up Tom Paine did run,", "“I’m sorry, sir,” he said to me", "“I’m sorry for what she’s done”" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/autumn-leaves/", "album": "Shadows in the Night", "year": 2015, "title": "Autumn Leaves", "plays": 203, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/baby-aint-fine/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Baby Ain’t That Fine", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/baby-im-mood-you/", "album": "Biograph", "year": 1985, "title": "Baby, I’m in the Mood for You", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I wanna leave my lonesome home", "And sometimes I’m in the mood, I wanna hear my milk cow moan", "And sometimes I’m in the mood, I wanna hit that highway road", "But then again, but then again, I said oh, I said oh, I said", "Oh babe, I’m in the mood for you" ], [ "Sometimes I’m in the mood, Lord, I had my overflowin’ fill", "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I’m gonna make out my final will", "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I’m gonna head for the walkin’ hill", "But then again, but then again, I said oh, I said oh, I said", "Oh babe, I’m in the mood for you" ], [ "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I wanna lay right down and die", "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I wanna climb up to the sky", "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I’m gonna laugh until I cry", "But then again, I said again, I said again, I said", "Oh babe, I’m in the mood for you" ], [ "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I’m gonna sleep in my pony’s stall", "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I ain’t gonna do nothin’ at all", "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I wanna fly like a cannonball", "But then again, but then again, I said oh, I said oh, I said", "Oh babe, I’m in the mood for you" ], [ "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I wanna back up against the wall", "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I wanna run till I have to crawl", "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I ain’t gonna do nothin’ at all", "But then again, but then again, I said oh, I said oh, I said", "Oh babe, I’m in the mood for you" ], [ "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I wanna change my house around", "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I’m gonna make a change in this here town", "Sometimes I’m in the mood, I’m gonna change the world around", "But then again, but then again, I said oh, I said oh, I said", "Oh babe, I’m in the mood for you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/baby-let-me-follow-you-down/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down", "plays": 22, "lyrics": [ [ "I first heard this from Ric von Schmidt. He lives in Cambridge.", "Ric is a blues guitarplayer. I met him one day on", "The green pastures of the Harvard University. -" ], [ "Baby let me follow you down, baby let me follow you down", "Well I'll do anything in this godalmighty world", "If you just let me follow you down." ], [ "Can I come home with you, baby can I come home with you ?", "Yes I'll do anything in this godalmighty world", "If you just let me come home with you." ], [ "Baby let me follow you down, baby let me follow you down", "Well I'll do anything in this godalmighty world", "If you just let me follow you down." ], [ "Yes I'll do anything in this godalmighty world", "If you just let me follow you down." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/baby-stop-crying/", "album": "Street-Legal", "year": 1978, "title": "Baby, Stop Crying", "plays": 39, "lyrics": [ [ "You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe", "But you’re back where you belong", "Go get me my pistol, babe", "Honey, I can’t tell right from wrong" ], [ "Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying", "Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying", "Baby, please stop crying", "You know, I know, the sun will always shine", "So baby, please stop crying ’cause it’s tearing up my mind" ], [ "Go down to the river, babe", "Honey, I will meet you there", "Go down to the river, babe", "Honey, I will pay your fare" ], [ "Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying", "Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying", "Baby, please stop crying", "You know, I know, the sun will always shine", "So baby, please stop crying ’cause it’s tearing up my mind" ], [ "If you’re looking for assistance, babe", "Or if you just want some company", "Or if you just want a friend you can talk to", "Honey, come and see about me" ], [ "Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying", "Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying", "Baby, please stop crying", "You know, I know, the sun will always shine", "So baby, please stop crying ’cause it’s tearing up my mind" ], [ "You been hurt so many times", "And I know what you’re thinking of", "Well, I don’t have to be no doctor, babe", "To see that you’re madly in love" ], [ "Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying", "Baby, please stop crying, stop crying, stop crying", "Baby, please stop crying", "You know, I know, the sun will always shine", "So baby, please stop crying ’cause it’s tearing up my mind" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/baby-wont-you-be-my-baby/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "Baby, Won’t You Be My Baby", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ballad-friend/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Ballad for a Friend", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Sad I’m a-sittin’ on the railroad track", "Watchin’ that old smokestack", "Train is a-leavin’ but it won’t be back" ], [ "Years ago we hung around", "Watchin’ trains roll through the town", "Now that train is a-graveyard bound" ], [ "Where we go up in that North Country", "Lakes and streams and mines so free", "I had no better friend than he" ], [ "Something happened to him that day", "I thought I heard a stranger say", "I hung my head and stole away" ], [ "A diesel truck was rollin’ slow", "Pullin’ down a heavy load", "It left him on a Utah road" ], [ "They carried him back to his home town", "His mother cried, his sister moaned", "Listenin’ to them church bells tone" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ballad-plain-d/", "album": "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "year": 1964, "title": "Ballad in Plain D", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze", "With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn", "I courted her proudly but now she is gone", "Gone as the season she’s taken" ], [ "Through young summer’s breeze, I stole her away", "From her mother and sister, though close did they stay", "Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day", "With strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us" ], [ "Of the two sisters, I loved the young", "With sensitive instincts, she was the creative one", "The constant scapegoat, she was easily undone", "By the jealousy of others around her" ], [ "For her parasite sister, I had no respect", "Bound by her boredom, her pride to protect", "Countless visions of the other she’d reflect", "As a crutch for her scenes and her society" ], [ "Myself, for what I did, I cannot be excused", "The changes I was going through can’t even be used", "For the lies that I told her in hopes not to lose", "The could-be dream-lover of my lifetime" ], [ "With unknown consciousness, I possessed in my grip", "A magnificent mantelpiece, though its heart being chipped", "Noticing not that I’d already slipped", "To a sin of love’s false security" ], [ "From silhouetted anger to manufactured peace", "Answers of emptiness, voice vacancies", "Till the tombstones of damage read me no questions but, “Please", "What’s wrong and what’s exactly the matter?”" ], [ "And so it did happen like it could have been foreseen", "The timeless explosion of fantasy’s dream", "At the peak of the night, the king and the queen", "Tumbled all down into pieces" ], [ "“The tragic figure!” her sister did shout", "“Leave her alone, God damn you, get out!”", "And I in my armor, turning about", "And nailing her to the ruins of her pettiness" ], [ "Beneath a bare lightbulb the plaster did pound", "Her sister and I in a screaming battleground", "And she in between, the victim of sound", "Soon shattered as a child ’neath her shadows" ], [ "All is gone, all is gone, admit it, take flight", "I gagged twice, doubled, tears blinding my sight", "My mind it was mangled, I ran into the night", "Leaving all of love’s ashes behind me" ], [ "The wind knocks my window, the room it is wet", "The words to say I’m sorry, I haven’t found yet", "I think of her often and hope whoever she’s met", "Will be fully aware of how precious she is" ], [ "Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me", "“How good, how good does it feel to be free?”", "And I answer them most mysteriously", "“Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?”" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ballad-thin-man/", "album": "Highway 61 Revisited", "year": 1965, "title": "Ballad of a Thin Man", "plays": 1253, "lyrics": [ [ "You walk into the room", "With your pencil in your hand", "You see somebody naked", "And you say, “Who is that man?”", "You try so hard", "But you don’t understand", "Just what you’ll say", "When you get home" ], [ "Because something is happening here", "But you don’t know what it is", "Do you, Mister Jones?" ], [ "You raise up your head", "And you ask, “Is this where it is?”", "And somebody points to you and says", "“It’s his”", "And you say, “What’s mine?”", "And somebody else says, “Where what is?”", "And you say, “Oh my God", "Am I here all alone?”" ], [ "Because something is happening here", "But you don’t know what it is", "Do you, Mister Jones?" ], [ "You hand in your ticket", "And you go watch the geek", "Who immediately walks up to you", "When he hears you speak", "And says, “How does it feel", "To be such a freak?”", "And you say, “Impossible”", "As he hands you a bone" ], [ "Because something is happening here", "But you don’t know what it is", "Do you, Mister Jones?" ], [ "You have many contacts", "Among the lumberjacks", "To get you facts", "When someone attacks your imagination", "But nobody has any respect", "Anyway they already expect you", "To just give a check", "To tax-deductible charity organizations" ], [ "You’ve been with the professors", "And they’ve all liked your looks", "With great lawyers you have", "Discussed lepers and crooks", "You’ve been through all of", "F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books", "You’re very well read", "It’s well known" ], [ "Because something is happening here", "But you don’t know what it is", "Do you, Mister Jones?" ], [ "Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you", "And then he kneels", "He crosses himself", "And then he clicks his high heels", "And without further notice", "He asks you how it feels", "And he says, “Here is your throat back", "Thanks for the loan”" ], [ "Because something is happening here", "But you don’t know what it is", "Do you, Mister Jones?" ], [ "Now you see this one-eyed midget", "Shouting the word “NOW”", "And you say, “For what reason?”", "And he says, “How?”", "And you say, “What does this mean?”", "And he screams back, “You’re a cow", "Give me some milk", "Or else go home”" ], [ "Because something is happening here", "But you don’t know what it is", "Do you, Mister Jones?" ], [ "Well, you walk into the room", "Like a camel and then you frown", "You put your eyes in your pocket", "And your nose on the ground", "There ought to be a law", "Against you comin’ around", "You should be made", "To wear earphones" ], [ "Because something is happening here", "But you don’t know what it is", "Do you, Mister Jones?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ballad-of-donald-white/", "album": "", "title": "Ballad of Donald White", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "My name is Donald White, you see", "I stand before you all", "I was judged by you a murderer", "And the hangman’s knot must fall", "I will die upon the gallows pole", "When the moon is shining clear", "And these are my final words", "That you will ever hear" ], [ "I left my home in Kansas", "When I was very young", "I landed in the old Northwest", "Seattle, Washington", "Although I’d a-traveled many miles", "I never made a friend", "For I could never get along in life", "With people that I met" ], [ "If I had some education", "To give me a decent start", "I might have been a doctor or", "A master in the arts", "But I used my hands for stealing", "When I was very young", "And they locked me down in jailhouse cells", "That’s how my life begun" ], [ "Oh, the inmates and the prisoners", "I found they were my kind", "And it was there inside the bars", "I found my peace of mind", "But the jails they were too crowded", "Institutions overflowed", "So they turned me loose to walk upon", "Life’s hurried tangled road" ], [ "And there’s danger on the ocean", "Where the salt sea waves split high", "And there’s danger on the battlefield", "Where the shells of bullets fly", "And there’s danger in this open world", "Where men strive to be free", "And for me the greatest danger", "Was in society" ], [ "So I asked them to send me back", "To the institution home", "But they said they were too crowded", "For me they had no room", "I got down on my knees and begged", "“Oh, please put me away”", "But they would not listen to my plea", "Or nothing I would say" ], [ "And so it was on Christmas Eve", "In the year of ’59", "It was on that night I killed a man", "I did not try to hide", "The jury found me guilty", "And I won’t disagree", "For I knew that it would happen", "If I wasn’t put away" ], [ "And I’m glad I’ve had no parents", "To care for me or cry", "For now they will never know", "The horrible death I die", "And I’m also glad I’ve had no friends", "To see me in disgrace", "For they’ll never see that hangman’s hood", "Wrap around my face" ], [ "Farewell unto the old north woods", "Of which I used to roam", "Farewell unto the crowded bars", "Of which’ve been my home", "Farewell to all you people", "Who think the worst of me", "I guess you’ll feel much better when", "I’m on that hanging tree" ], [ "But there’s just one question", "Before they kill me dead", "I’m wondering just how much", "To you I really said", "Concerning all the boys that come", "Down a road like me", "Are they enemies or victims", "Of your society?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ballad-hollis-brown/", "album": "The Times They Are A-Changin’", "year": 1964, "title": "Ballad of Hollis Brown", "plays": 211, "lyrics": [ [ "Hollis Brown", "He lived on the outside of town", "Hollis Brown", "He lived on the outside of town", "With his wife and five children", "And his cabin fallin’ down" ], [ "You looked for work and money", "And you walked a rugged mile", "You looked for work and money", "And you walked a rugged mile", "Your children are so hungry", "That they don’t know how to smile" ], [ "Your baby’s eyes look crazy", "They’re a-tuggin’ at your sleeve", "Your baby’s eyes look crazy", "They’re a-tuggin’ at your sleeve", "You walk the floor and wonder why", "With every breath you breathe" ], [ "The rats have got your flour", "Bad blood it got your mare", "The rats have got your flour", "Bad blood it got your mare", "If there’s anyone that knows", "Is there anyone that cares?" ], [ "You prayed to the Lord above", "Oh please send you a friend", "You prayed to the Lord above", "Oh please send you a friend", "Your empty pockets tell yuh", "That you ain’t a-got no friend" ], [ "Your babies are crying louder", "It’s pounding on your brain", "Your babies are crying louder now", "It’s pounding on your brain", "Your wife’s screams are stabbin’ you", "Like the dirty drivin’ rain" ], [ "Your grass it is turning black", "There’s no water in your well", "Your grass is turning black", "There’s no water in your well", "You spent your last lone dollar", "On seven shotgun shells" ], [ "Way out in the wilderness", "A cold coyote calls", "Way out in the wilderness", "A cold coyote calls", "Your eyes fix on the shotgun", "That’s hangin’ on the wall" ], [ "Your brain is a-bleedin’", "And your legs can’t seem to stand", "Your brain is a-bleedin’", "And your legs can’t seem to stand", "Your eyes fix on the shotgun", "That you’re holdin’ in your hand" ], [ "There’s seven breezes a-blowin’", "All around the cabin door", "There’s seven breezes a-blowin’", "All around the cabin door", "Seven shots ring out", "Like the ocean’s pounding roar" ], [ "There’s seven people dead", "On a South Dakota farm", "There’s seven people dead", "On a South Dakota farm", "Somewhere in the distance", "There’s seven new people born" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/band-of-the-hand-its-hell-time-man/", "album": "", "title": "Band of the Hand (It’s Hell Time Man!)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand" ], [ "Down these streets the fools rule", "There’s no freedom or self respect", "A knife’s point or a trip to the joint", "Is about all you can expect" ], [ "They kill people here who stand up for their rights", "The system’s just too damned corrupt", "It’s always the same, the name of the game", "Is who do you know higher up" ], [ "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand" ], [ "The blacks and the whites", "Steal the other kids’ lives", "Wealth is a filthy rag", "So erotic so unpatriotic", "So wrapped up in the American flag" ], [ "The witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb", "Turns children into crooks and slaves", "Whose heroes and healers are real stoned dealers", "Who should be put in their graves" ], [ "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand" ], [ "Listen to me Mr. Pusherman", "This might be your last night in a bed so soft", "There are pimps on the make, politicians on the take", "You can’t pay us off" ], [ "We’re gonna blow up your home of Voodoo", "And watch it burn without any regret", "We got the power, we’re the new government", "You just don’t know it yet" ], [ "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand" ], [ "For all of my brothers from Vietnam", "And my uncles from World War II", "I’ve got to say that it’s countdown time now", "We’re gonna do what the law should do" ], [ "And for you pretty baby", "I know your story is too painful to share", "One day though you’ll be talking in your sleep", "And when you do, I wanna be there" ], [ "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand", "Band of the hand" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/be-careful-stones-you-throw/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Be Careful of Stones That You Throw", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/belle-isle/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Belle Isle", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bells-rhymney/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Bells of Rhymney", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/belshazzar/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Belshazzar", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bessie-smith/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Bessie Smith", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Bessie was more than just a friend of mine", "We shared the good times with the bad", "Now many a year has passed me by", "I still recall the best thing I ever had" ], [ "I'm just goin' down the road t' see bessie", "Oh, see her soon", "Goin' down the road t' see bessie smith", "When I get there I wonder what she'll do" ], [ "Now all the crazy things I had to try", "Well I tried them all and then some", "But if you're lucky one day you find out", "Where it is you're really comin' from" ], [ "I’m just goin' down the road t' see bessie", "Oh, see her soon", "Goin' down the road t' see bessie smith", "When I get there I wonder what she’'l do" ], [ "Now in my day I've made some foolish moves", "But back then, I didn't worry 'bout a thing", "And now again I still wonder to myself", "Was it her sweet love or the way that she could sing" ], [ "I’m just goin' down the road t' see bessie", "Oh, see her soon", "Goin' down the road t' see bessie smith", "When I get there I wonder what she'll do" ], [ "There's so much time has gone right on by", "I didn’t think one could be so wrong", "And then one night I was drinkin' and a-thinkin'", "In the bottom of the glass I could see bessie’s face so strong" ], [ "I'm just goin' down the road t' see bessie", "Oh, see her soon", "Goin' down the road t' see bessie smith", "When I get there I wonder what she'll do" ], [ "When she sees me will she know what I've been through?", "Will old times start to feelin' like new?", "When I get there will our love still feel so true?", "Yet all I have, I'll be a-bringin' it to you", "Oh bessie, sing them old-time blues" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/beyond-here-lies-nothin/", "album": "Together Through Life", "year": 2009, "title": "Beyond Here Lies Nothin’", "plays": 434, "lyrics": [ [ "I love you pretty baby", "You're the only love I've ever known", "Just as long as you stay with me", "The whole world is my throne", "Beyond here lies nothin'", "Nothin' we can call our own" ], [ "I'm movin' after midnight", "Down boulevards of broken cars", "Don't know what I'd do without it", "Without this love that we call ours", "Beyond here lies nothin'", "Nothin' but the moon and stars" ], [ "Down every street there's a window", "And every window made of glass", "We'll keep on lovin' pretty baby", "For as long as love will last", "Beyond here lies nothin'", "But the mountains of the past" ], [ "My ship is in the harbor", "And the sails are spread", "Listen to me pretty baby", "Lay your hand upon my head", "Beyond here lies nothin'", "Nothin' done and nothin' said" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/beyond-horizon/", "album": "Modern Times", "year": 2006, "title": "Beyond the Horizon", "plays": 58, "lyrics": [ [ "Beyond the horizon, behind the sun", "At the end of the rainbow life has only begun", "In the long hours of twilight ’neath the stardust above", "Beyond the horizon it is easy to love", "I’m staring out the window", "Of an ancient town", "Petals from flowers", "Falling to the ground", "Beyond the horizon, in the springtime or fall", "Love waits forever, for one and for all" ], [ "Beyond the horizon, across the divide", "’Round about midnight, we’ll be on the same side", "Down in the valley the water runs cold", "Beyond the horizon someone’s prayin’ for your soul", "I lost my true lover", "In the dusk, in the dawn", "I have to recover", "Get up and go on", "Beyond the horizon, beyond love’s burning game", "Every step that you take, I’m walking the same" ], [ "Beyond the horizon, the night winds blow", "The theme of a melody from many moons ago", "The bells of St. Mary, how sweetly they chime", "Beyond the horizon I found you just in time", "Slipping and sliding", "Too late to stop", "Riding and gliding", "It’s lonely at the top", "Beyond the horizon, the sky is so blue", "I’ve got more than a lifetime to live lovin’ you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/big-dog/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Big Dog", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/big-river/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Big River", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/big-yellow-taxi/", "album": "Dylan", "year": 1973, "title": "Big Yellow Taxi", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/billy-1/", "album": "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", "year": 1973, "title": "Billy 1", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "There’s guns across the river aimin’ at ya", "Lawman on your trail, he’d like to catch ya", "Bounty hunters, too, they’d like to get ya", "Billy, they don’t like you to be so free" ], [ "Campin’ out all night on the berenda", "Dealin’ cards ’til dawn in the hacienda", "Up to Boot Hill they’d like to send ya", "Billy, don’t you turn your back on me" ], [ "Playin’ around with some sweet señorita", "Into her dark hallway she will lead ya", "In some lonesome shadows she will greet ya", "Billy, you’re so far away from home" ], [ "There’s eyes behind the mirrors in empty places", "Bullet holes and scars between the spaces", "There’s always one more notch and ten more paces", "Billy, and you’re walkin’ all alone" ], [ "They say that Pat Garrett’s got your number", "So sleep with one eye open when you slumber", "Every little sound just might be thunder", "Thunder from the barrel of his gun" ], [ "Guitars will play your grand finale", "Down in some Tularosa alley", "Maybe in the Rio Pecos valley", "Billy, you’re so far away from home" ], [ "There’s always some new stranger sneakin’ glances", "Some trigger-happy fool willin’ to take chances", "And some old whore from San Pedro to make advances", "Advances on your spirit and your soul" ], [ "The businessmen from Taos want you to go down", "They’ve hired Pat Garrett to force a showdown", "Billy, don’t it make ya feel so low-down", "To be shot down by the man who was your friend?" ], [ "Hang on to your woman if you got one", "Remember in El Paso, once, you shot one", "She may have been a whore, but she was a hot one", "Billy, you been runnin’ for so long" ], [ "Guitars will play your grand finale", "Down in some Tularosa alley", "Maybe in the Rio Pecos valley", "Billy, you’re so far away from home" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/billy-4/", "album": "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", "year": 1973, "title": "Billy 4", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "There's guns across the river about to pound you", "There's a lawman on your trail like to surround you", "Bounty hunters are dancing all around you", "Billy, they don't like you to be so free." ], [ "Camping out all night on the veranda", "Walking in the streets down by the hacienda", "Up to Boot Hill the like to send you", "Billy, don't you turn your back on me." ], [ "There's mills inside the minds of crazy faces", "Bullet holes and rifles in their cases", "There is always one more notch in four more aces", "Billy, and you're playing all alone." ], [ "Playing around with some sweet signorita", "Into her dark chamber she will greet you", "In the shadows of the maizes she will lead you", "Billy, and you're going all alone." ], [ "They say that Pat Garrett's got your number", "So sleep with one eye open, when you wander", "Every little sound just might be thunder", "Thunder from the barrel of his gun." ], [ "There's always another stranger sneaking glances", "Some trigger-happy fool willing to take chances", "Some old whore from San Pedro'll make advances", "Advances on your spirit and your soul." ], [ "The businessmen from Taos want you to go down", "So they've hired mister Garrett, he'll force you to slow down", "Billy, don't let it make you feel so low down", "To be hunted by the man who was your friend." ], [ "So hang on to your woman, if you got one", "Remember in El Paso once you shot one", "I'll be in Santa Fe about one", "Billy, you've been running for so long." ], [ "Gypsy queens will play your grand finale", "Way down in some Tularosa alley", "Maybe in La Rio Pecas valley", "Billy, you're so far away from home", "Billy, you're so far away from home" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/billy-7/", "album": "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", "year": 1973, "title": "Billy 7", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/black-crow-blues/", "album": "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "year": 1964, "title": "Black Crow Blues", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I woke in the mornin’, wand’rin’", "Wasted and worn out", "I woke in the mornin’, wand’rin’", "Wasted and worn out", "Wishin’ my long-lost lover", "Will walk to me, talk to me", "Tell me what it’s all about" ], [ "I was standin’ at the side road", "Listenin’ to the billboard knock", "Standin’ at the side road", "Listenin’ to the billboard knock", "Well, my wrist was empty", "But my nerves were kickin’", "Tickin’ like a clock" ], [ "If I got anything you need, babe", "Let me tell you in front", "If I got anything you need, babe", "Let me tell you in front", "You can come to me sometime", "Night time, day time", "Any time you want" ], [ "Sometimes I’m thinkin’ I’m", "Too high to fall", "Sometimes I’m thinkin’ I’m", "Too high to fall", "Other times I’m thinkin’ I’m", "So low I don’t know", "If I can come up at all" ], [ "Black crows in the meadow", "Across a broad highway", "Black crows in the meadow", "Across a broad highway", "Though it’s funny, honey", "I just don’t feel much like a", "Scarecrow today" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/black-diamond-bay/", "album": "Desire", "year": 1976, "title": "Black Diamond Bay", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Up on the white veranda", "She wears a necktie and a Panama hat", "Her passport shows a face", "From another time and place", "She looks nothin’ like that", "And all the remnants of her recent past", "Are scattered in the wild wind", "She walks across the marble floor", "Where a voice from the gambling room is callin’ her to come on in", "She smiles, walks the other way", "As the last ship sails and the moon fades away", "From Black Diamond Bay" ], [ "As the mornin’ light breaks open, the Greek comes down", "And he asks for a rope and a pen that will write", "“Pardon, monsieur,” the desk clerk says", "Carefully removes his fez", "“Am I hearin’ you right?”", "And as the yellow fog is liftin’", "The Greek is quickly headin’ for the second floor", "She passes him on the spiral staircase", "Thinkin’ he’s the Soviet Ambassador", "She starts to speak, but he walks away", "As the storm clouds rise and the palm branches sway", "On Black Diamond Bay" ], [ "A soldier sits beneath the fan", "Doin’ business with a tiny man who sells him a ring", "Lightning strikes, the lights blow out", "The desk clerk wakes and begins to shout", "“Can you see anything?”", "Then the Greek appears on the second floor", "In his bare feet with a rope around his neck", "While a loser in the gambling room lights up a candle", "Says, “Open up another deck”", "But the dealer says, “Attendez-vous, s’il vous plait”", "As the rain beats down and the cranes fly away", "From Black Diamond Bay" ], [ "The desk clerk heard the woman laugh", "As he looked around the aftermath and the soldier got tough", "He tried to grab the woman’s hand", "Said, “Here’s a ring, it cost a grand”", "She said, “That ain’t enough”", "Then she ran upstairs to pack her bags", "While a horse-drawn taxi waited at the curb", "She passed the door that the Greek had locked", "Where a handwritten sign read, “Do Not Disturb”", "She knocked upon it anyway", "As the sun went down and the music did play", "On Black Diamond Bay" ], [ "“I’ve got to talk to someone quick!”", "But the Greek said, “Go away,” and he kicked the chair to the floor", "He hung there from the chandelier", "She cried, “Help, there’s danger near", "Please open up the door!”", "Then the volcano erupted", "And the lava flowed down from the mountain high above", "The soldier and the tiny man were crouched in the corner", "Thinking of forbidden love", "But the desk clerk said, “It happens every day”", "As the stars fell down and the fields burned away", "On Black Diamond Bay" ], [ "As the island slowly sank", "The loser finally broke the bank in the gambling room", "The dealer said, “It’s too late now", "You can take your money, but I don’t know how", "You’ll spend it in the tomb”", "The tiny man bit the soldier’s ear", "As the floor caved in and the boiler in the basement blew", "While she’s out on the balcony, where a stranger tells her", "“My darling, je vous aime beaucoup”", "She sheds a tear and then begins to pray", "As the fire burns on and the smoke drifts away", "From Black Diamond Bay" ], [ "I was sittin’ home alone one night in L.A.", "Watchin’ old Cronkite on the seven o’clock news", "It seems there was an earthquake that", "Left nothin’ but a Panama hat", "And a pair of old Greek shoes", "Didn’t seem like much was happenin’,", "So I turned it off and went to grab another beer", "Seems like every time you turn around", "There’s another hard-luck story that you’re gonna hear", "And there’s really nothin’ anyone can say", "And I never did plan to go anyway", "To Black Diamond Bay" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/black-rider/", "album": "Rough and Rowdy Ways", "year": 2020, "title": "Black Rider", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Black Rider Black Rider you been livin’ too hard", "You been up all night havin’ to stay on your guard", "The path that you’re walkin’ - is too narrow to walk", "Every step of the way another stumblin’ block", "The road that you’re on - same road that you know", "But it’s not the same as - it was a minute ago" ], [ "Black Rider Black Rider you’ve seen it all", "You’ve seen the great world and you’ve seen the small", "You fell into the fire and you’re eating the flame", "Better seal up your lips if you want to stay in the game", "Be reasonable Mister - be honest be fair", "Let all of your earthly thoughts be a prayer" ], [ "Black Rider Black Rider all dressed in black", "I’m walking away and you try to make me look back", "My heart is at rest I’d like to keep it that way", "I don’t want to fight - at least not today", "Go home to your wife stop visiting mine", "One of these days I’ll forget to be kind", "Black Rider Black Rider tell me when - tell me how", "If there ever was a time then let it be now", "Let me go through - open the door", "My soul is distressed my mind is at war", "Don’t hug me - don’t flatter me - don’t turn on the charm", "I’ll take out a sword and have to hack off your arm" ], [ "Black Rider Black Rider hold it right there", "The size of your cock will get you nowhere", "I’ll suffer in silence I’ll not make a sound", "Maybe I’ll take the - high moral ground", "Some enchanted evening I’ll sing you a song", "Black Rider Black Rider you’ve been on the job too long" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/blackjack-davey/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Blackjack Davey", "plays": 18, "lyrics": [ [ "Black Jack Davey come a-riden' on back,", "A-whistlin' loud and merry.", "Made the woods around him ring,", "And he charmed the heart of a lady,", "Charmed the heart of a lady." ], [ "\"How old are you, my pretty little miss,", "How old are you, my honey\"", "She answered to him with a lovin' smile", "\"I'll be sixteen come Sunday,", "Be sixteen come Sunday.\"" ], [ "\"Come and go with me, my pretty little miss,", "Come and go with me, my honey,", "Take you where the grass grows green,", "You never will want for money", "You never will want for money" ], [ "\"Pull off, pull off them high-heeled shoes", "All made of Spanish leather.", "Get behind me on my horse", "And we'll ride off together,", "We'll both go off together.\"" ], [ "Well, she pulled off them high-heeled shoes", "Made of Spanish leather.", "Got behind him on his horse", "And they rode off together.", "They rode off together." ], [ "At night the boss came home", "Inquiring about this lady.", "The servant spoke before she thought,", "\"She's been with Black Jack Dave,", "Rode off with Black Jack Davey.\"" ], [ "\"Well, saddle for me my coal black stud,", "He's speedier than the gray.", "I rode all day and I'll ride all night,", "And I'll overtake my lady.", "I'll bring back my lady.\"" ], [ "Well, he rode all night till the broad daylight,", "Till he came to a river ragin',", "And there he spied his darlin' bride", "In the arms of Black Jack Davey.", "Wrapped up with Black Jack Davey." ], [ "\"Pull off, pull off them long blue gloves", "All made of the finest leather.", "Give to me your lily-white hand", "And we'll both go home together.", "We'll both go home together.\"" ], [ "Well, she pulled off them long blue gloves", "All made of the finest leather.", "Gave to him her lily-white hand", "And said good-bye forever.", "Bid farewell forever." ], [ "\"Would you forsake your house and home,", "Would you forsake your baby?", "Would you forsake your husband, too,", "To go with Black Jack Davey.", "Rode off with Black Jack Davey?\"" ], [ "\"Well, I'll forsake my house and home,", "And I'll forsake my baby.", "I'll forsake my husband, too,", "For the love of Black Jack Davey.", "Ride off with Black Jack Davey.\"" ], [ "\"Last night I slept in a feather bed", "Between my husband and baby.", "Tonight I lay on the river banks", "In the arms of Black Jack Davey,", "Love my Black Jack Davey.\"" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/blind-willie-mctell/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Blind Willie McTell", "plays": 226, "lyrics": [ [ "Seen the arrow on the doorpost", "Saying, “This land is condemned", "All the way from New Orleans", "To new Jerusalem”", "I traveled through East Texas", "Where many martyrs fell", "And I can tell you one thing", "Nobody can sing the blues", "Like Blind Willie McTell" ], [ "Well, I heard that hoot owl singing", "As they were taking down the tents", "The stars above the barren trees", "Were his only audience", "Them charcoal gypsy maidens", "Can strut their feathers well", "And I can tell you one thing", "Nobody can sing the blues", "Like Blind Willie McTell" ], [ "There’s a woman by the river", "With some fine young handsome man", "He’s dressed up like a squire", "Bootlegged whiskey in his hand", "Some of them died in the battle", "Some of them survived as well", "And I can tell you one thing", "Nobody can sing the blues", "Like Blind Willie McTell" ], [ "Well, God is in His heaven", "And we all want what’s His", "But power and greed and corruptible seed", "Seem to be all that there is", "I’m gazing out the window", "Of the St. James Hotel", "And I can tell you one thing", "Nobody can sing the blues", "Like Blind Willie McTell" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/blood-my-eyes/", "album": "World Gone Wrong", "year": 1993, "title": "Blood in My Eyes", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Woke up this morning, feeling blue,", "Seen a good-lookin' girl, can I make love with you?", "Hey, hey, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you,", "Hey, hey, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you.", "I got blood in my eyes for you, babe,", "I don't care what in the world you do." ], [ "I went back home, put on my tie,", "Gonna get that girl that money that money will buy.", "Hey, hey, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you,", "Hey, hey, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you.", "I got blood in my eyes for you, babe,", "I don't care what in the world you do." ], [ "She looked at me, begin to smile,", "Said, \"Hey, hey, man, can't you wait a little while?\"", "No, no, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you,", "No, no, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you.", "Got blood in my eyes for you, babe,", "I don't care what in the world you do." ], [ "No, no, ma'ma, I can't wait,", "You got my money, now you're trying to break this date.", "Hey, hey, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you,", "Hey, hey, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you.", "I got blood in my eyes for you, babe,", "I don't care what in the world you do." ], [ "I tell you something, tell you the facts,", "You don't want me, give my money back.", "Hey, hey, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you,", "Hey, hey, babe, I got blood in my eyes for you.", "I got blood in my eyes for you, babe,", "I don't care what in the world you do." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/blowin-wind/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "Blowin’ in the Wind", "plays": 1585, "lyrics": [ [ "How many roads must a man walk down", "Before you call him a man?", "Yes, ’n’ how many seas must a white dove sail", "Before she sleeps in the sand?", "Yes, ’n’ how many times must the cannonballs fly", "Before they’re forever banned?", "The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind", "The answer is blowin’ in the wind" ], [ "How many years can a mountain exist", "Before it’s washed to the sea?", "Yes, ’n’ how many years can some people exist", "Before they’re allowed to be free?", "Yes, ’n’ how many times can a man turn his head", "Pretending he just doesn’t see?", "The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind", "The answer is blowin’ in the wind" ], [ "How many times must a man look up", "Before he can see the sky?", "Yes, ’n’ how many ears must one man have", "Before he can hear people cry?", "Yes, ’n’ how many deaths will it take till he knows", "That too many people have died?", "The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind", "The answer is blowin’ in the wind" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/blue-moon/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Blue Moon", "plays": 12, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bob-dylans-115th-dream/", "album": "Bringing It All Back Home", "year": 1965, "title": "Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream", "plays": 6, "lyrics": [ [ "I was riding on the Mayflower", "When I thought I spied some land", "I yelled for Captain Arab", "I have yuh understand", "Who came running to the deck", "Said, “Boys, forget the whale", "Look on over yonder", "Cut the engines", "Change the sail", "Haul on the bowline”", "We sang that melody", "Like all tough sailors do", "When they are far away at sea" ], [ "“I think I’ll call it America”", "I said as we hit land", "I took a deep breath", "I fell down, I could not stand", "Captain Arab he started", "Writing up some deeds", "He said, “Let’s set up a fort", "And start buying the place with beads”", "Just then this cop comes down the street", "Crazy as a loon", "He throw us all in jail", "For carryin’ harpoons" ], [ "Ah me I busted out", "Don’t even ask me how", "I went to get some help", "I walked by a Guernsey cow", "Who directed me down", "To the Bowery slums", "Where people carried signs around", "Saying, “Ban the bums”", "I jumped right into line", "Sayin’, “I hope that I’m not late”", "When I realized I hadn’t eaten", "For five days straight" ], [ "I went into a restaurant", "Lookin’ for the cook", "I told them I was the editor", "Of a famous etiquette book", "The waitress he was handsome", "He wore a powder blue cape", "I ordered some suzette, I said", "“Could you please make that crepe”", "Just then the whole kitchen exploded", "From boilin’ fat", "Food was flying everywhere", "And I left without my hat" ], [ "Now, I didn’t mean to be nosy", "But I went into a bank", "To get some bail for Arab", "And all the boys back in the tank", "They asked me for some collateral", "And I pulled down my pants", "They threw me in the alley", "When up comes this girl from France", "Who invited me to her house", "I went, but she had a friend", "Who knocked me out", "And robbed my boots", "And I was on the street again" ], [ "Well, I rapped upon a house", "With the U.S. flag upon display", "I said, “Could you help me out", "I got some friends down the way”", "The man says, “Get out of here", "I’ll tear you limb from limb”", "I said, “You know they refused Jesus, too”", "He said, “You’re not Him", "Get out of here before I break your bones", "I ain’t your pop”", "I decided to have him arrested", "And I went looking for a cop" ], [ "I ran right outside", "And I hopped inside a cab", "I went out the other door", "This Englishman said, “Fab”", "As he saw me leap a hot dog stand", "And a chariot that stood", "Parked across from a building", "Advertising brotherhood", "I ran right through the front door", "Like a hobo sailor does", "But it was just a funeral parlor", "And the man asked me who I was" ], [ "I repeated that my friends", "Were all in jail, with a sigh", "He gave me his card", "He said, “Call me if they die”", "I shook his hand and said goodbye", "Ran out to the street", "When a bowling ball came down the road", "And knocked me off my feet", "A pay phone was ringing", "It just about blew my mind", "When I picked it up and said hello", "This foot came through the line" ], [ "Well, by this time I was fed up", "At tryin’ to make a stab", "At bringin’ back any help", "For my friends and Captain Arab", "I decided to flip a coin", "Like either heads or tails", "Would let me know if I should go", "Back to ship or back to jail", "So I hocked my sailor suit", "And I got a coin to flip", "It came up tails", "It rhymed with sails", "So I made it back to the ship" ], [ "Well, I got back and took", "The parkin’ ticket off the mast", "I was ripping it to shreds", "When this coastguard boat went past", "They asked me my name", "And I said, “Captain Kidd”", "They believed me but", "They wanted to know", "What exactly that I did", "I said for the Pope of Eruke", "I was employed", "They let me go right away", "They were very paranoid" ], [ "Well, the last I heard of Arab", "He was stuck on a whale", "That was married to the deputy", "Sheriff of the jail", "But the funniest thing was", "When I was leavin’ the bay", "I saw three ships a-sailin’", "They were all heading my way", "I asked the captain what his name was", "And how come he didn’t drive a truck", "He said his name was Columbus", "I just said, “Good luck”" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bob-dylans-blues/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "Bob Dylan’s Blues", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, the Lone Ranger and Tonto", "They are ridin’ down the line", "Fixin’ ev’rybody’s troubles", "Ev’rybody’s ’cept mine", "Somebody musta tol’ ’em", "That I was doin’ fine" ], [ "Oh you five and ten cent women", "With nothin’ in your heads", "I got a real gal I’m lovin’", "And Lord I’ll love her till I’m dead", "Go away from my door and my window too", "Right now" ], [ "Lord, I ain’t goin’ down to no race track", "See no sports car run", "I don’t have no sports car", "And I don’t even care to have one", "I can walk anytime around the block" ], [ "Well, the wind keeps a-blowin’ me", "Up and down the street", "With my hat in my hand", "And my boots on my feet", "Watch out so you don’t step on me" ], [ "Well, lookit here buddy", "You want to be like me", "Pull out your six-shooter", "And rob every bank you can see", "Tell the judge I said it was all right", "Yes!" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bob-dylans-dream/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "Bob Dylan’s Dream", "plays": 50, "lyrics": [ [ "While riding on a train goin’ west", "I fell asleep for to take my rest", "I dreamed a dream that made me sad", "Concerning myself and the first few friends I had" ], [ "With half-damp eyes I stared to the room", "Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon", "Where we together weathered many a storm", "Laughin’ and singin’ till the early hours of the morn" ], [ "By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung", "Our words were told, our songs were sung", "Where we longed for nothin’ and were quite satisfied", "Talkin’ and a-jokin’ about the world outside" ], [ "With haunted hearts through the heat and cold", "We never thought we could ever get old", "We thought we could sit forever in fun", "But our chances really was a million to one" ], [ "As easy it was to tell black from white", "It was all that easy to tell wrong from right", "And our choices were few and the thought never hit", "That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split" ], [ "How many a year has passed and gone", "And many a gamble has been lost and won", "And many a road taken by many a friend", "And each one I’ve never seen again" ], [ "I wish, I wish, I wish in vain", "That we could sit simply in that room again", "Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat", "I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bob-dylans-new-orleans-rag/", "album": "", "title": "Bob Dylan’s New Orleans Rag", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "I was sittin’ on a stump", "Down in New Orleans", "I was feelin’ kinda low down", "Dirty and mean", "Along came a fella", "And he didn’t even ask", "He says, “I know of a woman", "That can fix you up fast”", "I didn’t think twice", "I said like I should", "“Let’s go find this lady", "That can do me some good”", "We walked across the river", "On a sailin’ spree", "And we came to a door", "Called one-oh-three" ], [ "I was just about ready", "To give it a little knock", "When out comes a fella", "Who couldn’t even walk", "He’s linkin’ and a-slinkin’", "Couldn’t stand on his feet", "And he moaned and he groaned", "And he shuffled down the street", "Well, out of the door", "There comes another man", "He wiggled and he wobbled", "He couldn’t hardly stand", "He had this frightened", "Look in his eyes", "Like he just fought a bear", "He was ready to die" ], [ "Well, I peeked through the key crack", "Comin’ down the hall", "Was a long-legged man", "Who couldn’t hardly crawl", "He muttered and he uttered", "In broken French", "And he looked like he’d been through", "A monkey wrench" ], [ "Well, by this time", "I was a-scared to knock", "I was a-scared to move", "I’s in a state of shock", "I hummed a little tune", "And I shuffled my feet", "And I started walkin’ backwards", "Down that broad street", "Well, I got to the corner", "I tried my best to smile", "I turned around the corner", "And I ran a bloody mile", "Man, I wasn’t runnin’", "’Cause I was sick", "I was just a-runnin’", "To get out of there quick" ], [ "Well, I tripped right along", "And I’m a-wheezin’ in my chest", "I musta run a mile", "In a minute or less", "I walked on a log", "And I tripped on a stump", "I caught a fast freight", "With a one-arm jump", "So, if you’re travelin’ down", "Louisiana way", "And you feel kinda lonesome", "And you need a place to stay", "Man, you’re better off", "In your misery", "Than to tackle that lady", "At one-oh-three" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bonnie-ship-diamond/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Bonnie Ship the Diamond", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/boots-spanish-leather/", "album": "The Times They Are A-Changin’", "year": 1964, "title": "Boots of Spanish Leather", "plays": 300, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, I’m sailin’ away my own true love", "I’m sailin’ away in the morning", "Is there something I can send you from across the sea", "From the place that I’ll be landing?" ], [ "No, there’s nothin’ you can send me, my own true love", "There’s nothin’ I wish to be ownin’", "Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled", "From across that lonesome ocean" ], [ "Oh, but I just thought you might want something fine", "Made of silver or of golden", "Either from the mountains of Madrid", "Or from the coast of Barcelona" ], [ "Oh, but if I had the stars from the darkest night", "And the diamonds from the deepest ocean", "I’d forsake them all for your sweet kiss", "For that’s all I’m wishin’ to be ownin’" ], [ "That I might be gone a long time", "And it’s only that I’m askin’", "Is there something I can send you to remember me by", "To make your time more easy passin’" ], [ "Oh, how can, how can you ask me again", "It only brings me sorrow", "The same thing I want from you today", "I would want again tomorrow" ], [ "I got a letter on a lonesome day", "It was from her ship a-sailin’", "Saying I don’t know when I’ll be comin’ back again", "It depends on how I’m a-feelin’" ], [ "Well, if you, my love, must think that-a-way", "I’m sure your mind is roamin’", "I’m sure your heart is not with me", "But with the country to where you’re goin’" ], [ "So take heed, take heed of the western wind", "Take heed of the stormy weather", "And yes, there’s something you can send back to me", "Spanish boots of Spanish leather" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/born-time/", "album": "Under the Red Sky", "year": 1990, "title": "Born in Time", "plays": 56, "lyrics": [ [ "In the lonely night", "In the blinking stardust of a pale blue light", "You’re comin’ thru to me in black and white", "When we were made of dreams" ], [ "You’re blowing down the shaky street", "You’re hearing my heart beat", "In the record-breaking heat", "Where we were born in time" ], [ "Not one more night, not one more kiss", "Not this time baby, no more of this", "Takes too much skill, takes too much will", "It’s revealing", "You came, you saw, just like the law", "You married young, just like your ma", "You tried and tried, you made me slide", "You left me reelin’ with this feelin’" ], [ "On the rising curve", "Where the ways of nature will test every nerve", "You won’t get anything you don’t deserve", "Where we were born in time" ], [ "You pressed me once, you pressed me twice", "You hang the flame, you’ll pay the price", "Oh babe, that fire", "Is still smokin’", "You were snow, you were rain", "You were striped, you were plain", "Oh babe, truer words", "Have not been spoken or broken" ], [ "In the hills of mystery", "In the foggy web of destiny", "You can have what’s left of me", "Where we were born in time" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bound-lose-bound-win/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Bound to Lose, Bound to Win", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bourbon-street/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Bourbon Street", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bring-it-home/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Bring it on Home", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bring-me-little-water/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait", "year": 2013, "title": "Bring Me a Little Water", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/broke-down-engine/", "album": "World Gone Wrong", "year": 1993, "title": "Broke Down Engine", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel,", "Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel.", "You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels." ], [ "Been shooting craps and gambling, momma, and I done got broke,", "Been shooting craps and gambling, momma, and I done got broke,", "I done pawned my pistol, baby, my best clothes been sold." ], [ "Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord,", "Lordy, Lord." ], [ "I went down in my praying ground, fell on my bended knees,", "I went down in my praying ground, fell on my bended knees,", "I ain't cryin' for no religion, Lord, give me back my good gal please." ], [ "If you give me back my baby, I won't worry you no more,", "Give me back my baby, I won't worry you no more,", "Don't have to put her in my house, Lordy, just lead her to my door." ], [ "Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord,", "Lordy, Lord." ], [ "Can't you hear me, baby, rappin' on your door?", "Can't you hear me, baby, rappin' on your door?", "Now you hear me tappin', tappin' across your floor." ], [ "Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drive at all,", "Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drive at all.", "What make me love my woman, she can really do the Georgia Crawl." ], [ "Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no whistle or bell,", "Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no whistle or bell,", "If you're a real hot momma, come take away Daddy's weeping spell." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/brownsville-girl/", "album": "Knocked Out Loaded", "year": 1986, "title": "Brownsville Girl", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, there was this movie I seen one time", "About a man riding ’cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck", "He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself", "The townspeople wanted to crush that kid down and string him up by the neck" ], [ "Well, the marshal, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp", "As the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath", "“Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square", "I want him to feel what it’s like to every moment face his death”" ], [ "Well, I keep seeing this stuff and it just comes a-rolling in", "And you know it blows right through me like a ball and chain", "You know I can’t believe we’ve lived so long and are still so far apart", "The memory of you keeps callin’ after me like a rollin’ train" ], [ "I can still see the day that you came to me on the painted desert", "In your busted down Ford and your platform heels", "I could never figure out why you chose that particular place to meet", "Ah, but you were right. It was perfect as I got in behind the wheel" ], [ "Well, we drove that car all night into San Anton’", "And we slept near the Alamo, your skin was so tender and soft", "Way down in Mexico you went out to find a doctor and you never came back", "I would have gone on after you but I didn’t feel like letting my head get blown off" ], [ "Well, we’re drivin’ this car and the sun is comin’ up over the Rockies", "Now I know she ain’t you but she’s here and she’s got that dark rhythm in her soul", "But I’m too over the edge and I ain’t in the mood anymore to remember the times", "when I was your only man", "And she don’t want to remind me. She knows this car would go out of control" ], [ "Brownsville girl with your Brownsville curls", "Teeth like pearls shining like the moon above", "Brownsville girl, show me all around the world", "Brownsville girl, you’re my honey love" ], [ "Well, we crossed the panhandle and then we headed towards Amarillo", "We pulled up where Henry Porter used to live. He owned a wreckin’ lot", "outside of town about a mile", "Ruby was in the backyard hanging clothes, she had her red hair tied back.", "She saw us come rolling up in a trail of dust", "She said, “Henry ain’t here but you can come on in, he’ll be back in a little while”" ], [ "Then she told us how times were tough and about how she was thinkin’ of", "bummin’ a ride back to from where she started", "But ya know, she changed the subject every time money came up", "She said, “Welcome to the land of the living dead”", "You could tell she was so broken hearted", "She said, “Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt”" ], [ "“How far are y’all going?” Ruby asked us with a sigh", "“We’re going all the way ’til the wheels fall off and burn", "’Til the sun peels the paint and the seat covers fade and the water moccasin dies”", "Ruby just smiled and said, “Ah, you know some babies never learn”" ], [ "Something about that movie though, well I just can’t get it out of my head", "But I can’t remember why I was in it or what part I was supposed to play", "All I remember about it was Gregory Peck and the way people moved", "And a lot of them seemed to be lookin’ my way" ], [ "Brownsville girl with your Brownsville curls,", "Teeth like pearls shining like the moon above", "Brownsville girl, show me all around the world", "Brownsville girl, you’re my honey love" ], [ "Well, they were looking for somebody with a pompadour", "I was crossin’ the street when shots rang out", "I didn’t know whether to duck or to run, so I ran", "“We got him cornered in the churchyard,” I heard somebody shout" ], [ "Well, you saw my picture in the Corpus Christi Tribune. Underneath it,", "it said, “A man with no alibi”", "You went out on a limb to testify for me, you said I was with you", "Then when I saw you break down in front of the judge and cry real tears", "It was the best acting I saw anybody do" ], [ "Now I’ve always been the kind of person that doesn’t like to trespass", "but sometimes you just find yourself over the line", "Oh if there’s an original thought out there, I could use it right now", "You know, I feel pretty good, but that ain’t sayin’ much.", "I could feel a whole lot better", "If you were just here by my side to show me how" ], [ "Well, I’m standin’ in line in the rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck", "Yeah, but you know it’s not the one that I had in mind", "He’s got a new one out now, I don’t even know what it’s about", "But I’ll see him in anything so I’ll stand in line" ], [ "Brownsville girl with your Brownsville curls", "Teeth like pearls shining like the moon above", "Brownsville girl, show me all around the world", "Brownsville girl, you’re my honey love" ], [ "You know, it’s funny how things never turn out the way you had ’em planned", "The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter", "is that his name wasn’t Henry Porter", "And you know there was somethin’ about you baby that I liked", "that was always too good for this world", "Just like you always said there was somethin’ about me you liked", "that I left behind in the French Quarter" ], [ "Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections", "than people who are most content", "I don’t have any regrets, they can talk about me plenty when I’m gone", "You always said people don’t do what they believe in,", "they just do what’s most convenient, then they repent", "And I always said, “Hang on to me, baby, and let’s hope that the roof stays on”" ], [ "There was a movie I seen one time, I think I sat through it twice", "I don’t remember who I was or where I was bound", "All I remember about it was it starred Gregory Peck, he wore a gun", "and he was shot in the back", "Seems like a long time ago, long before the stars were torn down" ], [ "Brownsville girl with your Brownsville curls", "Teeth like pearls shining like the moon above", "Brownsville girl, show me all around the world", "Brownsville girl, you’re my honey love" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/buckets-rain/", "album": "Blood on the Tracks", "year": 1975, "title": "Buckets of Rain", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Buckets of rain", "Buckets of tears", "Got all them buckets comin’ out of my ears", "Buckets of moonbeams in my hand", "I got all the love, honey baby", "You can stand" ], [ "I been meek", "And hard like an oak", "I seen pretty people disappear like smoke", "Friends will arrive, friends will disappear", "If you want me, honey baby", "I’ll be here" ], [ "Like your smile", "And your fingertips", "Like the way that you move your lips", "I like the cool way you look at me", "Everything about you is bringing me", "Misery" ], [ "Little red wagon", "Little red bike", "I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like", "I like the way you love me strong and slow", "I’m takin’ you with me, honey baby", "When I go" ], [ "Life is sad", "Life is a bust", "All ya can do is do what you must", "You do what you must do and ya do it well", "I’ll do it for you, honey baby", "Can’t you tell?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bunkhouse-theme/", "album": "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", "year": 1973, "title": "Bunkhouse Theme", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bye-and-bye/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "Bye and Bye", "plays": 78, "lyrics": [ [ "Bye and bye, I’m breathin’ a lover’s sigh", "I’m sittin’ on my watch so I can be on time", "I’m singin’ love’s praises with sugar-coated rhyme", "Bye and bye, on you I’m casting my eye" ], [ "I’m paintin’ the town—swinging my partner around", "I know who I can depend on, I know who to trust", "I’m watchin’ the roads, I’m studying the dust", "I’m paintin’ the town making my last go-round" ], [ "Well, I’m slippin’ and slidin’, walkin’ on briars", "To get to the one that my heart desires" ], [ "I’m rollin’ slow—I’m doing all I know", "I’m tellin’ myself I found true happiness", "That I’ve still got a dream that hasn’t been repossessed", "I’m rollin’ slow, goin’ where the wild red roses grow" ], [ "Well the future for me is already a thing of the past", "You were my first love and you will be my last" ], [ "Papa gone mad, mama, she’s feeling sad", "I’ll establish my rule through civil war", "Bring it on up from the ocean’s floor", "I’ll take you higher just so you can see the fire" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/california/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965 – 1966 Deluxe Edition", "year": 2015, "title": "California", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I’m goin’ down south", "’Neath the borderline", "I’m goin’ down south", "’Neath the borderline", "Some fat momma", "Kissed my mouth one time" ], [ "Well, I needed it this morning", "Without a shadow of doubt", "My suitcase is packed", "My clothes are hangin’ out" ], [ "San Francisco’s fine", "You sure get lots of sun", "San Francisco is fine", "You sure get lots of sun", "But I’m used to four seasons", "California’s got but one" ], [ "Well, I got my dark sunglasses", "I got for good luck my black tooth", "I got my dark sunglasses", "And for good luck I got my black tooth", "Don’t ask me nothin’ about nothin’", "I just might tell you the truth" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/call-letter-blues/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Call Letter Blues", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I walked all night long", "Listenin’ to them church bells tone", "Yes, I walked all night long", "Listenin’ to them church bells tone", "Either someone needing mercy", "Or maybe something I’ve done wrong" ], [ "Well, your friends come by for you", "I don’t know what to say", "Well, your friends come by for you", "I don’t know what to say", "I just can’t face up to tell ’em", "Honey you just went away" ], [ "Well, children cry for mother", "I tell them, “Mother took a trip”", "Well, children cry for mother", "I tell them, “Mother took a trip”", "Well, I walk on pins and needles", "I hope my tongue don’t slip" ], [ "Well, I gaze at passing strangers", "In case I might see you", "Yes, I gaze at passing strangers", "In case I might see you", "But the sun goes around the heavens", "And another day just drives on through" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/can-you-please-crawl-out-your-window/", "album": "Biograph", "year": 1985, "title": "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "He sits in your room, his tomb, with a fist full of tacks", "Preoccupied with his vengeance", "Cursing the dead that can’t answer him back", "I’m sure that he has no intentions", "Of looking your way, unless it’s to say", "That he needs you to test his inventions" ], [ "Can you please crawl out your window?", "Use your arms and legs it won’t ruin you", "How can you say he will haunt you?", "You can go back to him any time you want to" ], [ "He looks so truthful, is this how he feels", "Trying to peel the moon and expose it", "With his businesslike anger and his bloodhounds that kneel", "If he needs a third eye he just grows it", "He just needs you to talk or to hand him his chalk", "Or pick it up after he throws it" ], [ "Can you please crawl out your window?", "Use your arms and legs it won’t ruin you", "How can you say he will haunt you?", "You can go back to him any time you want to" ], [ "Why does he look so righteous while your face is so changed", "Are you frightened of the box you keep him in", "While his genocide fools and his friends rearrange", "Their religion of the little tin women", "That backs up their views but your face is so bruised", "Come on out the dark is beginning" ], [ "Can you please crawl out your window?", "Use your arms and legs it won’t ruin you", "How can you say he will haunt you?", "You can go back to him any time you want to" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cant-escape-you/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "Can’t Escape from You", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh the evening train is rolling", "All along the homeward way", "All my hopes are over the horizon", "All my dreams have gone astray", "The hillside darkly shaded", "Stars fall from above", "All the joys of earth have faded", "The nights untouched by love", "I’ll be here ’til tomorrow", "Beneath a shroud of gray", "I’ll pretend I’m free from sorrow", "My heart is miles away", "The dead bells are ringing", "My train is overdue", "To your memory I’m clinging", "I can’t escape from you" ], [ "Well I hear the sound of thunder", "Roaring loud and long", "Sometimes you’ve got to wonder", "God knows I’ve done no wrong", "You’ve wasted all your power", "You threw out the Christmas pie", "You’ll wither like a flower", "And play the fool and die", "I’m neither sad nor sorry", "I’m all dressed up in black", "I fought for fame and glory", "You tried to break my back", "In the far off sweet forever", "The sunshine breaking through", "We should have walked together", "I can’t escape from you" ], [ "I cannot grasp the shadows", "That gather near the door", "Rain fall ’round my window", "I wish I’d seen you more", "The path is ever winding", "The stars they never age", "The morning light is blinding", "All the world’s a stage", "Should be the time of gladness", "Happy faces everywhere", "But the mystery of madness", "Is propagating in the air", "I don’t like the city", "Not like some folks do", "Isn’t it a pity", "I can’t escape from you?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cant-help-falling-love/", "album": "Dylan", "year": 1973, "title": "Can’t Help Falling in Love", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cant-wait/", "album": "Time out of Mind", "year": 1997, "title": "Can’t Wait", "plays": 210, "lyrics": [ [ "I can’t wait, wait for you to change your mind", "It’s late, I’m trying to walk the line", "Well, it’s way past midnight and there are people all around", "Some on their way up, some on their way down", "The air burns and I’m trying to think straight", "And I don’t know how much longer I can wait" ], [ "I’m your man, I’m trying to recover the sweet love that we knew", "You understand that my heart can’t go on beating without you", "Well, your loveliness has wounded me, I’m reeling from the blow", "I wish I knew what it was keeps me loving you so", "I’m breathing hard, standing at the gate", "But I don’t know how much longer I can wait" ], [ "Skies are grey, I’m looking for anything that will bring a happy glow", "Night or day, it doesn’t matter where I go anymore, I just go", "If I ever saw you coming I don’t know what I would do", "I’d like to think I could control myself, but it isn’t true", "That’s how it is when things disintegrate", "And I don’t know how much longer I can wait" ], [ "I’m doomed to love you, I’ve been rolling through stormy weather", "I’m thinking of you and all the places we could roam together" ], [ "It’s mighty funny, the end of time has just begun", "Oh, honey, after all these years you’re still the one", "While I’m strolling through the lonely graveyard of my mind", "I left my life with you somewhere back there along the line", "I thought somehow that I would be spared this fate", "But I don’t know how much longer I can wait" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/canadee-i-o/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Canadee-I-O", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, it's all of fair and handsome girl,", "She's all in her tender years.", "She fell in love with a sailor boy,", "It's true she loved him well.", "For to go off to sea with him", "Like she did not know how,", "She longed to see that seaport town", "Of Canadee-i-o." ], [ "So she bargained with the sailor boy,", "All for a piece of gold.", "Straightaway then he led her", "Down into the hold,", "Sayin', \"I'll dress you up in sailor's clothes,", "Your jacket shall be blue.", "You'll see that seaport town", "Of Canadee-i-o." ], [ "Now, when the other sailors heard the news,", "Well, they fell into a rage,", "And with all the ship's company", "They were willing to engage.", "Saying, \"We'll tie her hands and feet, my boys,", "Overboard we'll throw her.", "She'll never see that seaport town", "Called Canadee-i-o." ], [ "Now, when the captain he heard the news,", "Well, he too fell in a rage,", "And with the whole ship's company", "He was willing to engage,", "Sayin', \"She'll stay in sailor's clothes,", "Her color shall be blue,", "She'll see that seaport town", "Call Canadee-i-o." ], [ "Now, when they come down to Canada", "Scarcely 'bout half a year,", "She's married this bold captain", "Who called her his dear.", "She's dressed in silks and satins now,", "She cuts a gallant show,", "Finest of the ladies", "Down Canadee-i-o." ], [ "Come, all you fair and tender girls,", "Wheresoever you may be,", "I'd have you to follow your own true love", "Whene'er he goes to sea.", "For if the sailors prove false to you,", "Well, the captain, he might prove true.", "You'll see the honor I have gained", "By the wearing of the blue." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cantina-theme-workin-law/", "album": "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", "year": 1973, "title": "Cantina Theme (Workin’ for the Law)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/caribbean-wind/", "album": "Biograph", "year": 1985, "title": "Caribbean Wind", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "She was the rose of Sharon from paradise lost", "From the city of seven hills near the place of the cross", "I was playing a show in Miami in the theater of divine comedy", "Told about Jesus, told about the rain", "She told me about the jungle where her brothers were slain", "By a man who danced on the roof of the embassy" ], [ "Was she a child or a woman, I can’t say which", "From one to another she could easily switch", "We went into the wall to where the long arm of the law could not reach", "Could I been used and played as a pawn?", "It certainly was possible as the gay night wore on", "Where men bathed in perfume and celebrated free speech" ], [ "And them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico", "Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire", "And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free", "Bringing everything that’s near to me nearer to the fire" ], [ "She looked into my soul through the clothes that I wore", "She said, “We got a mutual friend over by the door", "And you know he’s got our best interest in mind”", "He was well connected but her heart was a snare", "And she had left him to die in there", "There were payments due and he was a little behind" ], [ "The cry of the peacock, flies buzz my head", "Ceiling fan broken, there’s a heat in my bed", "Street band playing “Nearer My God to Thee”", "We met at the steeple where the mission bells ring", "She said, “I know what you’re thinking, but there ain’t a thing", "You can do about it, so let us just agree to agree”" ], [ "And them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico", "Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire", "And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free", "Bringing everything that’s near to me nearer to the fire" ], [ "Atlantic City by the cold grey sea", "I hear a voice crying, “Daddy,” I always think it’s for me", "But it’s only the silence in the buttermilk hills that call", "Every new messenger brings evil report", "’Bout armies on the march and time that is short", "And famines and earthquakes and hatred written upon walls" ], [ "Would I have married her? I don’t know, I suppose", "She had bells in her braids and they hung to her toes", "But I kept hearing my name and had to be movin’ on", "I saw screws break loose, saw the devil pound tin", "I saw a house in the country being torn from within", "I heard my ancestors calling from the land far beyond" ], [ "And them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico", "Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire", "And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free", "Bringing everything that’s near to me nearer to the fire" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cats-well/", "album": "Under the Red Sky", "year": 1990, "title": "Cat’s in the Well", "plays": 299, "lyrics": [ [ "The cat’s in the well, the wolf is looking down", "The cat’s in the well, the wolf is looking down", "He got his big bushy tail dragging all over the ground" ], [ "The cat’s in the well, the gentle lady is asleep", "Cat’s in the well, the gentle lady is asleep", "She ain’t hearing a thing, the silence is a-stickin’ her deep" ], [ "The cat’s in the well and grief is showing its face", "The world’s being slaughtered and it’s such a bloody disgrace" ], [ "The cat’s in the well, the horse is going bumpety bump", "The cat’s in the well, and the horse is going bumpety bump", "Back alley Sally is doing the American jump" ], [ "The cat’s in the well, and Papa is reading the news", "His hair’s falling out and all of his daughters need shoes" ], [ "The cat’s in the well and the barn is full of bull", "The cat’s in the well and the barn is full of bull", "The night is so long and the table is oh, so full" ], [ "The cat’s in the well and the servant is at the door", "The drinks are ready and the dogs are going to war" ], [ "The cat’s in the well, the leaves are starting to fall", "The cat’s in the well, leaves are starting to fall", "Goodnight, my love, may the Lord have mercy on us all" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/catfish/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Catfish", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Lazy stadium night", "Catfish on the mound", "“Strike three,” the umpire said", "Batter have to go back and sit down" ], [ "Catfish, million-dollar-man", "Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can" ], [ "Used to work on Mr. Finley’s farm", "But the old man wouldn’t pay", "So he packed his glove and took his arm", "An’ one day he just ran away" ], [ "Catfish, million-dollar-man", "Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can" ], [ "Come up where the Yankees are", "Dress up in a pinstripe suit", "Smoke a custom-made cigar", "Wear an alligator boot" ], [ "Catfish, million-dollar-man", "Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can" ], [ "Carolina born and bred", "Love to hunt the little quail", "Got a hundred-acre spread", "Got some huntin’ dogs for sale" ], [ "Catfish, million-dollar-man", "Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can" ], [ "Reggie Jackson at the plate", "Seein’ nothin’ but the curve", "Swing too early or too late", "Got to eat what Catfish serve" ], [ "Catfish, million-dollar-man", "Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can" ], [ "Even Billy Martin grins", "When the Fish is in the game", "Every season twenty wins", "Gonna make the Hall of Fame" ], [ "Catfish, million-dollar-man", "Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/changing-guards/", "album": "Street-Legal", "year": 1978, "title": "Changing of the Guards", "plays": 68, "lyrics": [ [ "Sixteen years", "Sixteen banners united over the field", "Where the good shepherd grieves", "Desperate men, desperate women divided", "Spreading their wings ’neath the falling leaves" ], [ "Fortune calls", "I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace", "Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down", "She’s smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born", "On midsummer’s eve, near the tower" ], [ "The cold-blooded moon", "The captain waits above the celebration", "Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid", "Whose ebony face is beyond communication", "The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid" ], [ "They shaved her head", "She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo", "A messenger arrived with a black nightingale", "I seen her on the stairs and I couldn’t help but follow", "Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil" ], [ "I stumbled to my feet", "I rode past destruction in the ditches", "With the stitches still mending ’neath a heart-shaped tattoo", "Renegade priests and treacherous young witches", "Were handing out the flowers that I’d given to you" ], [ "The palace of mirrors", "Where dog soldiers are reflected", "The endless road and the wailing of chimes", "The empty rooms where her memory is protected", "Where the angels’ voices whisper to the souls of previous times" ], [ "She wakes him up", "Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking", "Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks", "She’s begging to know what measures he now will be taking", "He’s pulling her down and she’s clutching on to his long golden locks" ], [ "Gentlemen, he said", "I don’t need your organization, I’ve shined your shoes", "I’ve moved your mountains and marked your cards", "But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination", "Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards" ], [ "Peace will come", "With tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire", "But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall", "And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating", "Between the King and the Queen of Swords" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/chimes-freedom/", "album": "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "year": 1964, "title": "Chimes of Freedom", "plays": 56, "lyrics": [ [ "Far between sundown’s finish an’ midnight’s broken toll", "We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing", "As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds", "Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing", "Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight", "Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight", "An’ for each an’ ev’ry underdog soldier in the night", "An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing" ], [ "In the city’s melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched", "With faces hidden while the walls were tightening", "As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin’ rain", "Dissolved into the bells of the lightning", "Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake", "Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an’ forsaked", "Tolling for the outcast, burnin’ constantly at stake", "An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing" ], [ "Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail", "The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder", "That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze", "Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder", "Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind", "Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind", "An’ the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful time", "An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing" ], [ "Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales", "For the disrobed faceless forms of no position", "Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts", "All down in taken-for-granted situations", "Tolling for the deaf an’ blind, tolling for the mute", "Tolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute", "For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an’ cheated by pursuit", "An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing" ], [ "Even though a cloud’s white curtain in a far-off corner flashed", "An’ the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting", "Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones", "Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting", "Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail", "For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale", "An’ for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail", "An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing" ], [ "Starry-eyed an’ laughing as I recall when we were caught", "Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended", "As we listened one last time an’ we watched with one last look", "Spellbound an’ swallowed ’til the tolling ended", "Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed", "For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse", "An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe", "An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/christmas-island/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "Christmas Island", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/clean-cut-kid/", "album": "Empire Burlesque", "year": 1985, "title": "Clean Cut Kid", "plays": 68, "lyrics": [ [ "Everybody wants to know why he couldn’t adjust", "Adjust to what, a dream that bust?" ], [ "He was a clean-cut kid", "But they made a killer out of him", "That’s what they did" ], [ "They said what’s up is down, they said what isn’t is", "They put ideas in his head he thought were his" ], [ "He was a clean-cut kid", "But they made a killer out of him", "That’s what they did" ], [ "He was on the baseball team, he was in the marching band", "When he was ten years old he had a watermelon stand" ], [ "He was a clean-cut kid", "But they made a killer out of him", "That’s what they did" ], [ "He went to church on Sunday, he was a Boy Scout", "For his friends he would turn his pockets inside out" ], [ "He was a clean-cut kid", "But they made a killer out of him", "That’s what they did" ], [ "They said, “Listen boy, you’re just a pup”", "They sent him to a napalm health spa to shape up" ], [ "They gave him dope to smoke, drinks and pills", "A jeep to drive, blood to spill" ], [ "They said “Congratulations, you got what it takes”", "They sent him back into the rat race without any brakes" ], [ "He was a clean-cut kid", "But they made a killer out of him", "That’s what they did" ], [ "He bought the American dream but it put him in debt", "The only game he could play was Russian roulette" ], [ "He drank Coca-Cola, he was eating Wonder Bread", "Ate Burger Kings, he was well fed" ], [ "He went to Hollywood to see Peter O’Toole", "He stole a Rolls-Royce and drove it in a swimming pool" ], [ "They took a clean-cut kid", "And they made a killer out of him", "That’s what they did" ], [ "He could’ve sold insurance, owned a restaurant or bar", "Could’ve been an accountant or a tennis star" ], [ "He was wearing boxing gloves, took a dive one day", "Off the Golden Gate Bridge into China Bay" ], [ "His mama walks the floor, his daddy weeps and moans", "They gotta sleep together in a home they don’t own" ], [ "They took a clean-cut kid", "And they made a killer out of him", "That’s what they did" ], [ "Well, everybody’s asking why he couldn’t adjust", "All he ever wanted was somebody to trust" ], [ "They took his head and turned it inside out", "He never did know what it was all about" ], [ "He had a steady job, he joined the choir", "He never did plan to walk the high wire" ], [ "They took a clean-cut kid", "And they made a killer out of him", "That’s what they did" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/clothes-line-saga/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Clothes Line Saga", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "After a while we took in the clothes", "Nobody said very much", "Just some old wild shirts and a couple pairs of pants", "Which nobody really wanted to touch", "Mama come in and picked up a book", "An’ Papa asked her what it was", "Someone else asked, “What do you care?”", "Papa said, “Well, just because”", "Then they started to take back their clothes", "Hang ’em on the line", "It was January the thirtieth", "And everybody was feelin’ fine" ], [ "The next day everybody got up", "Seein’ if the clothes were dry", "The dogs were barking, a neighbor passed", "Mama, of course, she said, “Hi!”", "“Have you heard the news?” he said, with a grin", "“The Vice-President’s gone mad!”", "“Where?” “Downtown.” “When?” “Last night”", "“Hmm, say, that’s too bad!”", "“Well, there’s nothin’ we can do about it,” said the neighbor", "“It’s just somethin’ we’re gonna have to forget”", "“Yes, I guess so,” said Ma", "Then she asked me if the clothes was still wet" ], [ "I reached up, touched my shirt", "And the neighbor said, “Are those clothes yours?”", "I said, “Some of ’em, not all of ’em”", "He said, “Ya always help out around here with the chores?”", "I said, “Sometime, not all the time”", "Then my neighbor, he blew his nose", "Just as Papa yelled outside", "“Mama wants you t’ come back in the house and bring them clothes”", "Well, I just do what I’m told", "So, I did it, of course", "I went back in the house and Mama met me", "And then I shut all the doors" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cocaine-blues/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "Cocaine Blues", "plays": 69, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cold-irons-bound/", "album": "Time out of Mind", "year": 1997, "title": "Cold Irons Bound", "plays": 423, "lyrics": [ [ "I’m beginning to hear voices and there’s no one around", "Well, I’m all used up and the fields have turned brown", "I went to church on Sunday and she passed by", "My love for her is taking such a long time to die" ], [ "I’m waist deep, waist deep in the mist", "It’s almost like, almost like I don’t exist", "I’m twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound" ], [ "The walls of pride are high and wide", "Can’t see over to the other side", "It’s such a sad thing to see beauty decay", "It’s sadder still to feel your heart torn away" ], [ "One look at you and I’m out of control", "Like the universe has swallowed me whole", "I’m twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound" ], [ "There’s too many people, too many to recall", "I thought some of ’m were friends of mine, I was wrong about ’m all", "Well, the road is rocky and the hillside’s mud", "Up over my head nothing but clouds of blood" ], [ "I found my world, found my world in you", "But your love just hasn’t proved true", "I’m twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound", "Twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound" ], [ "Oh, the winds in Chicago have torn me to shreds", "Reality has always had too many heads", "Some things last longer than you think they will", "There are some kind of things you can never kill" ], [ "It’s you and you only I been thinking about", "But you can’t see in and it’s hard lookin’ out", "I’m twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound" ], [ "Well the fat’s in the fire and the water’s in the tank", "The whiskey’s in the jar and the money’s in the bank", "I tried to love and protect you because I cared", "I’m gonna remember forever the joy that we shared" ], [ "Looking at you and I’m on my bended knee", "You have no idea what you do to me", "I’m twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound", "Twenty miles out of town in cold irons bound" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/come-all-ye-fair-and-tender-ladies/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/come-rain-or-come-shine/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "Come Rain or Come Shine", "plays": 8, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/coming-from-the-heart-the-road-is-long/", "album": "", "title": "Coming from the Heart (The Road is Long)", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "We have got to come together", "How long can we stay apart?", "You may get it maybe never", "But it's coming from the heart." ], [ "Your life is full of indecision", "You can't make up your mind.", "We must get it in position", "And move it on down the line." ], [ "'Cause the road is long, it's a long hard climb", "I been on that road too long of a time", "Yes the road is long, and it winds and winds", "When I think of the love that I left behind." ], [ "Make me up a bed of roses", "And hang them down from the vine", "Of all my loves you've been the closest", "That's ever been on my mind." ], [ "Please don't talk about tomorrow", "I'm really not one to care", "This world is filled with too much sorrow", "That nobody's heart should bear." ], [ "'Cause the road is long, it's a long hard climb", "I been on that road too long of a time", "Yes the road is long, and it winds and winds", "When I think of the love that I left behind." ], [ "Please, please give me indication", "Stop and talk to me", "Like a river that is flowing", "My love will never cease to be." ], [ "You will always be my honey", "No one could take your part", "Our love can't be bought with money", "'Cause it's coming from the heart." ], [ "'Cause the road is long, it's a long hard climb", "I been on that road too long of a time", "Yes the road is long, and it winds and winds", "When I think of the love that I left behind." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/confidential/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Confidential", "plays": 12, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cool-water/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Cool Water", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/copper-kettle-pale-moonlight/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Copper Kettle (The Pale Moonlight)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil", "Fill it with new made corn mash and never more you'll toil", "You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright", "Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight." ], [ "Build you a fire with hickory, hickory, ash and oak", "Don't use no green or rotten wood, they'll get you by the smoke", "You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright", "Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight." ], [ "My daddy he made whiskey, my granddaddy he did too", "We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792", "You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright", "Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/corrina-corrina/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "Corrina, Corrina", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Corrina, Corrina", "Gal, where you been so long?", "Corrina, Corrina", "Gal, where you been so long?", "I been worr’in’ ’bout you, baby", "Baby, please come home" ], [ "I got a bird that whistles", "I got a bird that sings", "I got a bird that whistles", "I got a bird that sings", "But I ain’ a-got Corrina", "Life don’t mean a thing" ], [ "Corrina, Corrina", "Gal, you’re on my mind", "Corrina, Corrina", "Gal, you’re on my mind", "I’m a-thinkin’ ’bout you, baby", "I just can’t keep from crying." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/country-pie/", "album": "Nashville Skyline", "year": 1969, "title": "Country Pie", "plays": 136, "lyrics": [ [ "Just like old Saxophone Joe", "When he’s got the hogshead up on his toe", "Oh me, oh my", "Love that country pie" ], [ "Listen to the fiddler play", "When he’s playin’ ’til the break of day", "Oh me, oh my", "Love that country pie" ], [ "Raspberry, strawberry, lemon and lime", "What do I care?", "Blueberry, apple, cherry, pumpkin and plum", "Call me for dinner, honey, I’ll be there" ], [ "Saddle me up my big white goose", "Tie me on ’er and turn her loose", "Oh me, oh my", "Love that country pie" ], [ "I don’t need much and that ain’t no lie", "Ain’t runnin’ any race", "Give to me my country pie", "I won’t throw it up in anybody’s face" ], [ "Shake me up that old peach tree", "Little Jack Horner’s got nothin’ on me", "Oh me, oh my", "Love that country pie" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/covenant-woman/", "album": "Saved", "year": 1980, "title": "Covenant Woman", "plays": 57, "lyrics": [ [ "Covenant woman got a contract with the Lord", "Way up yonder, great will be her reward", "Covenant woman, shining like a morning star", "I know I can trust you to stay where you are" ], [ "And I just got to tell you", "I do intend", "To stay closer than any friend", "I just got to thank you", "Once again", "For making your prayers known", "Unto heaven for me", "And to you, always, so grateful", "I will forever be" ], [ "I’ve been broken, shattered like an empty cup", "I’m just waiting on the Lord to rebuild and fill me up", "And I know He will do it ’cause He’s faithful and He’s true", "He must have loved me so much to send me someone as fine as you" ], [ "And I just got to tell you", "I do intend", "To stay closer than any friend", "I just got to thank you", "Once again", "For making your prayers known", "Unto heaven for me", "And to you, always, so grateful", "I will forever be" ], [ "Covenant woman, intimate little girl", "Who knows those most secret things of me that are hidden from the world", "You know we are strangers in a land we’re passing through", "I’ll always be right by your side, I’ve got a covenant too" ], [ "And I just got to tell you", "I do intend", "To stay closer than any friend", "I just got to thank you", "Once again", "For making your prayers known", "Unto heaven for me", "And to you, always, so grateful", "I will forever be" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/crash-levee-down-flood/", "album": "Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume II", "year": 1971, "title": "Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)", "plays": 176, "lyrics": [ [ "Crash on the levee, mama", "Water's gonna overflow", "Swamp's gonna rise", "No boat's gonna row", "Now, you can train on down", "To Williams Point", "You can bust your feet", "You can rock this joint", "But oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?", "You're gonna have to find yourself", "Another best friend, somehow" ], [ "Now, don't you try an' move me", "You're just gonna lose", "There's a crash on the levee", "And, mama, you've been refused", "Well, it's sugar for sugar", "And salt for salt", "If you go down in the flood", "It's gonna be your own fault", "Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?", "You're gonna have to find yourself", "Another best friend, somehow" ], [ "Well, that high tide's risin'", "Mama, don't you let me down", "Pack up your suitcase", "Mama, don't you make a sound", "Now, it's king for king", "Queen for queen", "It's gonna be the meanest flood", "That anybody's seen", "Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?", "Yes, you're gonna have to find yourself", "Another best friend, somehow" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/crossing-the-rubicon/", "album": "Rough and Rowdy Ways", "year": 2020, "title": "Crossing the Rubicon", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I crossed the Rubicon on the 14th day of the most dangerous month of the year", "At the worst time at the worst place - that’s all I seem to hear", "I got up early so I could greet the Goddess of the Dawn", "I painted my wagon - I abandoned all hope and I crossed the Rubicon" ], [ "The Rubicon is the Red River, going gently as she flows", "Redder then your ruby lips and the blood that flows from the rose", "Three miles north of purgatory - one step from the great beyond", "I prayed to the cross and I kissed the girls and I crossed the Rubicon" ], [ "What are these dark days I see in this world so badly bent", "How can I redeem the time - the time so idly spent", "How much longer can it last - how long can this go on", "I embraced my love put down my head and I crossed the Rubicon" ], [ "I feel the bones beneath my skin and they’re tremblin’ with rage", "I’ll make your wife a widow - you’ll never see old age", "Show me one good man in sight that the sun shines down upon", "I pawned my watch and I paid my debts and I crossed the Rubicon" ], [ "Put my heart upon the hill where some happiness I’ll find", "If I survive then let me love - let the hour be mine", "Take the high road - take the low, take the one you’re on", "I poured the cup and I passed it along and I crossed the Rubicon" ], [ "You defiled the most lovely flower in all of womanhood", "Others can be tolerant - others can be good", "I’ll cut you up with a crooked knife and I’ll miss you when you’re gone", "I stood between heaven and earth and I crossed the Rubicon" ], [ "You won’t find any happiness here - no happiness or joy", "Go back to the gutter and try your luck - find you some nice young pretty boy", "Tell me how many men I need and who I can count upon", "I strapped my belt and buttoned my coat and I crossed the Rubicon" ], [ "I feel the Holy Spirit inside and see the light that freedom gives", "I believe it’s within the reach of every man who lives", "Keep as far away as possible - it’s darkest ‘fore the dawn", "I turned the key and I broke it off and I crossed the Rubicon" ], [ "Mona Baby, are you still in my mind - I truly believe that you are", "Couldn’t be anybody else but you who’s come with me this far", "The killing frost is on the ground and the autumn leaves are gone", "I lit the torch and I looked to the east and I crossed the Rubicon" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cry-while/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "Cry a While", "plays": 171, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I had to go down and see a guy named Mr. Goldsmith", "A nasty, dirty, double-crossin’, backstabbin’ phony I didn’t wanna have to be dealin’ with", "But I did it for you and all you gave me was a smile", "Well, I cried for you—now it’s your turn to cry awhile" ], [ "I don’t carry dead weight—I’m no flash in the pan", "All right, I’ll set you straight, can’t you see I’m a union man?", "I’m lettin’ the cat out of the cage, I’m keeping a low profile", "Well, I cried for you—now it’s your turn, you can cry awhile" ], [ "Feel like a fighting rooster—feel better than I ever felt", "But the Pennsylvania line’s in an awful mess and the Denver road is about to melt", "I went to the church house, every day I go an extra mile", "Well, I cried for you—now it’s your turn, you can cry awhile" ], [ "Last night ’cross the alley there was a pounding on the walls", "It must have been Don Pasqualli makin’ a two A.M. booty call", "To break a trusting heart like mine was just your style", "Well, I cried for you—now it’s your turn to cry awhile" ], [ "I’m on the fringes of the night, fighting back tears that I can’t control", "Some people they ain’t human, they got no heart or soul", "Well, I’m crying to the Lord—I’m tryin’ to be meek and mild", "Yes, I cried for you—now it’s your turn, you can cry awhile" ], [ "Well, there’s preachers in the pulpits and babies in the cribs", "I’m longin’ for that sweet fat that sticks to your ribs", "I’m gonna buy me a barrel of whiskey—I’ll die before I turn senile", "Well, I cried for you—now it’s your turn, you can cry awhile" ], [ "Well, you bet on a horse and it ran on the wrong way", "I always said you’d be sorry and today could be the day", "I might need a good lawyer, could be your funeral, my trial", "Well, I cried for you—now it’s your turn, you can cry awhile" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dark-dungeon/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "Dark As A Dungeon", "plays": 20, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dark-eyes/", "album": "Empire Burlesque", "year": 1985, "title": "Dark Eyes", "plays": 8, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside", "They’re drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide", "I live in another world where life and death are memorized", "Where the earth is strung with lovers’ pearls and all I see are dark eyes" ], [ "A cock is crowing far away and another soldier’s deep in prayer", "Some mother’s child has gone astray, she can’t find him anywhere", "But I can hear another drum beating for the dead that rise", "Whom nature’s beast fears as they come and all I see are dark eyes" ], [ "They tell me to be discreet for all intended purposes", "They tell me revenge is sweet and from where they stand, I’m sure it is", "But I feel nothing for their game where beauty goes unrecognized", "All I feel is heat and flame and all I see are dark eyes" ], [ "Oh, the French girl, she’s in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel", "Hunger pays a heavy price to the falling gods of speed and steel", "Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies", "A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/day-locusts/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "Day of the Locusts", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, the benches were stained with tears and perspiration", "The birdies were flying from tree to tree", "There was little to say, there was no conversation", "As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree", "And the locusts sang off in the distance", "Yeah, the locusts sang such a sweet melody", "Oh, the locusts sang off in the distance", "Yeah, the locusts sang and they were singing for me" ], [ "I glanced into the chamber where the judges were talking", "Darkness was everywhere, it smelled like a tomb", "I was ready to leave, I was already walkin’", "But the next time I looked there was light in the room", "And the locusts sang, yeah, it give me a chill", "Oh, the locusts sang such a sweet melody", "Oh, the locusts sang their high whining trill", "Yeah, the locusts sang and they were singing for me" ], [ "Outside of the gates the trucks were unloadin’", "The weather was hot, a-nearly 90 degrees", "The man standin’ next to me, his head was exploding", "Well, I was prayin’ the pieces wouldn’t fall on me", "Yeah, the locusts sang off in the distance", "Yeah, the locusts sang such a sweet melody", "Oh, the locusts sang off in the distance", "And the locusts sang and they were singing for me" ], [ "I put down my robe, picked up my diploma", "Took hold of my sweetheart and away we did drive", "Straight for the hills, the black hills of Dakota", "Sure was glad to get out of there alive", "And the locusts sang, well, it give me a chill", "Yeah, the locusts sang such a sweet melody", "And the locusts sang with a high whinin’ trill", "Yeah, the locusts sang and they was singing for me", "Singing for me, well, singing for me" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/days-49-live/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Days of 49", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dead-man-dead-man/", "album": "Shot of Love", "year": 1981, "title": "Dead Man, Dead Man", "plays": 48, "lyrics": [ [ "Uttering idle words from a reprobate mind", "Clinging to strange promises, dying on the vine", "Never bein’ able to separate the good from the bad", "Ooh, I can’t stand it, I can’t stand it", "It’s makin’ me feel so sad" ], [ "Dead man, dead man", "When will you arise?", "Cobwebs in your mind", "Dust upon your eyes" ], [ "Satan got you by the heel, there’s a bird’s nest in your hair", "Do you have any faith at all? Do you have any love to share?", "The way that you hold your head, cursin’ God with every move", "Ooh, I can’t stand it, I can’t stand it", "What are you tryin’ to prove?" ], [ "Dead man, dead man", "When will you arise?", "Cobwebs in your mind", "Dust upon your eyes" ], [ "The glamour and the bright lights and the politics of sin", "The ghetto that you build for me is the one you end up in", "The race of the engine that overrules your heart", "Ooh, I can’t stand it, I can’t stand it", "Pretending that you’re so smart" ], [ "Dead man, dead man", "When will you arise?", "Cobwebs in your mind", "Dust upon your eyes" ], [ "What are you tryin’ to overpower me with, the doctrine or the gun?", "My back is already to the wall, where can I run?", "The tuxedo that you’re wearin’, the flower in your lapel", "Ooh, I can’t stand it, I can’t stand it", "You wanna take me down to hell" ], [ "Dead man, dead man", "When will you arise?", "Cobwebs in your mind", "Dust upon your eyes" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dear-landlord/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "Dear Landlord", "plays": 6, "lyrics": [ [ "Dear landlord", "Please don’t put a price on my soul", "My burden is heavy", "My dreams are beyond control", "When that steamboat whistle blows", "I’m gonna give you all I got to give", "And I do hope you receive it well", "Dependin’ on the way you feel that you live" ], [ "Dear landlord", "Please heed these words that I speak", "I know you’ve suffered much", "But in this you are not so unique", "All of us, at times, we might work too hard", "To have it too fast and too much", "And anyone can fill his life up", "With things he can see but he just cannot touch" ], [ "Dear landlord", "Please don’t dismiss my case", "I’m not about to argue", "I’m not about to move to no other place", "Now, each of us has his own special gift", "And you know this was meant to be true", "And if you don’t underestimate me", "I won’t underestimate you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/death-not-end/", "album": "Down in the Groove", "year": 1988, "title": "Death Is Not the End", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "When you’re sad and when you’re lonely", "And you haven’t got a friend", "Just remember that death is not the end", "And all that you’ve held sacred", "Falls down and does not mend", "Just remember that death is not the end", "Not the end, not the end", "Just remember that death is not the end" ], [ "When you’re standing at the crossroads", "That you cannot comprehend", "Just remember that death is not the end", "And all your dreams have vanished", "And you don’t know what’s up the bend", "Just remember that death is not the end", "Not the end, not the end", "Just remember that death is not the end" ], [ "When the storm clouds gather ’round you", "And heavy rains descend", "Just remember that death is not the end", "And there’s no one there to comfort you", "With a helpin’ hand to lend", "Just remember that death is not the end", "Not the end, not the end", "Just remember that death is not the end" ], [ "Oh, the tree of life is growing", "Where the spirit never dies", "And the bright light of salvation shines", "In dark and empty skies" ], [ "When the cities are on fire", "With the burning flesh of men", "Just remember that death is not the end", "And you search in vain to find", "Just one law-abiding citizen", "Just remember that death is not the end", "Not the end, not the end", "Just remember that death is not the end" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/delia/", "album": "World Gone Wrong", "year": 1993, "title": "Delia", "plays": 9, "lyrics": [ [ "Delia was a gambling girl, gambled all around,", "Delia was a gambling girl, she laid her money down.", "All the friends I ever had are gone." ], [ "Delia's dear ol' mother took a trip out West,", "When she returned, little Delia gone to rest.", "All the friends I ever had are gone." ], [ "Delia's daddy weeped, Delia's momma moaned,", "Wouldn't have been so bad if the poor girl died at home.", "All the friends I ever had are gone." ], [ "Curtis' looking high, Curtis' looking low,", "He shot poor Delia down with a cruel forty-four.", "All the friends I ever had are gone." ], [ "High up on the housetops, high as I can see,", "Looking for them rounders, looking out for me.", "All the friends I ever had are gone." ], [ "Men in Atlanta, tryin' to pass for white,", "Delia's in the graveyard, boys, six feet out of sight.", "All the friends I ever had are gone." ], [ "Judge says to Curtis, \"What's this noise about?\"", "\"All about them rounders, Judge, tryin' to cut me out.\"", "All the friends I ever had are gone." ], [ "Curtis said to the judge, \"What might be my fine?\"", "Judge says, \"Poor boy, you got ninety-nine.\"", "All the friends I ever had are gone." ], [ "Curtis' in the jail house, drinking from an old tin cup,", "Delia's in the graveyard, she ain't gettin' up.", "All the friends I ever had are gone." ], [ "Delia, oh Delia, how can it be?", "You loved all them rounders, never did love me.", "All the friends I ever had are gone." ], [ "Delia, oh Delia, how can it be?", "You wanted all them rounders, never had time for me.", "All the friends I ever had are gone." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/denise/", "album": "", "title": "Denise", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Denise, Denise", "Gal, what’s on your mind?", "Denise, Denise", "Gal, what’s on your mind?", "You got your eyes closed", "Heaven knows that you ain’t blind" ], [ "Well, I can see you smiling", "But oh your mouth is inside out", "I can see you smiling", "But you’re smiling inside out", "Well, I know you’re laughin’", "But what are you laughin’ about" ], [ "Well, if you’re tryin’ to throw me", "Babe, I’ve already been tossed", "If you’re tryin’ to throw me", "Babe, I’ve already been tossed", "Babe, you’re tryin’ to lose me", "Babe, I’m already lost" ], [ "Well, what are you doing", "Are you flying or have you flipped?", "Oh, what are you doing", "Are you flying or have you flipped?", "Well, you call my name", "And then say your tongue just slipped" ], [ "Denise, Denise", "You’re concealed here on the shelf", "Denise, Denise", "You’re concealed here on the shelf", "I’m looking deep in your eyes, babe", "And all I can see is myself" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/desolation-row/", "album": "Highway 61 Revisited", "year": 1965, "title": "Desolation Row", "plays": 581, "lyrics": [ [ "They’re selling postcards of the hanging", "They’re painting the passports brown", "The beauty parlor is filled with sailors", "The circus is in town", "Here comes the blind commissioner", "They’ve got him in a trance", "One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker", "The other is in his pants", "And the riot squad they’re restless", "They need somewhere to go", "As Lady and I look out tonight", "From Desolation Row" ], [ "Cinderella, she seems so easy", "“It takes one to know one,” she smiles", "And puts her hands in her back pockets", "Bette Davis style", "And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning", "“You Belong to Me I Believe”", "And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend", "You better leave”", "And the only sound that’s left", "After the ambulances go", "Is Cinderella sweeping up", "On Desolation Row" ], [ "Now the moon is almost hidden", "The stars are beginning to hide", "The fortune-telling lady", "Has even taken all her things inside", "All except for Cain and Abel", "And the hunchback of Notre Dame", "Everybody is making love", "Or else expecting rain", "And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing", "He’s getting ready for the show", "He’s going to the carnival tonight", "On Desolation Row" ], [ "Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window", "For her I feel so afraid", "On her twenty-second birthday", "She already is an old maid", "To her, death is quite romantic", "She wears an iron vest", "Her profession’s her religion", "Her sin is her lifelessness", "And though her eyes are fixed upon", "Noah’s great rainbow", "She spends her time peeking", "Into Desolation Row" ], [ "Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood", "With his memories in a trunk", "Passed this way an hour ago", "With his friend, a jealous monk", "He looked so immaculately frightful", "As he bummed a cigarette", "Then he went off sniffing drainpipes", "And reciting the alphabet", "Now you would not think to look at him", "But he was famous long ago", "For playing the electric violin", "On Desolation Row" ], [ "Dr. Filth, he keeps his world", "Inside of a leather cup", "But all his sexless patients", "They’re trying to blow it up", "Now his nurse, some local loser", "She’s in charge of the cyanide hole", "And she also keeps the cards that read", "“Have Mercy on His Soul”", "They all play on pennywhistles", "You can hear them blow", "If you lean your head out far enough", "From Desolation Row" ], [ "Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains", "They’re getting ready for the feast", "The Phantom of the Opera", "A perfect image of a priest", "They’re spoonfeeding Casanova", "To get him to feel more assured", "Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence", "After poisoning him with words", "And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls", "“Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know", "Casanova is just being punished for going", "To Desolation Row”" ], [ "Now at midnight all the agents", "And the superhuman crew", "Come out and round up everyone", "That knows more than they do", "Then they bring them to the factory", "Where the heart-attack machine", "Is strapped across their shoulders", "And then the kerosene", "Is brought down from the castles", "By insurance men who go", "Check to see that nobody is escaping", "To Desolation Row" ], [ "Praise be to Nero’s Neptune", "The Titanic sails at dawn", "And everybody’s shouting", "“Which Side Are You On?”", "And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot", "Fighting in the captain’s tower", "While calypso singers laugh at them", "And fishermen hold flowers", "Between the windows of the sea", "Where lovely mermaids flow", "And nobody has to think too much", "About Desolation Row" ], [ "Yes, I received your letter yesterday", "(About the time the doorknob broke)", "When you asked how I was doing", "Was that some kind of joke?", "All these people that you mention", "Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame", "I had to rearrange their faces", "And give them all another name", "Right now I can’t read too good", "Don’t send me no more letters no", "Not unless you mail them", "From Desolation Row" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/diamond-joe/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Diamond Joe", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Now There's a man you'll hear about", "Most anywhere you go,", "And his holdings are in Texas", "And his name is Diamond Joe." ], [ "And he carries all his money", "In a diamond-studded jar.", "He never took much trouble", "With the process of the law." ], [ "I hired out to Diamond Joe, boys,", "Did offer him my hand,", "He gave a string of horses", "So old they could not stand." ], [ "And I nearly starved to death, boys,", "He did mistreat me so,", "And I never saved a dollar", "In the pay of Diamond Joe." ], [ "Now his bread it was corn dodger", "And his meat you couldn't chaw,", "Nearly drove me crazy", "With the waggin' of his jaw." ], [ "And the tellin' of his story,", "Mean to let you know", "That there never was a rounder", "That could lie like Diamond Joe." ], [ "Now, I tried three times to quit him,", "But he did argue so", "I'm still punchin' cattle", "In the pay of Diamond Joe." ], [ "And when I'm called up yonder", "And it's my time to go,", "Give my blankets to my buddies", "Give the fleas to Diamond Joe." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dignity/", "album": "Greatest Hits Volume 3", "year": 1994, "title": "Dignity", "plays": 56, "lyrics": [ [ "Fat man lookin’ in a blade of steel", "Thin man lookin’ at his last meal", "Hollow man lookin’ in a cottonfield", "For dignity" ], [ "Wise man lookin’ in a blade of grass", "Young man lookin’ in the shadows that pass", "Poor man lookin’ through painted glass", "For dignity" ], [ "Somebody got murdered on New Year’s Eve", "Somebody said dignity was the first to leave", "I went into the city, went into the town", "Went into the land of the midnight sun" ], [ "Searchin’ high, searchin’ low", "Searchin’ everywhere I know", "Askin’ the cops wherever I go", "Have you seen dignity?" ], [ "Blind man breakin’ out of a trance", "Puts both his hands in the pockets of chance", "Hopin’ to find one circumstance", "Of dignity" ], [ "I went to the wedding of Mary Lou", "She said, “I don’t want nobody see me talkin’ to you”", "Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew", "About dignity" ], [ "I went down where the vultures feed", "I would’ve gone deeper, but there wasn’t any need", "Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men", "Wasn’t any difference to me" ], [ "Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade", "House on fire, debts unpaid", "Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid", "Have you seen dignity?" ], [ "Drinkin’ man listens to the voice he hears", "In a crowded room full of covered-up mirrors", "Lookin’ into the lost forgotten years", "For dignity" ], [ "Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues", "Said he’d give me information if his name wasn’t used", "He wanted money up front, said he was abused", "By dignity" ], [ "Footprints runnin’ ’cross the silver sand", "Steps goin’ down into tattoo land", "I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light", "In the bordertowns of despair" ], [ "Got no place to fade, got no coat", "I’m on the rollin’ river in a jerkin’ boat", "Tryin’ to read a note somebody wrote", "About dignity" ], [ "Sick man lookin’ for the doctor’s cure", "Lookin’ at his hands for the lines that were", "And into every masterpiece of literature", "For dignity" ], [ "Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind", "Combin’ his hair back, his future looks thin", "Bites the bullet and he looks within", "For dignity" ], [ "Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed", "Dignity never been photographed", "I went into the red, went into the black", "Into the valley of dry bone dreams" ], [ "So many roads, so much at stake", "So many dead ends, I’m at the edge of the lake", "Sometimes I wonder what it’s gonna take", "To find dignity" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dinks-song/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 7: No Direction Home", "year": 2005, "title": "Dink’s Song", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "If I had wings", "Like Noah’s Dove", "I’d fly the river", "To the one I love", "Fare thee well, my honey", "Fare thee well" ], [ "I had a man", "Who was long and tall", "Moved his body", "Like a cannonball", "Fare thee well, my honey", "Fare thee well" ], [ "‘Member one evening", "Was drizzling rain", "And ‘round my heart", "I felt an aching pain", "Fare thee well, my honey", "Fare thee well" ], [ "Once I wore", "My apron low", "Couldn’t keep you", "Away from my door", "Fare thee well, my honey", "Fare thee well" ], [ "Now my apron", "Is up to my chin", "You pass my door", "But you never come in", "Fare thee well, my honey", "Fare thee well" ], [ "Oh, mighty river", "Runs muddy and wild", "Can’t care the bloody", "For my unborn child", "Fare thee well, my honey", "Fare thee well" ], [ "Number 9 train", "Won’t do no harm", "Number 9 train", "Take my poor baby home", "Fare thee well, my honey", "Fare thee well" ], [ "Fastest man", "I ever saw", "Skipped Missouri", "On the way to Arkansas", "Fare thee well, my honey", "Fare thee well" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dirge/", "album": "Planet Waves", "year": 1974, "title": "Dirge", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I hate myself for lovin’ you and the weakness that it showed", "You were just a painted face on a trip down Suicide Road", "The stage was set, the lights went out all around the old hotel", "I hate myself for lovin’ you and I’m glad the curtain fell" ], [ "I hate that foolish game we played and the need that was expressed", "And the mercy that you showed to me, who ever would have guessed?", "I went out on Lower Broadway and I felt that place within", "That hollow place where martyrs weep and angels play with sin" ], [ "Heard your songs of freedom and man forever stripped", "Acting out his folly while his back is being whipped", "Like a slave in orbit, he’s beaten ’til he’s tame", "All for a moment’s glory and it’s a dirty, rotten shame" ], [ "There are those who worship loneliness, I’m not one of them", "In this age of fiberglass I’m searching for a gem", "The crystal ball up on the wall hasn’t shown me nothing yet", "I’ve paid the price of solitude, but at last I’m out of debt" ], [ "Can’t recall a useful thing you ever did for me", "’Cept pat me on the back one time when I was on my knees", "We stared into each other’s eyes ’til one of us would break", "No use to apologize, what diff’rence would it make?" ], [ "So sing your praise of progress and of the Doom Machine", "The naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen", "Lady Luck, who shines on me, will tell you where I’m at", "I hate myself for lovin’ you, but I should get over that" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dirt-road-blues/", "album": "Time out of Mind", "year": 1997, "title": "Dirt Road Blues", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Gon’ walk down that dirt road, ’til someone lets me ride", "Gon’ walk down that dirt road, ’til someone lets me ride", "If I can’t find my baby, I’m gonna run away and hide" ], [ "I been pacing around the room hoping maybe she’d come back", "Pacing ’round the room hoping maybe she’d come back", "Well, I been praying for salvation laying ’round in a one-room country shack" ], [ "Gon’ walk down that dirt road until my eyes begin to bleed", "Gon’ walk down that dirt road until my eyes begin to bleed", "’Til there’s nothing left to see, ’til the chains have been shattered and I’ve been freed" ], [ "I been lookin’ at my shadow, I been watching the colors up above", "Lookin’ at my shadow, watching the colors up above", "Rolling through the rain and hail, looking for the sunny side of love" ], [ "Gon’ walk on down that dirt road ’til I’m right beside the sun", "Gon’ walk on down until I’m right beside the sun", "I’m gonna have to put up a barrier to keep myself away from everyone" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/disease-conceit/", "album": "Oh Mercy", "year": 1989, "title": "Disease of Conceit", "plays": 32, "lyrics": [ [ "There’s a whole lot of people suffering tonight", "From the disease of conceit", "Whole lot of people struggling tonight", "From the disease of conceit", "Comes right down the highway", "Straight down the line", "Rips into your senses", "Through your body and your mind", "Nothing about it that’s sweet", "The disease of conceit" ], [ "There’s a whole lot of hearts breaking tonight", "From the disease of conceit", "Whole lot of hearts shaking tonight", "From the disease of conceit", "Steps into your room", "Eats your soul", "Over your senses", "You have no control", "Ain’t nothing too discreet", "About the disease of conceit" ], [ "There’s a whole lot of people dying tonight", "From the disease of conceit", "Whole lot of people crying tonight", "From the disease of conceit", "Comes right out of nowhere", "And you’re down for the count", "From the outside world", "The pressure will mount", "Turn you into a piece of meat", "The disease of conceit" ], [ "Conceit is a disease", "That the doctors got no cure", "They’ve done a lot of research on it", "But what it is, they’re still not sure" ], [ "There’s a whole lot of people in trouble tonight", "From the disease of conceit", "Whole lot of people seeing double tonight", "From the disease of conceit", "Give ya delusions of grandeur", "And a evil eye", "Give you the idea that", "You’re too good to die", "Then they bury you from your head to your feet", "From the disease of conceit" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/do-right-me-baby-do-unto-others/", "album": "Slow Train Coming", "year": 1979, "title": "Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others)", "plays": 73, "lyrics": [ [ "Don’t wanna judge nobody, don’t wanna be judged", "Don’t wanna touch nobody, don’t wanna be touched", "Don’t wanna hurt nobody, don’t wanna be hurt", "Don’t wanna treat nobody like they was dirt" ], [ "But if you do right to me, baby", "I’ll do right to you, too", "Ya got to do unto others", "Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you" ], [ "Don’t wanna shoot nobody, don’t wanna be shot", "Don’t wanna buy nobody, don’t wanna be bought", "Don’t wanna bury nobody, don’t wanna be buried", "Don’t wanna marry nobody if they’re already married" ], [ "But if you do right to me, baby", "I’ll do right to you, too", "Ya got to do unto others", "Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you" ], [ "Don’t wanna burn nobody, don’t wanna be burned", "Don’t wanna learn from nobody what I gotta unlearn", "Don’t wanna cheat nobody, don’t wanna be cheated", "Don’t wanna defeat nobody if they already been defeated" ], [ "But if you do right to me, baby", "I’ll do right to you, too", "Ya got to do unto others", "Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you" ], [ "Don’t wanna wink at nobody, don’t wanna be winked at", "Don’t wanna be used by nobody for a doormat", "Don’t wanna confuse nobody, don’t wanna be confused", "Don’t wanna amuse nobody, don’t wanna be amused" ], [ "But if you do right to me, baby", "I’ll do right to you, too", "Ya got to do unto others", "Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you" ], [ "Don’t wanna betray nobody, don’t wanna be betrayed", "Don’t wanna play with nobody, don’t wanna be waylaid", "Don’t wanna miss nobody, don’t wanna be missed", "Don’t put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist" ], [ "But if you do right to me, baby", "I’ll do right to you, too", "Ya got to do unto others", "Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/do-you-hear-what-i-hear/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "Do You Hear What I Hear?", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dont-fall-apart-me-tonight/", "album": "Infidels", "year": 1983, "title": "Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Just a minute before you leave, girl", "Just a minute before you touch the door", "What is it that you’re trying to achieve, girl?", "Do you think we can talk about it some more?", "You know, the streets are filled with vipers", "Who’ve lost all ray of hope", "You know, it ain’t even safe no more", "In the palace of the Pope" ], [ "Don’t fall apart on me tonight", "I just don’t think that I could handle it", "Don’t fall apart on me tonight", "Yesterday’s just a memory", "Tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be", "And I need you, yeah" ], [ "Come over here from over there, girl", "Sit down here. You can have my chair", "I can’t see us goin’ anywhere, girl", "The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can’t take you there", "I wish I’d have been a doctor", "Maybe I’d have saved some life that had been lost", "Maybe I’d have done some good in the world", "’Stead of burning every bridge I crossed" ], [ "Don’t fall apart on me tonight", "I just don’t think that I could handle it", "Don’t fall apart on me tonight", "Yesterday’s just a memory", "Tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be", "And I need you, oh, yeah" ], [ "I ain’t too good at conversation, girl", "So you might not know exactly how I feel", "But if I could, I’d bring you to the mountaintop, girl", "And build you a house made out of stainless steel", "But it’s like I’m stuck inside a painting", "That’s hanging in the Louvre", "My throat start to tickle and my nose itches", "But I know that I can’t move" ], [ "Don’t fall apart on me tonight", "I just don’t think that I could handle it", "Don’t fall apart on me tonight", "Yesterday’s gone but the past lives on", "Tomorrow’s just one step beyond", "And I need you, oh, yeah" ], [ "Who are these people who are walking towards you?", "Do you know them or will there be a fight?", "With their humorless smiles so easy to see through", "Can they tell you what’s wrong from what’s right?", "Do you remember St. James Street", "Where you blew Jackie P.’s mind?", "You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet", "And laid his life on the line" ], [ "Let’s try to get beneath the surface waste, girl", "No more booby traps and bombs", "No more decadence and charm", "No more affection that’s misplaced, girl", "No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms", "What about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants?", "He looked so baffled and so bewildered", "When he played and we didn’t dance" ], [ "Don’t fall apart on me tonight", "I just don’t think that I could handle it", "Don’t fall apart on me tonight", "Yesterday’s just a memory", "Tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be", "And I need you, yeah" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dont-think-twice-its-all-right/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right", "plays": 1086, "lyrics": [ [ "It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe", "It don’t matter, anyhow", "An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe", "If you don’t know by now", "When your rooster crows at the break of dawn", "Look out your window and I’ll be gone", "You’re the reason I’m trav’lin’ on", "Don’t think twice, it’s all right" ], [ "It ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe", "That light I never knowed", "An’ it ain’t no use in turnin’ on your light, babe", "I’m on the dark side of the road", "Still I wish there was somethin’ you would do or say", "To try and make me change my mind and stay", "We never did too much talkin’ anyway", "So don’t think twice, it’s all right" ], [ "It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal", "Like you never did before", "It ain’t no use in callin’ out my name, gal", "I can’t hear you anymore", "I’m a-thinkin’ and a-wond’rin’ all the way down the road", "I once loved a woman, a child I’m told", "I give her my heart but she wanted my soul", "But don’t think twice, it’s all right" ], [ "I’m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road, babe", "Where I’m bound, I can’t tell", "But goodbye’s too good a word, gal", "So I’ll just say fare thee well", "I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind", "You could have done better but I don’t mind", "You just kinda wasted my precious time", "But don’t think twice, it’s all right" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dont-ya-tell-henry/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Don’t Ya Tell Henry", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Don’t ya tell Henry", "Apple’s got your fly" ], [ "I went down to the river on a Saturday morn", "A-lookin’ around just to see who’s born", "I found a little chicken down on his knees", "I went up and yelled to him, “Please, please, please!”", "He said, “Don’t ya tell Henry", "Don’t ya tell Henry", "Don’t ya tell Henry", "Apple’s got your fly”" ], [ "I went down to the corner at a-half past ten", "I’s lookin’ around, I wouldn’t say when", "I looked down low, I looked above", "And who did I see but the one I love", "She said, “Don’t ya tell Henry", "Don’t ya tell Henry", "Don’t ya tell Henry", "Apple’s got your fly”" ], [ "Now, I went down to the beanery at half past twelve", "A-lookin’ around just to see myself", "I spotted a horse and a donkey, too", "I looked for a cow and I saw me a few", "They said, “Don’t ya tell Henry", "Don’t ya tell Henry", "Don’t ya tell Henry", "Apple’s got your fly”" ], [ "Now, I went down to the pumphouse the other night", "A-lookin’ around, it was outa sight", "I looked high and low for that big ol’ tree", "I did go upstairs but I didn’t see nobody but me", "I said, “Don’t ya tell Henry", "Don’t ya tell Henry", "Don’t ya tell Henry", "Apple’s got your fly”" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dont-you-try-me-now/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Don’t You Try Me Now", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/down-along-cove/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "Down Along the Cove", "plays": 83, "lyrics": [ [ "Down along the cove", "I spied my true love comin’ my way", "Down along the cove", "I spied my true love comin’ my way", "I say, “Lord, have mercy, mama", "It sure is good to see you comin’ today\"" ], [ "Down along the cove", "I spied my little bundle of joy", "Down along the cove", "I spied my little bundle of joy", "She said, “Lord, have mercy, honey", "I’m so glad you’re my boy!”" ], [ "Down along the cove", "We walked together hand in hand", "Down along the cove", "We walked together hand in hand.", "Ev’rybody watchin’ us go by", "Knows we’re in love, yes, and they understand" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/down-station/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Down by the Station", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/down-me/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Down on Me", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/down-highway/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "Down the Highway", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I’m walkin’ down the highway", "With my suitcase in my hand", "Yes, I’m walkin’ down the highway", "With my suitcase in my hand", "Lord, I really miss my baby", "She’s in some far-off land" ], [ "Well, your streets are gettin’ empty", "Lord, your highway’s gettin’ filled", "And your streets are gettin’ empty", "And your highway’s gettin’ filled", "Well, the way I love that woman", "I swear it’s bound to get me killed" ], [ "Well, I been gamblin’ so long", "Lord, I ain’t got much more to lose", "Yes, I been gamblin’ so long", "Lord, I ain’t got much more to lose", "Right now I’m havin’ trouble", "Please don’t take away my highway shoes" ], [ "Well, I’m bound to get lucky, baby", "Or I’m bound to die tryin’", "Yes, I’m a-bound to get lucky, baby", "Lord, Lord I’m a-bound to die tryin’", "Well, meet me in the middle of the ocean", "And we’ll leave this ol’ highway behind" ], [ "Well, the ocean took my baby", "My baby stole my heart from me", "Yes, the ocean took my baby", "My baby took my heart from me", "She packed it all up in a suitcase", "Lord, she took it away to Italy, Italy" ], [ "So, I’m a-walkin’ down your highway", "Just as far as my poor eyes can see", "Yes, I’m a-walkin’ down your highway", "Just as far as my eyes can see", "From the Golden Gate Bridge", "All the way to the Statue of Liberty" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dreamin-you/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "Dreamin’ of You", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "The light in this place is really bad", "Like being at the bottom of a stream", "Any minute now", "I’m expecting to wake up from a dream" ], [ "Means so much, the softest touch", "By the grave of some child, who neither wept or smiled", "I pondered my faith in the rain", "I’ve been dreamin’ of you, that’s all I do", "And it’s driving me insane" ], [ "Somewhere dawn is breaking", "Light is streaking ‘cross the floor", "Church bells are ringing", "I wonder who they’re ringing for" ], [ "Travel under any star", "You’ll see me wherever you are", "The shadowy past is awake and so vast", "I’m sleeping in the palace of pain", "I’ve been dreamin’ of you, that’s all I do", "But it’s driving me insane" ], [ "Maybe they’ll get me, maybe they won’t", "But whatever it won’t be tonight", "I wish your hand was in mine right now", "We could go where the moon is white" ], [ "For years they had me locked in a cage", "Then they threw me onto the stage", "Some things just last longer than you thought they would", "And they never, ever explain", "I’ve been dreamin’ of you, that’s all I do", "And it’s driving me insane" ], [ "Well, I eat when I’m hungry, drink when I’m dry", "Live my life on the square", "Even if the flesh falls off my face", "It won’t matter, long as you’re there" ], [ "Feel like a ghost in love", "Underneath the heavens above", "Feel further away than I ever did before", "Feel further than I can take", "Dreamin’ of you is all I do", "But it’s driving me insane" ], [ "Everything in the way is so shiny today", "A queer and unusual fall", "Spirals of golden haze, here and there in a blaze", "Like beams of light in the storm" ], [ "Maybe you were here and maybe you weren’t", "Maybe you touched somebody and got burnt", "The silent sun has got me on the run", "Burning a hole in my brain", "I’m dreamin’ of you, that’s all I do", "But it’s driving me insane" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dress-it-better-have-it-all/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "Dress it up, Better Have it All", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/drifters-escape/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "Drifter’s Escape", "plays": 256, "lyrics": [ [ "“Oh, help me in my weakness”", "I heard the drifter say", "As they carried him from the courtroom", "And were taking him away", "“My trip hasn’t been a pleasant one", "And my time it isn’t long", "And I still do not know", "What it was that I’ve done wrong”" ], [ "Well, the judge, he cast his robe aside", "A tear came to his eye", "“You fail to understand,” he said", "“Why must you even try?”", "Outside, the crowd was stirring", "You could hear it from the door", "Inside, the judge was stepping down", "While the jury cried for more" ], [ "“Oh, stop that cursed jury”", "Cried the attendant and the nurse", "“The trial was bad enough", "But this is ten times worse”", "Just then a bolt of lightning", "Struck the courthouse out of shape", "And while ev’rybody knelt to pray", "The drifter did escape" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/driftin-too-far-shore/", "album": "Knocked Out Loaded", "year": 1986, "title": "Driftin’ Too Far from Shore", "plays": 14, "lyrics": [ [ "I didn’t know that you’d be leavin’", "Or who you thought you were talkin’ to", "I figure maybe we’re even", "Or maybe I’m one up on you" ], [ "I send you all my money", "Just like I did before", "I tried to reach you honey", "But you’re driftin’ too far from shore" ], [ "Driftin’ too far from shore", "Driftin’ too far from shore", "Driftin’ too far from shore", "Driftin’ too far from shore" ], [ "I ain’t gonna get lost in this current", "I don’t like playing cat and mouse", "No gentleman likes making love to a servant", "Especially when he’s in his father’s house" ], [ "I never could guess your weight, baby", "Never needed to call you my whore", "I always thought you were straight, baby", "But you’re driftin’ too far from shore" ], [ "Driftin’ too far from shore", "Driftin’ too far from shore", "Driftin’ too far from shore", "Driftin’ too far from shore" ], [ "Well these times and these tunnels are haunted", "The bottom of the barrel is too", "I waited years sometimes for what I wanted", "Everybody can’t be as lucky as you" ], [ "Never no more do I wonder", "Why you don’t never play with me anymore", "At any moment you could go under", "’Cause you’re driftin’ too far from shore" ], [ "Driftin’ too far from shore", "Driftin’ too far from shore", "Driftin’ too far from shore", "Driftin’ too far from shore" ], [ "You and me we had completeness", "I give you all of what I could provide", "We weren’t on the wrong side, sweetness", "We were the wrong side" ], [ "I’ve already ripped out the phones, honey", "You can’t walk the streets in a war", "I can finish this alone honey", "You’re driftin’ too far from shore" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/duncan-and-brady/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "Duncan and Brady", "plays": 81, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/duquesne-whistle/", "album": "Tempest", "year": 2012, "title": "Duquesne Whistle", "plays": 350, "lyrics": [ [ "Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowin’", "Blowin’ like it’s gonna sweep my world away", "I’m gonna stop in Carbondale and keep on going", "That Duquesne train gonna ride me night and day" ], [ "You say I’m a gambler, you say I’m a pimp", "But I ain’t neither one" ], [ "Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowin’", "Sound like it’s on a final run" ], [ "Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowin’", "Blowin’ like she never blowed before", "Blue light blinkin’, red light glowin’", "Blowin’ like she’s at my chamber door" ], [ "You smiling through the fence at me", "Just like you always smiled before" ], [ "Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowin’", "Blowin’ like she ain’t gonna blow no more" ], [ "Can’t you hear that Duquesne whistle blowin’", "Blowin’ like the sky’s gonna blow apart", "You’re the only thing alive that keeps me goin’", "You’re like a time bomb in my heart", "I can hear a sweet voice gently calling", "Must be the Mother of our Lord" ], [ "Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowin’", "Blowin’ like my woman’s on board" ], [ "Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowin’", "Blowin’ like it’s gonna blow my blues away", "You ole rascal, I know exactly where you’re goin’", "I’ll lead you there myself at the break of day" ], [ "I wake up every morning with that woman in my bed", "Everybody telling me she’s gone to my head" ], [ "Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowin’", "Blowin’ like it’s gonna kill me dead" ], [ "Can’t you hear that Duquesne whistle blowin’", "Blowin’ through another no-good town", "The lights of my native land are glowin’", "I wonder if they’ll know me next time around" ], [ "I wonder if that old oak tree’s still standing", "That old oak tree, the one we used to climb" ], [ "Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowin’", "Blowin’ like she’s blowin’ right on time" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dusty-old-fairgrounds/", "album": "", "title": "Dusty Old Fairgrounds", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, it’s all up from Florida at the start of the spring", "The trucks and the trailers will be winding", "Like a bullet we’ll shoot for the carnival route", "We’re following them dusty old fairgrounds a-calling" ], [ "From the Michigan mud past the Wisconsin sun", "’Cross that Minnesota border, keep ’em scrambling", "Through the clear county lakes and the lumberjack lands", "We’re following them dusty old fairgrounds a-calling" ], [ "Hit Fargo on the jump and down to Aberdeen", "’Cross them old Black Hills, keep ’em rolling", "Through the cow country towns and the sands of old Montana", "We’re following them fairgrounds a-calling" ], [ "As the white line on the highway sails under your wheels", "I’ve gazed from the trailer window laughing", "Oh, our clothes they was torn but the colors they was bright", "Following them dusty old fairgrounds a-calling" ], [ "It’s a-many a friend that follows the bend", "The jugglers, the hustlers, the gamblers", "Well, I’ve spent my time with the fortune-telling kind", "Following them fairgrounds a-calling" ], [ "Oh, it’s pound down the rails and it’s tie down the tents", "Get that canvas flag a-flying", "Well, let the caterpillars spin, let the Ferris wheel wind", "Following them fairgrounds a-calling" ], [ "Well, it’s roll into town straight to the fairgrounds", "Just behind the posters that are hanging", "And it’s fill up every space with a different kind of face", "Following them fairgrounds a-calling" ], [ "Get the dancing girls in front, get the gambling show behind", "Hear that old music box a-banging", "Hear them kids, faces, smiles, up and down the midway aisles", "We’re following them fairgrounds a-calling" ], [ "It’s a-drag it on down by the deadline in the town", "Hit the old highway by the morning", "And it’s ride yourself blind for the next town on time", "Following them fairgrounds a-calling" ], [ "As the harmonicas whined in the lonesome nighttime", "Drinking red wine as we’re rolling", "Many a turnin’ I turn, many a lesson I learn", "From following them fairgrounds a-calling" ], [ "And it’s roll back down to St. Petersburg", "Tie down the trailers and camp ’em", "And the money that we made will pay for the space", "From following them dusty old fairgrounds a-calling" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/early-mornin-rain/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Early Mornin’ Rain", "plays": 8, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/early-roman-kings/", "album": "Tempest", "year": 2012, "title": "Early Roman Kings", "plays": 498, "lyrics": [ [ "All the early Roman Kings in their sharkskin suits", "Bowties and buttons, high top boots", "Driving the spikes in, blazing the rails", "Nailed in their coffins in top hats and tails", "Fly away little bird, fly away, flap your wings", "Fly by night like the early Roman Kings" ], [ "All the early Roman Kings in the early, early morn’", "Coming down the mountain, distributing the corn", "Speeding through the forest, racing down the track", "You try to get away, they drag you back", "Tomorrow is Friday, we’ll see what it brings", "Everybody’s talking ‘bout the early Roman Kings" ], [ "They’re peddlers and they’re meddlers, they buy and they sell", "They destroyed your city, they’ll destroy you as well", "They’re lecherous and treacherous, hell bent for leather", "Each of them bigger than all men put together", "Sluggers and muggers wearing fancy gold rings", "All the women going crazy for the early Roman Kings" ], [ "I'll dress up your wounds with a blood clotted rag", "I ain’t afraid to make love to a bitch or a hag", "If you see me coming and you’re standing there", "Wave your handkerchief in the air", "I ain’t dead yet, my bell still rings", "I keep my fingers crossed like the early Roman Kings" ], [ "I'll strip you of life, strip you of breath", "Ship you down to the house of death", "One day you will ask for me", "There’ll be no one else that you’ll want to see", "Bring down my fiddle, tune up my strings", "Gonna break it wide open like the early Roman Kings" ], [ "I was up on black mountain the day Detroit fell", "They killed them all off and they sent them to hell", "Ding Dong Daddy, you’re coming up short", "Gonna put you on trial in a Sicilian court", "I’ve had my fun, I’ve had my flings", "Gonna shake ‘em all down like the early Roman Kings" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/easy-and-slow/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "Easy and Slow", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/edge-ocean/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Edge of the Ocean", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/emotionally-yours/", "album": "Empire Burlesque", "year": 1985, "title": "Emotionally Yours", "plays": 19, "lyrics": [ [ "Come baby, find me, come baby, remind me of where I once begun", "Come baby, show me, show me you know me, tell me you’re the one", "I could be learning, you could be yearning to see behind closed doors", "But I will always be emotionally yours" ], [ "Come baby, rock me, come baby, lock me into the shadows of your heart", "Come baby, teach me, come baby, reach me, let the music start", "I could be dreaming but I keep believing you’re the one I’m livin’ for", "And I will always be emotionally yours" ], [ "It’s like my whole life never happened", "When I see you, it’s as if I never had a thought", "I know this dream, it might be crazy", "But it’s the only one I’ve got" ], [ "Come baby, shake me, come baby, take me, I would be satisfied", "Come baby, hold me, come baby, help me, my arms are open wide", "I could be unraveling wherever I’m traveling, even to foreign shores", "But I will always be emotionally yours" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/endless-highway/", "album": "Before the Flood", "year": 1974, "title": "Endless Highway", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Take a silver dollar and put it in your pocket,", "Never let it slip away.", "Always be a man, not a boy gone astray.", "When ya get half cra-zy from the August heat", "Or on a frozen, rotted road", "With no one to complain to about your achin' feet." ], [ "You're gonna walk that endless highway,", "Walk that high-way till you die.", "All you children goin' my way,", "Better tell your home-life sweet goodbye." ], [ "When I see a detour up ahead,", "Well, I leave it far behind,", "Who knows what you're apt to find there.", "With the cost of livin, and the price of dyin',", "Well it look like t'me this time I wont be buyin'" ], [ "You're gonna walk that endless highway,", "Walk that high-way till you die.", "All you children goin' my way,", "Better tell your home-life sweet goodbye." ], [ "When they get a scapegoat by the throat,", "it's hard labour and cold beans.", "If ya get away real quick,", "You'll be eatin from the poison peanut machine.", "Well, I sing by night, wander by day.", "I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay." ], [ "You're gonna walk that endless highway,", "Walk that high-way till you die.", "All you children goin' my way,", "Better tell your home-life sweet goodbye." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/eternal-circle/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Eternal Circle", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "I sang the song slowly", "As she stood in the shadows", "She stepped to the light", "As my silver strings spun", "She called with her eyes", "To the tune I’s a-playin’", "But the song it was long", "And I’d only begun" ], [ "Through a bullet of light", "Her face was reflectin’", "The fast fading words", "That rolled from my tongue", "With a long-distance look", "Her eyes was on fire", "But the song it was long", "And there was more to be sung" ], [ "My eyes danced a circle", "Across her clear outline", "With her head tilted sideways", "She called me again", "As the tune drifted out", "She breathed hard through the echo", "But the song it was long", "And it was far to the end" ], [ "I glanced at my guitar", "And played it pretendin’", "That of all the eyes out there", "I could see none", "As her thoughts pounded hard", "Like the pierce of an arrow", "But the song it was long", "And it had to get done" ], [ "As the tune finally folded", "I laid down the guitar", "Then looked for the girl", "Who’d stayed for so long", "But her shadow was missin’", "For all of my searchin’", "So I picked up my guitar", "And began the next song" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/every-grain-sand/", "album": "Shot of Love", "year": 1981, "title": "Every Grain of Sand", "plays": 185, "lyrics": [ [ "In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need", "When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed", "There’s a dyin’ voice within me reaching out somewhere", "Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair" ], [ "Don’t have the inclination to look back on any mistake", "Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break", "In the fury of the moment I can see the Master’s hand", "In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand" ], [ "Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear", "Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer", "The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way", "To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay" ], [ "I gaze into the doorway of temptation’s angry flame", "And every time I pass that way I always hear my name", "Then onward in my journey I come to understand", "That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand" ], [ "I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night", "In the violence of a summer’s dream, in the chill of a wintry light", "In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space", "In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face" ], [ "I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea", "Sometimes I turn, there’s someone there, other times it’s only me", "I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man", "Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/everything-broken/", "album": "Oh Mercy", "year": 1989, "title": "Everything Is Broken", "plays": 284, "lyrics": [ [ "Broken lines, broken strings", "Broken threads, broken springs", "Broken idols, broken heads", "People sleeping in broken beds", "Ain’t no use jiving, ain’t no use joking", "Everything is broken" ], [ "Broken bottles, broken plates", "Broken switches, broken gates", "Broken dishes, broken parts", "Streets are filled with broken hearts", "Broken words never meant to be spoken", "Everything is broken" ], [ "Seem like every time you stop and turn around", "Something else just hit the ground" ], [ "Broken cutters, broken saws", "Broken buckles, broken laws", "Broken bodies, broken bones", "Broken voices on broken phones", "Take a deep breath, feel like you’re chokin'", "Everything is broken" ], [ "Every time you leave and go off someplace", "Things fall to pieces in my face" ], [ "Broken hands on broken ploughs", "Broken treaties, broken vows", "Broken pipes, broken tools", "People bending broken rules", "Hound dog howling, bullfrog croaking", "Everything is broken" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/false-prophet/", "album": "Private: False Prophet", "title": "False Prophet", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Another day without end - another ship going out", "Another day of anger - bitterness and doubt", "I know how it happened - I saw it begin", "I opened my heart to the world and the world came in" ], [ "Hello Mary Lou - Hello Miss Pearl", "My fleet footed guides from the underworld", "No stars in the sky shine brighter than you", "You girls mean business and I do too" ], [ "I’m the enemy of treason - the enemy of strife", "I’m the enemy of the unlived meaningless life", "I ain’t no false prophet - I just know what I know", "I go where only the lonely can go" ], [ "I’m first among equals - second to none", "I’m last of the best - you can bury the rest", "Bury ‘em naked with their silver and gold", "Put ‘em six feet under and then pray for their souls" ], [ "What are you lookin’ at - there’s nothing to see", "Just a cool breeze encircling me", "Let’s walk in the garden - so far and so wide", "We can sit in the shade by the fountain side" ], [ "I’ve searched the world over for the Holy Grail", "I sing songs of love - I sing songs of betrayal", "Don’t care what I drink - don’t care what I eat", "I climbed a mountain of swords on my bare feet" ], [ "You don’t know me darlin’ - you never would guess", "I’m nothing like my ghostly appearance would suggest", "I ain’t no false prophet - I just said what I said", "I’m here to bring vengeance on somebody’s head" ], [ "Put out your hand - there’s nothin’ to hold", "Open your mouth - I’ll stuff it with gold", "Oh you poor Devil - look up if you will", "The City of God is there on the hill" ], [ "Hello stranger - Hello and goodbye", "You rule the land but so do I", "You lusty old mule - you got a poisoned brain", "I’m gonna marry you to a ball and chain" ], [ "You know darlin’ the kind of life that I live", "When your smile meets my smile - something’s got to give", "I ain’t no false prophet - I’m nobody’s bride", "Can’t remember when I was born and I forgot when I died" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/farewell/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Farewell", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh it’s fare thee well my darlin’ true", "I’m leavin’ in the first hour of the morn", "I’m bound off for the bay of Mexico", "Or maybe the coast of Californ", "So it’s fare thee well my own true love", "We’ll meet another day, another time", "It ain’t the leavin’", "That’s a-grievin’ me", "But my true love who’s bound to stay behind" ], [ "Oh the weather is against me and the wind blows hard", "And the rain she’s a-turnin’ into hail", "I still might strike it lucky on a highway goin’ west", "Though I’m travelin’ on a path beaten trail", "So it’s fare thee well my own true love", "We’ll meet another day, another time", "It ain’t the leavin’", "That’s a-grievin’ me", "But my true love who’s bound to stay behind" ], [ "I will write you a letter from time to time", "As I’m ramblin’ you can travel with me too", "With my head, my heart and my hands, my love", "I will send what I learn back home to you", "So it’s fare thee well my own true love", "We’ll meet another day, another time", "It ain’t the leavin’", "That’s a-grievin’ me", "But my true love who’s bound to stay behind" ], [ "I will tell you of the laughter and of troubles", "Be them somebody else’s or my own", "With my hands in my pockets and my coat collar high", "I will travel unnoticed and unknown", "So it’s fare thee well my own true love", "We’ll meet another day, another time", "It ain’t the leavin’", "That’s a-grievin’ me", "But my true love who’s bound to stay behind" ], [ "I’ve heard tell of a town where I might as well be bound", "It’s down around the old Mexican plains", "They say that the people are all friendly there", "And all they ask of you is your name", "So it’s fare thee well my own true love", "We’ll meet another day, another time", "It ain’t the leavin’", "That’s a-grievin’ me", "But my true love who’s bound to stay behind" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/farewell-angelina/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Farewell, Angelina", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Farewell Angelina", "The bells of the crown", "Are being stolen by bandits", "I must follow the sound", "The triangle tingles", "And the trumpets play slow", "Farewell Angelina", "The sky is on fire", "And I must go" ], [ "There’s no need for anger", "There’s no need for blame", "There’s nothing to prove", "Ev’rything’s still the same", "Just a table standing empty", "By the edge of the sea", "Farewell Angelina", "The sky is trembling", "And I must leave" ], [ "The jacks and the queens", "Have forsaked the courtyard", "Fifty-two gypsies", "Now file past the guards", "In the space where the deuce", "And the ace once ran wild", "Farewell Angelina", "The sky is folding", "I’ll see you in a while" ], [ "See the cross-eyed pirates sitting", "Perched in the sun", "Shooting tin cans", "With a sawed-off shotgun", "And the neighbors they clap", "And they cheer with each blast", "Farewell Angelina", "The sky’s changing color", "And I must leave fast" ], [ "King Kong, little elves", "On the rooftops they dance", "Valentino-type tangos", "While the makeup man’s hands", "Shut the eyes of the dead", "Not to embarrass anyone", "Farewell Angelina", "The sky is embarrassed", "And I must be gone" ], [ "The machine guns are roaring", "The puppets heave rocks", "The fiends nail time bombs", "To the hands of the clocks", "Call me any name you like", "I will never deny it", "Farewell Angelina", "The sky is erupting", "I must go where it’s quiet" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/father-night/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "Father of Night", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Father of night, Father of day", "Father, who taketh the darkness away", "Father, who teacheth the bird to fly", "Builder of rainbows up in the sky", "Father of loneliness and pain", "Father of love and Father of rain" ], [ "Father of day, Father of night", "Father of black, Father of white", "Father, who build the mountain so high", "Who shapeth the cloud up in the sky", "Father of time, Father of dreams", "Father, who turneth the rivers and streams" ], [ "Father of grain, Father of wheat", "Father of cold and Father of heat", "Father of air and Father of trees", "Who dwells in our hearts and our memories", "Father of minutes, Father of days", "Father of whom we most solemnly praise" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/final-theme/", "album": "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", "year": 1973, "title": "Final Theme", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/fixin-die/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "Fixin’ to Die", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Feeling funny in my mind, Lord,", "I believe I'm fixing to die, fixing to die", "Feeling funny in my mind, Lord", "I believe I'm fixing to die", "Well, I don't mind dying", "But I hate to leave my children crying", "Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground", "Look over yonder to that burying ground", "Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down" ], [ "Feeling funny in my eyes, Lord,", "I believe I'm fixing to die, fixing to die", "Feeling funny in my eyes, Lord", "I believe I'm fixing to die", "Well, I don't mind dying but", "I hate to leave my children crying", "There's a black smoke rising, Lord", "It's rising up above my head, up above my head", "It's rising up above my head, up above my head", "And tell Jesus make up my dying bed." ], [ "I'm walking kind of funny, Lord", "I believe I'm fixing to die, fixing to die", "Yes I'm walking kind of funny, Lord", "I believe I'm fixing to die", "Fixing to die, fixing to die", "Well, I don't mind dying", "But I hate to leave my children crying." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/floater-too-much-ask/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "Floater (Too Much to Ask)", "plays": 87, "lyrics": [ [ "Down over the window", "Comes the dazzling sunlit rays", "Through the back alleys—through the blinds", "Another one of them endless days", "Honey bees are buzzin’", "Leaves begin to stir", "I’m in love with my second cousin", "I tell myself I could be happy forever with her", "I keep listenin’ for footsteps", "But I ain’t hearing any", "From the boat I fish for bullheads", "I catch a lot, sometimes too many", "A summer breeze is blowing", "A squall is settin’ in", "Sometimes it’s just plain stupid", "To get into any kind of wind" ], [ "The old men ’round here, sometimes they get", "On bad terms with the younger men", "But old, young, age don’t carry weight", "It doesn’t matter in the end", "One of the boss’ hangers-on", "Comes to call at times you least expect", "Try to bully ya—strong-arm you—inspire you with fear", "It has the opposite effect", "There’s a new grove of trees on the outskirts of town", "The old one is long gone", "Timber two-foot-six across", "Burns with the bark still on", "They say times are hard, if you don’t believe it", "You can just follow your nose", "It don’t bother me—times are hard everywhere", "We’ll just have to see how it goes" ], [ "My old man, he’s like some feudal lord", "Got more lives than a cat", "Never seen him quarrel with my mother even once", "Things come alive or they fall flat", "You can smell the pinewood burnin’", "You can hear the school bell ring", "Gotta get up near the teacher if you can", "If you wanna learn anything", "Romeo, he said to Juliet, “You got a poor complexion", "It doesn’t give your appearance a very youthful touch!”", "Juliet said back to Romeo, “Why don’t you just shove off", "If it bothers you so much”", "They all got out of here any way they could", "The cold rain can give you the shivers", "They went down the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee", "All the rest of them rebel rivers" ], [ "If you ever try to interfere with me or cross my path again", "You do so at the peril of your own life", "I’m not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound", "I’ve seen enough heartaches and strife", "My grandfather was a duck trapper", "He could do it with just dragnets and ropes", "My grandmother could sew new dresses out of old cloth", "I don’t know if they had any dreams or hopes", "I had ’em once though, I suppose, to go along", "With all the ring dancin’ Christmas carols on all of the Christmas Eves", "I left all my dreams and hopes", "Buried under tobacco leaves", "It’s not always easy kicking someone out", "Gotta wait a while—it can be an unpleasant task", "Sometimes somebody wants you to give something up", "And tears or not, it’s too much to ask" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/folsom-prison-blues/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "Folsom Prison Blues", "plays": 19, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/foot-pride/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Foot of Pride", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Like the lion tears the flesh off of a man", "So can a woman who passes herself off as a male", "They sang “Danny Boy” at his funeral and the Lord’s Prayer", "Preacher talking ’bout Christ betrayed", "It’s like the earth just opened and swallowed him up", "He reached too high, was thrown back to the ground", "You know what they say about bein’ nice to the right people on the way up", "Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin’ down" ], [ "Well, there ain’t no goin’ back", "When your foot of pride come down", "Ain’t no goin’ back" ], [ "Hear ya got a brother named James, don’t forget faces or names", "Sunken cheeks and his blood is mixed", "He looked straight into the sun and said revenge is mine", "But he drinks, and drinks can be fixed", "Sing me one more song, about ya love me to the moon and the stranger", "And your fall-by-the sword love affair with Errol Flynn", "In these times of compassion when conformity’s in fashion", "Say one more stupid thing to me before the final nail is driven in." ], [ "Well, there ain’t no goin’ back", "When your foot of pride come down", "Ain’t no goin’ back" ], [ "There’s a retired businessman named Red", "Cast down from heaven and he’s out of his head", "He feeds off of everyone that he can touch", "He said he only deals in cash or sells tickets to a plane crash", "He’s not somebody that you play around with much", "Miss Delilah is his, a Phillistine is what she is", "She’ll do wondrous works with your fate, feed you coconut bread,", "spice buns in your bed", "If you don’t mind sleepin’ with your head face down in a grave" ], [ "Well, there ain’t no goin’ back", "When your foot of pride come down", "Ain’t no goin’ back" ], [ "Well, they’ll choose a man for you to meet tonight", "You’ll play the fool and learn how to walk through doors", "How to enter into the gates of paradise", "No, how to carry a burden too heavy to be yours", "Yeah, from the stage they’ll be tryin’ to get water outa rocks", "A whore will pass the hat, collect a hundred grand and say thanks", "They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in", "Sing “Amazing Grace” all the way to the Swiss banks" ], [ "Well, there ain’t no goin’ back", "When your foot of pride come down", "Ain’t no goin’ back" ], [ "They got some beautiful people out there, man", "They can be a terror to your mind and show you how to hold your tongue", "They got mystery written all over their forehead", "They kill babies in the crib and say only the good die young", "They don’t believe in mercy", "Judgement on them is something that you’ll never see", "They can exalt you up or bring you down main route", "Turn you into anything that they want you to be" ], [ "Well, there ain’t no goin’ back", "When your foot of pride come down", "Ain’t no goin’ back" ], [ "Yes, I guess I loved him too", "I can still see him in my mind climbin’ that hill", "Did he make it to the top, well he probably did and dropped", "Struck down by the strength of the will", "Ain’t nothin’ left here partner, just the dust of a plague", "that has left this whole town afraid", "From now on, this’ll be where you’re from", "Let the dead bury the dead. Your time will come", "Let hot iron blow as he raised the shade" ], [ "Well, there ain’t no goin’ back", "When your foot of pride come down", "Ain’t no goin’ back" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/forever-young/", "album": "Planet Waves", "year": 1974, "title": "Forever Young", "plays": 493, "lyrics": [ [ "May God bless and keep you always", "May your wishes all come true", "May you always do for others", "And let others do for you", "May you build a ladder to the stars", "And climb on every rung", "May you stay forever young", "Forever young, forever young", "May you stay forever young" ], [ "May you grow up to be righteous", "May you grow up to be true", "May you always know the truth", "And see the lights surrounding you", "May you always be courageous", "Stand upright and be strong", "May you stay forever young", "Forever young, forever young", "May you stay forever young" ], [ "May your hands always be busy", "May your feet always be swift", "May you have a strong foundation", "When the winds of changes shift", "May your heart always be joyful", "May your song always be sung", "May you stay forever young", "Forever young, forever young", "May you stay forever young" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/forgetful-heart/", "album": "Together Through Life", "year": 2009, "title": "Forgetful Heart", "plays": 234, "lyrics": [ [ "Forgetful heart", "Lost your power of recall", "Every little detail", "You don't remember at all", "The times we knew", "Who would remember better then you" ], [ "Forgetful heart", "We laughed and had a good time you and I", "It's been so long", "Now you're content to let the days go by", "When you were there", "You were the answer to my prayer" ], [ "Forgetful heart", "We loved with all the love that life can give", "What can I say", "Without you it's so hard to live", "Can't take much more", "Why can't we love like we did before" ], [ "Forgetful heart", "Like a walking shadow in my brain", "All night long", "I lay awake and listen to the sound of pain", "The door has closed forevermore", "If indeed there ever was a door" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/four-strong-winds/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Four Strong Winds", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/fourth-time-around/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Fourth Time Around", "plays": 37, "lyrics": [ [ "When she said", "“Don’t waste your words, they’re just lies”", "I cried she was deaf", "And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes", "Then said, “What else you got left?”", "It was then that I got up to leave", "But she said, “Don’t forget", "Everybody must give something back", "For something they get”" ], [ "I stood there and hummed", "I tapped on her drum and asked her how come", "And she buttoned her boot", "And straightened her suit", "Then she said, “Don’t get cute”", "So I forced my hands in my pockets", "And felt with my thumbs", "And gallantly handed her", "My very last piece of gum" ], [ "She threw me outside", "I stood in the dirt where ev’ryone walked", "And after finding I’d", "Forgotten my shirt", "I went back and knocked", "I waited in the hallway, she went to get it", "And I tried to make sense", "Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair", "That leaned up against . . ." ], [ "Her Jamaican rum", "And when she did come, I asked her for some", "She said, “No, dear”", "I said, “Your words aren’t clear", "You’d better spit out your gum”", "She screamed till her face got so red", "Then she fell on the floor", "And I covered her up and then", "Thought I’d go look through her drawer" ], [ "And when I was through", "I filled up my shoe", "And brought it to you", "And you, you took me in", "You loved me then", "You didn’t waste time", "And I, I never took much", "I never asked for your crutch", "Now don’t ask for mine" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/frankie-albert/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Frankie & Albert", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Frankie was a good girl.", "Everybody knows.", "For Albert's new suite of clothes.", "He was her man but he done her wrong." ], [ "Albert said, \"I'm leaving you.", "Won't be gone for long.", "Don't wait for me.", "A-worry about me when I'm gone.\"", "He was her man but he done her wrong." ], [ "Frankie went down to the corner saloon.", "Get a bucket of beer.", "Said to the bartender.", "\"Has my lovin' man been here?\"", "He was her man but he done her wrong." ], [ "\"Well, I ain't gonna tell you no stories.", "I ain't gonna tell you no lies.", "I saw Albert an hour ago.", "With a gal named Alice Bly.\"", "He was her man but he done her wrong." ], [ "Frankie went down to 12th Street.", "Lookin' up through the window high.", "She saw her Albert there.", "Lovein' up Alice Bly.", "He was her man but he done her wrong." ], [ "Frankie pulled out a pistol.", "Pulled out a forty-four.", "Gun went off a rootie-toot-toot", "And Albert fell on the floor.", "He was her man but he done her wrong." ], [ "Frankie got down upon her knees.", "Took Albert into her lap.", "Started to hug and kiss him.", "But there was no bringin' him back.", "He was her man but he done her wrong." ], [ "\"Gimme a thousand policemen.", "Throw me into a cell.", "I shot my Albert dead.", "And now I'm goin' to hell.", "He was her man but he done me wrong.\"" ], [ "Judge said to the jury.", "\"Plain as a thing can be.", "A woman shot her lover down.", "Murder in the second degree.\"", "He was her man but he done her wrong." ], [ "Frankie went to the scaffold.", "Calm as a girl could be.", "Turned her eyes up towards the heavens.", "Said, \"Nearer, my God, to Thee.\"", "He was her man but he done her wrong." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/freight-train-blues/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "Freight Train Blues", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I was born in Dixie in a boomer shed", "Just a little shanty by the railroad track", "Freight train was it taught me how to cry", "The holler of the driver was my lullaby", "I got the freight train blues", "Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes", "And when the whistle blows I gotta go baby, don't you know", "Well, it looks like I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues." ], [ "Well, my daddy was a fireman and my mama-ha", "She was the only daugther of an enginer", "My sweetheart was a brakeman and it ain't no joke", "Seems a waste to get a good man broke", "I got the freight train blues", "Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes", "And when the whistle blows I gotta go mama, don't you know", "Well, it looks like I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues." ], [ "Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again", "Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train", "Every place I wanna go I never can go", "Because you know I got the freight train blues", "Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/froggie-went-courtin/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Froggie Went a Courtin’", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Frog went a-courtin', and he did ride, Uh-huh,", "Frog went a-courtin', and he did ride, Uh-huh,", "Frog went a-courtin', and he did ride.", "With a sword and a pistol by his side, Uh-huh." ], [ "Well he rode up to Miss Mousey's door, Uh-huh,", "Well he rode up to Miss Mousey's door, Uh-huh,", "Well he rode up to Miss Mousey's door.", "Gave three loud raps and a very big roar, Uh-huh." ], [ "Said, \"Miss Mouse, are you within?\" Uh-huh,", "Said he, \"Miss Mouse, are you within?\" Uh-huh,", "Said, \"Miss Mouse, are you within?\"", "\"Yes, kind sir, I sit and spin,\" Uh-huh." ], [ "He took Miss Mousey on his knee, Uh-huh,", "Took Miss Mousey on his knee, Uh-huh,", "Took Miss Mousey on his knee.", "Said, \"Miss Mousey, will you marry me?\" Uh-huh." ], [ "\"Without my uncle Rat's consent, Uh-huh", "\"Without my uncle Rat's consent, Uh-huh", "\"Without my uncle Rat's consent.", "I wouldn't marry the president, Uh-huh" ], [ "Uncle Rat laughed and he shook his fat sides, Uh-huh,", "Uncle Rat laughed and he shook his fat sides, Uh-huh,", "Uncle Rat laughed and he shook his fat sides,.", "To think his niece would be a bride, Uh-huh." ], [ "Uncle Rat went runnin' downtown, Uh-huh,", "Uncle Rat went runnin' downtown, Uh-huh,", "Uncle Rat went runnin' downtown.", "To buy his niece a wedding gown, Uh-huh" ], [ "Where shall the wedding supper be? Uh-huh,", "Where shall the wedding supper be? Uh-huh,", "Where shall the wedding supper be?", "Way down yonder in a hollow tree, Uh-huh" ], [ "What should the wedding supper be? Uh-huh,", "What should the wedding supper be? Uh-huh,", "What should the wedding supper be?", "Fried mosquito in a black-eye pea, Uh-huh." ], [ "Well, first to come in was a flyin' moth, Uh-huh,", "First to come in was a flyin' moth, Uh-huh,", "First to come in was a flyin' moth.", "She laid out the table cloth, Uh-huh." ], [ "Next to come in was a juney bug, Uh-huh,", "Next to come in was a juney bug, Uh-huh,", "Next to come in was a juney bug.", "She brought the water jug, Uh-huh." ], [ "Next to come in was a bumbley bee, Uh-huh", "Next to come in was a bumbley bee, Uh-huh", "Next to come in was a bumbley bee.", "Sat mosquito on his knee, Uh-huh." ], [ "Next to come in was a broken black flea, Uh-huh,", "Next to come in was a broken black flea, Uh-huh,", "Next to come in was a broken black flea.", "Danced a jig with the bumbley bee, Uh-huh." ], [ "Next to come in was Mrs. Cow, Uh-huh,", "Next to come in was Mrs. Cow, Uh-huh,", "Next to come in was Mrs. Cow.", "She tried to dance but she didn't know how, Uh-huh." ], [ "Next to come in was a little black tick, Uh-huh,", "Next to come in was a little black tick, Uh-huh,", "Next to come in was a little black tick.", "She ate so much she made us sick, Uh-huh." ], [ "Next to come in was a big black snake, Uh-huh,", "Next to come in was a big black snake, Uh-huh,", "Next to come in was a big black snake.", "Ate up all of the wedding cake, Uh-huh." ], [ "Next to come was the old gray cat, Uh-huh,", "Next to come was the old gray cat, Uh-huh,", "Next to come was the old gray cat.", "Swallowed the mouse and ate up the rat, Uh-huh." ], [ "Mr. Frog went a-hoppin' up over the brook, Uh-huh,", "Mr. Frog went a-hoppin' up over the brook, Uh-huh,", "Mr. Frog went a-hoppin' up over the brook.", "A lily-white duck come and swallowed him up, Uh-huh." ], [ "A little piece of cornbread layin' on a shelf, Uh-huh,", "A little piece of cornbread layin' on a shelf, Uh-huh,", "A little piece of cornbread layin' on a shelf.", "If you want anymore, you can sing it yourself, Uh-huh." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/buick-6/", "album": "Highway 61 Revisited", "year": 1965, "title": "From a Buick 6", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "I got this graveyard woman, you know she keeps my kid", "But my soulful mama, you know she keeps me hid", "She’s a junkyard angel and she always gives me bread", "Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed." ], [ "Well, when the pipeline gets broken and I’m lost on the river bridge", "I’m cracked up on the highway and on the water’s edge", "She comes down the thruway ready to sew me up with thread", "Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed." ], [ "Well, she don’t make me nervous, she don’t talk too much", "She walks like Bo Diddley and she don’t need no crutch", "She keeps this four-ten all loaded with lead", "Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed." ], [ "Well, you know I need a steam shovel mama to keep away the dead", "I need a dump truck mama to unload my head", "She brings me everything and more, and just like I said", "Well, if I go down dyin’, you know she bound to put a blanket on my bed." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/full-moon-and-empty-arms/", "album": "Shadows in the Night", "year": 2015, "title": "Full Moon and Empty Arms", "plays": 42, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gates-eden/", "album": "Bringing It All Back Home", "year": 1965, "title": "Gates of Eden", "plays": 217, "lyrics": [ [ "Of war and peace the truth just twists", "Its curfew gull just glides", "Upon four-legged forest clouds", "The cowboy angel rides", "With his candle lit into the sun", "Though its glow is waxed in black", "All except when ’neath the trees of Eden" ], [ "The lamppost stands with folded arms", "Its iron claws attached", "To curbs ’neath holes where babies wail", "Though it shadows metal badge", "All and all can only fall", "With a crashing but meaningless blow", "No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden" ], [ "The savage soldier sticks his head in sand", "And then complains", "Unto the shoeless hunter who’s gone deaf", "But still remains", "Upon the beach where hound dogs bay", "At ships with tattooed sails", "Heading for the Gates of Eden" ], [ "With a time-rusted compass blade", "Aladdin and his lamp", "Sits with Utopian hermit monks", "Sidesaddle on the Golden Calf", "And on their promises of paradise", "You will not hear a laugh", "All except inside the Gates of Eden" ], [ "Relationships of ownership", "They whisper in the wings", "To those condemned to act accordingly", "And wait for succeeding kings", "And I try to harmonize with songs", "The lonesome sparrow sings", "There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden" ], [ "The motorcycle black madonna", "Two-wheeled gypsy queen", "And her silver-studded phantom cause", "The gray flannel dwarf to scream", "As he weeps to wicked birds of prey", "Who pick up on his bread crumb sins", "And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden" ], [ "The kingdoms of Experience", "In the precious wind they rot", "While paupers change possessions", "Each one wishing for what the other has got", "And the princess and the prince", "Discuss what’s real and what is not", "It doesn’t matter inside the Gates of Eden" ], [ "The foreign sun, it squints upon", "A bed that is never mine", "As friends and other strangers", "From their fates try to resign", "Leaving men wholly, totally free", "To do anything they wish to do but die", "And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden" ], [ "At dawn my lover comes to me", "And tells me of her dreams", "With no attempts to shovel the glimpse", "Into the ditch of what each one means", "At times I think there are no words", "But these to tell what’s true", "And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/george-jackson/", "album": "", "title": "George Jackson", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I woke up this mornin’", "There were tears in my bed", "They killed a man I really loved", "Shot him through the head", "Lord, Lord", "They cut George Jackson down", "Lord, Lord", "They laid him in the ground" ], [ "Sent him off to prison", "For a seventy-dollar robbery", "Closed the door behind him", "And they threw away the key", "Lord, Lord", "They cut George Jackson down", "Lord, Lord", "They laid him in the ground" ], [ "He wouldn’t take shit from no one", "He wouldn’t bow down or kneel", "Authorities, they hated him", "Because he was just too real", "Lord, Lord", "They cut George Jackson down", "Lord, Lord", "They laid him in the ground" ], [ "Prison guards, they cursed him", "As they watched him from above", "But they were frightened of his power", "They were scared of his love", "Lord, Lord", "So they cut George Jackson down", "Lord, Lord", "They laid him in the ground." ], [ "Sometimes I think this whole world", "Is one big prison yard", "Some of us are prisoners", "The rest of us are guards", "Lord, Lord", "They cut George Jackson down", "Lord, Lord", "They laid him in the ground" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/get-your-rocks-off/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "Get Your Rocks Off", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "You know, there’s two ol’ maids layin’ in the bed", "One picked herself up an’ the other one, she said:", "“Get your rocks off!", "Get your rocks off! (Get ’em off!)", "Get your rocks off! (Get ’em off!)", "Get your rocks off-a me! (Get ’em off!)”" ], [ "Well, you know, there late one night up on Blueberry Hill", "One man turned to the other man and said, with a blood-curdlin’ chill, he said:", "“Get your rocks off! (Get ’em off!)", "Get your rocks off! (Get ’em off!)", "Get your rocks off! (Get ’em off!)", "Get your rocks off-a me! (Get ’em off!)”" ], [ "Well, you know, we was layin’ down around Mink Muscle Creek", "One man said to the other man, he began to speak, he said:", "“Get your rocks off! (Get ’em off!)", "Get your rocks off! (Get ’em off!)", "Get your rocks off! (Get ’em off!)", "Get your rocks off-a me! (Get ’em off!)”" ], [ "Well, you know, we was cruisin’ down the highway in a Greyhound bus", "All kinds-a children in the side road, they was hollerin’ at us, sayin’:", "“Get your rocks off! (Get ’em off!)", "Get your rocks off! (Get ’em off!)", "Get your rocks off! (Get ’em off!)", "Get your rocks off-a me!”" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/girl-north-country/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "Girl from the North Country", "plays": 569, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, if you’re travelin’ in the north country fair", "Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline", "Remember me to one who lives there", "She once was a true love of mine" ], [ "Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm", "When the rivers freeze and summer ends", "Please see if she’s wearing a coat so warm", "To keep her from the howlin’ winds" ], [ "Please see for me if her hair hangs long,", "If it rolls and flows all down her breast.", "Please see for me if her hair hangs long,", "That’s the way I remember her best." ], [ "I’m a-wonderin’ if she remembers me at all", "Many times I’ve often prayed", "In the darkness of my night", "In the brightness of my day" ], [ "So if you’re travelin’ in the north country fair", "Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline", "Remember me to one who lives there", "She once was a true love of mine" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/god-knows/", "album": "Under the Red Sky", "year": 1990, "title": "God Knows", "plays": 188, "lyrics": [ [ "God knows you ain’t pretty", "God knows it’s true", "God knows there ain’t anybody", "Ever gonna take the place of you" ], [ "God knows it’s a struggle", "God knows it’s a crime", "God knows there’s gonna be no more water", "But fire next time" ], [ "God don’t call it treason", "God don’t call it wrong", "It was supposed to last a season", "But it’s been so strong for so long" ], [ "God knows it’s fragile", "God knows everything", "God knows it could snap apart right now", "Just like putting scissors to a string" ], [ "God knows it’s terrifying", "God sees it all unfold", "There’s a million reasons for you to be crying", "You been so bold and so cold" ], [ "God knows that when you see it", "God knows you’ve got to weep", "God knows the secrets of your heart", "He’ll tell them to you when you’re asleep" ], [ "God knows there’s a river", "God knows how to make it flow", "God knows you ain’t gonna be taking", "Nothing with you when you go" ], [ "God knows there’s a purpose", "God knows there’s a chance", "God knows you can rise above the darkest hour", "Of any circumstance" ], [ "God knows there’s a heaven", "God knows it’s out of sight", "God knows we can get all the way from here to there", "Even if we’ve got to walk a million miles by candlelight" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/goin-down-road-feeling-bad/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/goin-acapulco/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Goin’ to Acapulco", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I’m going down to Rose Marie’s", "She never does me wrong", "She puts it to me plain as day", "And gives it to me for a song" ], [ "It’s a wicked life but what the hell", "The stars ain’t falling down", "I’m standing outside the Taj Mahal", "I don’t see no one around" ], [ "Goin’ to Acapulco–goin’ on the run", "Goin’ down to see fat gut–goin’ to have some fun", "Yeah–goin’ to have some fun" ], [ "Now, whenever I get up", "And I ain’t got what I see", "I just make it down to Rose Marie’s", "’Bout a quarter after three" ], [ "There are worse ways of getting there", "And I ain’t complainin’ none", "If the clouds don’t drop and the train don’t stop", "I’m bound to meet the sun" ], [ "Goin’ to Acapulco–goin’ on the run", "Goin’ down to see fat gut–goin’ to have some fun", "Yeah–goin’ to have some fun" ], [ "Now, if someone offers me a joke", "I just say no thanks", "I try to tell it like it is", "And keep away from pranks" ], [ "Well, sometime you know when the well breaks down", "I just go pump on it some", "Rose Marie, she likes to go to big places", "And just set there waitin’ for me to come" ], [ "Goin’ to Acapulco–goin’ on the run", "Goin’ down to see fat gut–goin’ to have some fun", "Yeah–goin’ to have some fun" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/going-going-gone/", "album": "Planet Waves", "year": 1974, "title": "Going, Going, Gone", "plays": 79, "lyrics": [ [ "I’ve just reached a place", "Where the willow don’t bend", "There’s not much more to be said", "It’s the top of the end", "I’m going", "I’m going", "I’m gone" ], [ "I’m closin’ the book", "On the pages and the text", "And I don’t really care", "What happens next", "I’m just going", "I’m going", "I’m gone" ], [ "I been hangin’ on threads", "I been playin’ it straight", "Now, I’ve just got to cut loose", "Before it gets late", "So I’m going", "I’m going", "I’m gone" ], [ "Grandma said, “Boy, go and follow your heart", "And you’ll be fine at the end of the line", "All that’s gold isn’t meant to shine", "Don’t you and your one true love ever part”" ], [ "I been walkin’ the road", "I been livin’ on the edge", "Now, I’ve just got to go", "Before I get to the ledge", "So I’m going", "I’m just going", "I’m gone" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/golden-loom/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Golden Loom", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Smoky autumn night, stars up in the sky", "I see the sailin’ boats across the bay go by", "Eucalyptus trees hang above the street", "And then I turn my head, for you’re approachin’ me", "Moonlight on the water, fisherman’s daughter, floatin’ in to my room", "With a golden loom" ], [ "First we wash our feet near the immortal shrine", "And then our shadows meet and then we drink the wine", "I see the hungry clouds up above your face", "And then the tears roll down, what a bitter taste", "And then you drift away on a summer’s day where the wildflowers bloom", "With your golden loom" ], [ "I walk across the bridge in the dismal light", "Where all the cars are stripped between the gates of night", "I see the trembling lion with the lotus flower tail", "And then I kiss your lips as I lift your veil", "But you’re gone and then all I seem to recall is the smell of perfume", "And your golden loom" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gonna-change-my-way-thinking/", "album": "Slow Train Coming", "year": 1979, "title": "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking", "plays": 85, "lyrics": [ [ "Gonna change my way of thinking", "Make myself a different set of rules", "Gonna change my way of thinking", "Make myself a different set of rules", "Gonna put my good foot forward", "And stop being influenced by fools" ], [ "So much oppression", "Can’t keep track of it no more", "So much oppression", "Can’t keep track of it no more", "Sons becoming husbands to their mothers", "And old men turning young daughters into whores" ], [ "Stripes on your shoulders", "Stripes on your back and on your hands", "Stripes on your shoulders", "Stripes on your back and on your hands", "Swords piercing your side", "Blood and water flowing through the land" ], [ "Well don’t know which one is worse", "Doing your own thing or just being cool", "Well don’t know which one is worse", "Doing your own thing or just being cool", "You remember only about the brass ring", "You forget all about the golden rule" ], [ "You can mislead a man", "You can take ahold of his heart with your eyes", "You can mislead a man", "You can take ahold of his heart with your eyes", "But there’s only one authority", "And that’s the authority on high" ], [ "I got a God-fearing woman", "One I can easily afford", "I got a God-fearing woman", "One I can easily afford", "She can do the Georgia crawl", "She can walk in the spirit of the Lord" ], [ "Jesus said, “Be ready", "For you know not the hour in which I come”", "Jesus said, “Be ready", "For you know not the hour in which I come”", "He said, “He who is not for Me is against Me”", "Just so you know where He’s coming from" ], [ "There’s a kingdom called Heaven", "A place where there is no pain of birth", "There’s a kingdom called Heaven", "A place where there is no pain of birth", "Well the Lord created it, mister", "About the same time He made the earth" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gonna-get-you-now/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Gonna Get You Now", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/goodbye-jimmy-reed/", "album": "Rough and Rowdy Ways", "year": 2020, "title": "Goodbye Jimmy Reed", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I live on a street named after a Saint", "Women in the churches wear powder and paint", "Where the Jews and the Catholics and the Muslims all pray", "I can tell a Proddy from a mile away", "Goodbye Jimmy Reed - Jimmy Reed indeed", "Give me that old time religion, it’s just what I need" ], [ "For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory", "Go tell it on the Mountain, go tell the real story", "Tell it in that straight forward puritanical tone", "In the mystic hours when a person’s alone", "Goodbye Jimmy Reed - Godspeed", "Thump on the bible - proclaim the creed" ], [ "You won’t amount to much the people all said", "‘Cause I didn’t play guitar behind my head", "Never pandered never acted proud", "Never took off my shoes and threw them into the crowd", "Goodbye Jimmy Reed - goodbye and goodnight", "I’ll put a jewel in your crown - I’ll put out the light" ], [ "They threw everything at me, everything in the book", "Had nothing to fight with but a butcher’s hook", "They have no pity - they don’t lend a hand", "And I can’t sing a song that I don’t understand", "Goodbye Jimmy Reed - goodbye and good luck", "Can’t play the record ‘cause my needle got stuck" ], [ "Transparent woman in a transparent dress", "It suits you well - I must confess", "I’ll break open your grapes I’ll suck out the juice", "I need you like my head needs a noose", "Goodbye Jimmy Reed, goodbye and so long", "I thought I could resist her but I was so wrong" ], [ "G-d be with you, brother dear", "If you don’t mind me asking, what brings you here?", "Oh, nothing much, I’m just looking for the man", "I came to see where he’s lying in this lost land", "Goodbye Jimmy Reed and with everything within ya", "Can’t you hear me calling from down in Virginia" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gospel-plow/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "Gospel Plow", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Mary wore three links of chain", "Every link was Jesus name", "Keep your hand on that plow, hold on", "Oh Lord, Oh Lord, keep your hand on that plow, hold on." ], [ "Mary, Mark, Luke and John", "All these prophets so good and gone", "Keep your hand on that plow, hold on", "Oh Lord, Oh Lord, keep your hand on that plow, hold on.", "Well, I never been to heaven", "But I've been told streets up there", "Are lined with gold", "Keep your hand on that plow, hold on", "Oh Lord, Oh Lord, keep your hand on that plow, hold on.", "Oh Lord, Oh Lord, keep your hand on that plow, hold on.", "Oh Lord, Oh Lord, keep your hand on that plow, hold on." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/got-my-mind-made/", "album": "Knocked Out Loaded", "year": 1986, "title": "Got My Mind Made Up", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Don't ever try to change me,", "I been in this thing too long.", "There's nothin' you can say or do", "To make me think I'm wrong." ], [ "Well, I'm goin' off to Libya,", "There's a guy I gotta see.", "He's been living there three years now,", "In an oil refinery.", "I've got my mind made up.", "Oh, I 've got my mind made up." ], [ "Call your Ma in Tallahassee", "Tell her her baby's on the line.", "Tell her not to worry", "Everything is gonna be fine." ], [ "Well, I gave you all my money", "All my connections, too.", "There ain't nothin' in this world, girl", "You can say I didn't give to you.", "I've got my mind made up.", "I've got my mind made up." ], [ "You will be alright, girl,", "Someone's watchin' over you.", "He won't do nothin' to you", "Baby that I wouldn't do." ], [ "Well, if you don't want to see me,", "Look the other way.", "You don't have to feed me,", "I ain't your dog that's gone astray.", "I got my mind made up", "I got my mind made up", "I got my mind made up", "I got my mind made up", "I got my mind made up" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gotta-serve-somebody/", "album": "Slow Train Coming", "year": 1979, "title": "Gotta Serve Somebody", "plays": 504, "lyrics": [ [ "You may be an ambassador to England or France", "You may like to gamble, you might like to dance", "You may be the heavyweight champion of the world", "You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls" ], [ "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed", "You’re gonna have to serve somebody", "Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord", "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody" ], [ "You might be a rock ’n’ roll addict prancing on the stage", "You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage", "You may be a businessman or some high-degree thief", "They may call you Doctor or they may call you Chief" ], [ "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed", "You’re gonna have to serve somebody", "Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord", "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody" ], [ "You may be a state trooper, you might be a young Turk", "You may be the head of some big TV network", "You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame", "You may be living in another country under another name" ], [ "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed", "You’re gonna have to serve somebody", "Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord", "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody" ], [ "You may be a construction worker working on a home", "You may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome", "You might own guns and you might even own tanks", "You might be somebody’s landlord, you might even own banks" ], [ "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed", "You’re gonna have to serve somebody", "Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord", "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody" ], [ "You may be a preacher with your spiritual pride", "You may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side", "You may be workin’ in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair", "You may be somebody’s mistress, may be somebody’s heir" ], [ "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed", "You’re gonna have to serve somebody", "Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord", "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody" ], [ "Might like to wear cotton, might like to wear silk", "Might like to drink whiskey, might like to drink milk", "You might like to eat caviar, you might like to eat bread", "You may be sleeping on the floor, sleeping in a king-sized bed" ], [ "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed", "You’re gonna have to serve somebody", "Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord", "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody" ], [ "You may call me Terry, you may call me Timmy", "You may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy", "You may call me R.J., you may call me Ray", "You may call me anything but no matter what you say" ], [ "You’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed", "You’re gonna have to serve somebody", "Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord", "But you’re gonna have to serve somebody" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gotta-travel/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Gotta Travel On", "plays": 17, "lyrics": [ [ "Done laid around, done stayed around", "This old town too long", "Summer's almost gone, winter's coming on", "Done laid around, done stayed around", "This old town too long", "And it seems like I've got to travel on", "And it seems like I've got to travel on." ], [ "Papa writes to Johnny, \"Johnny, can't you come home ?", "Johnny, can't you come home ? Johnny, can't you come home ?\"", "Papa writes to Johnny, \"Johnny, can't you come home ?\"", "Johnny's been out on the road too long", "Done laid around, done stayed around", "This old town too long", "And it seems like I've got to travel on", "And it seems like I've got to travel on." ], [ "That silly wind will soon begin and I'll be on my way", "Going home to stay, going home to stay", "That silly wind will soon begin and I'll be on my way", "And I feel like I just want to travel on", "Done laid around, done stayed around", "This old town too long", "And it seems like I've got to travel on", "And it seems like I've got to travel on." ], [ "There's a lonesome freight at 6.08 coming through the town", "I'll be homward bound, I'll be homeward bound", "There's a lonesome freight at 6.08 coming through the town", "And I feel like I just want to travel on", "Done laid around, done stayed around", "This old town too long", "And it seems like I've got to travel on", "And it seems like I've got to travel on." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/guess-im-doing-fine/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Guess I’m Doing Fine", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I ain’t got my childhood", "Or friends I once did know", "No, I ain’t got my childhood", "Or friends I once did know", "But I still got my voice left", "I can take it anywhere I go", "Hey, hey, so I guess I’m doin’ fine" ], [ "And I’ve never had much money", "But I’m still around somehow", "No, I’ve never had much money", "But I’m still around somehow", "Many times I’ve bended", "But I ain’t never yet bowed", "Hey, hey, so I guess I’m doin’ fine" ], [ "Trouble, oh trouble", "I’ve trouble on my mind", "Trouble, oh trouble", "Trouble on my mind", "But the trouble in the world, Lord", "Is much more bigger than mine", "Hey, hey, so I guess I’m doin’ fine" ], [ "And I never had no armies", "To jump at my command", "No, I ain’t got no armies", "To jump at my command", "But I don’t need no armies", "I got me one good friend", "Hey, hey, so I guess I’m doin’ fine" ], [ "I been kicked and whipped and trampled on", "I been shot at just like you", "I been kicked and whipped and trampled on", "I been shot at just like you.", "But as long as the world keeps a-turnin’", "I just keep a-turnin’ too", "Hey, hey, so I guess I’m doin’ fine" ], [ "Well, my road might be rocky", "The stones might cut my face", "My road it might be rocky", "The stones might cut my face", "But as some folks ain’t got no road at all", "They gotta stand in the same old place", "Hey, hey, so I guess I’m doin’ fine" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gwenevere/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "Gwenevere", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gypsy-lou/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Gypsy Lou", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "If you getcha one girl, better get two", "Case you run into Gypsy Lou", "She’s a ramblin’ woman with a ramblin’ mind", "Always leavin’ somebody behind", "Hey, ’round the bend", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again" ], [ "Well, I seen the whole country through", "Just to find Gypsy Lou", "Seen it up, seen it down", "Followin’ Gypsy Lou around", "Hey, ’round the bend", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again" ], [ "Well, I gotta stop and take some rest", "My poor feet are second best", "My poor feet are wearin’ thin", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again", "Hey, gone again", "Gypsy Lou’s ’round the bend", "Gypsy Lou’s ’round the bend" ], [ "Well, seen her up in old Cheyenne", "Turned my head and away she ran", "From Denver Town to Wichita", "Last I heard she’s in Arkansas", "Hey, ’round the bend", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again" ], [ "Well, I tell you what if you want to do", "Tell you what, you’ll wear out your shoes", "If you want to wear out your shoes", "Try and follow Gypsy Lou", "Hey, gone again", "Gypsy Lou’s ’round the bend", "Gypsy Lou’s ’round the bend" ], [ "Well, Gypsy Lou, I been told", "Livin’ down on Gallus Road", "Gallus Road, Arlington", "Moved away to Washington", "Hey, ’round the bend", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again" ], [ "Well, I went down to Washington", "Then she went to Oregon", "I skipped the ground and hopped a train", "She’s back in Gallus Road again", "Hey, I can’t win", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again" ], [ "Well, the last I heard of Gypsy Lou", "She’s in a Memphis calaboose", "She left one too many a boy behind", "He committed suicide", "Hey, you can’t win", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again", "Gypsy Lou’s gone again" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/had-dream-about-you-baby/", "album": "Down in the Groove", "year": 1988, "title": "Had a Dream About You, Baby", "plays": 4, "lyrics": [ [ "I got to see you baby, I don’t care", "It may be someplace, baby, you say where" ], [ "I had a dream about you, baby", "Had a dream about you, baby", "Late last night you come a-rollin’ across my mind" ], [ "You got the crazy rhythm when you walk", "You make me nervous when you start to talk" ], [ "I had a dream about you, baby", "Had a dream about you, baby", "Late last night you come a-rollin’ across my mind" ], [ "Standin’ on the highway, you flag me down", "Said, take me Daddy, to the nearest town" ], [ "I had a dream about you, baby", "Had a dream about you, baby", "Late last night you come a-rollin’ across my mind" ], [ "The joint is jumpin’", "It’s really somethin’", "The beat is pumpin’", "My heart is thumpin’", "Spent my money on you honey", "My limbs are shakin’", "My heart is breakin’" ], [ "You kiss me, baby, in the coffee shop", "You make me nervous, you gotta stop" ], [ "I had a dream about you, baby", "Had a dream about you, baby", "Late last night you come a-rollin’ across my mind" ], [ "You got a rag wrapped around your head", "Wearing a long dress fire engine red" ], [ "I had a dream about you, baby", "Had a dream about you, baby", "Late last night you come a-rollin’ across my mind" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hallelujah-ive-just-been-moved/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Hallelujah, I’ve Just Been Moved", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/handy-dandy/", "album": "Under the Red Sky", "year": 1990, "title": "Handy Dandy", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Handy Dandy, controversy surrounds him", "He been around the world and back again", "Something in the moonlight still hounds him", "Handy Dandy, just like sugar and candy" ], [ "Handy Dandy, if every bone in his body was broken he would never admit it", "He got an all-girl orchestra and when he says", "“Strike up the band,” they hit it", "Handy Dandy, Handy Dandy" ], [ "You say, “What are ya made of?”", "He says, “Can you repeat what you said?”", "You’ll say, “What are you afraid of?”", "He’ll say, “Nothin’! Neither ’live nor dead.”" ], [ "Handy Dandy, he got a stick in his hand and a pocket full of money", "He says, “Darling, tell me the truth, how much time I got?”", "She says, “You got all the time in the world, honey”", "Handy Dandy, Handy Dandy" ], [ "He’s got that clear crystal fountain", "He’s got that soft silky skin", "He’s got that fortress on the mountain", "With no doors, no windows, no thieves can break in" ], [ "Handy Dandy, sitting with a girl named Nancy in a garden feelin’ kind of lazy", "He says, “Ya want a gun? I’ll give ya one.” She says, “Boy, you talking crazy”", "Handy Dandy, just like sugar and candy", "Handy Dandy, pour him another brandy" ], [ "Handy Dandy, he got a basket of flowers and a bag full of sorrow", "He finishes his drink, he gets up from the table, he says", "“Okay, boys, I’ll see you tomorrow”", "Handy Dandy, Handy Dandy, just like sugar and candy", "Handy Dandy, just like sugar and candy" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hard-times/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Hard Times", "plays": 30, "lyrics": [ [ "Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears", "While we all sup sorrow with the poor.", "There's a song that will linger forever in our ears,", "Oh, hard times, come again no more.", "'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.", "Hard times, hard times, come again no more.", "Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door.", "Oh, hard times, come again no more." ], [ "While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay.", "There are frail forms fainting at the door.", "Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say.", "Oh, hard times, come again no more.", "'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.", "Hard times, hard times, come again no more.", "Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door.", "Oh, hard times, come again no more." ], [ "There's pale drooping maiden who foils her life away", "With a worn out heart, whose better days are o'er.", "Though her voice it would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day,", "Oh, hard times, come again no more.", "'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.", "Hard times, hard times, come again no more.", "Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door.", "Oh, hard times, come again no more." ], [ "'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary.", "Hard times, hard times, come again no more.", "Many days you have lingered all around my cabin door.", "Oh, hard times, come again no more." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hard-times-new-york-town/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Hard Times In New York Town", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Come you ladies and you gentlemen, a-listen to my song", "Sing it to you right, but you might think it’s wrong", "Just a little glimpse of a story I’ll tell", "’Bout an East Coast city that you all know well", "It’s hard times in the city", "Livin’ down in New York town" ], [ "Old New York City is a friendly old town", "From Washington Heights to Harlem on down", "There’s a-mighty many people all millin’ all around", "They’ll kick you when you’re up and knock you when you’re down", "It’s hard times in the city", "Livin’ down in New York town" ], [ "It’s a mighty long ways from the Golden Gate", "To Rockefeller Plaza ’n’ the Empire State.", "Mister Rockefeller sets up as high as a bird", "Old Mister Empire never says a word", "It’s hard times from the country", "Livin’ down in New York town" ], [ "Well, it’s up in the mornin’ tryin’ to find a job of work", "Stand in one place till your feet begin to hurt", "If you got a lot o’ money you can make yourself merry", "If you only got a nickel, it’s the Staten Island Ferry", "And it’s hard times in the city", "Livin’ down in New York town" ], [ "Mister Hudson come a-sailin’ down the stream", "And old Mister Minuet paid for his dream", "Bought your city on a one-way track", "’F I had my way I’d sell it right back", "And it’s hard times in the city", "Livin’ down in New York town" ], [ "I’ll take all the smog in Cal-i-for-ne-ay", "’N’ every bit of dust in the Oklahoma plains", "’N’ the dirt in the caves of the Rocky Mountain mines", "It’s all much cleaner than the New York kind", "And it’s hard times in the city", "Livin’ down in New York town" ], [ "So all you newsy people, spread the news around", "You c’n listen to m’ story, listen to m’ song", "You c’n step on my name, you c’n try ’n’ get me beat", "When I leave New York, I’ll be standin’ on my feet", "And it’s hard times in the city", "Livin’ down in New York town" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hark-herald-angels-sing/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/have-yourself-merry-little-christmas/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hazel/", "album": "Planet Waves", "year": 1974, "title": "Hazel", "plays": 7, "lyrics": [ [ "Hazel, dirty-blonde hair", "I wouldn’t be ashamed to be seen with you anywhere", "You got something I want plenty of", "Ooh, a little touch of your love" ], [ "Hazel, stardust in your eye", "You’re goin’ somewhere and so am I", "I’d give you the sky high above", "Ooh, for a little touch of your love" ], [ "Oh no, I don’t need any reminder", "To know how much I really care", "But it’s just making me blinder and blinder", "Because I’m up on a hill and still you’re not there" ], [ "Hazel, you called and I came", "Now don’t make me play this waiting game", "You’ve got something I want plenty of", "Ooh, a little touch of your love" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/he-was-friend-mine/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "He Was a Friend of Mine", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "He was a friend of mine", "He was a friend of mine", "Every time I think about him now", "Lord I just can't keep from cryin'", "'Cause he was a friend of mine" ], [ "He died on the road", "He died on the road", "He never had enough money", "To pay his room or board", "And he was a friend of mine" ], [ "I stole away and cried", "I stole away and cried", "'Cause I never had too much money", "And I never been quite satisfied", "And he was a friend of mine" ], [ "He never done no wrong", "He never done no wrong", "A thousand miles from home", "And he never harmed no one", "And he was a friend of mine" ], [ "He was a friend of mine", "He was a friend of mine", "Every time I hear his name", "Lord I just can't keep from cryin'", "'Cause he was a friend of mine." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/heart-mine/", "album": "Shot of Love", "year": 1981, "title": "Heart of Mine", "plays": 46, "lyrics": [ [ "Heart of mine be still", "You can play with fire but you’ll get the bill", "Don’t let her know", "Don’t let her know that you love her", "Don’t be a fool, don’t be blind", "Heart of mine" ], [ "Heart of mine go back home", "You got no reason to wander, you got no reason to roam", "Don’t let her see", "Don’t let her see that you need her", "Don’t put yourself over the line", "Heart of mine" ], [ "Heart of mine go back where you been", "It’ll only be trouble for you if you let her in", "Don’t let her hear", "Don’t let her hear you want her", "Don’t let her think you think she’s fine", "Heart of mine" ], [ "Heart of mine you know that she’ll never be true", "She’ll only give to others the love that she’s gotten from you", "Don’t let her know", "Don’t let her know where you’re going", "Don’t untie the ties that bind", "Heart of mine" ], [ "Heart of mine so malicious and so full of guile", "Give you an inch and you’ll take a mile", "Don’t let yourself fall", "Don’t let yourself stumble", "If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime", "Heart of mine" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/heartland/", "album": "", "title": "Heartland", "plays": 7, "lyrics": [ [ "There's a home place under fire tonight in the Heartland", "And the bankers are takin' my home and my land from me", "There's a big achin' hole in my chest now where my heart was", "And a hole in the sky where God used to be" ], [ "There's a home place under fire tonight in the Heartland", "There's a well with water so bitter nobody can drink", "Ain't no way to get high and my mouth is so dry that I can't speak", "Don't they know that I'm dyin', Why nobody cryin' for me?" ], [ "My American dream", "Fell apart at the seams.", "You tell me what it means,", "You tell me what it means." ], [ "My American dream", "Fell apart at the seams.", "You tell me what it means,", "You tell me what it means." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/here-comes-santa-claus/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "Here Comes Santa Claus", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hero-blues/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Hero Blues", "plays": 5, "lyrics": [ [ "Yes, the gal I got", "I swear she’s the screaming end", "She wants me to be a hero", "So she can tell all her friends" ], [ "Well, she begged, she cried", "She pleaded with me all last night", "Well, she begged, she cried", "She pleaded with me all last night", "She wants me to go out", "And find somebody to fight" ], [ "She reads too many books", "She got new movies inside her head", "She reads too many books", "She got movies inside her head", "She wants me to walk out running", "She wants me to crawl back dead" ], [ "You need a different kinda man, babe", "One that can grab and hold your heart", "Need a different kind of man, babe", "One that can hold and grab your heart", "You need a different kind of man, babe", "You need Napoleon Boneeparte" ], [ "Well, when I’m dead", "No more good times will I crave", "When I’m dead", "No more good times will I crave", "You can stand and shout hero", "All over my lonesome grave" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/high-water-charley-patton/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "High Water (For Charley Patton)", "plays": 712, "lyrics": [ [ "High water risin’—risin’ night and day", "All the gold and silver are being stolen away", "Big Joe Turner lookin’ east and west", "From the dark room of his mind", "He made it to Kansas City", "Twelfth Street and Vine", "Nothing standing there", "High water everywhere" ], [ "High water risin’, the shacks are slidin’ down", "Folks lose their possessions—folks are leaving town", "Bertha Mason shook it—broke it", "Then she hung it on a wall", "Says, “You’re dancin’ with whom they tell you to", "Or you don’t dance at all”", "It’s tough out there", "High water everywhere" ], [ "I got a cravin’ love for blazing speed", "Got a hopped up Mustang Ford", "Jump into the wagon, love, throw your panties overboard", "I can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mind", "I’m no pig without a wig", "I hope you treat me kind", "Things are breakin’ up out there", "High water everywhere" ], [ "High water risin’, six inches ’bove my head", "Coffins droppin’ in the street", "Like balloons made out of lead", "Water pourin’ into Vicksburg, don’t know what I’m goin' to do", "“Don’t reach out for me,” she said", "“Can’t you see I’m drownin’ too?”", "It’s rough out there", "High water everywhere" ], [ "Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew", "“Don't open up your mind, boys", "To every conceivable point of view”", "They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five", "Judge says to the High Sheriff,", "“I want him dead or alive", "Either one, I don’t care”", "High water everywhere" ], [ "The Cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies", "I’m preachin’ the Word of God", "I’m puttin’ out your eyes", "I asked Fat Nancy for something to eat, she said, “Take it off the shelf—", "As great as you are, man", "You’ll never be greater than yourself”", "I told her I didn’t really care", "High water everywhere" ], [ "I’m gettin’ up in the morning—I believe I’ll dust my broom", "Keeping away from the women", "I’m givin’ ’em lots of room", "Thunder rolling over Clarkesdale, everything is looking blue", "I just can’t be happy, love", "Unless you’re happy too", "It’s bad out there", "High water everywhere" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/highlands/", "album": "Time out of Mind", "year": 1997, "title": "Highlands", "plays": 9, "lyrics": [ [ "Well my heart’s in the Highlands, gentle and fair", "Honeysuckle blooming in the wildwood air", "Bluebelles blazing where the Aberdeen waters flow", "Well my heart’s in the Highland", "I’m gonna go there when I feel good enough to go" ], [ "Windows were shakin’ all night in my dreams", "Everything was exactly the way that it seems", "Woke up this morning and I looked at the same old page", "Same ol’ rat race", "Life in the same ol’ cage" ], [ "I don’t want nothing from anyone, ain’t that much to take", "Wouldn’t know the difference between a real blonde and a fake", "Feel like a prisoner in a world of mystery", "I wish someone would come", "And push back the clock for me" ], [ "Well my heart’s in the Highlands wherever I roam", "That’s where I’ll be when I get called home", "The wind, it whispers to the buckeyed trees in rhyme", "Well my heart’s in the Highlands", "I can only get there one step at a time" ], [ "I’m listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound", "Someone’s always yelling turn it down", "Feel like I’m drifting", "Drifting from scene to scene", "I’m wondering what in the devil could it all possibly mean?" ], [ "Insanity is smashing up against my soul", "You can say I was on anything but a roll", "If I had a conscience, well, I just might blow my top", "What would I do with it anyway", "Maybe take it to the pawn shop" ], [ "My heart’s in the Highlands at the break of dawn", "By the beautiful lake of the Black Swan", "Big white clouds like chariots that swing down low", "Well my heart’s in the Highlands", "Only place left to go" ], [ "I’m in Boston town, in some restaurant", "I got no idea what I want", "Well, maybe I do but I’m just really not sure", "Waitress comes over", "Nobody in the place but me and her" ], [ "It must be a holiday, there’s nobody around", "She studies me closely as I sit down", "She got a pretty face and long white shiny legs", "She says, “What’ll it be?”", "I say, “I don’t know, you got any soft boiled eggs?”" ], [ "She looks at me, says, “I’d bring you some", "But we’re out of ’m, you picked the wrong time to come”", "Then she says, “I know you’re an artist, draw a picture of me!”", "I say, “I would if I could, but", "I don’t do sketches from memory”" ], [ "“Well,” she says, “I’m right here in front of you, or haven’t you looked?”", "I say, “All right, I know, but I don’t have my drawing book!”", "She gives me a napkin, she says, “You can do it on that”", "I say, “Yes I could, but", "I don’t know where my pencil is at!”" ], [ "She pulls one out from behind her ear", "She says, “All right now, go ahead, draw me, I’m standing right here”", "I make a few lines and I show it for her to see", "Well she takes the napkin and throws it back", "And says, “That don’t look a thing like me!”" ], [ "I said, “Oh, kind Miss, it most certainly does”", "She says, “You must be jokin’.” I say, “I wish I was!”", "Then she says, “You don’t read women authors, do you?”", "Least that’s what I think I hear her say", "“Well,” I say, “how would you know and what would it matter anyway?”" ], [ "“Well,” she says, “you just don’t seem like you do!”", "I said, “You’re way wrong”", "She says, “Which ones have you read then?” I say, “I read Erica Jong!”", "She goes away for a minute", "And I slide up out of my chair", "I step outside back to the busy street but nobody’s going anywhere" ], [ "Well my heart’s in the Highlands with the horses and hounds", "Way up in the border country, far from the towns", "With the twang of the arrow and a snap of the bow", "My heart’s in the Highlands", "Can’t see any other way to go" ], [ "Every day is the same thing out the door", "Feel further away then ever before", "Some things in life, it gets too late to learn", "Well, I’m lost somewhere", "I must have made a few bad turns" ], [ "I see people in the park forgetting their troubles and woes", "They’re drinking and dancing, wearing bright-colored clothes", "All the young men with their young women looking so good", "Well, I’d trade places with any of them", "In a minute, if I could" ], [ "I’m crossing the street to get away from a mangy dog", "Talking to myself in a monologue", "I think what I need might be a full-length leather coat", "Somebody just asked me", "If I registered to vote" ], [ "The sun is beginning to shine on me", "But it’s not like the sun that used to be", "The party’s over and there’s less and less to say", "I got new eyes", "Everything looks far away" ], [ "Well, my heart’s in the Highlands at the break of day", "Over the hills and far away", "There’s a way to get there and I’ll figure it out somehow", "But I’m already there in my mind", "And that’s good enough for now" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/highway-51/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "Highway 51", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Highway 51 runs right by my baby's door", "Highway 51 runs right by my baby's door", "If I don't get the girl I'm loving", "Won't go down to Highway 51 no more." ], [ "Well, I know that highway like I know my hand", "Yes, I know that highway like I know the back of my hand", "Running from up Wisconsin way down to no man's land." ], [ "Well, if I should die before my time should come", "And if I should die before my time should come", "Won't you bury my body out on the Highway 51." ], [ "Highway 51 runs right by my baby's door", "I said, Highway 51 runs right by my baby's door", "If I don't get the girl I'm loving", "Won't go down to Highway 51 no more." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/highway-61-revisited/", "album": "Highway 61 Revisited", "year": 1965, "title": "Highway 61 Revisited", "plays": 2000, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son”", "Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on”", "God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?”", "God say, “You can do what you want Abe, but", "The next time you see me comin’ you better run”", "Well Abe says, “Where do you want this killin’ done?”", "God says, “Out on Highway 61”" ], [ "Well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose", "Welfare Department they wouldn’t give him no clothes", "He asked poor Howard where can I go", "Howard said there’s only one place I know", "Sam said tell me quick man I got to run", "Ol’ Howard just pointed with his gun", "And said that way down on Highway 61" ], [ "Well Mack the Finger said to Louie the King", "I got forty red white and blue shoestrings", "And a thousand telephones that don’t ring", "Do you know where I can get rid of these things", "And Louie the King said let me think for a minute son", "And he said yes I think it can be easily done", "Just take everything down to Highway 61" ], [ "Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night", "Told the first father that things weren’t right", "My complexion she said is much too white", "He said come here and step into the light he says hmm you’re right", "Let me tell the second mother this has been done", "But the second mother was with the seventh son", "And they were both out on Highway 61" ], [ "Now the rovin’ gambler he was very bored", "He was tryin’ to create a next world war", "He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor", "He said I never engaged in this kind of thing before", "But yes I think it can be very easily done", "We’ll just put some bleachers out in the sun", "And have it on Highway 61" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hollywood-angel/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "Hollywood Angel", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/honest-me/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "Honest with Me", "plays": 739, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I’m stranded in the city that never sleeps", "Some of these women they just give me the creeps", "I’m avoidin’ the Southside the best I can", "These memories I got, they can strangle a man", "Well, I came ashore in the dead of the night", "Lot of things can get in the way when you’re tryin’ to do what’s right", "You don’t understand it—my feelings for you", "You’d be honest with me if only you knew" ], [ "I’m not sorry for nothin’ I’ve done", "I’m glad I fought—I only wish we’d won", "The Siamese twins are comin’ to town", "People can’t wait—they’re gathered around", "When I left my home the sky split open wide", "I never wanted to go back there—I’d rather have died", "You don’t understand it—my feelings for you", "You’d be honest with me if only you knew" ], [ "My woman got a face like a teddy bear", "She’s tossin’ a baseball bat in the air", "The meat is so tough you can’t cut it with a sword", "I’m crashin’ my car, trunk first into the boards", "You say my eyes are pretty and my smile is nice", "Well, I’ll sell it to ya at a reduced price", "You don’t understand it—my feelings for you", "You’d be honest with me if only you knew" ], [ "Some things are too terrible to be true", "I won’t come here no more if it bothers you", "The Southern Pacific leaving at nine forty-five", "I’m having a hard time believin’ some people were ever alive", "I’m stark naked, but I don’t care", "I’m going off into the woods, I’m huntin’ bare", "You don’t understand it—my feelings for you", "Well, you’d be honest with me if only you knew" ], [ "I’m here to create the new imperial empire", "I’m going to do whatever circumstances require", "I care so much for you—didn’t think that I could", "I can’t tell my heart that you’re no good", "Well, my parents they warned me not to waste my years", "And I still got their advice oozing out of my ears", "You don’t understand it—my feelings for you", "Well, you’d be honest with me if only you knew" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/honey-just-allow-me-one-more-chance/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "Honey, just allow me one more chance", "To get along with you", "Honey, just allow me one more chance", "Ah’ll do anything with you", "Well, I’m a-walkin’ down the road", "With my head in my hand", "I’m lookin’ for a woman", "Needs a worried man", "Just-a one kind favor I ask you", "’Low me just-a one more chance" ], [ "Honey, just allow me one more chance", "To ride your aeroplane", "Honey, just allow me one more chance", "To ride your passenger train", "Well, I’ve been lookin’ all over", "For a gal like you", "I can’t find nobody", "So you’ll have to do", "Just-a one kind favor I ask you", "’Low me just-a one more chance" ], [ "Honey, just allow me one more chance", "To get along with you", "Honey, just allow me one more chance", "Ah’ll do anything with you", "Well, lookin’ for a woman", "That ain’t got no man", "Is just lookin’ for a needle", "That is lost in the sand", "Just-a one kind favor I ask you", "’Low me just-a one more chance" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/house-carpenter/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "House Carpenter", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well met, well met, my own true love", "Well met, well met, cried she", "I've just returned from the salt, salt sea", "And it's all for the love of thee" ], [ "I could have married a King's daughter there", "She would have married me", "But I have forsaken my King's daughter there", "It's all for the love of thee" ], [ "Well, if you could have married a King's daughter there", "I'm sure you're the one to blame", "For I am married to a house carpenter", "And I'm sure he's a fine young man" ], [ "Forsake, forsake your house carpenter", "And come away with me", "I'll take you where the green grass grows", "On the shores of sunny Italy" ], [ "So up she picked her babies three", "And gave them kisses, one, two, three", "Saying \"take good care of your daddy while I'm gone", "And keep him good company.\"" ], [ "Well, they were sailin' about two weeks", "I'm sure it was not three", "When the younger of the girls, she came on deck", "Sayin' she wants company" ], [ "\"Well, are you weepin' for your house and home?", "Or are you weepin' for your babies three?\"", "\"Well, I'm not weepin' for my house carpenter", "I'm weepin' for my babies three.\"" ], [ "Oh what are those hills yonder, my love", "They look as white as snow", "Those are the hill of heaven, my love", "You and I'll never know" ], [ "Oh what are those hills yonder, my love", "They look as dark as night", "Those are the hills of hell-fire my love", "Where you and I will unite" ], [ "Oh twice around went the gallant ship", "I'm sure it was not three", "When the ship all of a sudden, it sprung a leak", "And it drifted to the bottom of the sea" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/house-risin-sun/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "House of the Risin’ Sun", "plays": 8, "lyrics": [ [ "There is a house down in New Orleans they call the rising sun", "And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl and me, oh God, I'm one." ], [ "My mother was a tailor, she sowed these new blue jeans", "My sweetheart was a gambler, Lord, down in New Orleans." ], [ "Now the only thing a gambler needs is a suitcase and a trunk", "And the only time when he's satisfied is when he's on a drunk." ], [ "He fills his glasses up to the brim and he'll pass the cards around", "And the only pleasure he gets out of life is rambling from town to town" ], [ "Oh tell my baby sister not to do what I have done", "But shun that house in New Orleans they call the rising sun." ], [ "Well with one foot on the platform and the other foot on the train", "I'm going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain." ], [ "I'm going back to New Orleans, my race is almost run", "I'm going back to end my life down in the rising sun." ], [ "There is a house in New Orleans they call the rising sun", "And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl and me, oh God, I'm one." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hucks-tune/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "Huck’s Tune", "plays": 7, "lyrics": [ [ "Well I wandered alone", "Through a desert of stone", "And I dreamt of my future wife", "My sword’s in my hand", "And I’m next in command", "In this version of death called life", "My plate and my cup", "Are right straight up", "I took a rose from the hand of a child", "When I kiss your lips", "The honey drips", "But I’m gonna have to put you down for a while" ], [ "Every day we meet", "On any old street", "And you’re in your girlish prime", "The short and the tall", "Are coming to the ball", "I go there all the time", "Behind every tree", "There’s something to see", "The river is wider than a mile", "I tried you twice", "You couldn’t be nice", "I’m gonna have to put you down for a while" ], [ "Here come the nurse", "With money in her purse", "Here come the ladies and men", "You push it all in", "And you’ve no chance to win", "You play ’em on down to the end", "I’m laying in the sand", "Getting a sunshine tan", "Moving along, riding in style", "From my toes to my head", "You knock me dead", "I’m gonna have to put you down for a while" ], [ "I count the years", "And I shed no tears", "I’m blinded to what might have been", "Nature’s voice", "Makes my heart rejoice", "Play me the wild song of the wind", "I found hopeless love", "In the room above", "When the sun and the weather were mild", "You’re as fine as wine", "I ain’t handing you no line", "But I’m gonna have to put you down for a while" ], [ "All the merry little elves", "Can go hang themselves", "My faith is as cold as can be", "I’m stacked high to the roof", "And I’m not without proof", "If you don’t believe me, come see", "You think I’m blue", "I think so too", "In my words, you’ll find no guile", "The game’s gotten old", "The deck’s gone cold", "And I’m gonna have to put you down for a while" ], [ "The game’s gotten old", "The deck’s gone cold", "I’m gonna have to put you down for a while" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hurricane/", "album": "Desire", "year": 1976, "title": "Hurricane", "plays": 33, "lyrics": [ [ "Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night", "Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall", "She sees the bartender in a pool of blood", "Cries out, “My God, they killed them all!”", "Here comes the story of the Hurricane", "The man the authorities came to blame", "For somethin’ that he never done", "Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been", "The champion of the world" ], [ "Three bodies lyin’ there does Patty see", "And another man named Bello, movin’ around mysteriously", "“I didn’t do it,” he says, and he throws up his hands", "“I was only robbin’ the register, I hope you understand", "I saw them leavin’,” he says, and he stops", "“One of us had better call up the cops”", "And so Patty calls the cops", "And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin’", "In the hot New Jersey night" ], [ "Meanwhile, far away in another part of town", "Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin’ around", "Number one contender for the middleweight crown", "Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down", "When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road", "Just like the time before and the time before that", "In Paterson that’s just the way things go", "If you’re black you might as well not show up on the street", "’Less you wanna draw the heat" ], [ "Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops", "Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin’ around", "He said, “I saw two men runnin’ out, they looked like middleweights", "They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates”", "And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head", "Cop said, “Wait a minute, boys, this one’s not dead”", "So they took him to the infirmary", "And though this man could hardly see", "They told him that he could identify the guilty men" ], [ "Four in the mornin’ and they haul Rubin in", "Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs", "The wounded man looks up through his one dyin’ eye", "Says, “Wha’d you bring him in here for? He ain’t the guy!”", "Yes, here’s the story of the Hurricane", "The man the authorities came to blame", "For somethin’ that he never done", "Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been", "The champion of the world" ], [ "Four months later, the ghettos are in flame", "Rubin’s in South America, fightin’ for his name", "While Arthur Dexter Bradley’s still in the robbery game", "And the cops are puttin’ the screws to him, lookin’ for somebody to blame", "“Remember that murder that happened in a bar?”", "“Remember you said you saw the getaway car?”", "“You think you’d like to play ball with the law?”", "“Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin’ that night?”", "“Don’t forget that you are white”" ], [ "Arthur Dexter Bradley said, “I’m really not sure”", "Cops said, “A poor boy like you could use a break", "We got you for the motel job and we’re talkin’ to your friend Bello", "Now you don’t wanta have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow", "You’ll be doin’ society a favor", "That sonofabitch is brave and gettin’ braver", "We want to put his ass in stir", "We want to pin this triple murder on him", "He ain’t no Gentleman Jim”" ], [ "Rubin could take a man out with just one punch", "But he never did like to talk about it all that much", "It’s my work, he’d say, and I do it for pay", "And when it’s over I’d just as soon go on my way", "Up to some paradise", "Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice", "And ride a horse along a trail", "But then they took him to the jailhouse", "Where they try to turn a man into a mouse" ], [ "All of Rubin’s cards were marked in advance", "The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance", "The judge made Rubin’s witnesses drunkards from the slums", "To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum", "And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger", "No one doubted that he pulled the trigger", "And though they could not produce the gun", "The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed", "And the all-white jury agreed" ], [ "Rubin Carter was falsely tried", "The crime was murder “one,” guess who testified?", "Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied", "And the newspapers, they all went along for the ride", "How can the life of such a man", "Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?", "To see him obviously framed", "Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land", "Where justice is a game" ], [ "Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties", "Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise", "While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell", "An innocent man in a living hell", "That’s the story of the Hurricane", "But it won’t be over till they clear his name", "And give him back the time he’s done", "Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been", "The champion of the world" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-am-lonesome-hobo/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "I Am A Lonesome Hobo", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I am a lonesome hobo", "Without family or friends", "Where another man’s life might begin", "That’s exactly where mine ends", "I have tried my hand at bribery", "Blackmail and deceit", "And I’ve served time for ev’rything", "’Cept beggin’ on the street" ], [ "Well, once I was rather prosperous", "There was nothing I did lack", "I had fourteen-karat gold in my mouth", "And silk upon my back", "But I did not trust my brother", "I carried him to blame", "Which led me to my fatal doom", "To wander off in shame" ], [ "Kind ladies and kind gentlemen", "Soon I will be gone", "But let me just warn you all", "Before I do pass on", "Stay free from petty jealousies", "Live by no man’s code", "And hold your judgment for yourself", "Lest you wind up on this road" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-and-i/", "album": "Infidels", "year": 1983, "title": "I and I", "plays": 204, "lyrics": [ [ "Been so long since a strange woman has slept in my bed", "Look how sweet she sleeps, how free must be her dreams", "In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed", "To some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams" ], [ "I and I", "In creation where one’s nature neither honors nor forgives", "I and I", "One says to the other, no man sees my face and lives" ], [ "Think I’ll go out and go for a walk", "Not much happenin’ here, nothin’ ever does", "Besides, if she wakes up now, she’ll just want me to talk", "I got nothin’ to say, ’specially about whatever was" ], [ "I and I", "In creation where one’s nature neither honors nor forgives", "I and I", "One says to the other, no man sees my face and lives" ], [ "Took an untrodden path once, where the swift don’t win the race", "It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth", "Took a stranger to teach me, to look into justice’s beautiful face", "And to see an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" ], [ "I and I", "In creation where one’s nature neither honors nor forgives", "I and I", "One says to the other, no man sees my face and lives" ], [ "Outside of two men on a train platform there’s nobody in sight", "They’re waiting for spring to come, smoking down the track", "The world could come to an end tonight, but that’s all right", "She should still be there sleepin’ when I get back" ], [ "I and I", "In creation where one’s nature neither honors nor forgives", "I and I", "One says to the other, no man sees my face and lives" ], [ "Noontime, and I’m still pushin’ myself along the road, the darkest part", "Into the narrow lanes, I can’t stumble or stay put", "Someone else is speakin’ with my mouth, but I’m listening only to my heart", "I’ve made shoes for everyone, even you, while I still go barefoot" ], [ "I and I", "In creation where one’s nature neither honors nor forgives", "I and I", "One says to the other, no man sees my face and lives" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-believe-you/", "album": "Slow Train Coming", "year": 1979, "title": "I Believe in You", "plays": 259, "lyrics": [ [ "They ask me how I feel", "And if my love is real", "And how I know I’ll make it through", "And they, they look at me and frown", "They’d like to drive me from this town", "They don’t want me around", "’Cause I believe in you" ], [ "They show me to the door", "They say don’t come back no more", "’Cause I don’t be like they’d like me to", "And I walk out on my own", "A thousand miles from home", "But I don’t feel alone", "’Cause I believe in you" ], [ "I believe in you even through the tears and the laughter", "I believe in you even though we be apart", "I believe in you even on the morning after", "Oh, when the dawn is nearing", "Oh, when the night is disappearing", "Oh, this feeling is still here in my heart" ], [ "Don’t let me drift too far", "Keep me where you are", "Where I will always be renewed", "And that which you’ve given me today", "Is worth more than I could pay", "And no matter what they say", "I believe in you" ], [ "I believe in you when winter turn to summer", "I believe in you when white turn to black", "I believe in you even though I be outnumbered", "Oh, though the earth may shake me", "Oh, though my friends forsake me", "Oh, even that couldn’t make me go back" ], [ "Don’t let me change my heart", "Keep me set apart", "From all the plans they do pursue", "And I, I don’t mind the pain", "Don’t mind the driving rain", "I know I will sustain", "’Cause I believe in you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-cant-come-broken-heart/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "I Can’t Come in with a Broken Heart", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-cant-make-it-alone/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "I Can’t Make It Alone", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-contain-multitudes/", "album": "Private: I Contain Multitudes", "title": "I Contain Multitudes", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Today and tomorrow and yesterday too", "The flowers are dying like all things do", "Follow me close - I’m going to Bally-Na-Lee", "I’ll lose my mind if you don’t come with me", "I fuss with my hair and I fight blood feuds . . . I contain multitudes" ], [ "Gotta tell tale heart like Mr. Poe", "Got skeletons in the walls of people you know", "I’ll drink to the truth of things that we said", "I’ll drink to the man that shares your bed", "I paint landscapes - I paint nudes . . . I contain multitudes" ], [ "A red Cadillac and a black moustache", "Rings on my fingers that sparkle and flash", "Tell me what’s next - what shall we do", "Half my soul baby belongs to you", "I rollick and I frolic with all the young dudes . . . I contain multitudes" ], [ "I’m just like Anne Frank - like Indiana Jones", "And them British bad boys the Rolling Stones", "I go right to the edge - I go right to the end", "I go right where all things lost - are made good again" ], [ "I sing the songs of experience like William Blake", "I have no apologies to make", "Everything’s flowin’ all at the same time", "I live on the boulevard of crime", "I drive fast cars and I eat fast foods . . . I contain multitudes" ], [ "Pink pedal pushers and red blue jeans", "All the pretty maids and all the old queens", "All the old queens from all my past lives", "I carry four pistols and two large knives", "I’m a man of contradictions and a man of many moods . . . I contain multitudes" ], [ "Greedy old wolf - I’ll show you my heart", "But not all of it - only the hateful part", "I’ll sell you down the river - I’ll put a price on your head", "What more can I tell ya - I sleep with life and death in the same bed", "Get lost Madam - get up off my knee", "Keep your mouth away from me", "I’ll keep the path open - the path in my mind", "I’ll see to it that there’s no love left behind", "I play Beethoven sonatas Chopin’s preludes . . . I contain multitudes" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-dont-believe-you-she-acts-we-never-have-met/", "album": "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "year": 1964, "title": "I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)", "plays": 349, "lyrics": [ [ "I can’t understand", "She let go of my hand", "An’ left me here facing the wall", "I’d sure like t’ know", "Why she did go", "But I can’t get close t’ her at all", "Though we kissed through the wild blazing nighttime", "She said she would never forget", "But now mornin’s clear", "It’s like I ain’t here", "She just acts like we never have met" ], [ "It’s all new t’ me", "Like some mystery", "It could even be like a myth", "Yet it’s hard t’ think on", "That she’s the same one", "That last night I was with", "From darkness, dreams’re deserted", "Am I still dreamin’ yet?", "I wish she’d unlock", "Her voice once an’ talk", "’Stead of acting like we never have met" ], [ "If she ain’t feelin’ well", "Then why don’t she tell", "’Stead of turnin’ her back t’ my face?", "Without any doubt", "She seems too far out", "For me t’ return t’ her chase", "Though the night ran swirling an’ whirling", "I remember her whispering yet", "But evidently she don’t", "An’ evidently she won’t", "She just acts like we never have met" ], [ "If I didn’t have t’ guess", "I’d gladly confess", "T’ anything I might’ve tried", "If I was with ’er too long", "Or have done something wrong", "I wish she’d tell me what it is, I’ll run an’ hide", "Though her skirt it swayed as a guitar played", "Her mouth was watery and wet", "But now something has changed", "For she ain’t the same", "She just acts like we never have met" ], [ "I’m leavin’ today", "I’ll be on my way", "Of this I can’t say very much", "But if you want me to", "I can be just like you", "An’ pretend that we never have touched", "An’ if anybody asks me", "“Is it easy to forget?”", "I’ll say, “It’s easily done", "You just pick anyone", "An’ pretend that you never have met!”" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-dont-hurt-anymore/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "I Don’t Hurt Anymore", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-dreamed-i-saw-st-augustine/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine", "plays": 39, "lyrics": [ [ "I dreamed I saw St. Augustine", "Alive as you or me", "Tearing through these quarters", "In the utmost misery", "With a blanket underneath his arm", "And a coat of solid gold", "Searching for the very souls", "Whom already have been sold" ], [ "“Arise, arise,” he cried so loud", "In a voice without restraint", "“Come out, ye gifted kings and queens", "And hear my sad complaint", "No martyr is among ye now", "Whom you can call your own", "So go on your way accordingly", "But know you’re not alone”" ], [ "I dreamed I saw St. Augustine", "Alive with fiery breath", "And I dreamed I was amongst the ones", "That put him out to death", "Oh, I awoke in anger", "So alone and terrified", "I put my fingers against the glass", "And bowed my head and cried" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-feel-change-comin/", "album": "Together Through Life", "year": 2009, "title": "I Feel a Change Comin’ On", "plays": 22, "lyrics": [ [ "Well I’m looking the world over", "Looking far off into the East", "And I see my baby coming", "She’s walking with the village priest", "I feel a change coming on", "And the last part of the day is already gone" ], [ "We got so much in common", "We strive for the same old ends", "And I just can’t wait", "Wait for us to become friends", "I feel a change coming on", "And the fourth part of the day is already gone" ], [ "Life is for love", "And they say that love is blind", "If you want to live easy", "Baby pack your clothes with mine", "I feel a change coming on", "And the fourth part of the day is already gone" ], [ "Ain’t no use in dreamin’", "I got better things to do", "Dreams never worked anyway", "Even when they did come true" ], [ "You’re as whorish as ever", "It ain’t no surprise", "We see the meaning of life", "In each other’s eyes", "I feel a change coming on", "And the fourth part of the day is already gone" ], [ "I’m hearing Billy Joe Shaver", "And I’m reading James Joyce", "Some people they tell me", "I got the blood of the land in my voice" ], [ "Everybody got all the money", "Everybody got all the beautiful clothes", "Everybody got all the flowers", "I don’t have one single rose", "I feel a change coming on", "And the fourth part of the day is already gone" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-forgot-more-youll-ever-know/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know", "plays": 54, "lyrics": [ [ "I forgot more than you'll ever know about her." ], [ "You think you know the smile on her lips", "The thrill and the touch of her fingertips", "But I forgot more than you'll ever know about her." ], [ "You think you'll find heaven of bliss", "In each caress, in each tender kiss", "But I forgot more than you'll ever know about her." ], [ "You stole her love from me one day", "You didn't care, oh, it hurt me", "But you can never steal away memories of what used to be." ], [ "You think she's yours, to have and to hold", "Someday you'll learn, when her love grows cold", "But I forgot more than you'll ever know about her." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-forgot-remember-forget/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "I Forgot to Remember to Forget", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-pity-poor-immigrant/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "I Pity the Poor Immigrant", "plays": 17, "lyrics": [ [ "I pity the poor immigrant", "Who wishes he would’ve stayed home", "Who uses all his power to do evil", "But in the end is always left so alone", "That man whom with his fingers cheats", "And who lies with ev’ry breath", "Who passionately hates his life", "And likewise, fears his death" ], [ "I pity the poor immigrant", "Whose strength is spent in vain", "Whose heaven is like Ironsides", "Whose tears are like rain", "Who eats but is not satisfied", "Who hears but does not see", "Who falls in love with wealth itself", "And turns his back on me" ], [ "I pity the poor immigrant", "Who tramples through the mud", "Who fills his mouth with laughing", "And who builds his town with blood", "Whose visions in the final end", "Must shatter like the glass", "I pity the poor immigrant", "When his gladness comes to pass" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-shall-be-free/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "I Shall Be Free", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I took me a woman late last night", "I’s three-fourths drunk, she looked uptight", "She took off her wheel, took off her bell", "Took off her wig, said, “How do I smell?\"", "I hot-footed it . . . bare-naked . . .", "Out the window!" ], [ "Well, sometimes I might get drunk", "Walk like a duck and stomp like a skunk", "Don’t hurt me none, don’t hurt my pride", "’Cause I got my little lady right by my side", "(Right there", "Proud as can be)" ], [ "I’s out there paintin’ on the old woodshed", "When a can a black paint it fell on my head", "I went down to scrub and rub", "But I had to sit in back of the tub", "(Cost a quarter", "And I had to get out quick . . .", "Someone wanted to come in and take a sauna)" ], [ "Well, my telephone rang it would not stop", "It’s President Kennedy callin’ me up", "He said, “My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?”", "I said, “My friend, John, Brigitte Bardot", "Anita Ekberg", "Sophia Loren”", "(Put ’em all in the same room with Ernest Borgnine!)" ], [ "Well, I got a woman sleeps on a cot", "She yells and hollers and squeals a lot", "Licks my face and tickles my ear", "Bends me over and buys me beer", "(She’s a honeymooner", "A June crooner", "A spoon feeder", "And a natural leader)" ], [ "Oh, there ain’t no use in me workin’ so heavy", "I got a woman who works on the levee", "Pumping that water up to her neck", "Every week she sends me a monthly check", "(She’s a humdinger", "Folk singer", "Dead ringer", "For a thing-a-muh jigger)" ], [ "Late one day in the middle of the week", "Eyes were closed I was half asleep", "I chased me a woman up the hill", "Right in the middle of an air-raid drill", "It was Little Bo Peep!", "(I jumped a fallout shelter", "I jumped a bean stalk", "I jumped a Ferris wheel)" ], [ "Now, the man on the stand he wants my vote", "He’s a-runnin’ for office on the ballot note", "He’s out there preachin’ in front of the steeple", "Tellin’ me he loves all kinds-a people", "(He’s eatin’ bagels", "He’s eatin’ pizza", "He’s eatin’ chitlins", "He’s eatin’ bullshit!)" ], [ "Oh, set me down on a television floor", "I’ll flip the channel to number four", "Out of the shower comes a grown-up man", "With a bottle of hair oil in his hand", "(It’s that greasy kid stuff", "What I want to know, Mr. Football Man, is", "What do you do about Willy Mays and Yul Brynner", "Charles de Gaulle", "And Robert Louis Stevenson?)" ], [ "Well, the funniest woman I ever seen", "Was the great-granddaughter of Mr. Clean", "She takes about fifteen baths a day", "Wants me to grow a cigar on my face", "(She’s a little bit heavy!)" ], [ "Well, ask me why I’m drunk alla time", "It levels my head and eases my mind", "I just walk along and stroll and sing", "I see better days and I do better things", "(I catch dinosaurs", "I make love to Elizabeth Taylor . . .", "Catch hell from Richard Burton!)" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-shall-be-free-no-10/", "album": "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "year": 1964, "title": "I Shall Be Free No. 10", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I’m just average, common too", "I’m just like him, the same as you", "I’m everybody’s brother and son", "I ain’t different from anyone", "It ain’t no use a-talking to me", "It’s just the same as talking to you" ], [ "I was shadow-boxing earlier in the day", "I figured I was ready for Cassius Clay", "I said “Fee, fie, fo, fum, Cassius Clay, here I come", "26, 27, 28, 29, I’m gonna make your face look just like mine", "Five, four, three, two, one, Cassius Clay you’d better run", "99, 100, 101, 102, your ma won’t even recognize you", "14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, gonna knock him clean right out of his spleen”" ], [ "Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told", "The streets in heaven are lined with gold", "I ask you how things could get much worse", "If the Russians happen to get up there first", "Wowee! pretty scary!" ], [ "Now, I’m liberal, but to a degree", "I want ev’rybody to be free", "But if you think that I’ll let Barry Goldwater", "Move in next door and marry my daughter", "You must think I’m crazy!", "I wouldn’t let him do it for all the farms in Cuba" ], [ "Well, I set my monkey on the log", "And ordered him to do the Dog", "He wagged his tail and shook his head", "And he went and did the Cat instead", "He’s a weird monkey, very funky" ], [ "I sat with my high-heeled sneakers on", "Waiting to play tennis in the noonday sun", "I had my white shorts rolled up past my waist", "And my wig-hat was falling in my face", "But they wouldn’t let me on the tennis court" ], [ "I got a woman, she’s so mean", "She sticks my boots in the washing machine", "Sticks me with buckshot when I’m nude", "Puts bubblegum in my food", "She’s funny, wants my money, calls me “honey”" ], [ "Now I got a friend who spends his life", "Stabbing my picture with a bowie knife", "Dreams of strangling me with a scarf", "When my name comes up he pretends to barf", "I’ve got a million friends!" ], [ "Now they asked me to read a poem", "At the sorority sisters’ home", "I got knocked down and my head was swimmin’", "I wound up with the Dean of Women", "Yippee! I’m a poet, and I know it", "Hope I don’t blow it" ], [ "I’m gonna grow my hair down to my feet so strange", "So I look like a walking mountain range", "And I’m gonna ride into Omaha on a horse", "Out to the country club and the golf course", "Carry The New York Times, shoot a few holes, blow their minds" ], [ "Now you’re probably wondering by now", "Just what this song is all about", "What’s probably got you baffled more", "Is what this thing here is for", "It’s nothing", "It’s something I learned over in England" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-shall-be-released/", "album": "Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume II", "year": 1971, "title": "I Shall Be Released", "plays": 491, "lyrics": [ [ "They say ev’rything can be replaced", "Yet ev’ry distance is not near", "So I remember ev’ry face", "Of ev’ry man who put me here", "I see my light come shining", "From the west unto the east", "Any day now, any day now", "I shall be released" ], [ "They say ev’ry man needs protection", "They say ev’ry man must fall", "Yet I swear I see my reflection", "Some place so high above this wall", "I see my light come shining", "From the west unto the east", "Any day now, any day now", "I shall be released" ], [ "Standing next to me in this lonely crowd", "Is a man who swears he’s not to blame", "All day long I hear him shout so loud", "Crying out that he was framed", "I see my light come shining", "From the west unto the east", "Any day now, any day now", "I shall be released" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-threw-it-all-away/", "album": "Nashville Skyline", "year": 1969, "title": "I Threw It All Away", "plays": 48, "lyrics": [ [ "I once held her in my arms", "She said she would always stay", "But I was cruel", "I treated her like a fool", "I threw it all away" ], [ "Once I had mountains in the palm of my hand", "And rivers that ran through ev’ry day", "I must have been mad", "I never knew what I had", "Until I threw it all away" ], [ "Love is all there is, it makes the world go ’round", "Love and only love, it can’t be denied", "No matter what you think about it", "You just won’t be able to do without it", "Take a tip from one who’s tried" ], [ "So if you find someone that gives you all of her love", "Take it to your heart, don’t let it stray", "For one thing that’s certain", "You will surely be a-hurtin’", "If you throw it all away" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-wanna-be-your-lover/", "album": "Biograph", "year": 1985, "title": "I Wanna Be Your Lover", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, the rainman comes with his magic wand", "And the judge says, “Mona can’t have no bond”", "And the walls collide, Mona cries", "And the rainman leaves in the wolfman’s disguise" ], [ "I wanna be your lover, baby, I wanna be your man", "I wanna be your lover, baby", "I don’t wanna be hers, I wanna be yours" ], [ "Well, the undertaker in his midnight suit", "Says to the masked man, “Ain’t you cute!”", "Well, the mask man he gets up on the shelf", "And he says, “You ain’t so bad yourself”" ], [ "I wanna be your lover, baby, I wanna be your man", "I wanna be your lover, baby", "I don’t wanna be hers, I wanna be yours" ], [ "Well, jumpin’ Judy can’t go no higher", "She had bullets in her eyes, and they fire", "Rasputin he’s so dignified", "He touched the back of her head an’ he died" ], [ "I wanna be your lover, baby, I wanna be your man", "I wanna be your lover, baby", "I don’t wanna be hers, I wanna be yours" ], [ "Well, Phaedra with her looking glass", "Stretchin’ out upon the grass", "She gets all messed up and she faints –", "That’s ’cause she’s so obvious and you ain’t" ], [ "I wanna be your lover, baby, I wanna be your man", "I wanna be your lover, baby", "I don’t wanna be hers, I wanna be yours" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-want-you/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "I Want You", "plays": 214, "lyrics": [ [ "The guilty undertaker sighs", "The lonesome organ grinder cries", "The silver saxophones say I should refuse you", "The cracked bells and washed-out horns", "Blow into my face with scorn", "But it’s not that way", "I wasn’t born to lose you" ], [ "I want you, I want you", "I want you so bad", "Honey, I want you" ], [ "The drunken politician leaps", "Upon the street where mothers weep", "And the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you", "And I wait for them to interrupt", "Me drinkin’ from my broken cup", "And ask me to", "Open up the gate for you" ], [ "I want you, I want you", "I want you so bad", "Honey, I want you" ], [ "How all my fathers, they’ve gone down", "True love they’ve been without it", "But all their daughters put me down", "’Cause I don’t think about it" ], [ "Well, I return to the Queen of Spades", "And talk with my chambermaid", "She knows that I’m not afraid to look at her", "She is good to me", "And there’s nothing she doesn’t see", "She knows where I’d like to be", "But it doesn’t matter" ], [ "I want you, I want you", "I want you so bad", "Honey, I want you" ], [ "Now your dancing child with his Chinese suit", "He spoke to me, I took his flute", "No, I wasn’t very cute to him, was I?", "But I did it, though, because he lied", "Because he took you for a ride", "And because time was on his side", "And because I . . ." ], [ "I want you, I want you", "I want you so bad", "Honey, I want you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-was-young-when-i-left-home/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 7: No Direction Home", "year": 2005, "title": "I Was Young When I Left Home", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I was young when I left home", "But I been out a-ramblin’ ‘round", "And I never wrote a letter to my home", "To my home, Lord, to my home", "And I never wrote a letter to my home" ], [ "It was just the other day", "I was bringing home my pay", "When I met an old friend I used to know" ], [ "Said your mother’s dead and gone", "Baby sister’s all gone wrong", "And your daddy needs you home right away" ], [ "Not a shirt on my back", "Not a penny on my name", "Well I can’t go home thisaway", "Thisaway, Lord, Lord, Lord", "And I can’t go home thisaway" ], [ "If you miss the train I’m on", "Count the days I’m gone", "You will hear that whistle blow a hundred miles", "A hundred miles, honey baby. Lord Lord Lord", "And you’ll hear that whistle blow a hundred miles" ], [ "I’m playing on a track", "Ma would come and whoop me back", "On them trestles down by old Jim McKay’s" ], [ "When I pay the debt I owe", "To the commissary store", "I will pawn my watch and chain and go home", "Go home, Lord Lord Lord", "I will pawn my watch and chain and go home" ], [ "Used to tell Ma sometimes", "When I see them riding blinds", "Gonna make me a home out in the wind", "In the wind, Lord in the wind", "Make me a home out in the wind" ], [ "I don’t like it in the wind", "Wanna go back home again", "But I can’t go home thisaway", "Thisaway, Lord Lord Lord", "And I can’t go home thisaway" ], [ "I was young when I left home", "And I been out rambling ‘round", "And I never wrote a letter to my home", "To my home, Lord Lord Lord", "And I never wrote a letter to my home" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/id-hate-be-you-dreadful-day/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "I’d Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, your clock is gonna stop", "At Saint Peter’s gate", "Ya gonna ask him what time it is", "He’s gonna say, “It’s too late”", "Hey, hey!", "I’d sure hate to be you", "On that dreadful day" ], [ "You’re gonna start to sweat", "And you ain’t gonna stop", "You’re gonna have a nightmare", "And never wake up", "Hey, hey, hey!", "I’d sure hate to be you", "On that dreadful day" ], [ "You’re gonna cry for pills", "And your head’s gonna be in a knot", "But the pills are gonna cost more", "Than what you’ve got", "Hey, hey!", "I’d sure hate to be you", "On that dreadful day" ], [ "You’re gonna have to walk naked", "Can’t ride in no car", "You’re gonna let ev’rybody see", "Just what you are", "Hey, hey!", "I’d sure hate to be you", "On that dreadful day" ], [ "Well, the good wine’s a-flowin’", "For five cents a quart", "You’re gonna look in your moneybags", "And find you’re one cent short", "Hey, hey, hey!", "I’d sure hate to be you", "On that dreadful day" ], [ "You’re gonna yell and scream", "“Don’t anybody care?”", "You’re gonna hear out a voice say", "“Shoulda listened when you heard the word down there”", "Hey, hey!", "I’d sure hate to be you", "On that dreadful day" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/id-have-you-anytime/", "album": "", "title": "I’d Have You Anytime", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Let me in here, I know I've been here", "Let me into your heart", "Let me know you, let me show you", "Let me roll it to you", "All I have is yours", "All you see is mine", "And I'm glad to have you in my arms", "I'd have you any time" ], [ "Let me say it, let me play it", "Let me lay it on you", "Let me know you, let me show you", "Let me grow it on you", "All I have is yours", "All you see is mine", "And I'm glad to have you in my arms", "I'd have you any time" ], [ "Let me in here, I know I've been here", "Let me into your heart", "Let me know you, let me show you", "Let me roll it to you", "All I have is yours", "All you see is mine", "And I'm glad to have you in my arms", "I'd have you any time" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ill-be-home-christmas/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "I’ll Be Home for Christmas", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ill-be-your-baby-tonight/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight", "plays": 444, "lyrics": [ [ "Close your eyes, close the door", "You don’t have to worry anymore", "I’ll be your baby tonight" ], [ "Shut the light, shut the shade", "You don’t have to be afraid", "I’ll be your baby tonight" ], [ "Well, that mockingbird’s gonna sail away", "We’re gonna forget it", "That big, fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon", "But we’re gonna let it", "You won’t regret it" ], [ "Kick your shoes off, do not fear", "Bring that bottle over here", "I’ll be your baby tonight" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ill-keep-it-mine/", "album": "Biograph", "year": 1985, "title": "I’ll Keep It with Mine", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "You will search, babe", "At any cost", "But how long, babe", "Can you search for what’s not lost?", "Everybody will help you", "Some people are very kind", "But if I can save you any time", "Come on, give it to me", "I’ll keep it with mine" ], [ "I can’t help it", "If you might think I’m odd", "If I say I’m not loving you for what you are", "But for what you’re not", "Everybody will help you", "Discover what you set out to find", "But if I can save you any time", "Come on, give it to me", "I’ll keep it with mine" ], [ "The train leaves", "At half past ten", "But it’ll be back tomorrow", "Same time again", "The conductor he’s weary", "He’s still stuck on the line", "But if I can save you any time", "Come on, give it to me", "I’ll keep it with mine" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ill-remember-you/", "album": "Empire Burlesque", "year": 1985, "title": "I’ll Remember You", "plays": 226, "lyrics": [ [ "I’ll remember you", "When I’ve forgotten all the rest", "You to me were true", "You to me were the best", "When there is no more", "You cut to the core", "Quicker than anyone I knew", "When I’m all alone", "In the great unknown", "I’ll remember you" ], [ "I’ll remember you", "At the end of the trail", "I had so much left to do", "I had so little time to fail", "There’s some people that", "You don’t forget", "Even though you’ve only seen ’m one time or two", "When the roses fade", "And I’m in the shade", "I’ll remember you" ], [ "Didn’t I, didn’t I try to love you?", "Didn’t I, didn’t I try to care?", "Didn’t I sleep, didn’t I weep beside you", "With the rain blowing in your hair?" ], [ "I’ll remember you", "When the wind blows through the piney wood", "It was you who came right through", "It was you who understood", "Though I’d never say", "That I done it the way", "That you’d have liked me to", "In the end", "My dear sweet friend", "I’ll remember you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/im-fool-you/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "I’m a Fool for You", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/im-a-fool-to-want-you/", "album": "Shadows in the Night", "year": 2015, "title": "I’m a Fool to Want You", "plays": 63, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/im-alright/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "I’m Alright", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/im-guilty-loving-you/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "I’m Guilty of Loving You", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/im-mood/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "I’m in the Mood", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/im-not-there/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "I’m Not There", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/im-your-teenage-prayer/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "I’m Your Teenage Prayer", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ive-made-up-my-mind-to-give-myself-to-you/", "album": "Rough and Rowdy Ways", "year": 2020, "title": "I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Sitting on my terrace lost in the stars", "Listenin’ to the sounds of the sad guitars", "Been thinking it over and I thought it all through", "I’ve made up my mind to give myself to you" ], [ "I saw the first fall of snow", "I saw the flowers come and go", "I don’t think anyone else ever knew", "I made up my mind to give myself to you" ], [ "I’m giving myself to you, I am", "From Salt Lake City to Birmingham", "From East L.A. to San Antone", "I don’t think I could bear to live my life alone" ], [ "My eye is like a shooting star", "It looks at nothing, neither near or far", "No one ever told me, it’s just something I knew", "I’ve made up my mind to give myself to you" ], [ "If I had the wings of a snow white dove", "I’d preach the gospel, the gospel of love", "A love so real - a love so true", "I made up my mind to give myself to you" ], [ "Take me out traveling, you’re a traveling man", "Show me something that I’ll understand", "I’m not what I was, things aren’t what they were", "I’m going to go far away from home with her" ], [ "I traveled the long road of despair", "I met no other traveler there", "A lot of people gone, a lot of people I knew", "I’ve made up my mind to give myself to you" ], [ "My heart’s like a river - a river that sings", "It just takes me a while to realize things", "I’ll see you at sunrise - I’ll see you at dawn", "I’ll lay down beside you, when everyone is gone", "From the plains and the prairies - from the mountains to the sea", "I hope that the gods go easy with me", "I knew you’d say yes - I’m saying it too", "I’ve made up my mind to give myself to you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/idiot-wind/", "album": "Blood on the Tracks", "year": 1975, "title": "Idiot Wind", "plays": 55, "lyrics": [ [ "Someone’s got it in for me, they’re planting stories in the press", "Whoever it is I wish they’d cut it out but when they will I can only guess", "They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy", "She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me", "I can’t help it if I’m lucky" ], [ "People see me all the time and they just can’t remember how to act", "Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts", "Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at", "I couldn’t believe after all these years, you didn’t know me better than that", "Sweet lady" ], [ "Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth", "Blowing down the backroads headin’ south", "Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth", "You’re an idiot, babe", "It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe" ], [ "I ran into the fortune-teller, who said beware of lightning that might strike", "I haven’t known peace and quiet for so long I can’t remember what it’s like", "There’s a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin’ out of a boxcar door", "You didn’t know it, you didn’t think it could be done, in the final end he won the wars", "After losin’ every battle" ], [ "I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin’ ’bout the way things sometimes are", "Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin’ me see stars", "You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies", "One day you’ll be in the ditch, flies buzzin’ around your eyes", "Blood on your saddle" ], [ "Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb", "Blowing through the curtains in your room", "Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth", "You’re an idiot, babe", "It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe" ], [ "It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart", "You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn’t enough to change my heart", "Now everything’s a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped", "What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good, you’ll find out when you reach the top", "You’re on the bottom" ], [ "I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind", "I can’t remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed, your eyes", "don’t look into mine", "The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the", "building burned", "I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the", "springtime turned", "Slowly into Autumn" ], [ "Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull", "From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol", "Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth", "You’re an idiot, babe", "It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe" ], [ "I can’t feel you anymore, I can’t even touch the books you’ve read", "Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin’ I was somebody else instead", "Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy", "I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory", "And all your ragin’ glory" ], [ "I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I’m finally free", "I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me", "You’ll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above", "And I’ll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love", "And it makes me feel so sorry" ], [ "Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats", "Blowing through the letters that we wrote", "Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves", "We’re idiots, babe", "It’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/if-dogs-run-free/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "If Dogs Run Free", "plays": 104, "lyrics": [ [ "If dogs run free, then why not we", "Across the swooping plain?", "My ears hear a symphony", "Of two mules, trains and rain", "The best is always yet to come", "That’s what they explain to me", "Just do your thing, you’ll be king", "If dogs run free" ], [ "If dogs run free, why not me", "Across the swamp of time?", "My mind weaves a symphony", "And tapestry of rhyme", "Oh, winds which rush my tale to thee", "So it may flow and be", "To each his own, it’s all unknown", "If dogs run free" ], [ "If dogs run free, then what must be", "Must be, and that is all", "True love can make a blade of grass", "Stand up straight and tall", "In harmony with the cosmic sea", "True love needs no company", "It can cure the soul, it can make it whole", "If dogs run free" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/if-i-were-carpenter/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "If I Were a Carpenter", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/if-not-you/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "If Not for You", "plays": 89, "lyrics": [ [ "If not for you", "Babe, I couldn’t find the door", "Couldn’t even see the floor", "I’d be sad and blue", "If not for you" ], [ "If not for you", "Babe, I’d lay awake all night", "Wait for the mornin’ light", "To shine in through", "But it would not be new", "If not for you" ], [ "If not for you", "My sky would fall", "Rain would gather too", "Without your love I’d be nowhere at all", "I’d be lost if not for you", "And you know it’s true" ], [ "If not for you", "My sky would fall", "Rain would gather too", "Without your love I’d be nowhere at all", "Oh! what would I do", "If not for you" ], [ "If not for you", "Winter would have no spring", "Couldn’t hear the robin sing", "I just wouldn’t have a clue", "Anyway it wouldn’t ring true", "If not for you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/if-you-ever-go-houston/", "album": "Together Through Life", "year": 2009, "title": "If You Ever Go to Houston", "plays": 32, "lyrics": [ [ "If you ever go to Houston", "Better walk right", "Keep your hands in your pockets", "And your gun-belt tight", "You'll be asking for trouble", "If you're lookin' for a fight", "If you ever go to Houston", "Boy, you better walk right", "If you're ever down there", "On Bagby and Lamar", "You better watch out for", "The man with the shining star", "Better know where you're going", "Or stay where you are", "If you're ever down there", "On Bagby and Lamar" ], [ "I know these streets", "I've been here before", "I nearly got killed here", "During the Mexican war", "Something always", "Keeps me coming back for more", "I know these streets", "I've been here before" ], [ "If you ever go to Dallas", "Say hello to Mary Anne", "Say I'm still pullin' on the trigger", "Hangin' on the best I can", "If you see her sister Lucy", "Say I'm sorry I'm not there", "Tell her other sister Betsy", "To pray the sinner's prayer" ], [ "I got a restless fever", "Burnin' in my brain", "Got to keep ridin' forward", "Can't spoil the game", "The same way I leave here", "Will be the way that I came", "Got a restless fever", "Burnin' in my brain" ], [ "If you ever go to Austin", "Fort Worth or San Antone", "Find the bar rooms I got lost in", "And send my memories home", "Put my tears in a bottle", "Screw the top on tight", "If you ever go to Houston", "You better walk right" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/if-you-gotta-go-go-now/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)", "plays": 9, "lyrics": [ [ "Listen to me, baby", "There’s something you must see", "I want to be with you, gal", "If you want to be with me" ], [ "But if you got to go", "It’s all right", "But if you got to go, go now", "Or else you gotta stay all night" ], [ "It ain’t that I’m questionin’ you", "To take part in any quiz", "It’s just that I ain’t got no watch", "An’ you keep askin’ me what time it is" ], [ "But if you got to go", "It’s all right", "But if you got to go, go now", "Or else you gotta stay all night" ], [ "I am just a poor boy, baby", "Lookin’ to connect", "But I certainly don’t want you thinkin’", "That I ain’t got any respect" ], [ "But if you got to go", "It’s all right", "But if you got to go, go now", "Or else you gotta stay all night" ], [ "You know I’d have nightmares", "And a guilty conscience, too", "If I kept you from anything", "That you really wanted to do" ], [ "But if you got to go", "It’s all right", "But if you got to go, go now", "Or else you gotta stay all night" ], [ "It ain’t that I’m wantin’", "Anything you never gave before", "It’s just that I’ll be sleepin’ soon", "It’ll be too dark for you to find the door" ], [ "But if you got to go", "It’s all right", "But if you got to go, go now", "Or else you gotta stay all night" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/if-you-see-her-say-hello/", "album": "Blood on the Tracks", "year": 1975, "title": "If You See Her, Say Hello", "plays": 88, "lyrics": [ [ "If you see her, say hello, she might be in Tangier", "It’s the city ’cross the water, not too far from here", "Say for me that I’m all right though things are kind of slow", "She might think that I’ve forgotten her. Don’t tell her it isn’t so" ], [ "We had a falling-out, like lovers sometimes do", "But to think of how she left that night, it hurts me through and through", "And though our situation pierced me to the bone", "I got to find someone to take her place. I don’t like to be alone" ], [ "I see a lot of people as I make the rounds", "And I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town", "And I’ve never gotten used to it, I’ve just learned to turn it off", "Her eyes were blue, her hair was too, her skin so sweet and soft" ], [ "Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past", "I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast", "If she’s passin’ back this way, and I sure hope she don’t", "Tell her she can look me up. I’ll either be here or I won’t" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-time-dyin/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "In My Time of Dyin’", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, in my time of dying don't want nobody to mourn", "All I want for you to do is take my body home", "Well, well, well, so I can die easy", "Well, well, well", "Well, well, well, so I can die easy", "Jesus gonna make up, Jesus gonna make up", "Jesus gonna make up my dying bed" ], [ "Well, meet me Jesus, meet me, meet me", "in the middle of the air", "If these wings should fail to me", "Lord, won't you meet me with another pair", "Well, well, well, so I can die easy", "Well, well, well", "Well, well, well, so I can die easy", "Jesus gonna make up, Jesus gonna make up", "Jesus gonna make up my dying bed" ], [ "Lord, in my time of dying don't want nobody to cry", "All I want you to do is take me when I die", "Well, well, well, so I can die easy", "Well, well, well", "Well, well, well, so I can die easy", "Jesus gonna make up, Jesus gonna make up", "Jesus gonna make up my dying bed" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/search-little-sadie/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "In Search of Little Sadie", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Went out last night to take a little round.", "I met my little Sadie and I brought her down.", "I ran right home and I went to bed", "With a forty-four smokeless under my head." ], [ "I began to think what a deed I'd done.", "I grabbed my hat and I began to run.", "I made a god run but I ran too slow;", "They overtook me down in Jericho" ], [ "Standing on a corner a ringin' my bell,", "Up stepped the sheriff from Thomasville.", "He said 'Young man is you name Brown?", "Remember you blowed Sadie down.\"" ], [ "\"Oh yes sir, my name is Lee.", "I murdered little Sadie in the first degree.", "First degree and second degree.", "If you've got any papers will you serve them to me?\"" ], [ "Well they took me down town and they dressed me in black,", "They put me on a train and they sent me back.", "I had no one to go my bail;", "They crammed me back into the county jail." ], [ "Oh, yes they did.", "The judge and the jury they took their stand.", "The judge had the papers in his right hand." ], [ "Forty-one days, forty-one nights;", "Forty-one years to wear the ball and the stripes;", "Oh, no!" ], [ "Went out last night to take a little round.", "I met little Sadie and I blowed her down.", "I ran right home and I went to bed,", "A forty-four smokeless under my head." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/garden/", "album": "Saved", "year": 1980, "title": "In the Garden", "plays": 329, "lyrics": [ [ "When they came for Him in the garden, did they know?", "When they came for Him in the garden, did they know?", "Did they know He was the Son of God, did they know that He was Lord?", "Did they hear when He told Peter, “Peter, put up your sword”?", "When they came for Him in the garden, did they know?", "When they came for Him in the garden, did they know?" ], [ "When He spoke to them in the city, did they hear?", "When He spoke to them in the city, did they hear?", "Nicodemus came at night so he wouldn’t be seen by men", "Saying, “Master, tell me why a man must be born again”", "When He spoke to them in the city, did they hear?", "When He spoke to them in the city, did they hear?" ], [ "When He healed the blind and crippled, did they see?", "When He healed the blind and crippled, did they see?", "When He said, “Pick up your bed and walk, why must you criticize?", "Same thing My Father do, I can do likewise”", "When He healed the blind and crippled, did they see?", "When He healed the blind and crippled, did they see?" ], [ "Did they speak out against Him, did they dare?", "Did they speak out against Him, did they dare?", "The multitude wanted to make Him king, put a crown upon His head", "Why did He slip away to a quiet place instead?", "Did they speak out against Him, did they dare?", "Did they speak out against Him, did they dare?" ], [ "When He rose from the dead, did they believe?", "When He rose from the dead, did they believe?", "He said, “All power is given to Me in heaven and on earth”", "Did they know right then and there what the power was worth?", "When He rose from the dead, did they believe?", "When He rose from the dead, did they believe?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/summertime/", "album": "Shot of Love", "year": 1981, "title": "In the Summertime", "plays": 26, "lyrics": [ [ "I was in your presence for an hour or so", "Or was it a day? I truly don’t know", "Where the sun never set, where the trees hung low", "By that soft and shining sea", "Did you respect me for what I did", "Or for what I didn’t do, or for keeping it hid?", "Did I lose my mind when I tried to get rid", "Of everything you see?" ], [ "In the summertime, ah in the summertime", "In the summertime, when you were with me" ], [ "I got the heart and you got the blood", "We cut through iron and we cut through mud", "Then came the warnin’ that was before the flood", "That set everybody free", "Fools they made a mock of sin", "Our loyalty they tried to win", "But you were closer to me than my next of kin", "When they didn’t want to know or see" ], [ "In the summertime, ah in the summertime", "In the summertime when you were with me" ], [ "Strangers, they meddled in our affairs", "Poverty and shame was theirs", "But all that sufferin’ was not to be compared", "With the glory that is to be", "And I’m still carrying the gift you gave", "It’s a part of me now, it’s been cherished and saved", "It’ll be with me unto the grave", "And then unto eternity" ], [ "In the summertime, ah in the summertime", "In the summertime when you were with me" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/instrumental/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965 – 1966 Deluxe Edition", "year": 2015, "title": "Instrumental", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/introduction-johnny-cash/", "album": "The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration – Deluxe Edition", "year": 2014, "title": "Introduction by Johnny Cash", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/introduction-kris-kristofferson/", "album": "The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration", "year": 1993, "title": "Introduction by Kris Kristofferson", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/introduction-kris-kristofferson-2/", "album": "The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration – Deluxe Edition", "year": 2014, "title": "Introduction by Kris Kristofferson (2)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/your-love-vain/", "album": "Street-Legal", "year": 1978, "title": "Is Your Love in Vain?", "plays": 31, "lyrics": [ [ "Do you love me, or are you just extending goodwill?", "Do you need me half as bad as you say, or are you just feeling guilt?", "I’ve been burned before and I know the score", "So you won’t hear me complain", "Will I be able to count on you", "Or is your love in vain?" ], [ "Are you so fast that you cannot see that I must have solitude?", "When I am in the darkness, why do you intrude?", "Do you know my world, do you know my kind", "Or must I explain?", "Will you let me be myself", "Or is your love in vain?" ], [ "Well I’ve been to the mountain and I’ve been in the wind", "I’ve been in and out of happiness", "I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings", "And I’ve never been too impressed" ], [ "All right, I’ll take a chance, I will fall in love with you", "If I’m a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too", "Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow", "Do you understand my pain?", "Are you willing to risk it all", "Or is your love in vain?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/isis/", "album": "Desire", "year": 1976, "title": "Isis", "plays": 46, "lyrics": [ [ "I married Isis on the fifth day of May", "But I could not hold on to her very long", "So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away", "For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong" ], [ "I came to a high place of darkness and light", "The dividing line ran through the center of town", "I hitched up my pony to a post on the right", "Went in to a laundry to wash my clothes down" ], [ "A man in the corner approached me for a match", "I knew right away he was not ordinary", "He said, “Are you lookin’ for somethin’ easy to catch?”", "I said, “I got no money.” He said, “That ain’t necessary”" ], [ "We set out that night for the cold in the North", "I gave him my blanket, he gave me his word", "I said, “Where are we goin’?” He said we’d be back by the fourth", "I said, “That’s the best news that I’ve ever heard”" ], [ "I was thinkin’ about turquoise, I was thinkin’ about gold", "I was thinkin’ about diamonds and the world’s biggest necklace", "As we rode through the canyons, through the devilish cold", "I was thinkin’ about Isis, how she thought I was so reckless" ], [ "How she told me that one day we would meet up again", "And things would be different the next time we wed", "If I only could hang on and just be her friend", "I still can’t remember all the best things she said" ], [ "We came to the pyramids all embedded in ice", "He said, “There’s a body I’m tryin’ to find", "If I carry it out it’ll bring a good price”", "’Twas then that I knew what he had on his mind" ], [ "The wind it was howlin’ and the snow was outrageous", "We chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn", "When he died I was hopin’ that it wasn’t contagious", "But I made up my mind that I had to go on" ], [ "I broke into the tomb, but the casket was empty", "There was no jewels, no nothin’, I felt I’d been had", "When I saw that my partner was just bein’ friendly", "When I took up his offer I must-a been mad" ], [ "I picked up his body and I dragged him inside", "Threw him down in the hole and I put back the cover", "I said a quick prayer and I felt satisfied", "Then I rode back to find Isis just to tell her I love her" ], [ "She was there in the meadow where the creek used to rise", "Blinded by sleep and in need of a bed", "I came in from the East with the sun in my eyes", "I cursed her one time then I rode on ahead" ], [ "She said, “Where ya been?” I said, “No place special”", "She said, “You look different.” I said, “Well, not quite”", "She said, “You been gone.” I said, “That’s only natural”", "She said, “You gonna stay?” I said, “Yeah, I jes might”" ], [ "Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child", "What drives me to you is what drives me insane", "I still can remember the way that you smiled", "On the fifth day of May in the drizzlin’ rain" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/it-aint-me-babe/", "album": "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "year": 1964, "title": "It Ain’t Me, Babe", "plays": 1070, "lyrics": [ [ "Go ’way from my window", "Leave at your own chosen speed", "I’m not the one you want, babe", "I’m not the one you need", "You say you’re lookin’ for someone", "Never weak but always strong", "To protect you an’ defend you", "Whether you are right or wrong", "Someone to open each and every door", "But it ain’t me, babe", "No, no, no, it ain’t me, babe", "It ain’t me you’re lookin’ for, babe" ], [ "Go lightly from the ledge, babe", "Go lightly on the ground", "I’m not the one you want, babe", "I will only let you down", "You say you’re lookin’ for someone", "Who will promise never to part", "Someone to close his eyes for you", "Someone to close his heart", "Someone who will die for you an’ more", "But it ain’t me, babe", "No, no, no, it ain’t me, babe", "It ain’t me you’re lookin’ for, babe" ], [ "Go melt back into the night, babe", "Everything inside is made of stone", "There’s nothing in here moving", "An’ anyway I’m not alone", "You say you’re lookin' for someone", "Who’ll pick you up each time you fall", "To gather flowers constantly", "An’ to come each time you call", "A lover for your life an’ nothing more", "But it ain’t me, babe", "No, no, no, it ain’t me, babe", "It ain’t me you’re lookin’ for, babe" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/it-had-to-be-you/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "It Had to be You", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/it-hurts-me-too/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "it Hurts Me Too", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I've got something to tell you", "I know you're gonna change your mind", "When things go wrong, so wrong with you", "It hurts me too." ], [ "I want you, baby, just to understand", "I don't wanna be your boss, baby", "I just wanna be your man", "When things go wrong, so wrong with you", "It hurts me too." ], [ "Now when you go home, you don't have to get along", "Come back to me, baby", "Where I live that's where you belong", "When things go wrong, so wrong with you", "It hurts me too." ], [ "I love you baby, and you know that it's true", "I wouldn't mistreat you, baby", "Nothing in this world is like you", "Yes, when things go wrong, so wrong with you", "It hurts me too", "When things go wrong, so wrong with you", "It hurts me too." ], [ "So run here baby, put your little hands in mine", "I've got something to tell you, baby", "I know you're gonna change your mind", "When things go wrong, so wrong with you", "Don't you know, really, don't you", "know it hurts me too." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/it-takes-lot-laugh-it-takes-train-cry/", "album": "Highway 61 Revisited", "year": 1965, "title": "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry", "plays": 208, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby", "Can’t buy a thrill", "Well, I’ve been up all night, baby", "Leanin’ on the windowsill", "Well, if I die", "On top of the hill", "And if I don’t make it", "You know my baby will" ], [ "Don’t the moon look good, mama", "Shinin’ through the trees?", "Don’t the brakeman look good, mama", "Flagging down the “Double E?”", "Don’t the sun look good", "Goin’ down over the sea?", "Don’t my gal look fine", "When she’s comin’ after me?" ], [ "Now the wintertime is coming", "The windows are filled with frost", "I went to tell everybody", "But I could not get across", "Well, I wanna be your lover, baby", "I don’t wanna be your boss", "Don’t say I never warned you", "When your train gets lost" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-all-good/", "album": "Together Through Life", "year": 2009, "title": "It’s All Good", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "Talk about me babe, if you must", "Throw on the dirt, pile on the dust", "I’d do the same thing if I could", "You’ve heard what they say—they say it’s all good", "All good", "It’s all good" ], [ "Big politician telling lies", "Restaurant kitchen, all full of flies", "Don’t make a bit of difference, don’t see why it should", "I’ll tell ya somethin’—it’s all good", "It’s all good", "It’s all good" ], [ "Wives are leavin’ their husbands, they beginning to roam", "They leave the party and they never get home", "I wouldn’t change it, even if I could", "Same ol’ story—it’s all good", "It’s all good", "All good" ], [ "Brick by brick, they tear you down", "A teacup of water is enough to drown", "Check your oil, look under the hood", "Whatever you see, it’s all good", "All good", "Say it’s all good" ], [ "People in the country, people on the land", "Some so sick, they can hardly stand", "Everybody would move away, if they could", "It’s hard to believe but it’s all good", "Yeah" ], [ "The widow’s cry, the orphan’s plea", "Everywhere you look, more misery", "Come ’long with me, babe, I wish you would", "You know what I’m sayin’, it’s all good", "All good, I said it’s all good", "All good" ], [ "Cold blooded killer, stalking the town", "Cop cars blinking, something bad going down", "Buildings are crumbling in the neighborhood", "No doubt about it, it’s all good", "It’s all good", "They say it’s all good" ], [ "I’ll pluck off your beard and blow it in your face", "This time tomorrow I’ll be rolling in your place", "I’m going out back, get some firewood", "It is what it is, and it’s all good", "It’s all good" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-all-over-now-baby-blue/", "album": "Bringing It All Back Home", "year": 1965, "title": "It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue", "plays": 560, "lyrics": [ [ "You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last", "But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast", "Yonder stands your orphan with his gun", "Crying like a fire in the sun", "Look out the saints are comin’ through", "And it’s all over now, Baby Blue" ], [ "The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense", "Take what you have gathered from coincidence", "The empty-handed painter from your streets", "Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets", "This sky, too, is folding under you", "And it’s all over now, Baby Blue" ], [ "All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home", "All your reindeer armies, are all going home", "The lover who just walked out your door", "Has taken all his blankets from the floor", "The carpet, too, is moving under you", "And it’s all over now, Baby Blue" ], [ "Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you", "Forget the dead you’ve left, they will not follow you", "The vagabond who’s rapping at your door", "Is standing in the clothes that you once wore", "Strike another match, go start anew", "And it’s all over now, Baby Blue" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding/", "album": "Bringing It All Back Home", "year": 1965, "title": "It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)", "plays": 772, "lyrics": [ [ "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" ], [ "Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn", "Suicide remarks are torn", "From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn", "Plays wasted words, proves to warn", "That he not busy being born is busy dying" ], [ "Temptation’s page flies out the door", "You follow, find yourself at war", "Watch waterfalls of pity roar", "You feel to moan but unlike before", "You discover that you’d just be one more", "Person crying" ], [ "So don’t fear if you hear", "A foreign sound to your ear", "It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing" ], [ "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" ], [ "Disillusioned words like bullets bark", "As human gods aim for their mark", "Make everything from toy guns that spark", "To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark", "It’s easy to see without looking too far", "That not much is really sacred" ], [ "While preachers preach of evil fates", "Teachers teach that knowledge waits", "Can lead to hundred-dollar plates", "Goodness hides behind its gates", "But even the president of the United States", "Sometimes must have to stand naked" ], [ "An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged", "It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge", "And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it" ], [ "Advertising signs they con", "You into thinking you’re the one", "That can do what’s never been done", "That can win what’s never been won", "Meantime life outside goes on", "All around you" ], [ "You lose yourself, you reappear", "You suddenly find you got nothing to fear", "Alone you stand with nobody near", "When a trembling distant voice, unclear", "Startles your sleeping ears to hear", "That somebody thinks they really found you" ], [ "A question in your nerves is lit", "Yet you know there is no answer fit", "To satisfy, insure you not to quit", "To keep it in your mind and not forget", "That it is not he or she or them or it", "That you belong to" ], [ "Although the masters make the rules", "For the wise men and the fools", "I got nothing, Ma, to live up to" ], [ "For them that must obey authority", "That they do not respect in any degree", "Who despise their jobs, their destinies", "Speak jealously of them that are free", "Cultivate their flowers to be", "Nothing more than something they invest in" ], [ "While some on principles baptized", "To strict party platform ties", "Social clubs in drag disguise", "Outsiders they can freely criticize", "Tell nothing except who to idolize", "And then say God bless him" ], [ "While one who sings with his tongue on fire", "Gargles in the rat race choir", "Bent out of shape from society’s pliers", "Cares not to come up any higher", "But rather get you down in the hole", "That he’s in" ], [ "But I mean no harm nor put fault", "On anyone that lives in a vault", "But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him" ], [ "Old lady judges watch people in pairs", "Limited in sex, they dare", "To push fake morals, insult and stare", "While money doesn’t talk, it swears", "Obscenity, who really cares", "Propaganda, all is phony" ], [ "While them that defend what they cannot see", "With a killer’s pride, security", "It blows the minds most bitterly", "For them that think death’s honesty", "Won’t fall upon them naturally", "Life sometimes must get lonely" ], [ "My eyes collide head-on with stuffed", "Graveyards, false gods, I scuff", "At pettiness which plays so rough", "Walk upside-down inside handcuffs", "Kick my legs to crash it off", "Say okay, I have had enough", "what else can you show me?" ], [ "And if my thought-dreams could be seen", "They’d probably put my head in a guillotine", "But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-flight-bumblebee/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "It’s the Flight of the Bumblebee", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/jack-roe/", "album": "World Gone Wrong", "year": 1993, "title": "Jack-A-Roe", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, there was a wealthy merchant, in London he did dwell.", "He had a lovely daughter, the truth to you I'll tell,", "Oh, the truth to you I'll tell." ], [ "She had sweethearts a-plenty and men of high degree.", "There was none but Jackie Frazier, her true love e'er to be,", "Oh, her true love e'er to be." ], [ "\"Oh daughter, oh daughter, your body I will confine.", "If none but Jack the sailor would ever suit your mind,", "Oh, would ever suit your mind." ], [ "\"This body you may imprison, my heart you can't confine.", "There's none but Jack the sailor would have this heart of mine,", "Oh, would have this heart of mine." ], [ "Now Jackie's gone sailing with trouble on his mind.", "To leave his native country and his darling girl behind,", "Oh, his darling girl behind." ], [ "She went into the tailor shop and dressed in men's array,", "Then she went into the vessel to convey herself away,", "Oh, convey herself away." ], [ "\"Before you step onboard, sir, your name I'd like to know.\"", "She smiled all in her countenance, said, \"They call me Jack-A-Roe,", "Oh, they call me Jack-A-Roe.\"" ], [ "\"Your waist is light and slender, your fingers neat and small,", "Your cheeks too red and rosy for to face the cannonball,", "Oh, to face the cannonball." ], [ "\"I know my waist is slender and my fingers they are small,", "But they would not make me tremble for to see ten thousand fall,", "Oh, to see ten thousand fall.\"" ], [ "The war soon being over, they hunted all around.", "Among the dead and dying her darling love she found,", "Oh, her darling love she found." ], [ "She picked him up all in her arms and carries him to town,", "And sent for her physician to quickly heal his wounds,", "Oh, to quickly heal his wounds." ], [ "This couple, they got married, so well they did agree,", "This couple they got married, so why not you and me,", "Oh, so why not you and me." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/jelly-bean/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Jelly Bean", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/jesse-james/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "Jesse James", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/jet-pilot/", "album": "Biograph", "year": 1985, "title": "Jet Pilot", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, she's got Jet Pilot eyes from her hips on down.", "All the bombardiers are trying to force her out of town.", "She's five feet nine and she carries a monkey wrench.", "She weighs more by the foot than she does by the inch.", "She got all the downtown boys, all at her command", "But you've got to watch her closely 'cause she ain't no woman", "She's a man." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/jim-jones/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Jim Jones", "plays": 31, "lyrics": [ [ "Come and listen for a moment, lads,", "And hear me tell my tale.", "How across the sea from England", "I was condemned to sail.", "Now the jury found me guilty,", "Then says the judge, says he,", "\"Oh, for life, Jim Jones, I'm sending you", "Across the stormy sea.", "But take a tip before you ship", "To join the iron gang.", "Don't get too gay in Botany Bay,", "Or else you'll surely hang.", "Or else you'll surely hang,\" says he.", "\"And after that, Jim Jones,", "It's high above on the gallows tree", "The crows will pick your bones.\"" ], [ "And our ship was high upon the sea", "Then pirates came along,", "But the soldiers on our convict ship", "Were full five hundred strong.", "For they opened fire and somehow drove", "That pirate ship away.", "But I'd rather have joined that pirate ship", "Tan gone to Botany Bay.", "With the storms ragin' round us,", "And the winds a-blowin' gale,", "I'd rather have drowned in misery", "Than gone to New South Wales." ], [ "Now it's day and night and the irons clang,", "And like poor galley slaves", "We toil and toil, and when we die", "Must fill dishonored graves,", "And it's by and by I'll slip my chains,", "Well, into the bush I'll go", "And I'll join the bravest rankers there,", "Jack Donohue and co.", "And some dark night, when everything", "Is silent in the town", "I'll shoot those tyrants one and all,", "I'll gun the flogger down.", "Oh, I'll give the land a little shock,", "Remember what I say,", "And they'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones", "In chains to Botany Bay." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/joey/", "album": "Desire", "year": 1976, "title": "Joey", "plays": 82, "lyrics": [ [ "Born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the year of who knows when", "Opened up his eyes to the tune of an accordion", "Always on the outside of whatever side there was", "When they asked him why it had to be that way, “Well,” he answered,", "“just because”" ], [ "Larry was the oldest, Joey was next to last", "They called Joe “Crazy,” the baby they called “Kid Blast”", "Some say they lived off gambling and runnin’ numbers too", "It always seemed they got caught between the mob and the men in blue" ], [ "Joey, Joey", "King of the streets, child of clay", "Joey, Joey", "What made them want to come and blow you away?" ], [ "There was talk they killed their rivals, but the truth was far from that", "No one ever knew for sure where they were really at", "When they tried to strangle Larry, Joey almost hit the roof", "He went out that night to seek revenge, thinkin’ he was bulletproof" ], [ "The war broke out at the break of dawn, it emptied out the streets", "Joey and his brothers suffered terrible defeats", "Till they ventured out behind the lines and took five prisoners", "They stashed them away in a basement, called them amateurs" ], [ "The hostages were tremblin’ when they heard a man exclaim", "“Let’s blow this place to kingdom come, let Con Edison take the blame”", "But Joey stepped up, he raised his hand, said, “We’re not those kind of men", "It’s peace and quiet that we need to go back to work again”" ], [ "Joey, Joey", "King of the streets, child of clay", "Joey, Joey", "What made them want to come and blow you away?" ], [ "The police department hounded him, they called him Mr. Smith", "They got him on conspiracy, they were never sure who with", "“What time is it?” said the judge to Joey when they met", "“Five to ten,” said Joey. The judge says, “That’s exactly what you get”" ], [ "He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich", "They threw him in the hole one time for tryin’ to stop a strike", "His closest friends were black men ’cause they seemed to understand", "What it’s like to be in society with a shackle on your hand" ], [ "When they let him out in ’71 he’d lost a little weight", "But he dressed like Jimmy Cagney and I swear he did look great", "He tried to find the way back into the life he left behind", "To the boss he said, “I have returned and now I want what’s mine”" ], [ "Joey, Joey", "King of the streets, child of clay", "Joey, Joey", "Why did they have to come and blow you away?" ], [ "It was true that in his later years he would not carry a gun", "“I’m around too many children,” he’d say, “they should never know of one”", "Yet he walked right into the clubhouse of his lifelong deadly foe", "Emptied out the register, said, “Tell ’em it was Crazy Joe”" ], [ "One day they blew him down in a clam bar in New York", "He could see it comin’ through the door as he lifted up his fork", "He pushed the table over to protect his family", "Then he staggered out into the streets of Little Italy" ], [ "Joey, Joey", "King of the streets, child of clay", "Joey, Joey", "What made them want to come and blow you away?" ], [ "Sister Jacqueline and Carmela and mother Mary all did weep", "I heard his best friend Frankie say, “He ain’t dead, he’s just asleep”", "Then I saw the old man’s limousine head back towards the grave", "I guess he had to say one last goodbye to the son that he could not save" ], [ "The sun turned cold over President Street and the town of Brooklyn mourned", "They said a mass in the old church near the house where he was born", "And someday if God’s in heaven overlookin’ His preserve", "I know the men that shot him down will get what they deserve" ], [ "Joey, Joey", "King of the streets, child of clay", "Joey, Joey", "What made them want to come and blow you away?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/john-brown/", "album": "MTV Unplugged", "year": 1995, "title": "John Brown", "plays": 170, "lyrics": [ [ "John Brown went off to war to fight on a foreign shore", "His mama sure was proud of him!", "He stood straight and tall in his uniform and all", "His mama’s face broke out all in a grin" ], [ "“Oh son, you look so fine, I’m glad you’re a son of mine", "You make me proud to know you hold a gun", "Do what the captain says, lots of medals you will get", "And we’ll put them on the wall when you come home”" ], [ "As that old train pulled out, John’s ma began to shout", "Tellin’ ev’ryone in the neighborhood:", "“That’s my son that’s about to go, he’s a soldier now, you know”", "She made well sure her neighbors understood" ], [ "She got a letter once in a while and her face broke into a smile", "As she showed them to the people from next door", "And she bragged about her son with his uniform and gun", "And these things you called a good old-fashioned war" ], [ "Oh! Good old-fashioned war!" ], [ "Then the letters ceased to come, for a long time they did not come", "They ceased to come for about ten months or more", "Then a letter finally came saying, “Go down and meet the train", "Your son’s a-coming home from the war”" ], [ "She smiled and went right down, she looked everywhere around", "But she could not see her soldier son in sight", "But as all the people passed, she saw her son at last", "When she did she could hardly believe her eyes" ], [ "Oh his face was all shot up and his hand was all blown off", "And he wore a metal brace around his waist", "He whispered kind of slow, in a voice she did not know", "While she couldn’t even recognize his face!" ], [ "Oh! Lord! Not even recognize his face" ], [ "“Oh tell me, my darling son, pray tell me what they done", "How is it you come to be this way?”", "He tried his best to talk but his mouth could hardly move", "And the mother had to turn her face away" ], [ "“Don’t you remember, Ma, when I went off to war", "You thought it was the best thing I could do?", "I was on the battleground, you were home . . . acting proud", "You wasn’t there standing in my shoes”" ], [ "“Oh, and I thought when I was there, God, what am I doing here?", "I’m a-tryin’ to kill somebody or die tryin’", "But the thing that scared me most was when my enemy came close", "And I saw that his face looked just like mine”" ], [ "Oh! Lord! Just like mine!" ], [ "“And I couldn’t help but think, through the thunder rolling and stink", "That I was just a puppet in a play", "And through the roar and smoke, this string is finally broke", "And a cannonball blew my eyes away”" ], [ "As he turned away to walk, his Ma was still in shock", "At seein’ the metal brace that helped him stand", "But as he turned to go, he called his mother close", "And he dropped his medals down into her hand" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/john-wesley-harding/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "John Wesley Harding", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "John Wesley Harding", "Was a friend to the poor", "He trav’led with a gun in ev’ry hand", "All along this countryside", "He opened many a door", "But he was never known", "To hurt an honest man" ], [ "’Twas down in Chaynee County", "A time they talk about", "With his lady by his side", "He took a stand", "And soon the situation there", "Was all but straightened out", "For he was always known", "To lend a helping hand" ], [ "All across the telegraph", "His name it did resound", "But no charge held against him", "Could they prove", "And there was no man around", "Who could track or chain him down", "He was never known", "To make a foolish move" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/johnny-todd/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "Johnny Todd", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/jokerman/", "album": "Infidels", "year": 1983, "title": "Jokerman", "plays": 157, "lyrics": [ [ "Standing on the waters casting your bread", "While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing", "Distant ships sailing into the mist", "You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing", "Freedom just around the corner for you", "But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?" ], [ "Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune", "Bird fly high by the light of the moon", "Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman" ], [ "So swiftly the sun sets in the sky", "You rise up and say goodbye to no one", "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread", "Both of their futures, so full of dread, you don’t show one", "Shedding off one more layer of skin", "Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within" ], [ "Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune", "Bird fly high by the light of the moon", "Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman" ], [ "You’re a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds", "Manipulator of crowds, you’re a dream twister", "You’re going to Sodom and Gomorrah", "But what do you care? Ain’t nobody there would want to marry your sister", "Friend to the martyr, a friend to the woman of shame", "You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name" ], [ "Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune", "Bird fly high by the light of the moon", "Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman" ], [ "Well, the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy", "The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers", "In the smoke of the twilight on a milk-white steed", "Michelangelo indeed could’ve carved out your features", "Resting in the fields, far from the turbulent space", "Half asleep near the stars with a small dog licking your face" ], [ "Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune", "Bird fly high by the light of the moon", "Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman" ], [ "Well, the rifleman’s stalking the sick and the lame", "Preacherman seeks the same, who’ll get there first is uncertain", "Nightsticks and water cannons, tear gas, padlocks", "Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain", "False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin", "Only a matter of time ’til night comes steppin’ in" ], [ "Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune", "Bird fly high by the light of the moon", "Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman" ], [ "It’s a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey", "A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet", "He’ll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat", "Take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot", "Oh, Jokerman, you know what he wants", "Oh, Jokerman, you don’t show any response" ], [ "Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune", "Bird fly high by the light of the moon", "Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/jolene/", "album": "Together Through Life", "year": 2009, "title": "Jolene", "plays": 162, "lyrics": [ [ "Well you're comin' down High Street, walkin' in the sun", "You make the dead man rise and holler she's the one", "Jolene, Jolene", "Baby, I am the king and you're the queen" ], [ "Well it's a long old highway, don't ever end", "I've got a Saturday night special, I'm back again", "I'll sleep by your door, lay my life on the line", "You probably don't know, but I'm gonna make you mine", "Jolene, Jolene", "Baby, I am the king and you're the queen" ], [ "I keep my hands in my pocket, I'm movin' along", "People think they know, but they're all wrong", "You're something nice, I'm gonna grab my dice", "If I can do it once, I can do it twice", "Jolene, Jolene", "Baby, I am the king and you're the queen" ], [ "Well I found out the hard way, I've had my fill", "You can't find somebody with his back to a hill", "Those big brown eyes, they set off a spark", "When you hold me in your arms things don't look so dark", "Jolene, Jolene", "Baby, I am the king and you're the queen" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/joshua-gone-barbados/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Joshua Gone Barbados", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/just-woman/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Just Like a Woman", "plays": 871, "lyrics": [ [ "Nobody feels any pain", "Tonight as I stand inside the rain", "Ev’rybody knows", "That Baby’s got new clothes", "But lately I see her ribbons and her bows", "Have fallen from her curls", "She takes just like a woman, yes, she does", "She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does", "And she aches just like a woman", "But she breaks just like a little girl" ], [ "Queen Mary, she’s my friend", "Yes, I believe I’ll go see her again", "Nobody has to guess", "That Baby can’t be blessed", "Till she sees finally that she’s like all the rest", "With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls", "She takes just like a woman, yes, she does", "She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does", "And she aches just like a woman", "But she breaks just like a little girl" ], [ "It was raining from the first", "And I was dying there of thirst", "So I came in here", "And your long-time curse hurts", "But what’s worse", "Is this pain in here", "I can’t stay in here", "Ain’t it clear that—" ], [ "I just can’t fit", "Yes, I believe it’s time for us to quit", "When we meet again", "Introduced as friends", "Please don’t let on that you knew me when", "I was hungry and it was your world", "Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do", "You make love just like a woman, yes, you do", "Then you ache just like a woman", "But you break just like a little girl" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/just-tom-thumbs-blues/", "album": "Highway 61 Revisited", "year": 1965, "title": "Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues", "plays": 243, "lyrics": [ [ "When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez", "And it’s Eastertime too", "And your gravity fails", "And negativity don’t pull you through", "Don’t put on any airs", "When you’re down on Rue Morgue Avenue", "They got some hungry women there", "And they really make a mess outta you" ], [ "Now if you see Saint Annie", "Please tell her thanks a lot", "I cannot move", "My fingers are all in a knot", "I don’t have the strength", "To get up and take another shot", "And my best friend, my doctor", "Won’t even say what it is I’ve got" ], [ "Sweet Melinda", "The peasants call her the goddess of gloom", "She speaks good English", "And she invites you up into her room", "And you’re so kind", "And careful not to go to her too soon", "And she takes your voice", "And leaves you howling at the moon" ], [ "Up on Housing Project Hill", "It’s either fortune or fame", "You must pick up one or the other", "Though neither of them are to be what they claim", "If you’re lookin’ to get silly", "You better go back to from where you came", "Because the cops don’t need you", "And man they expect the same" ], [ "Now all the authorities", "They just stand around and boast", "How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms", "Into leaving his post", "And picking up Angel who", "Just arrived here from the coast", "Who looked so fine at first", "But left looking just like a ghost" ], [ "I started out on burgundy", "But soon hit the harder stuff", "Everybody said they’d stand behind me", "When the game got rough", "But the joke was on me", "There was nobody even there to call my bluff", "I’m going back to New York City", "I do believe I’ve had enough" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/katie-been-gone/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Katie’ Been Gone", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Katie's been gone since the spring time;", "She wrote one time'n sent her love.", "Katie's been gone for such a long time now.", "I wonder what kind of love she's thinkin' of." ], [ "Dear Katie,", "If you can hear me,", "I can't wait to have ya near me." ], [ "Oh, Katie, since ya caught that bus,", "Well, I just don't know how things are with us.", "I'm still here and you're out there." ], [ "Katie laughed when I said I was lonely.", "She said, There's no need t'feel that way.", "Katie said that I was her only one,", "But then I wonder why she didn't wanna stay." ], [ "Dear Katie, if I'm the only one,", "How much longer will you be gone?", "Oh, Katie, won't ya tell me straight:", "How much longer do I have to wait?" ], [ "I'll believe you,", "But please come through.", "I know it's wrong to be apart this long;", "You should be here, near me." ], [ "Katie's been gone and now her face is slowly fading from my mind.", "She's gone to find some newer places,", "Left the old life far behind.", "Dear Katie, dont ya miss your home?", "I dont see why you had to roam." ], [ "Dear Katie, since you've been away", "I lose a little something every day", "I need you here, but you're still out there.", "Dear Katie, please drop me a line,", "just write, Love, to tell me you're fine." ], [ "Oh, Katie, if you can hear me,", "I just cant wait to have you near me.", "I can only think", "Where are you,", "What ya do, may be there's someone new." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/key-west-philosopher-pirate/", "album": "Rough and Rowdy Ways", "year": 2020, "title": "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "McKinley hollered - McKinley squalled", "Doctor said McKinley - death is on the wall", "Say it to me if you got something to confess", "I heard all about it - he was going down slow", "Heard it on the wireless radio", "From down in the boondocks - way down in Key West" ], [ "I’m searchin’ for love and inspiration", "On that pirate radio station", "It’s comin’ out of Luxembourg and Budapest", "Radio signal clear as can be", "I’m so deep in love I can hardly see", "Down in the flatlands - way down in Key West" ], [ "Key West is the place to be", "If you’re lookin’ for immortality", "Stay on the road – follow the highway sign", "Key West is fine and fair", "If you lost your mind, you’ll find it there", "Key West is on the horizon line" ], [ "I was born on the wrong side of the railroad track", "Like Ginsberg, Corso and Kerouac", "Like Louie and Jimmy and Buddy and all of the rest", "It might not be the thing to do", "But I’m stickin’ with you through and through", "Down in the flatlands - way down in Key West" ], [ "I got both my feet planted square on the ground", "Got my right hand high with the thumb down", "Such is life - such is happiness", "Hibiscus flowers grow everywhere here", "If you wear one put it behind your ear", "Down on the bottom - way down in Key West" ], [ "Key West is the place to go", "Down by the Gulf of Mexico", "Beyond the sea - beyond the shifting sand", "Key West is the gateway key", "To innocence and purity", "Key West - Key West is the enchanted land" ], [ "I’ve never lived in the land of Oz", "Or wasted my time with an unworthy cause", "It’s hot down here and you can’t be overdressed", "The tiny blossoms of a toxic plant", "They can make you dizzy - I’d like to help ya but I can’t", "Down in the flatlands - way down in Key West" ], [ "The fishtail ponds and the orchid trees", "They can give you the bleedin’ heart disease", "People tell me - I oughta try a little tenderness", "Amelia Street - Bay View Park", "Walkin’ in the shadows after dark", "Down under - way down in Key West" ], [ "I play the gumbo limbo spirituals", "I know all the Hindu rituals", "People tell me that I’m truly blessed", "Bougainvillea bloomin’ in the summer and spring", "Winter here is an unknown thing", "Down the flatlands - way down in Key West" ], [ "Key West is under the sun", "Under the radar - under the gun", "You stay to the left and then you lean to the right", "Feel the sunlight on your skin", "And the healing virtues of the wind", "Key West - Key West is the land of light" ], [ "Wherever I travel - wherever I roam", "I’m not that far from the convent home", "I do what I think is right - what I think is best", "Mystery Street off Mallory Square", "Truman had his White House there", "Eastbound - westbound", "Way down in Key West" ], [ "Twelve years old and they put me in a suit", "Forced me to marry a prostitute", "There were gold fringes on her wedding dress", "That’s my story but not where it ends", "She’s still cute and we’re still friends", "Down in the bottom - way down in Key West" ], [ "I play both sides against the middle", "Pickin’ up that pirate radio signal", "I heard the news - I heard your last request", "Fly around my Pretty Little Miss", "I don’t love nobody - gimme a kiss", "Down at the bottom - way down in Key West" ], [ "Key West is the place to be", "If you’re lookin’ for immortality", "Key West is paradise divine", "Key West is fine and fair", "If you lost your mind you’ll find it there", "Key West is on the horizon line" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/kickin-my-dog-around/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Kickin’ My Dog Around", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/king-france/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "King of France", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/kingsport-town/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Kingsport Town", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "The winter wind is a blowing strong", "My hands have got no gloves", "I wish to my soul that I could see", "The girl I'm a-thinking of" ], [ "Don't you remember me babe", "I remember you quite well", "You caused me to leave old Kingsport Town", "With a high sheriff on my trail" ], [ "High sheriff on my trail, boys", "High sheriff on my trail", "All because I'm falling for", "A curly-headed dark-eyed girl" ], [ "Who's a-gonna stroke your cold black hair", "And sandy colored skin", "Who's a-gonna kiss your Menphis lips", "When I'm out in the wind", "When I'm out in the wind, babe", "When I'm out in the wind", "Who's a-gonna kiss your Memphis mouth", "When I'm out in the wind" ], [ "Who's a-gonna walk you side by side", "And tell you everything's alright", "Who's a-gonna sing to you all day long", "And not just in the night", "Who's a-gonna walk you side by side", "Who's a-gonna be your man", "Who's a-gonna look you straight in the eye", "And hold your bad luck hand" ], [ "Hold your bad luck hand, babe", "Hold your bad luck hand", "Who's a-gonna hold your hard luck hand", "And who's a-gonna be your man" ], [ "The winter wind is a blowing strong", "My hands have got no gloves", "I wish to my soul I could see", "The girl I'm a-thinking of." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/knockin-heavens-door/", "album": "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", "year": 1973, "title": "Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door", "plays": 460, "lyrics": [ [ "Mama, take this badge off of me", "I can’t use it anymore", "It’s gettin’ dark, too dark for me to see", "I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door" ], [ "Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door", "Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door", "Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door", "Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door" ], [ "Mama, put my guns in the ground", "I can’t shoot them anymore", "That long black cloud is comin’ down", "I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door" ], [ "Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door", "Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door", "Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door", "Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/last-thoughts-woody-guthrie/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "When yer head gets twisted and yer mind grows numb", "When you think you're too old, too young, too smart or too dumb", "When yer laggin' behind an' losin' yer pace", "In a slow-motion crawl of life's busy race", "No matter what yer doing if you start givin' up", "If the wine don't come to the top of yer cup", "If the wind's got you sideways with with one hand holdin' on", "And the other starts slipping and the feeling is gone", "And yer train engine fire needs a new spark to catch it", "And the wood's easy findin' but yer lazy to fetch it", "And yer sidewalk starts curlin' and the street gets too long", "And you start walkin' backwards though you know its wrong", "And lonesome comes up as down goes the day", "And tomorrow's mornin' seems so far away", "And you feel the reins from yer pony are slippin'", "And yer rope is a-slidin' 'cause yer hands are a-drippin'", "And yer sun-decked desert and evergreen valleys", "Turn to broken down slums and trash-can alleys", "And yer sky cries water and yer drain pipe's a-pourin'", "And the lightnin's a-flashing and the thunder's a-crashin'", "And the windows are rattlin' and breakin' and the roof tops a-shakin'", "And yer whole world's a-slammin' and bangin'", "And yer minutes of sun turn to hours of storm", "And to yourself you sometimes say", "\"I never knew it was gonna be this way", "Why didn't they tell me the day I was born\"", "And you start gettin' chills and yer jumping from sweat", "And you're lookin' for somethin' you ain't quite found yet", "And yer knee-deep in the dark water with yer hands in the air", "And the whole world's a-watchin' with a window peek stare", "And yer good gal leaves and she's long gone a-flying", "And yer heart feels sick like fish when they're fryin'", "And yer jackhammer falls from yer hand to yer feet", "And you need it badly but it lays on the street", "And yer bell's bangin' loudly but you can't hear its beat", "And you think yer ears might a been hurt", "Or yer eyes've turned filthy from the sight-blindin' dirt", "And you figured you failed in yesterdays rush", "When you were faked out an' fooled white facing a four flush", "And all the time you were holdin' three queens", "And it's makin you mad, it's makin' you mean", "Like in the middle of Life magazine", "Bouncin' around a pinball machine", "And there's something on yer mind you wanna be saying", "That somebody someplace oughta be hearin'", "But it's trapped on yer tongue and sealed in yer head", "And it bothers you badly when your layin' in bed", "And no matter how you try you just can't say it", "And yer scared to yer soul you just might forget it", "And yer eyes get swimmy from the tears in yer head", "And yer pillows of feathers turn to blankets of lead", "And the lion's mouth opens and yer staring at his teeth", "And his jaws start closin with you underneath", "And yer flat on your belly with yer hands tied behind", "And you wish you'd never taken that last detour sign", "And you say to yourself just what am I doin'", "On this road I'm walkin', on this trail I'm turnin'", "On this curve I'm hanging", "On this pathway I'm strolling, in the space I'm taking", "In this air I'm inhaling", "Am I mixed up too much, am I mixed up too hard", "Why am I walking, where am I running", "What am I saying, what am I knowing", "On this guitar I'm playing, on this banjo I'm frailin'", "On this mandolin I'm strummin', in the song I'm singin'", "In the tune I'm hummin', in the words I'm writin'", "In the words that I'm thinkin'", "In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinkin'", "Who am I helping, what am I breaking", "What am I giving, what am I taking", "But you try with your whole soul best", "Never to think these thoughts and never to let", "Them kind of thoughts gain ground", "Or make yer heart pound", "But then again you know why they're around", "Just waiting for a chance to slip and drop down", "\"Cause sometimes you hear'em when the night times comes creeping", "And you fear that they might catch you a-sleeping", "And you jump from yer bed, from yer last chapter of dreamin'", "And you can't remember for the best of yer thinking", "If that was you in the dream that was screaming", "And you know that it's something special you're needin'", "And you know that there's no drug that'll do for the healin'", "And no liquor in the land to stop yer brain from bleeding", "And you need something special", "Yeah, you need something special all right", "You need a fast flyin' train on a tornado track", "To shoot you someplace and shoot you back", "You need a cyclone wind on a stream engine howler", "That's been banging and booming and blowing forever", "That knows yer troubles a hundred times over", "You need a Greyhound bus that don't bar no race", "That won't laugh at yer looks", "Your voice or your face", "And by any number of bets in the book", "Will be rollin' long after the bubblegum craze", "You need something to open up a new door", "To show you something you seen before", "But overlooked a hundred times or more", "You need something to open your eyes", "You need something to make it known", "That it's you and no one else that owns", "That spot that yer standing, that space that you're sitting", "That the world ain't got you beat", "That it ain't got you licked", "It can't get you crazy no matter how many", "Times you might get kicked", "You need something special all right", "You need something special to give you hope", "But hope's just a word", "That maybe you said or maybe you heard", "On some windy corner 'round a wide-angled curve" ], [ "But that's what you need man, and you need it bad", "And yer trouble is you know it too good", "\"Cause you look an' you start getting the chills" ], [ "\"Cause you can't find it on a dollar bill", "And it ain't on Macy's window sill", "And it ain't on no rich kid's road map", "And it ain't in no fat kid's fraternity house", "And it ain't made in no Hollywood wheat germ", "And it ain't on that dimlit stage", "With that half-wit comedian on it", "Ranting and raving and taking yer money", "And you thinks it's funny", "No you can't find it in no night club or no yacht club", "And it ain't in the seats of a supper club", "And sure as hell you're bound to tell", "That no matter how hard you rub", "You just ain't a-gonna find it on yer ticket stub", "No, and it ain't in the rumors people're tellin' you", "And it ain't in the pimple-lotion people are sellin' you", "And it ain't in no cardboard-box house", "Or down any movie star's blouse", "And you can't find it on the golf course", "And Uncle Remus can't tell you and neither can Santa Claus", "And it ain't in the cream puff hair-do or cotton candy clothes", "And it ain't in the dime store dummies or bubblegum goons", "And it ain't in the marshmallow noises of the chocolate cake voices", "That come knockin' and tappin' in Christmas wrappin'", "Sayin' ain't I pretty and ain't I cute and look at my skin", "Look at my skin shine, look at my skin glow", "Look at my skin laugh, look at my skin cry", "When you can't even sense if they got any insides", "These people so pretty in their ribbons and bows", "No you'll not now or no other day", "Find it on the doorsteps made out-a paper mache", "And inside it the people made of molasses", "That every other day buy a new pair of sunglasses", "And it ain't in the fifty-star generals and flipped-out phonies", "Who'd turn yuh in for a tenth of a penny", "Who breathe and burp and bend and crack", "And before you can count from one to ten", "Do it all over again but this time behind yer back", "My friend", "The ones that wheel and deal and whirl and twirl", "And play games with each other in their sand-box world", "And you can't find it either in the no-talent fools", "That run around gallant", "And make all rules for the ones that got talent", "And it ain't in the ones that ain't got any talent but think they do", "And think they're foolin' you", "The ones who jump on the wagon", "Just for a while 'cause they know it's in style", "To get their kicks, get out of it quick", "And make all kinds of money and chicks", "And you yell to yourself and you throw down yer hat", "Sayin', \"Christ do I gotta be like that", "Ain't there no one here that knows where I'm at", "Ain't there no one here that knows how I feel", "Good God Almighty", "THAT STUFF AIN'T REAL\"" ], [ "No but that ain't yer game, it ain't even yer race", "You can't hear yer name, you can't see yer face", "You gotta look some other place", "And where do you look for this hope that yer seekin'", "Where do you look for this lamp that's a-burnin'", "Where do you look for this oil well gushin'", "Where do you look for this candle that's glowin'", "Where do you look for this hope that you know is there", "And out there somewhere", "And your feet can only walk down two kinds of roads", "Your eyes can only look through two kinds of windows", "Your nose can only smell two kinds of hallways", "You can touch and twist", "And turn two kinds of doorknobs", "You can either go to the church of your choice", "Or you can go to Brooklyn State Hospital", "You'll find God in the church of your choice", "You'll find Woody Guthrie in Brooklyn State Hospital" ], [ "And though it's only my opinion", "I may be right or wrong", "You'll find them both", "In the Grand Canyon", "At sundown" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lay-down-your-weary-tune/", "album": "Biograph", "year": 1985, "title": "Lay Down Your Weary Tune", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Lay down your weary tune, lay down", "Lay down the song you strum", "And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings", "No voice can hope to hum" ], [ "Struck by the sounds before the sun", "I knew the night had gone", "The morning breeze like a bugle blew", "Against the drums of dawn" ], [ "Lay down your weary tune, lay down", "Lay down the song you strum", "And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings", "No voice can hope to hum" ], [ "The ocean wild like an organ played", "The seaweed’s wove its strands", "The crashin’ waves like cymbals clashed", "Against the rocks and sands" ], [ "Lay down your weary tune, lay down", "Lay down the song you strum", "And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings", "No voice can hope to hum" ], [ "I stood unwound beneath the skies", "And clouds unbound by laws", "The cryin’ rain like a trumpet sang", "And asked for no applause" ], [ "Lay down your weary tune, lay down", "Lay down the song you strum", "And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings", "No voice can hope to hum" ], [ "The last of leaves fell from the trees", "And clung to a new love’s breast", "The branches bare like a banjo played", "To the winds that listened best" ], [ "I gazed down in the river’s mirror", "And watched its winding strum", "The water smooth ran like a hymn", "And like a harp did hum" ], [ "Lay down your weary tune, lay down", "Lay down the song you strum", "And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings", "No voice can hope to hum" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lay-lady-lay/", "album": "Nashville Skyline", "year": 1969, "title": "Lay, Lady, Lay", "plays": 407, "lyrics": [ [ "Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed", "Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed", "Whatever colors you have in your mind", "I’ll show them to you and you’ll see them shine" ], [ "Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed", "Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile", "Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile", "His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean", "And you’re the best thing that he’s ever seen" ], [ "Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile", "Why wait any longer for the world to begin", "You can have your cake and eat it too", "Why wait any longer for the one you love", "When he’s standing in front of you" ], [ "Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed", "Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead", "I long to see you in the morning light", "I long to reach for you in the night", "Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/legionnaires-disease/", "album": "", "title": "Legionnaire’s Disease", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Some say it was radiation, some say there was acid on the microphone", "Some say a combination that turned their hearts to stone", "But whatever it was, it drove them to their knees", "Oh, Legionnaire’s disease" ], [ "I wish I had a dollar for everyone that died within that year", "Got ’em hot by the collar, plenty an old maid shed a tear", "Now within my heart, it sure put on a squeeze", "Oh, that Legionnaire’s disease" ], [ "Granddad fought in a revolutionary war, father in the War of 1812", "Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself", "But whatever it was, it came out of the trees", "Oh, that Legionnaire’s disease" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lenny-bruce/", "album": "Shot of Love", "year": 1981, "title": "Lenny Bruce", "plays": 117, "lyrics": [ [ "Lenny Bruce is dead but his ghost lives on and on", "Never did get any Golden Globe award, never made it to Synanon", "He was an outlaw, that’s for sure", "More of an outlaw than you ever were", "Lenny Bruce is gone but his spirit’s livin’ on and on" ], [ "Maybe he had some problems, maybe some things that he couldn’t work out", "But he sure was funny and he sure told the truth and he knew what he was talkin’ about", "Never robbed any churches nor cut off any babies’ heads", "He just took the folks in high places and he shined a light in their beds", "He’s on some other shore, he didn’t wanna live anymore" ], [ "Lenny Bruce is dead but he didn’t commit any crime", "He just had the insight to rip off the lid before its time", "I rode with him in a taxi once", "Only for a mile and a half, seemed like it took a couple of months", "Lenny Bruce moved on and like the ones that killed him, gone" ], [ "They said that he was sick ’cause he didn’t play by the rules", "He just showed the wise men of his day to be nothing more than fools", "They stamped him and they labeled him like they do with pants and shirts", "He fought a war on a battlefield where every victory hurts", "Lenny Bruce was bad, he was the brother that you never had" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/leopard-skin-pill-box-hat/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat", "plays": 535, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat", "Yes, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat", "Well, you must tell me, baby", "How your head feels under somethin’ like that", "Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat" ], [ "Well, you look so pretty in it", "Honey, can I jump on it sometime?", "Yes, I just wanna see", "If it’s really that expensive kind", "You know it balances on your head", "Just like a mattress balances", "On a bottle of wine", "Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat" ], [ "Well, if you wanna see the sun rise", "Honey, I know where", "We’ll go out and see it sometime", "We’ll both just sit there and stare", "Me with my belt", "Wrapped around my head", "And you just sittin’ there", "In your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat" ], [ "Well, I asked the doctor if I could see you", "It’s bad for your health, he said", "Yes, I disobeyed his orders", "I came to see you", "But I found him there instead", "You know, I don’t mind him cheatin’ on me", "But I sure wish he’d take that off his head", "Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat" ], [ "Well, I see you got a new boyfriend", "You know, I never seen him before", "Well, I saw him", "Makin’ love to you", "You forgot to close the garage door", "You might think he loves you for your money", "But I know what he really loves you for", "It’s your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/let-it-be-me/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Let It Be Me", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "I bless the day I found you", "I want my arms around you", "And so I beg you: Let it be me." ], [ "Don't take this heaven from one", "If you must cling someone", "Now and forever, let it be me." ], [ "Each time we meet, love", "I find complete love", "Without your sweet love,", "what would life be ?" ], [ "So never leave me lonely", "Tell me that you love me only", "And say you'll always let it be me." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/let-me-die-my-footsteps/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Let Me Die in My Footsteps", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "I will not go down under the ground", "’Cause somebody tells me that death’s comin’ ’round", "An’ I will not carry myself down to die", "When I go to my grave my head will be high", "Let me die in my footsteps", "Before I go down under the ground" ], [ "There’s been rumors of war and wars that have been", "The meaning of life has been lost in the wind", "And some people thinkin’ that the end is close by", "’Stead of learnin’ to live they are learnin’ to die", "Let me die in my footsteps", "Before I go down under the ground" ], [ "I don’t know if I’m smart but I think I can see", "When someone is pullin’ the wool over me", "And if this war comes and death’s all around", "Let me die on this land ’fore I die underground", "Let me die in my footsteps", "Before I go down under the ground" ], [ "There’s always been people that have to cause fear", "They’ve been talking of the war now for many long years", "I have read all their statements and I’ve not said a word", "But now Lawd God, let my poor voice be heard", "Let me die in my footsteps", "Before I go down under the ground" ], [ "If I had rubies and riches and crowns", "I’d buy the whole world and change things around", "I’d throw all the guns and the tanks in the sea", "For they are mistakes of a past history", "Let me die in my footsteps", "Before I go down under the ground" ], [ "Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood", "Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood", "Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves", "Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace", "Let me die in my footsteps", "Before I go down under the ground" ], [ "Go out in your country where the land meets the sun", "See the craters and the canyons where the waterfalls run", "Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho", "Let every state in this union seep down deep in your souls", "And you’ll die in your footsteps", "Before you go down under the ground" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lets-keep-it-between-us/", "album": "", "title": "Let’s Keep It Between Us", "plays": 19, "lyrics": [ [ "Let’s keep it between us", "These people meddlin’ in our affairs, they’re not our friends", "Let’s keep it between us", "Before doors close and our togetherness comes to an end", "They’ll turn you against me and me against you", "’Til we don’t know who to trust", "Oh, darlin’, can we keep it between us?" ], [ "Let’s keep it between us", "We’ve been through too much tough times that they never shared", "They’ve had nothing to say to us before", "Now all of a sudden it’s as if they’ve always cared", "All we need is honesty", "A little humility and trust", "Oh, darlin’, can we keep it between us?" ], [ "I know we’re not perfect", "Then again, neither are they", "They act like we got to live for them", "As if there just ain’t no other way", "And it’s makin’ me kind of tired" ], [ "Can we just lay back for a moment", "Before we wake up and find ourselves in a daze that’s got us out of our minds?", "There must be something we’re overlooking here", "We better drop down now and get back behind the lines", "There’s some things not fit for human ears", "Some things don’t need to be discussed", "Oh, darlin’, can we keep it between us?" ], [ "They’ll tell you one thing and me another", "’Til we don’t know who to trust", "Oh, darlin’, can we keep it between us?" ], [ "Let’s keep it between us", "Before it all snaps and goes too far", "If we can’t deal with this by ourselves", "Tell me we ain’t worse off than they think we are", "Backseat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel", "But they sure know how to make a fuss", "Oh, darlin’, can we keep it between us?" ], [ "Can we keep it between us?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lets-stick-together/", "album": "Down in the Groove", "year": 1988, "title": "Let’s Stick Together", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, a young marriage vow, you know, it's very sacred", "The man put us together, now, you wanna make it", "Stick together", "Come on, come on, stick together." ], [ "You know, you made a vow, not to leave one another, never", "Well, ya never miss you water till your well runs dry", "Come one, baby, give our love a try, let's stick together", "Come on, come on, stick together", "We made a vow, not to leave one another, never." ], [ "Well, ya never miss your water till your well runs dry", "Come one, baby, give our love a try, let's stick together", "Come on, come on, stick together", "You know, we made a vow, not to leave one another, never." ], [ "It might be tough for a while, but consider the child", "Cannot be happy without his mom and his pappy", "Let's stick together", "Come on, come on, stick together", "You know, we made a vow, not to leave one another, never." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/license-kill/", "album": "Infidels", "year": 1983, "title": "License to Kill", "plays": 46, "lyrics": [ [ "Man thinks ’cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please", "And if things don’t change soon, he will", "Oh, man has invented his doom", "First step was touching the moon" ], [ "Now, there’s a woman on my block", "She just sit there as the night grows still", "She say who gonna take away his license to kill?" ], [ "Now, they take him and they teach him and they groom him for life", "And they set him on a path where he’s bound to get ill", "Then they bury him with stars", "Sell his body like they do used cars" ], [ "Now, there’s a woman on my block", "She just sit there facin’ the hill", "She say who gonna take away his license to kill?" ], [ "Now, he’s hell-bent for destruction, he’s afraid and confused", "And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill", "All he believes are his eyes", "And his eyes, they just tell him lies" ], [ "But there’s a woman on my block", "Sitting there in a cold chill", "She say who gonna take away his license to kill?" ], [ "Ya may be a noisemaker, spirit maker", "Heartbreaker, backbreaker", "Leave no stone unturned", "May be an actor in a plot", "That might be all that you got", "’Til your error you clearly learn" ], [ "Now he worships at an altar of a stagnant pool", "And when he sees his reflection, he’s fulfilled", "Oh, man is opposed to fair play", "He wants it all and he wants it his way" ], [ "Now, there’s a woman on my block", "She just sit there as the night grows still", "She say who gonna take away his license to kill?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/life-hard/", "album": "Together Through Life", "year": 2009, "title": "Life Is Hard", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "The evening winds are still", "I've lost the way and will", "Can't tell you where they went", "I just know what they meant", "I'm always on my guard", "Admitting life is hard", "Without you near me" ], [ "The friend you used to be", "So near and dear to me", "You slipped so far away", "Where did we go astray", "I pass the old schoolyard", "Admitting life is hard", "Without you near me" ], [ "Ever since the day", "The day you went away", "I felt that emptiness so wide", "I don't know what's wrong or right", "I just know I need strength to fight", "Strength to fight that world outside" ], [ "Since we've been out of touch", "I haven't felt that much", "From day to barren day", "My heart stays locked away", "I walk the boulevard", "Admitting life is hard", "Without you near me" ], [ "The sun is sinking low", "I guess it's time to go", "I feel a chilly breeze", "In place of memories", "My dreams are locked and barred", "Admitting life is hard", "Without you near me" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rolling-stone/", "album": "Highway 61 Revisited", "year": 1965, "title": "Like a Rolling Stone", "plays": 2075, "lyrics": [ [ "Once upon a time you dressed so fine", "You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?", "People’d call, say, “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”", "You thought they were all kiddin’ you", "You used to laugh about", "Everybody that was hangin’ out", "Now you don’t talk so loud", "Now you don’t seem so proud", "About having to be scrounging for your next meal" ], [ "How does it feel", "How does it feel", "To be without a home", "Like a complete unknown", "Like a rolling stone?" ], [ "You’ve gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely", "But you know you only used to get juiced in it", "And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street", "And now you find out you’re gonna have to get used to it", "You said you’d never compromise", "With the mystery tramp, but now you realize", "He’s not selling any alibis", "As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes", "And ask him do you want to make a deal?" ], [ "How does it feel", "How does it feel", "To be on your own", "With no direction home", "Like a complete unknown", "Like a rolling stone?" ], [ "You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns", "When they all come down and did tricks for you", "You never understood that it ain’t no good", "You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you", "You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat", "Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat", "Ain’t it hard when you discover that", "He really wasn’t where it’s at", "After he took from you everything he could steal" ], [ "How does it feel", "How does it feel", "To be on your own", "With no direction home", "Like a complete unknown", "Like a rolling stone?" ], [ "Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people", "They’re drinkin’, thinkin’ that they got it made", "Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things", "But you’d better lift your diamond ring, you’d better pawn it babe", "You used to be so amused", "At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used", "Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse", "When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose", "You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal" ], [ "How does it feel", "How does it feel", "To be on your own", "With no direction home", "Like a complete unknown", "Like a rolling stone?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lily-west/", "album": "Dylan", "year": 1973, "title": "Lily of the West", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lily-rosemary-and-jack-hearts/", "album": "Blood on the Tracks", "year": 1975, "title": "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "The festival was over, the boys were all plannin’ for a fall", "The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin’ in the wall", "The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin’ wheel shut down", "Anyone with any sense had already left town", "He was standin’ in the doorway lookin’ like the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "He moved across the mirrored room, “Set it up for everyone,” he said", "Then everyone commenced to do what they were doin’ before he turned their heads", "Then he walked up to a stranger and he asked him with a grin", "“Could you kindly tell me, friend, what time the show begins?”", "Then he moved into the corner, face down like the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "Backstage the girls were playin’ five-card stud by the stairs", "Lily had two queens, she was hopin’ for a third to match her pair", "Outside the streets were fillin’ up, the window was open wide", "A gentle breeze was blowin’, you could feel it from inside", "Lily called another bet and drew up the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "Big Jim was no one’s fool, he owned the town’s only diamond mine", "He made his usual entrance lookin’ so dandy and so fine", "With his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place", "He took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste", "But his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "Rosemary combed her hair and took a carriage into town", "She slipped in through the side door lookin’ like a queen without a crown", "She fluttered her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear", "“Sorry, darlin’, that I’m late,” but he didn’t seem to hear", "He was starin’ into space over at the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "“I know I’ve seen that face before,” Big Jim was thinkin’ to himself", "“Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody’s shelf”", "But then the crowd began to stamp their feet and the houselights did dim", "And in the darkness of the room there was only Jim and him", "Starin’ at the butterfly who just drew the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "Lily was a princess, she was fair-skinned and precious as a child", "She did whatever she had to do, she had that certain flash every time she smiled", "She’d come away from a broken home, had lots of strange affairs", "With men in every walk of life which took her everywhere", "But she’d never met anyone quite like the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "The hangin’ judge came in unnoticed and was being wined and dined", "The drillin’ in the wall kept up but no one seemed to pay it any mind", "It was known all around that Lily had Jim’s ring", "And nothing would ever come between Lily and the king", "No, nothin’ ever would except maybe the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "Rosemary started drinkin’ hard and seein’ her reflection in the knife", "She was tired of the attention, tired of playin’ the role of Big Jim’s wife", "She had done a lot of bad things, even once tried suicide", "Was lookin’ to do just one good deed before she died", "She was gazin’ to the future, riding on the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "Lily washed her face, took her dress off and buried it away", "“Has your luck run out?” she laughed at him, “Well, I guess you must", "have known it would someday", "Be careful not to touch the wall, there’s a brand-new coat of paint", "I’m glad to see you’re still alive, you’re lookin’ like a saint”", "Down the hallway footsteps were comin’ for the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "The backstage manager was pacing all around by his chair", "“There’s something funny going on,” he said, “I can just feel it in the air”", "He went to get the hangin’ judge, but the hangin’ judge was drunk", "As the leading actor hurried by in the costume of a monk", "There was no actor anywhere better than the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "Lily’s arms were locked around the man that she dearly loved to touch", "She forgot all about the man she couldn’t stand who hounded her so much", "“I’ve missed you so,” she said to him, and he felt she was sincere", "But just beyond the door he felt jealousy and fear", "Just another night in the life of the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "No one knew the circumstance but they say that it happened pretty quick", "The door to the dressing room burst open and a cold revolver clicked", "And Big Jim was standin’ there, ya couldn’t say surprised", "Rosemary right beside him, steady in her eyes", "She was with Big Jim but she was leanin’ to the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "Two doors down the boys finally made it through the wall", "And cleaned out the bank safe, it’s said that they got off with quite a haul", "In the darkness by the riverbed they waited on the ground", "For one more member who had business back in town", "But they couldn’t go no further without the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "The next day was hangin’ day, the sky was overcast and black", "Big Jim lay covered up, killed by a penknife in the back", "And Rosemary on the gallows, she didn’t even blink", "The hangin’ judge was sober, he hadn’t had a drink", "The only person on the scene missin’ was the Jack of Hearts" ], [ "The cabaret was empty now, a sign said, “Closed for repair”", "Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her hair", "She was thinkin’ ’bout her father, who she very rarely saw", "Thinkin’ ’bout Rosemary and thinkin’ about the law", "But most of all she was thinkin’ ’bout the Jack of Hearts" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/little-drummer-boy/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "Little Drummer Boy", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/little-maggie/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Little Maggie", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, where is little Maggie", "Over yonder she stands,", "Rifle on her shoulder,", "Six-shooter in her hand." ], [ "How can I ever stand it,", "Just to see them two blue eyes,", "Shinin' like some diamonds,", "Like some diamonds in the sky." ], [ "Rather be in some lonely hollow", "Where the sun don't ever shine,", "Than to see you be another man's darling,", "And to know that you'll never be mine." ], [ "Well, it's march me away to the station", "With my suitcase in my hand,", "Yes, march me away to the station,", "I'm off to some far-distant land." ], [ "Sometimes I have a nickel,", "And sometimes I have a dime,", "Sometimes I have ten dollars,", "Just to pay for little Maggie's wine." ], [ "Pretty flowers are made for blooming,", "Pretty stars are made to shine,", "Pretty girls are made for boy's love,", "Little Maggie was made for mine." ], [ "Well, yonder stands little Maggie", "With a dram glass in her hand,", "She's a drinkin' down her troubles", "Over courtin' some other man." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/little-sadie/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Little Sadie", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Went out last night to take a little round.", "I met my little Sadie and I brought her down.", "I ran right home and I went to bed", "With a forty-four smokeless under my head." ], [ "I began to think what a deed I'd done,", "I grabbed my hat and I began to run.", "I made a god run but I ran too slow;", "They overtook me down in Jericho" ], [ "Standing on a corner ringin' my bell,", "Up stepped the sheriff from Thomasville.", "He said \"Young man is you name Brown?", "Remember the night you blowed Little Sadie down.\"" ], [ "\"Oh, yes sir, my name is Lee.", "I murdered little Sadie in the first degree.", "First degree and second degree,", "If you've got any papers will you serve them to me?\"" ], [ "Well they took me down town and they dressed me in black.", "They put me on a train and they brought me back.", "I had no one for to go my bail;", "They crammed me back into the county jail." ], [ "The judge and the jury they took their stand.", "The judge had the papers in his right hand.", "Forty-one days, forty-one nights;", "Forty-one years to wear the ball and the stripes." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/living-blues/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Living the Blues", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Since you’ve been gone", "I’ve been walking around", "With my head bowed down to my shoes", "I’ve been living the blues", "Ev’ry night without you" ], [ "I don’t have to go far", "To know where you are", "Strangers all give me the news", "I’ve been living the blues", "Ev’ry night without you" ], [ "I think that it’s best", "I soon get some rest", "And forget my pride", "But I can’t deny", "This feeling that I", "Carry for you deep down inside" ], [ "If you see me this way", "You’d come back and you’d stay", "Oh, how could you refuse", "I’ve been living the blues", "Ev’ry night without you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lo-and-behold/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Lo and Behold!", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I pulled out for San Anton’", "I never felt so good", "My woman said she’d meet me there", "And of course, I knew she would", "The coachman, he hit me for my hook", "And he asked me my name", "I give it to him right away", "Then I hung my head in shame", "Lo and behold! Lo and behold!", "Lookin’ for my lo and behold", "Get me outa here, my dear man!" ], [ "I come into Pittsburgh", "At six-thirty flat", "I found myself a vacant seat", "An’ I put down my hat", "“What’s the matter, Molly, dear", "What’s the matter with your mound?”", "“What’s it to ya, Moby Dick?", "This is chicken town!”", "Lo and behold! Lo and behold!", "Lookin’ for my lo and behold", "Get me outa here, my dear man!" ], [ "I bought my girl", "A herd of moose", "One she could call her own", "Well, she came out the very next day", "To see where they had flown", "I’m goin’ down to Tennessee", "Get me a truck ‘r somethin’", "Gonna save my money and rip it up!", "Lo and behold! Lo and behold!", "Lookin’ for my lo and behold", "Get me outa here, my dear man!" ], [ "Now, I come in on a Ferris wheel", "An’ boys, I sure was slick", "I come in like a ton of bricks", "Laid a few tricks on ’em", "Goin’ back to Pittsburgh", "Count up to thirty", "Round that horn and ride that herd", "Gonna thread up!", "Lo and behold! Lo and behold!", "Lookin’ for my lo and behold", "Get me outa here, my dear man!" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lock-your-door/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Lock Your Door", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lone-pilgrim/", "album": "World Gone Wrong", "year": 1993, "title": "Lone Pilgrim", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I came to the place where the lone pilgrim lay,", "And patiently stood by his tomb,", "When in a low whisper I heard something say:", "How sweetly I sleep here alone." ], [ "The tempest may howl and the loud thunder roar", "And gathering storms may arise,", "But calm is my feeling, at rest is my soul,", "The tears are all wiped from my eyes." ], [ "The call of my master compelled me from home,", "No kindred or relative nigh.", "I met the contagion and sank to the tomb,", "My soul flew to mansions on high." ], [ "Go tell my companion and children most dear", "To weep not for me now I'm gone.", "The same hand that led me through seas most severe", "Has kindly assisted me home." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lonesome-day-blues/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "Lonesome Day Blues", "plays": 160, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, today has been a sad ol’ lonesome day", "Yeah, today has been a sad ol’ lonesome day", "I’m just sittin’ here thinking", "With my mind a million miles away" ], [ "Well, they’re doing the double shuffle, throwin’ sand on the floor", "They’re doing the double shuffle, they’re throwin’ sand on the floor", "When I left my long-time darlin’", "She was standing in the door" ], [ "Well, my pa he died and left me, my brother got killed in the war", "Well, my pa he died and left me, my brother got killed in the war", "My sister, she ran off and got married", "Never was heard of any more" ], [ "Samantha Brown lived in my house for about four or five months", "Samantha Brown lived in my house for about four or five months", "Don’t know how it looked to other people", "I never slept with her even once" ], [ "The road’s washed out—weather not fit for man or beast", "Yeah, the road’s washed out—weather not fit for man or beast", "Funny how the things you have the hardest time parting with", "Are the things you need the least" ], [ "I’m forty miles from the mill—I’m droppin’ it into overdrive", "I’m forty miles from the mill—I’m droppin’ it into overdrive", "Got my dial set on the radio", "I’m telling myself I’m still alive" ], [ "I see your lover-man comin’—comin’ ’cross the barren field", "I see your lover-man comin’—comin’ ’cross the barren field", "He’s not a gentleman at all—he’s rotten to the core", "He’s a coward and he steals" ], [ "Well my captain he’s decorated—he’s well schooled and he’s skilled", "My captain, he’s decorated—he’s well schooled and he’s skilled", "He’s not sentimental—don’t bother him at all", "How many of his pals have been killed" ], [ "Last night the wind was whisperin’, I was trying to make out what it was", "Last night the wind was whisperin’ somethin’—I was trying to make out what it was I tell myself something’s comin’", "But it never does" ], [ "I’m gonna spare the defeated—I’m gonna speak to the crowd", "I’m gonna spare the defeated, boys, I’m going to speak to the crowd I am goin’ to teach peace to the conquered", "I’m gonna tame the proud" ], [ "Well the leaves are rustlin’ in the wood—things are fallin’ off of the shelf Leaves are rustlin’ in the wood—things are fallin’ off the shelf", "You gonna need my help, sweetheart", "You can’t make love all by yourself" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/long-ago-far-away/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Long Ago, Far Away", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "To preach of peace and brotherhood", "Oh, what might be the cost!", "A man he did it long ago", "And they hung him on a cross", "Long ago, far away", "These things don’t happen", "No more, nowadays" ], [ "The chains of slaves", "They dragged the ground", "With heads and hearts hung low", "But it was during Lincoln’s time", "And it was long ago", "Long ago, far away", "Things like that don’t happen", "No more, nowadays" ], [ "The war guns they went off wild", "The whole world bled its blood", "Men’s bodies floated on the edge", "Of oceans made of mud", "Long ago, far away", "Those kind of things don’t happen", "No more, nowadays" ], [ "One man had much money", "One man had not enough to eat", "One man he lived just like a king", "The other man begged on the street", "Long ago, far away", "Things like that don’t happen", "No more, nowadays" ], [ "One man died of a knife so sharp", "One man died from the bullet of a gun", "One man died of a broken heart", "To see the lynchin’ of his son", "Long ago, far away", "Things like that don’t happen", "No more, nowadays" ], [ "Gladiators killed themselves", "It was during the Roman times", "People cheered with bloodshot grins", "As eyes and minds went blind", "Long ago, far away", "Things like that don’t happen", "No more, nowadays" ], [ "And to talk of peace and brotherhood", "Oh, what might be the cost!", "A man he did it long ago", "And they hung him on a cross", "Long ago, far away", "Things like that don’t happen", "No more, nowadays, do they?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/long-and-wasted-years/", "album": "Tempest", "year": 2012, "title": "Long and Wasted Years", "plays": 328, "lyrics": [ [ "It’s been such a long, long time", "Since we loved each other and our hearts were true", "One time, for one brief day", "I was the man for you" ], [ "Last night I heard you talking in your sleep", "Saying things you shouldn’t say", "Oh, baby", "You just might have to go to jail some day" ], [ "Is there a place we can go?", "Is there anybody we can see?", "Maybe what's right for you", "Isn't really right for me" ], [ "I ain’t seen my family in twenty years", "That ain’t easy to understand", "They may be dead by now", "I lost track of them after they lost their land" ], [ "Shake it up baby, twist and shout", "You tell me what it's all about", "What you doing out in the sun anyway?", "Don’t you know the sun can burn your brains right out?" ], [ "My enemy slammed into the earth", "I don’t know what he was worth", "But he lost it all, everything and more", "What a blithering fool he took me for" ], [ "I wear dark glasses to cover my eyes", "There’re secrets in them I can’t disguise", "Come back, baby", "If I hurt your feelings, I apologize" ], [ "Two trains running side by side", "Forty miles wide down the Eastern line", "You don’t have to go, I just came to you", "Because you’re a friend of mine" ], [ "I think when my back was turned", "The whole world behind me burned", "Maybe today, if not today, maybe tomorrow", "Maybe there’ll be a limit on all my sorrow" ], [ "We cried on a cold and frosty morn’", "We cried because our souls were torn", "So much for tears", "So much for those long and wasted years." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/long-distance-operator/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Long Distance Operator", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Long-distance operator", "Place this call, it’s not for fun", "Long-distance operator", "Please, place this call, you know it’s not for fun", "I gotta get a message to my baby", "You know, she’s not just anyone" ], [ "There are thousands in the phone booth", "Thousands at the gate", "There are thousands in the phone booth", "Thousands at the gate", "Ev’rybody wants to make a long-distance call", "But you know they’re just gonna have to wait" ], [ "If a call comes from Louisiana", "Please, let it ride", "If a call comes from Louisiana", "Please, let it ride", "This phone booth’s on fire", "It’s getting hot inside" ], [ "Ev’rybody wants to be my friend", "But nobody wants to get higher", "Ev’rybody wants to be my friend", "But nobody wants to get higher", "Long-distance operator", "I believe I’m stranglin’ on this telephone wire" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/long-time-gone/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Long Time Gone", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "My parents raised me tenderly", "I was their only son", "My mind got mixed with ramblin’", "When I was all so young", "And I left my home the first time", "When I was twelve and one", "I’m a long time a-comin’, Maw", "An’ I’ll be a long time gone" ], [ "On the western side of Texas", "On the Texas plains", "I tried to find a job o’ work", "But they said l’s young of age", "My eyes they burned when I heard", "“Go home where you belong!”", "I’m a long time a-comin’", "An’ I’ll be a long time gone" ], [ "I remember when I’s ramblin’", "Around with the carnival trains", "Different towns, different people", "Somehow they’re all the same", "I remember children’s faces best", "I remember travelin’ on", "I’m a long time a-comin’", "I’ll be a long time gone" ], [ "I once loved a fair young maid", "An’ I ain’t too big to tell", "If she broke my heart a single time", "She broke it ten or twelve", "I walked and talked all by myself", "I did not tell no one", "I’m a long time a-comin’, babe", "An’ I’ll be a long time gone" ], [ "Many times by the highwayside", "I tried to flag a ride", "With bloodshot eyes and gritting teeth", "I’d watch the cars roll by", "The empty air hung in my head", "I’s thinkin’ all day long", "I’m a long time a-comin’", "I’ll be a long time gone" ], [ "You might see me on your crossroads", "When I’m a-passin’ through", "Remember me how you wished to", "As I’m a-driftin’ from your view", "I ain’t got the time to think about it", "I got too much to get done", "Well, I’m a long time comin’", "An’ I’ll be a long time gone" ], [ "If I can’t help somebody", "With a word or song", "If I can’t show somebody", "They are travelin’ wrong", "But I know I ain’t no prophet", "An’ I ain’t no prophet’s son", "I’m just a long time a-comin’", "An’ I’ll be a long time gone" ], [ "So you can have your beauty", "It’s skin deep and it only lies", "And you can have your youth", "It’ll rot before your eyes", "Just give to me my gravestone", "With it clearly carved upon:", "“I’s a long time a-comin’", "An’ I’ll be a long time gone”" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lord-protect-my-child/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Lord Protect My Child", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "For his age, he’s wise", "He’s got his mother’s eyes", "There’s gladness in his heart", "He’s young and he’s wild", "My only prayer is, if I can’t be there", "Lord, protect my child" ], [ "As his youth now unfolds", "He is centuries old", "Just to see him at play makes me smile", "No matter what happens to me", "No matter what my destiny", "Lord, protect my child" ], [ "The whole world is asleep", "You can look at it and weep", "Few things you find are worthwhile", "And though I don’t ask for much", "No material things to touch", "Lord, protect my child" ], [ "He’s young and on fire", "Full of hope and desire", "In a world that’s been raped and defiled", "If I fall along the way", "And can’t see another day", "Lord, protect my child" ], [ "There’ll be a time I hear tell", "When all will be well", "When God and man will be reconciled", "But until men lose their chains", "And righteousness reigns", "Lord, protect my child" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/love-henry/", "album": "World Gone Wrong", "year": 1993, "title": "Love Henry", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "\"Get down, get down, Love Henry,\" she cried.", "\"And stay all night with me.", "I have gold chains, and the finest I have", "I'll apply them all to thee.\"" ], [ "\"I can't get down and I shan't get down,", "Or stay all night with thee.", "Some pretty little girl in Cornersville", "I love far better than thee.\"" ], [ "He layed his head on a pillow of down.", "Kisses she gave him three.", "With a penny knife that she held in her hand", "She murdered mortal he." ], [ "\"Get well, get well, Love Henry, \" She cried,", "\"Get well, get well,\" said she.", "\"Oh don't you see my own heart's blood", "Come flowin' down so free?\"" ], [ "She took him by his long yellow hair,", "And also by his feet.", "She plunged him into well water, where", "It runs both cold and deep." ], [ "\"Lie there, lie there, Love Henry,\" she cried,", "\"Til the flesh rots off your bones.", "Some pretty little girl in Cornersville", "Will mourn for your return.\"" ], [ "\"Hush up, hush up, my parrot,\" she cried,", "\"And light on my right knee.", "The doors to your cage shall be decked with gold", "And hung on a willow tree.\"" ], [ "\"I won't fly down, I can't fly down", "And light on your right knee.", "A girl who would murder her own true love", "Would kill a little birdlike me.\"" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/love-is-just-a-four-letter-word/", "album": "", "title": "Love Is Just a Four Letter Word", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Seems like only yesterday", "I left my mind behind", "Down in the Gypsy Café", "With a friend of a friend of mine", "She sat with a baby heavy on her knee", "Yet spoke of life most free from slavery", "With eyes that showed no trace of misery", "A phrase in connection first with she I heard", "That love is just a four letter word" ], [ "Outside a rambling storefront window", "Cats meowed to the break of day", "Me, I kept my mouth shut, too", "To you I had no words to say", "My experience was limited and underfed", "You were talking while I hid", "To the one who was the father of your kid", "You probably didn’t think I did, but I heard", "You say that love is just a four letter word" ], [ "I said goodbye unnoticed", "Pushed towards things in my own games", "Drifting in and out of lifetimes", "Unmentionable by name", "Searching for my double, looking for", "Complete evaporation to the core", "Though I tried and failed at finding any door", "I must have thought that there was nothing more", "Absurd than that love is just a four letter word" ], [ "Though I never knew just what you meant", "When you were speaking to your man", "I can only think in terms of me", "And now I understand", "After waking enough times to think I see", "The Holy Kiss that’s supposed to last eternity", "Blow up in smoke, its destiny", "Falls on strangers, travels free", "Yes, I know now, traps are only set by me", "And I do not really need to be", "Assured that love is just a four letter word" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/love-only-mine/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Love is Only Mine", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/love-minus-zero-no-limit/", "album": "Bringing It All Back Home", "year": 1965, "title": "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", "plays": 365, "lyrics": [ [ "My love she speaks like silence", "Without ideals or violence", "She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful", "Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire", "People carry roses", "Make promises by the hours", "My love she laughs like the flowers", "Valentines can’t buy her" ], [ "In the dime stores and bus stations", "People talk of situations", "Read books, repeat quotations", "Draw conclusions on the wall", "Some speak of the future", "My love she speaks softly", "She knows there’s no success like failure", "And that failure’s no success at all" ], [ "The cloak and dagger dangles", "Madams light the candles", "In ceremonies of the horsemen", "Even the pawn must hold a grudge", "Statues made of matchsticks", "Crumble into one another", "My love winks, she does not bother", "She knows too much to argue or to judge" ], [ "The bridge at midnight trembles", "The country doctor rambles", "Bankers’ nieces seek perfection", "Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring", "The wind howls like a hammer", "The night blows cold and rainy", "My love she’s like some raven", "At my window with a broken wing" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/love-sick/", "album": "Time out of Mind", "year": 1997, "title": "Love Sick", "plays": 914, "lyrics": [ [ "I’m walking through streets that are dead", "Walking, walking with you in my head", "My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired", "And the clouds are weeping" ], [ "Did I hear someone tell a lie?", "Did I hear someone’s distant cry?", "You thrilled me to my heart, then you ripped it all apart", "You went through my pockets when I was sleeping" ], [ "I’m sick of love…but I’m in the thick of it", "This kind of love…I’m so sick of it" ], [ "I see lovers in the meadow", "I see silhouettes in the window", "I watch them ’til they’re gone and they leave me hanging on", "To a shadow" ], [ "I’m sick of love…I hear the clock tick", "This kind of love…I’m love sick" ], [ "Sometimes the silence can be like the thunder", "Sometimes I feel like I’m being plowed under", "Could you ever be true? I think of you", "And I wonder" ], [ "I’m sick of love…I wish I’d never met you", "I’m sick of love…I’m trying to forget you" ], [ "Just don’t know what to do", "I’d give anything to be with you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lunatic-princess/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965 – 1966 Deluxe Edition", "year": 2015, "title": "Lunatic Princess", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/maggies-farm/", "album": "Bringing It All Back Home", "year": 1965, "title": "Maggie’s Farm", "plays": 1051, "lyrics": [ [ "I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more", "No, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more", "Well, I wake in the morning", "Fold my hands and pray for rain", "I got a head full of ideas", "That are drivin’ me insane", "It’s a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor", "I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more" ], [ "I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s brother no more", "No, I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s brother no more", "Well, he hands you a nickel", "He hands you a dime", "He asks you with a grin", "If you’re havin’ a good time", "Then he fines you every time you slam the door", "I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s brother no more" ], [ "I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s pa no more", "No, I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s pa no more", "Well, he puts his cigar", "Out in your face just for kicks", "His bedroom window", "It is made out of bricks", "The National Guard stands around his door", "Ah, I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s pa no more" ], [ "I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more", "No, I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more", "Well, she talks to all the servants", "About man and God and law", "Everybody says", "She’s the brains behind pa", "She’s sixty-eight, but she says she’s twenty-four", "I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more" ], [ "I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more", "No, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more", "Well, I try my best", "To be just like I am", "But everybody wants you", "To be just like them", "They sing while you slave and I just get bored", "I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/main-title-theme-billy/", "album": "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", "year": 1973, "title": "Main Title Theme (Billy)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/make-you-feel-my-love/", "album": "Time out of Mind", "year": 1997, "title": "Make You Feel My Love", "plays": 315, "lyrics": [ [ "When the rain is blowing in your face", "And the whole world is on your case", "I could offer you a warm embrace", "To make you feel my love" ], [ "When the evening shadows and the stars appear", "And there is no one there to dry your tears", "I could hold you for a million years", "To make you feel my love" ], [ "I know you haven’t made your mind up yet", "But I would never do you wrong", "I’ve known it from the moment that we met", "No doubt in my mind where you belong" ], [ "I’d go hungry, I’d go black and blue", "I’d go crawling down the avenue", "There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do", "To make you feel my love" ], [ "The storms are raging on the rollin’ sea", "And on the highway of regret", "Put your hand in mine and come with me", "I’ll see that you don’t get wet" ], [ "I could make you happy, make your dreams come true", "Nothing that I wouldn’t do", "Go to the ends of the earth for you", "To make you feel my love" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mama-you-been-my-mind/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Mama, You Been On My Mind", "plays": 201, "lyrics": [ [ "Perhaps it’s the color of the sun cut flat", "An’ cov’rin’ the crossroads I’m standing at", "Or maybe it’s the weather or something like that", "But mama, you been on my mind" ], [ "I don’t mean trouble, please don’t put me down or get upset", "I am not pleadin’ or sayin’, “I can’t forget”", "I do not walk the floor bowed down an’ bent, but yet", "Mama, you been on my mind" ], [ "Even though my mind is hazy an’ my thoughts they might be narrow", "Where you been don’t bother me nor bring me down in sorrow", "It don’t even matter to me where you’re wakin’ up tomorrow", "But mama, you’re just on my mind" ], [ "I am not askin’ you to say words like “yes” or “no”", "Please understand me, I got no place for you t’ go", "I’m just breathin’ to myself, pretendin’ not that I don’t know", "Mama, you been on my mind" ], [ "When you wake up in the mornin’, baby, look inside your mirror", "You know I won’t be next to you, you know I won’t be near", "I’d just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear", "As someone who has had you on his mind" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/man-gave-names-all-animals/", "album": "Slow Train Coming", "year": 1979, "title": "Man Gave Names to All the Animals", "plays": 155, "lyrics": [ [ "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, in the beginning", "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, long time ago" ], [ "He saw an animal that liked to growl", "Big furry paws and he liked to howl", "Great big furry back and furry hair", "“Ah, think I’ll call it a bear”" ], [ "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, in the beginning", "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, long time ago" ], [ "He saw an animal up on a hill", "Chewing up so much grass until she was filled", "He saw milk comin’ out but he didn’t know how", "“Ah, think I’ll call it a cow”" ], [ "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, in the beginning", "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, long time ago" ], [ "He saw an animal that liked to snort", "Horns on his head and they weren’t too short", "It looked like there wasn’t nothin’ that he couldn’t pull", "“Ah, think I’ll call it a bull”" ], [ "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, in the beginning", "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, long time ago" ], [ "He saw an animal leavin’ a muddy trail", "Real dirty face and a curly tail", "He wasn’t too small and he wasn’t too big", "“Ah, think I’ll call it a pig”" ], [ "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, in the beginning", "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, long time ago" ], [ "Next animal that he did meet", "Had wool on his back and hooves on his feet", "Eating grass on a mountainside so steep", "“Ah, think I’ll call it a sheep”" ], [ "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, in the beginning", "Man gave names to all the animals", "In the beginning, long time ago" ], [ "He saw an animal as smooth as glass", "Slithering his way through the grass", "Saw him disappear by a tree near a lake . . ." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/man-long-black-coat/", "album": "Oh Mercy", "year": 1989, "title": "Man in the Long Black Coat", "plays": 286, "lyrics": [ [ "Crickets are chirpin’, the water is high", "There’s a soft cotton dress on the line hangin’ dry", "Window wide open, African trees", "Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze", "Not a word of goodbye, not even a note", "She gone with the man", "In the long black coat" ], [ "Somebody seen him hanging around", "At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town", "He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask", "If he wanted to dance, he had a face like a mask", "Somebody said from the Bible he’d quote", "There was dust on the man", "In the long black coat" ], [ "Preacher was a talkin’, there’s a sermon he gave", "He said \"Every man’s conscience is vile and depraved", "You cannot depend on it to be your guide", "When it’s you who must keep it satisfied.\"", "It ain’t easy to swallow, it sticks in the throat", "She gave her heart to the man", "In the long black coat" ], [ "There are no mistakes in life some people say", "And it's true sometimes you can see it that way", "I went down to the river but I just missed the boat", "She went with the man", "In the long black coat" ], [ "There’s smoke on the water, it’s been there since June", "Tree trunks uprooted, 'neath the high crescent moon", "Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force", "Somebody is out there beating a dead horse", "She never said nothing, there was nothing she wrote", "She went with the man", "In the long black coat" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/man-constant-sorrow/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "Man of Constant Sorrow", "plays": 22, "lyrics": [ [ "I am a man of constant sorrow", "I've seen trouble all my days", "I'll say goodbye to Colorado", "Where I was born and partly raised" ], [ "Through this open world I'm a-bound to ramble", "Through ice and snow, sleet and rain", "Im a-bound to ride that mornin' railroad", "Perhaps I'll die upon that train" ], [ "Your mother says that I'm a stranger", "A face you'll never see no more", "But here's one promise to ya", "I'll see you on God's golden shore" ], [ "I'm a-goin' back to Colorado", "The place that I've started from", "If I'd knowed how bad you'd treat me", "Babe, I never would have come" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/man-peace/", "album": "Infidels", "year": 1983, "title": "Man of Peace", "plays": 41, "lyrics": [ [ "Look out your window, baby, there’s a scene you’d like to catch", "The band is playing “Dixie,” a man got his hand outstretched", "Could be the Führer", "Could be the local priest", "You know sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace" ], [ "He got a sweet gift of gab, he got a harmonious tongue", "He knows every song of love that ever has been sung", "Good intentions can be evil", "Both hands can be full of grease", "You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace" ], [ "Well, first he’s in the background, then he’s in the front", "Both eyes are looking like they’re on a rabbit hunt", "Nobody can see through him", "No, not even the Chief of Police", "You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace" ], [ "Well, he catch you when you’re hoping for a glimpse of the sun", "Catch you when your troubles feel like they weigh a ton", "He could be standing next to you", "The person that you’d notice least", "I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace" ], [ "Well, he can be fascinating, he can be dull", "He can ride down Niagara Falls in the barrels of your skull", "I can smell something cooking", "I can tell there’s going to be a feast", "You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace" ], [ "He’s a great humanitarian, he’s a great philanthropist", "He knows just where to touch you, honey, and how you like to be kissed", "He’ll put both his arms around you", "You can feel the tender touch of the beast", "You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace" ], [ "Well, the howling wolf will howl tonight, the king snake will crawl", "Trees that’ve stood for a thousand years suddenly will fall", "Wanna get married? Do it now", "Tomorrow all activity will cease", "You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace" ], [ "Somewhere Mama’s weeping for her blue-eyed boy", "She’s holding them little white shoes and that little broken toy", "And he’s following a star", "The same one them three men followed from the East", "I hear that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/man-street/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Man on the Street", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "I’ll sing you a song, ain’t very long", "’Bout an old man who never done wrong", "How he died nobody can say", "They found him dead in the street one day" ], [ "Well, the crowd, they gathered one fine morn", "At the man whose clothes ’n’ shoes were torn", "There on the sidewalk he did lay", "They stopped ’n’ stared ’n’ walked their way" ], [ "Well, the p’liceman come and he looked around", "“Get up, old man, or I’m a-takin’ you down”", "He jabbed him once with his billy club", "And the old man then rolled off the curb" ], [ "Well, he jabbed him again and loudly said", "“Call the wagon; this man is dead”", "The wagon come, they loaded him in", "I never saw the man again" ], [ "I’ve sung you my song, it ain’t very long", "’Bout an old man who never done wrong", "How he died no one can say", "They found him dead in the street one day" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/marchin-city/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "Marchin’ to the City", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mary-and-soldier/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "Mary and the Soldier", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mary-ann/", "album": "Dylan", "year": 1973, "title": "Mary Ann", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mary-lou-i-love-you-too/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Mary Lou, I Love You Too", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/masters-war-mono/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "Masters of War", "plays": 884, "lyrics": [ [ "Come you masters of war", "You that build all the guns", "You that build the death planes", "You that build the big bombs", "You that hide behind walls", "You that hide behind desks", "I just want you to know", "I can see through your masks" ], [ "You that never done nothin’", "But build to destroy", "You play with my world", "Like it’s your little toy", "You put a gun in my hand", "And you hide from my eyes", "And you turn and run farther", "When the fast bullets fly" ], [ "Like Judas of old", "You lie and deceive", "A world war can be won", "You want me to believe", "But I see through your eyes", "And I see through your brain", "Like I see through the water", "That runs down my drain" ], [ "You fasten the triggers", "For the others to fire", "Then you set back and watch", "When the death count gets higher", "You hide in your mansion", "As young people’s blood", "Flows out of their bodies", "And is buried in the mud" ], [ "You’ve thrown the worst fear", "That can ever be hurled", "Fear to bring children", "Into the world", "For threatening my baby", "Unborn and unnamed", "You ain’t worth the blood", "That runs in your veins" ], [ "How much do I know", "To talk out of turn", "You might say that I’m young", "You might say I’m unlearned", "But there’s one thing I know", "Though I’m younger than you", "Even Jesus would never", "Forgive what you do" ], [ "Let me ask you one question", "Is your money that good", "Will it buy you forgiveness", "Do you think that it could", "I think you will find", "When your death takes its toll", "All the money you made", "Will never buy back your soul" ], [ "And I hope that you die", "And your death’ll come soon", "I will follow your casket", "In the pale afternoon", "And I’ll watch while you’re lowered", "Down to your deathbed", "And I’ll stand o’er your grave", "’Til I’m sure that you’re dead" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/maybe-someday/", "album": "Knocked Out Loaded", "year": 1986, "title": "Maybe Someday", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Maybe someday you’ll be satisfied", "When you’ve lost everything you’ll have nothing left to hide", "When you’re through running over things like you’re walking ’cross the tracks", "Maybe you’ll beg me to take you back", "Maybe someday you’ll find out everybody’s somebody’s fool", "Maybe then you’ll realize what it would have taken to keep me cool", "Maybe someday when you’re by yourself alone", "You’ll know the love that I had for you was never my own" ], [ "Maybe someday you’ll have nowhere to turn", "You’ll look back and wonder ’bout the bridges you have burned", "You’ll look back sometime when the lights grow dim", "And you’ll see you look much better with me than you do with him", "Through hostile cities and unfriendly towns", "Thirty pieces of silver, no money down", "Maybe someday, you will understand", "That something for nothing is everybody’s plan" ], [ "Maybe someday you’ll remember what you felt", "When there was blood on the moon in the cotton belt", "When both of us, baby, were going through some sort of a test", "Neither one of us could do what we do best", "I should have known better, baby, I should have called your bluff", "I guess I was too off the handle, not sentimental enough", "Maybe someday, you’ll believe me when I say", "That I wanted you, baby, in every kind of way" ], [ "Maybe someday you’ll hear a voice from on high", "Sayin’, “For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die?”", "Forgive me, baby, for what I didn’t do", "For not breakin’ down no bedroom door to get at you", "Always was a sucker for the right cross", "Never wanted to go home ’til the last cent was lost", "Maybe someday you will look back and see", "That I made it so easy for you to follow me" ], [ "Maybe someday there’ll be nothing to tell", "I’m just as happy as you, baby, I just can’t say it so well", "Never slumbered or slept or waited for lightning to strike", "There’s no excuse for you to say that we don’t think alike", "You said you were goin’ to Frisco, stay a couple of months", "I always like San Francisco, I was there for a party once", "Maybe someday you’ll see that it’s true", "There was no greater love than what I had for you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/maybe-youll-be-there/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "Maybe You’ll Be There", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/medicine-sunday/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965 – 1966 Deluxe Edition", "year": 2015, "title": "Medicine Sunday", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/meet-me-morning/", "album": "Blood on the Tracks", "year": 1975, "title": "Meet Me in the Morning", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Meet me in the morning, 56th and Wabasha", "Meet me in the morning, 56th and Wabasha", "Honey, we could be in Kansas", "By time the snow begins to thaw" ], [ "They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn", "They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn", "But you wouldn’t know it by me", "Every day’s been darkness since you been gone" ], [ "Little rooster crowin’, there must be something on his mind", "Little rooster crowin’, there must be something on his mind", "Well, I feel just like that rooster", "Honey, ya treat me so unkind" ], [ "The birds are flyin’ low babe, honey I feel so exposed", "Well, the birds are flyin’ low babe, honey I feel so exposed", "Well now, I ain’t got any matches", "And the station doors are closed" ], [ "Well, I struggled through barbed wire, felt the hail fall from above", "Well, I struggled through barbed wire, felt the hail fall from above", "Well, you know I even outran the hound dogs", "Honey, you know I’ve earned your love" ], [ "Look at the sun sinkin’ like a ship", "Look at the sun sinkin’ like a ship", "Ain’t that just like my heart, babe", "When you kissed my lips?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/melancholy-mood/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "Melancholy Mood", "plays": 175, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/million-dollar-bash/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Million Dollar Bash", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, that big dumb blonde", "With her wheel in the gorge", "And Turtle, that friend of theirs", "With his checks all forged", "And his cheeks in a chunk", "With his cheese in the cash", "They’re all gonna be there", "At that million dollar bash", "Ooh, baby, ooh-ee", "Ooh, baby, ooh-ee", "It’s that million dollar bash" ], [ "Ev’rybody from right now", "To over there and back", "The louder they come", "The harder they crack", "Come now, sweet cream", "Don’t forget to flash", "We’re all gonna meet", "At that million dollar bash", "Ooh, baby, ooh-ee", "Ooh, baby, ooh-ee", "It’s that million dollar bash" ], [ "Well, I took my counselor", "Out to the barn", "Silly Nelly was there", "She told him a yarn", "Then along came Jones", "Emptied the trash", "Ev’rybody went down", "To that million dollar bash", "Ooh, baby, ooh-ee", "Ooh, baby, ooh-ee", "It’s that million dollar bash" ], [ "Well, I’m hittin’ it too hard", "My stones won’t take", "I get up in the mornin’", "But it’s too early to wake", "First it’s hello, goodbye", "Then push and then crash", "But we’re all gonna make it", "At that million dollar bash", "Ooh, baby, ooh-ee", "Ooh, baby, ooh-ee", "It’s that million dollar bash" ], [ "Well, I looked at my watch", "I looked at my wrist", "Punched myself in the face", "With my fist", "I took my potatoes", "Down to be mashed", "Then I made it over", "To that million dollar bash", "Ooh, baby, ooh-ee", "Ooh, baby, ooh-ee", "It’s that million dollar bash" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/million-miles/", "album": "Time out of Mind", "year": 1997, "title": "Million Miles", "plays": 75, "lyrics": [ [ "You took a part of me that I really miss", "I keep asking myself how long it can go on like this", "You told yourself a lie, that’s all right mama I told myself one too", "I’m trying to get closer but I’m still a million miles from you" ], [ "You took the silver, you took the gold", "You left me standing out in the cold", "People ask about you, I didn’t tell them everything I knew", "Well, I’m trying to get closer but I’m still a million miles from you" ], [ "I’m drifting in and out of dreamless sleep", "Throwing all my memories in a ditch so deep", "Did so many things I never did intend to do", "Well, I’m tryin’ to get closer but I’m still a million miles from you" ], [ "I need your love so bad, turn your lamp down low", "I need every bit of it for the places that I go", "Sometimes I wonder just what it’s all coming to", "Well, I’m tryin’ to get closer but I’m still a million miles from you" ], [ "Well, I don’t dare close my eyes and I don’t dare wink", "Maybe in the next life I’ll be able to hear myself think", "Feel like talking to somebody but I just don’t know who", "Well, I’m tryin’ to get closer but I’m still a million miles from you" ], [ "The last thing you said before you hit the street", "“Gonna find me a janitor to sweep me off my feet”", "I said, “That’s all right, you do what you gotta do”", "Well, I’m tryin’ to get closer, I’m still a million miles from you" ], [ "Rock me, pretty baby, rock me ’til everything gets real", "Rock me for a little while, rock me ’til there’s nothing left to feel", "And I’ll rock you too", "I’m tryin’ to get closer but I’m still a million miles from you" ], [ "Well, there’s voices in the night trying to be heard", "I’m sitting here listening to every mind-polluting word", "I know plenty of people who would put me up for a day or two", "Yes, I’m tryin’ to get closer but I’m still a million miles from you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/minstrel-boy/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Minstrel Boy", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Who’s gonna throw that minstrel boy a coin?", "Who’s gonna let it roll?", "Who’s gonna throw that minstrel boy a coin?", "Who’s gonna let it down easy to save his soul?" ], [ "Oh, Lucky’s been drivin’ a long, long time", "And now he’s stuck on top of the hill", "With twelve forward gears, it’s been a long hard climb", "And with all of them ladies, though, he’s lonely still" ], [ "Who’s gonna throw that minstrel boy a coin?", "Who’s gonna let it roll?", "Who’s gonna throw that minstrel boy a coin?", "Who’s gonna let it down easy to save his soul?" ], [ "Well, he deep in number and heavy in toil", "Mighty Mockingbird, he still has such a heavy load", "Beneath his bound’ries, what more can I tell", "With all of his trav’lin’, but I’m still on that road" ], [ "Who’s gonna throw that minstrel boy a coin?", "Who’s gonna let it roll?", "Who’s gonna throw that minstrel boy a coin?", "Who’s gonna let it down easy to save his soul?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/miss-mississippi/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "Miss the Mississippi", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mississippi/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "Mississippi", "plays": 75, "lyrics": [ [ "Every step of the way we walk the line", "Your days are numbered, so are mine", "Time is pilin’ up, we struggle and we scrape", "We’re all boxed in, nowhere to escape", "City’s just a jungle, more games to play", "Trapped in the heart of it, trying to get away", "I was raised in the country, I been workin’ in the town", "I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down", "Got nothing for you, I had nothing before", "Don’t even have anything for myself anymore", "Sky full of fire, pain pourin’ down", "Nothing you can sell me, I’ll see you around", "All my powers of expression and thoughts so sublime", "Could never do you justice in reason or rhyme", "Only one thing I did wrong", "Stayed in Mississippi a day too long" ], [ "Well, the devil’s in the alley, mule’s in the stall", "Say anything you wanna, I have heard it all", "I was thinkin’ about the things that Rosie said", "I was dreaming I was sleeping in Rosie’s bed", "Walking through the leaves, falling from the trees", "Feeling like a stranger nobody sees", "So many things that we never will undo", "I know you’re sorry, I’m sorry too", "Some people will offer you their hand and some won’t", "Last night I knew you, tonight I don’t", "I need somethin’ strong to distract my mind", "I’m gonna look at you ‘til my eyes go blind", "Well I got here following the southern star", "I crossed that river just to be where you are", "Only one thing I did wrong", "Stayed in Mississippi a day too long" ], [ "Well my ship’s been split to splinters and it’s sinking fast", "I’m drownin’ in the poison, got no future, got no past", "But my heart is not weary, it’s light and it’s free", "I’ve got nothin’ but affection for all those who’ve sailed with me", "Everybody movin’ if they ain’t already there", "Everybody got to move somewhere", "Stick with me baby, stick with me anyhow", "Things should start to get interesting right about now", "My clothes are wet, tight on my skin", "Not as tight as the corner that I painted myself in", "I know that fortune is waitin’ to be kind", "So give me your hand and say you’ll be mine", "Well, the emptiness is endless, cold as the clay", "You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way", "Only one thing I did wrong", "Stayed in Mississippi a day too long" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mixed-confusion/", "album": "Biograph", "year": 1985, "title": "Mixed-Up Confusion", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I got mixed up confusion", "Man, it’s a-killin’ me", "Well, there’s too many people", "And they’re all too hard to please" ], [ "Well, my hat’s in my hand", "Babe, I’m walkin’ down the line", "An’ I’m lookin’ for a woman", "Whose head’s mixed up like mine" ], [ "Well, my head’s full of questions", "My temp’rature’s risin’ fast", "Well, I’m lookin’ for some answers", "But I don’t know who to ask" ], [ "But I’m walkin’ and wonderin’", "And my poor feet don’t ever stop", "Seein’ my reflection", "I’m hung over, hung down, hung up!" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/money-blues/", "album": "", "title": "Money Blues", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Sittin’ here thinkin’", "Where does the money go", "Sittin’ here thinkin’", "Where does the money go", "Well, I give it to my woman", "She ain’t got it no more" ], [ "Went out last night", "Bought two eggs and a slice of ham", "Went out last night", "Bought two eggs and a slice of ham", "Bill came to three dollars and ten cents", "And I didn’t even get no jam" ], [ "Man came around", "Askin’ for the rent", "Man came around", "Askin’ for the rent", "Well, I looked into the drawer", "But the money’s all been spent" ], [ "Well, well", "Ain’t got no bank account", "Well, well", "Ain’t got no bank account", "Went down to start one", "But I didn’t have the right amount" ], [ "Everything’s inflated", "Like a tire on a car", "Everything’s inflated", "Like a tire on a car", "Well, the man came and took my Chevy back", "I’m glad I hid my old guitar" ], [ "Come to me, mama", "Ease my money crisis now", "Come to me, mama", "Ease my money crisis now", "I need something to support me", "And only you know how" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/moonlight/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "Moonlight", "plays": 101, "lyrics": [ [ "The seasons they are turnin’", "And my sad heart is yearnin’", "To hear again the songbird’s sweet melodious tone", "Meet me in the moonlight alone" ], [ "The dusky light, the day is losing", "Orchids, poppies, black-eyed Susan", "The earth and sky that melts with flesh and bone", "Meet me in the moonlight alone" ], [ "The air is thick and heavy", "All along the levee", "Where the geese into the countryside have flown", "Meet me in the moonlight alone" ], [ "Well, I’m preachin’ peace and harmony", "The blessings of tranquility", "Floating like a dream across the floor", "I’ll take you ’cross the river dear", "You’ve no need to linger here", "Draw the blinds, step outside the door" ], [ "The clouds are turnin’ crimson", "The leaves fall from the limbs an’", "The branches cast their shadows over stone", "Meet me in the moonlight alone" ], [ "The boulevards of Cypress trees", "The masquerades of birds and bees", "The petals, pink and white, the wind has blown", "Meet me in the moonlight alone" ], [ "The trailing moss and mystic glow", "Purple blossoms soft as snow", "Step up and drop the coin right into the slot", "The fading light of sunset glowed", "It’s crowded on the narrow road", "Who cares whether you forgive me or not" ], [ "My pulse is runnin’ through my palm", "The sharp hills are rising from", "The yellow fields with twisted oaks that groan", "Meet me in the moonlight alone" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/moonshiner/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Moonshiner", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I've been a moonshiner,", "For seventeen long years,", "I've spent all my money,", "On whiskey and beer,", "I go to some hollow,", "And sit at my still", "And if whiskey dont kill me,", "Then I dont know what will," ], [ "I go to some bar room,", "And drink with my friends,", "Where the women cant follow,", "And see what I spend,", "God bless them pretty women,", "I wish they was mine,", "Their breath is as sweet,", "The dew on the vine," ], [ "Let me eat when I am hungry,", "Let me drink when I am dry,", "A dollar when I am hard up,", "Religion when I die,", "The whole world's a bottle,", "And life's but a dram,", "When the bottle gets empty,", "It sure ain't worth a damn." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/most-likely-you-go-your-way-and-ill-go-mine/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)", "plays": 315, "lyrics": [ [ "You say you love me", "And you’re thinkin’ of me", "But you know you could be wrong", "You say you told me", "That you wanna hold me", "But you know you’re not that strong", "I just can’t do what I done before", "I just can’t beg you anymore", "I’m gonna let you pass", "And I’ll go last", "Then time will tell just who fell", "And who’s been left behind", "When you go your way and I go mine" ], [ "You say you disturb me", "And you don’t deserve me", "But you know sometimes you lie", "You say you’re shakin’", "And you’re always achin’", "But you know how hard you try", "Sometimes it gets so hard to care", "It can’t be this way ev’rywhere", "And I’m gonna let you pass", "Yes, and I’ll go last", "Then time will tell just who fell", "And who’s been left behind", "When you go your way and I go mine" ], [ "The judge, he holds a grudge", "He’s gonna call on you", "But he’s badly built", "And he walks on stilts", "Watch out he don’t fall on you" ], [ "You say you’re sorry", "For tellin’ stories", "That you know I believe are true", "You say ya got some", "Other kinda lover", "And yes, I believe you do", "You say my kisses are not like his", "But this time I’m not gonna tell you why that is", "I’m just gonna let you pass", "Yes, and I’ll go last", "Then time will tell who fell", "And who’s been left behind", "When you go your way and I go mine" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/most-time/", "album": "Oh Mercy", "year": 1989, "title": "Most of the Time", "plays": 36, "lyrics": [ [ "Most of the time", "I’m clear focused all around", "Most of the time", "I can keep both feet on the ground", "I can follow the path, I can read the signs", "Stay right with it when the road unwinds", "I can handle whatever I stumble upon", "I don’t even notice she’s gone", "Most of the time" ], [ "Most of the time", "It’s well understood", "Most of the time", "I wouldn’t change it if I could", "I can make it all match up, I can hold my own", "I can deal with the situation right down to the bone", "I can survive, I can endure", "And I don’t even think about her", "Most of the time" ], [ "Most of the time", "My head is on straight", "Most of the time", "I’m strong enough not to hate", "I don’t build up illusion ’til it makes me sick", "I ain’t afraid of confusion no matter how thick", "I can smile in the face of mankind", "Don’t even remember what her lips felt like on mine", "Most of the time" ], [ "Most of the time", "She ain’t even in my mind", "I wouldn’t know her if I saw her", "She’s that far behind", "Most of the time", "I can’t even be sure", "If she was ever with me", "Or if I was with her" ], [ "Most of the time", "I’m halfway content", "Most of the time", "I know exactly where it went", "I don’t cheat on myself, I don’t run and hide", "Hide from the feelings that are buried inside", "I don’t compromise and I don’t pretend", "I don’t even care if I ever see her again", "Most of the time" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mother-of-muses/", "album": "Rough and Rowdy Ways", "year": 2020, "title": "Mother of Muses", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Mother of Muses sing for me", "Sing of the mountains and the deep dark sea", "Sing of the lakes and the nymphs in the forest", "Sing your hearts out - all you women of the chorus", "Sing of honor and fame and of glory be", "Mother of Muses, sing for me" ], [ "Mother of Muses sing for my heart", "Sing for a love too soon to depart", "Sing of the Heroes who stood alone", "Whose names are engraved on tablets of stone", "Who struggled with pain so the world could go free", "Mother of Muses, sing for me" ], [ "Sing of Sherman - Montgomery and Scott", "Sing of Zhukov and Patton and the battles they fought", "Who cleared the path for Presley to sing", "Who carved out the path for Martin Luther King", "Who did what they did and then went on their way", "Man, I could tell their stories all day" ], [ "I’m falling in love with Calliope", "She doesn’t belong to anybody - why not give her to me", "She’s speaking to me, speaking with her eyes", "I’ve grown so tired of chasing lies", "Mother of Muses wherever you are", "I’ve already outlived my life by far" ], [ "Mother of Muses unleash your wrath", "Things I can’t see - they’re blocking my path", "Show me your wisdom - tell me my fate", "Put me upright - make me walk straight", "Forge my identity from the inside out", "You know what I’m talking about" ], [ "Take me to the river and release your charms", "Let me lay down in your sweet lovin’ arms", "Wake me - shake me - free me from sin", "Make me invisible like the wind", "Got a mind to ramble - got a mind to roam", "I’m travelin’ light and I’m slow coming home" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/motorpsycho-nightmare/", "album": "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "year": 1964, "title": "Motorpsycho Nightmare", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I pounded on a farmhouse", "Lookin’ for a place to stay", "I was mighty, mighty tired", "I had come a long, long way", "I said, “Hey, hey, in there", "Is there anybody home?”", "I was standin’ on the steps", "Feelin’ most alone", "Well, out comes a farmer", "He must have thought that I was nuts", "He immediately looked at me", "And stuck a gun into my guts" ], [ "I fell down", "To my bended knees", "Saying, “I dig farmers", "Don’t shoot me, please!”", "He cocked his rifle", "And began to shout", "“You’re that travelin’ salesman", "That I have heard about”", "I said, “No! No! No!", "I’m a doctor and it’s true", "I’m a clean-cut kid", "And I been to college, too”" ], [ "Then in comes his daughter", "Whose name was Rita", "She looked like she stepped out of", "La Dolce Vita", "I immediately tried to cool it", "With her dad", "And told him what a", "Nice, pretty farm he had", "He said, “What do doctors", "Know about farms, pray tell?”", "I said, “I was born", "At the bottom of a wishing well”" ], [ "Well, by the dirt ’neath my nails", "I guess he knew I wouldn’t lie", "“I guess you’re tired”", "He said, kinda sly", "I said, “Yes, ten thousand miles", "Today I drove”", "He said, “I got a bed for you", "Underneath the stove", "Just one condition", "And you go to sleep right now", "That you don’t touch my daughter", "And in the morning, milk the cow”" ], [ "I was sleepin’ like a rat", "When I heard something jerkin’", "There stood Rita", "Lookin’ just like Tony Perkins", "She said, “Would you like to take a shower?", "I’ll show you up to the door”", "I said, “Oh, no! no!", "I’ve been through this before”", "I knew I had to split", "But I didn’t know how", "When she said", "“Would you like to take that shower, now?”" ], [ "Well, I couldn’t leave", "Unless the old man chased me out", "’Cause I’d already promised", "That I’d milk his cows", "I had to say something", "To strike him very weird", "So I yelled out", "“I like Fidel Castro and his beard”", "Rita looked offended", "But she got out of the way", "As he came charging down the stairs", "Sayin’, “What’s that I heard you say?”" ], [ "I said, “I like Fidel Castro", "I think you heard me right”", "And ducked as he swung", "At me with all his might", "Rita mumbled something", "’Bout her mother on the hill", "As his fist hit the icebox", "He said he’s going to kill me", "If I don’t get out the door", "In two seconds flat", "“You unpatriotic", "Rotten doctor Commie rat”" ], [ "Well, he threw a Reader’s Digest", "At my head and I did run", "I did a somersault", "As I seen him get his gun", "And crashed through the window", "At a hundred miles an hour", "And landed fully blast", "In his garden flowers", "Rita said, “Come back!”", "As he started to load", "The sun was comin’ up", "And I was runnin’ down the road" ], [ "Well, I don’t figure I’ll be back", "There for a spell", "Even though Rita moved away", "And got a job in a motel", "He still waits for me", "Constant, on the sly", "He wants to turn me in", "To the F.B.I.", "Me, I romp and stomp", "Thankful as I romp", "Without freedom of speech", "I might be in the swamp" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mozambique/", "album": "Desire", "year": 1976, "title": "Mozambique", "plays": 17, "lyrics": [ [ "I like to spend some time in Mozambique", "The sunny sky is aqua blue", "And all the couples dancing cheek to cheek", "It’s very nice to stay a week or two" ], [ "There’s lot of pretty girls in Mozambique", "And plenty time for good romance", "And everybody likes to stop and speak", "To give the special one you seek a chance", "Or maybe say hello with just a glance" ], [ "Lying next to her by the ocean", "Reaching out and touching her hand", "Whispering your secret emotion", "Magic in a magical land" ], [ "And when it’s time for leaving Mozambique", "To say goodbye to sand and sea", "You turn around to take a final peek", "And you see why it’s so unique to be", "Among the lovely people living free", "Upon the beach of sunny Mozambique" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mr-blue/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Mr. Blue", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mr-bojangles/", "album": "Dylan", "year": 1973, "title": "Mr. Bojangles", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mr-tambourine-man/", "album": "Bringing It All Back Home", "year": 1965, "title": "Mr. Tambourine Man", "plays": 903, "lyrics": [ [ "Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me", "I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to", "Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me", "In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you" ], [ "Though I know that evenin’s empire has returned into sand", "Vanished from my hand", "Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping", "My weariness amazes me, I’m branded on my feet", "I have no one to meet", "And the ancient empty street’s too dead for dreaming" ], [ "Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me", "I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to", "Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me", "In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you" ], [ "Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship", "My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip", "My toes too numb to step", "Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin’", "I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade", "Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way", "I promise to go under it" ], [ "Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me", "I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to", "Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me", "In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you" ], [ "Though you might hear laughin’, spinnin’, swingin’ madly across the sun", "It’s not aimed at anyone, it’s just escapin’ on the run", "And but for the sky there are no fences facin’", "And if you hear vague traces of skippin’ reels of rhyme", "To your tambourine in time, it’s just a ragged clown behind", "I wouldn’t pay it any mind", "It’s just a shadow you’re seein’ that he’s chasing" ], [ "Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me", "I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to", "Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me", "In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you" ], [ "Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind", "Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves", "The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach", "Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow", "Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free", "Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands", "With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves", "Let me forget about today until tomorrow" ], [ "Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me", "I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to", "Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me", "In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/murder-most-foul/", "album": "Private: Murder Most Foul", "title": "Murder Most Foul", "year": 2020, "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "‘Twas a dark day in Dallas - November ‘63", "The day that will live on in infamy", "President Kennedy was riding high", "A good day to be living and a good day to die", "Being led to the slaughter like a sacrificial lamb", "Say wait a minute boys, do you know who I am?", "Of course we do, we know who you are", "Then they blew off his head when he was still in the car", "Shot down like a dog in broad daylight", "‘Twas a matter of timing and the timing was right", "You got unpaid debts and we’ve come to collect", "We’re gon’ kill you with hatred and without any respect", "We’ll mock you and shock you, we’ll grin in your face", "We’ve already got someone here to take your place", "The day that they blew out the brains of the king", "Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing", "It happened so quickly - so quick by surprise", "Right there in front of everyone’s eyes" ], [ "Greatest magic trick ever under the sun", "Perfectly executed, skillfully done", "Wolfman, oh wolfman, oh wolfman, howl", "Rub a dub dub – it’s murder most foul" ], [ "Hush lil children, you’ll soon understand", "The Beatles are coming they’re gonna hold your hand", "Slide down the banister, go get your coat", "Ferry ‘cross the Mersey and go for the throat", "There’s three bums comin’ all dressed in rags", "Pick up the pieces and lower the flags", "I’m going to Woodstock, it’s the Aquarian Age", "Then I’ll go over to Altamont and sit near the stage", "Put your head out the window, let the good times roll", "There’s a party going on behind the grassy knoll", "Stack up the bricks and pour the cement", "Don’t say Dallas don’t love you, Mr. President", "Put your foot in the tank and step on the gas", "Try to make it to the triple underpass", "Black face singer - white face clown", "Better not show your faces after the sun goes down" ], [ "I’m in the red-light district like a cop on the beat", "Living in a nightmare on Elm Street", "When you’re down on Deep Ellum put your money in your shoe", "Don’t ask what your country can do for you", "Cash on the barrel head, money to burn", "Dealey Plaza, make a left hand turn", "Go down to the crossroads, try to flag a ride", "That’s the place where Faith, Hope and Charity died", "Shoot ‘em while he runs, boy, shoot ‘em while you can", "See if you can shoot the Invisible Man", "Goodbye, Charlie, goodbye Uncle Sam
Frankly, Miss Scarlet, I don’t give a damn", "What is the truth and where did it go", "Ask Oswald and Ruby - they oughta know", "Shut your mouth, says the wise old owl", "Business is business and it’s murder most foul" ], [ "Tommy can you hear me, I’m the Acid Queen", "I’m ridin’ in a long black Lincoln limousine", "Ridin’ in the back seat, next to my wife", "Heading straight on into the afterlife", "I’m leaning to the left, got my head in her lap", "Oh Lord, I’ve been led into some kind of a trap", "We ask no quarter, no quarter do we give", "We’re right down the street from the street where you live", "They mutilated his body and took out his brain", "What more could they do, they piled on the pain", "But his soul was not there where it was supposed to be at", "For the last fifty years they’ve been searching for that", "Freedom, oh freedom, freedom over me", "Hate to tell you, Mister, but only dead men are free", "Send me some loving - tell me no lie", "Throw the gun in the gutter and walk on by", "Wake up, Little Suzie, let’s go for a drive", "Cross the Trinity River, let’s keep hope alive", "Turn the radio on, don’t touch the dials", "Parkland Hospital’s only six more miles", "You got me dizzy Miss Lizzy, you filled me with lead", "That magic bullet of yours has gone to my head", "I’m just a patsy like Patsy Cline", "I never shot anyone from in front or behind", "Got blood in my eyes, got blood in my ear", "I’m never gonna make it to the New Frontier" ], [ "Zapruder’s film, I’ve seen that before", "Seen it thirty three times, maybe more", "It’s vile and deceitful - it’s cruel and it’s mean", "Ugliest thing that you ever have seen", "They killed him once, they killed him twice", "Killed him like a human sacrifice", "The day that they killed him, someone said to me, “Son,
The age of the anti-Christ has just only begun.”", "Air Force One coming in through the gate", "Johnson sworn in at two thirty-eight", "Let me know when you decide to throw in the towel", "It is what it is and it’s murder most foul" ], [ "What’s New Pussycat - wha’d I say", "I said the soul of a nation been torn away", "It’s beginning to go down into a slow decay", "And that it’s thirty-six hours past judgment day", "Wolfman Jack, he’s speaking in tongues", "He’s going on and on at the top of his lungs", "Play me a song, Mr. Wolfman Jack", "Play it for me in my long Cadillac", "Play that Only The Good Die Young", "Take me to the place where Tom Dooley was hung", "Play St. James Infirmary in the court of King James", "If you want to remember, better write down the names", "Play Etta James too, play I’d Rather Go Blind", "Play it for the man with the telepathic mind", "Play John Lee Hooker play Scratch My Back", "Play it for that strip club owner named Jack", "Guitar Slim - Goin’ Down Slow", "Play it for me and for Marilyn Monroe", "And please, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood", "Play it for the First Lady, she ain’t feeling that good", "Play Don Henley - play Glenn Frey", "Take it to the Limit and let it go by", "And play it for Carl Wilson, too", "Lookin’ far, far away down Gower Avenue", "Play Tragedy, play Twilight Time", "Take Me Back to Tulsa to the scene of the crime", "Play another one and Another One Bites the Dust", "Play the Old Rugged Cross and in G-d We Trust", "Ride the Pink Horse down that Long, Lonesome Road", "Stand there and wait for his head to explode", "Play Mystery Train for Mr. Mystery", "The man who fell down dead, like a rootless tree", "Play it for the Reverend, play it for the Pastor", "Play it for the dog that’s got no master", "Play Oscar Peterson and play Stan Getz", "Play Blue Sky, play Dickie Betts", "Play Art Pepper, play Thelonious Monk", "Charlie Parker and all that junk", "All that junk and All That Jazz", "Play something for The Birdman of Alcatraz", "Play Buster Keaton play Harold Lloyd", "Play Bugsy Siegel play Pretty Boy Floyd", "Play all the numbers, play all the odds", "Play Cry Me A River for the Lord of the Gods", "Play number nine, play number six", "Play it for Lindsey and Stevie Nicks", "Play Nat King Cole, play Nature Boy", "Play Down in the Boondocks for Terry Malloy", "Play It Happened One Night and One Night of Sin", "There’s twelve million souls that are listening in", "Play the Merchant of Venice, play the merchants of death", "Play Stella by Starlight for Lady Macbeth", "Don’t worry Mr. President, help’s on the way", "Your brothers are comin’, there’ll be hell to pay", "Brothers? What brothers? What’s this about hell?", "Tell ‘em we’re waitin’- keep coming - we’ll get ‘em as well", "Love Field is where his plane touched down", "But it never did get back up off of the ground", "Was a hard act to follow, second to none", "They killed him on the Altar of the Rising Sun", "Play Misty for me and that Old Devil Moon", "Play Anything Goes and Memphis in June", "Play Lonely at the Top and Lonely Are the Brave", "Play it for Houdini spinning around in his grave
Play Jelly Roll Morton, play Lucille", "Play Deep in a Dream and play Drivin’ Wheel 
Play Moonlight Sonata in F sharp", "And Key to the Highway by the king of the harp", "Play Marchin’ Through Georgia and Dumbarton’s Drums", "Play Darkness and death will come when it comes", "Play Love Me or Leave Me by the great Bud Powell", "Play the Blood Stained Banner - play Murder Most Foul" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/must-be-santa/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "Must Be Santa", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-back-pages/", "album": "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "year": 1964, "title": "My Back Pages", "plays": 260, "lyrics": [ [ "Crimson flames tied through my ears", "Rollin’ high and mighty traps", "Pounced with fire on flaming roads", "Using ideas as my maps", "“We’ll meet on edges, soon,” said I", "Proud ’neath heated brow", "Ah, but I was so much older then", "I’m younger than that now" ], [ "Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth", "“Rip down all hate,” I screamed", "Lies that life is black and white", "Spoke from my skull. I dreamed", "Romantic facts of musketeers", "Foundationed deep, somehow", "Ah, but I was so much older then", "I’m younger than that now" ], [ "Girls’ faces formed the forward path", "From phony jealousy", "To memorizing politics", "Of ancient history", "Flung down by corpse evangelists", "Unthought of, though, somehow", "Ah, but I was so much older then", "I’m younger than that now" ], [ "A self-ordained professor’s tongue", "Too serious to fool", "Spouted out that liberty", "Is just equality in school", "“Equality,” I spoke the word", "As if a wedding vow", "Ah, but I was so much older then", "I’m younger than that now" ], [ "In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand", "At the mongrel dogs who teach", "Fearing not that I’d become my enemy", "In the instant that I preach", "My pathway led by confusion boats", "Mutiny from stern to bow", "Ah, but I was so much older then", "I’m younger than that now" ], [ "Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats", "Too noble to neglect", "Deceived me into thinking", "I had something to protect", "Good and bad, I define these terms", "Quite clear, no doubt, somehow", "Ah, but I was so much older then", "I’m younger than that now" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-buckets-got-hole-it/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-own-version-of-you/", "album": "Rough and Rowdy Ways", "year": 2020, "title": "My Own Version of You", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "All through the summers and into January", "I’ve been visiting morgues and monasteries", "Looking for the necessary body parts", "Limbs and livers and brains and hearts" ], [ "I want to bring someone to life - is what I want to do", "I want to create my own version of you" ], [ "It must be the winter of my discontent", "I wish you’d taken me with you wherever you went", "They talk all night - they talk all day", "Not for a second do I believe what they say" ], [ "I want to bring someone to life - someone I’ve never seen", "You know what I mean - you know exactly what I mean" ], [ "I’ll take Scarface Pacino and the Godfather Brando", "Mix ‘em up in a tank and get a robot commando", "If I do it upright and put the head on straight", "I’ll be saved by the creature that I create", "I get blood from a cactus - make gunpowder from ice", "I don’t gamble with cards and I don’t shoot no dice", "Can you look in my face with your sightless eye", "Can you cross your heart and hope to die" ], [ "I’ll bring someone to life - someone for real", "Someone who feels the way that I feel" ], [ "I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind", "I want to do things for the benefit of all mankind", "I say to the willow tree - don’t weep for me", "I’m saying the hell with all things that used to be", "I get into trouble and I hit the wall", "No place to turn - no place at all", "I pick a number between one and two", "And I ask myself what would Julius Caesar do" ], [ "I’ll bring someone to life - in more ways than one", "Don’t matter how long it takes - it’ll be done when it’s done" ], [ "I’m gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell", "Like Liberace - like St. John the Apostle", "Play every number that I can play", "I’ll see you baby on Judgement Day", "After midnight if you still want to meet", "I’ll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street", "Two doors down not that far to walk", "I’ll hear your footsteps - you won’t have to knock" ], [ "I’ll bring someone to life - balance the scales", "I’m not gonna get involved in any insignificant details" ], [ "You can bring it to St. Peter - you can bring it to Jerome", "You can move it on over - bring it all the way home", "Bring it to the corner where the children play", "You can bring it to me on a silver tray" ], [ "I’ll bring someone to life - spare no expense", "Do it with decency and common sense" ], [ "Can you tell me what it means to be or not to be", "You won’t get away with fooling me", "Can you help me walk that moonlight mile", "Can you give me the blessings of your smile", "I want to bring someone to life - use all my powers", "Do it in the dark in the wee small hours" ], [ "I can see the history of the whole human race", "It’s all right there - its carved into your face", "Should I break it all down - should I fall on my knees", "Is there light at the end of the tunnel - can you tell me please", "Stand over there by the Cypress tree", "Where the Trojan women and children were sold into slavery", "Long ago before the First Crusade", "Way back before England or America were made", "Step right into the burning hell", "Where some of the best known enemies of mankind dwell", "Mister Freud with his dreams and Mister Marx with his axe", "See the raw hide lash rip the skin off their backs", "You got the right spirit - you can feel it you can hear it", "You got what they call the immortal spirit", "You can feel it all night you can feel it in the morn", "Creeps into your body the day you are born", "One strike of lightning is all that I need", "And a blast of ‘lectricity that runs at top speed", "Show me your ribs - I’ll stick in the knife", "I’m gonna jump start my creation to life", "I want to bring someone to life - turn back the years", "Do it with laughter - do it with tears" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-wifes-home-town/", "album": "Together Through Life", "year": 2009, "title": "My Wife’s Home Town", "plays": 20, "lyrics": [ [ "Well I didn’t come here to deal with a doggone thing", "I just came here to hear the drummer’s cymbal ring", "There ain’t no way you can put me down", "I just want to say that Hell’s my wife’s home town" ], [ "Well there’s reasons for that and reasons for this", "I can’t think of any just now, but I know they exist", "I’m sitting in the sun ‘til my skin turns brown", "I just want to say that Hell’s my wife’s home town", "Home town, home town" ], [ "She can make you steal, make you rob", "Give you the hives, make you lose your job", "Make things bad, she can make things worse", "She got stuff more potent than a gypsy curse" ], [ "One of these days, I’ll end up on the run", "I’m pretty sure she’ll make me kill someone", "I’m going inside, roll the shutters down", "I just want to say that Hell’s my wife’s home town" ], [ "Well there’s plenty to remember, plenty to forget", "I still can remember the day we met", "I lost my reason long ago", "My love for her is all I know" ], [ "State gone broke, the county’s dry", "Don’t be looking at me with that evil eye", "Keep on walking, don’t be hanging around", "I’m telling you again that Hell’s my wife’s home town", "Home town, home town" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-woman-shes-leavin/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "My Woman She’s A-Leavin’", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/narrow-way/", "album": "Tempest", "year": 2012, "title": "Narrow Way", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I’m gonna walk across the desert ‘til I’m in my right mind", "I won’t even think about what I left behind", "Nothin' back there anyway I can call my own", "Go back home, leave me alone" ], [ "It’s a long road, it’s a long and narrow way", "If I can’t work up to you", "You’ll have to work down to me someday" ], [ "Ever since the British burned the white house down", "There’s a bleeding wound in the heart of town", "I saw you drinking from an empty cup", "I saw you buried and I saw you dug up" ], [ "It’s a long road, it’s a long and narrow way", "If I can’t work up to you", "You’ll have to work down to me someday" ], [ "Look down angel, from the skies", "Help my weary soul to rise", "I kissed your cheek, I dragged your plow", "You broke my heart. I was your friend ‘til now" ], [ "It’s a long road, it’s a long and narrow way", "If I can’t work up to you", "You’ll have to work down to me someday" ], [ "In the courtyard of the golden sun", "You stand and fight or you break and run", "You went and lost your lovely head", "For a drink of wine and a crust of bread" ], [ "It’s a long road, it’s a long and narrow way", "If I can’t work up to you", "You’ll have to work down to me someday" ], [ "We looted and we plundered on distant shores", "Why is my share not equal to yours?", "Your father left you, your mother too", "Even death has washed his hands of you" ], [ "It’s a long road, it’s a long and narrow way", "If I can’t work up to you", "You’ll have to work down to me someday" ], [ "This is hard country to stay alive in", "Blades are everywhere and they’re breaking my skin", "I’m armed to the hilt and I’m struggling hard", "You won’t get out of here unscarred" ], [ "It’s a long road, it’s a long and narrow way", "If I can’t work up to you", "You’ll have to work down to me someday" ], [ "You got too many lovers waiting at the wall", "If I had a thousand tongues I couldn’t count them all", "Yesterday I could have thrown them all in the sea", "Today, even one may be too much for me" ], [ "It’s a long road, it’s a long and narrow way", "If I can’t work up to you", "You’ll have to work down to me someday" ], [ "Cake walking baby, you can do no wrong", "Put your arms around me where they belong", "I want to take you on a roller coaster ride", "Lay my hands all over you, tie you to my side" ], [ "It’s a long road, it’s a long and narrow way", "If I can’t work up to you", "You’ll have to work down to me someday" ], [ "I got a heavy stacked woman with a smile on her face", "And she has crowned my soul with grace", "I’m still hurting from an arrow that pierced my chest", "I’m gonna have to take my head and bury it between your breasts" ], [ "It’s a long road, it’s a long and narrow way", "If I can’t work up to you", "You’ll have to work down to me someday" ], [ "Been dark all night, but now it’s dawn", "The moving finger is moving on", "You can guard me while I sleep", "Kiss away the tears I weep" ], [ "It’s a long road, it’s a long and narrow way", "If I can’t work up to you", "You’ll have to work down to me someday" ], [ "I love women and she loves men", "We’ve been to the West and we going back again", "I heard a voice at the dusk of day", "Saying, “Be gentle brother, be gentle and pray”" ], [ "It’s a long road, it’s a long and narrow way", "If I can’t work up to you", "You’ll have to work down to me someday" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/nashville-skyline-rag/", "album": "Nashville Skyline", "year": 1969, "title": "Nashville Skyline Rag", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/need-woman/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Need a Woman", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "It’s been raining in the trenches all day long, dripping down to my clothes", "My patience is wearing thin, got a fire inside my nose", "Searching for the truth the way God designed it", "The truth is I might drown before I find it" ], [ "Well I need a woman, yes I do", "Need a woman, yes I do", "Someone who can see me as I am", "Somebody who just don’t give a damn", "And I want you to be that woman every night", "Be that woman" ], [ "I’ve had my eyes on you baby for about five long years", "You probably don’t know me at all, but I have seen your laughter and tears", "Now you don’t frighten me, my heart is jumping", "And you look like it wouldn’t hurt you none to have a man", "who could give ya something" ], [ "Well I need a woman, oh don’t I", "Need a woman, bring it home safe at last", "Seen you turn the corner, seen your boot heels spark", "Seen you in the daylight, and watched you in the dark", "And I want you to be that woman, all right", "Be that woman every night" ], [ "Well, if you believe in something long enough you just naturally", "come to think it’s true", "There ain’t no wall you can’t cross over, ain’t no fire you can’t walk through", "Well, believing is all right, just don’t let the wrong people know what it’s all about", "They might put the evil eye on you, use their hidden powers to try to turn you out" ], [ "Well I need a woman, just to be my queen", "Need a woman, know what I mean?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/neighborhood-bully/", "album": "Infidels", "year": 1983, "title": "Neighborhood Bully", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man", "His enemies say he’s on their land", "They got him outnumbered about a million to one", "He got no place to escape to, no place to run", "He’s the neighborhood bully" ], [ "The neighborhood bully just lives to survive", "He’s criticized and condemned for being alive", "He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin", "He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in", "He’s the neighborhood bully" ], [ "The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land", "He’s wandered the earth an exiled man", "Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn", "He’s always on trial for just being born", "He’s the neighborhood bully" ], [ "Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized", "Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.", "Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad", "The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad", "He’s the neighborhood bully" ], [ "Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim", "That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him", "’Cause there’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back", "And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac", "He’s the neighborhood bully" ], [ "He got no allies to really speak of", "What he gets he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love", "He buys obsolete weapons and he won’t be denied", "But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side", "He’s the neighborhood bully" ], [ "Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace", "They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease", "Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep", "They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep", "He’s the neighborhood bully" ], [ "Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone", "Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon", "He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand", "In bed with nobody, under no one’s command", "He’s the neighborhood bully" ], [ "Now his holiest books have been trampled upon", "No contract he signed was worth what it was written on", "He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth", "Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health", "He’s the neighborhood bully" ], [ "What’s anybody indebted to him for?", "Nothin’, they say. He just likes to cause war", "Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed", "They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed", "He’s the neighborhood bully" ], [ "What has he done to wear so many scars?", "Does he change the course of rivers? Does he pollute the moon and stars?", "Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill", "Running out the clock, time standing still", "Neighborhood bully" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/nettie-moore/", "album": "Modern Times", "year": 2006, "title": "Nettie Moore", "plays": 142, "lyrics": [ [ "Lost John sittin' on a railroad track", "Something's out of wack", "Blues this morning falling down like hail", "Gonna leave a greasy trail" ], [ "Gonna travel the world is what I'm gonna do", "Then come back and see you", "All I ever do is struggle and strive", "If I don't do anybody any harm, I might make it back home alive" ], [ "I'm the oldest son of a crazy man", "I'm in a cowboy band", "Got a pile of sins to pay for and I ain't got time to hide", "I'd walk through a blazing fire, baby, if I knew you was on the other side" ], [ "Oh, I miss you Nettie Moore", "And my happiness is o'er", "Winter's gone, the river's on the rise", "I loved you then and ever shall", "But there's no one here that's left to tell", "The world has gone black before my eyes" ], [ "The world of research has gone berserk", "Too much paperwork", "Albert's in the graveyard, Frankie's raising hell", "I'm beginning to believe what the scriptures tell" ], [ "I'm going where the Southern crosses the Yellow Dog", "Get away from all these demagogues", "And these bad luck women stick like glue", "It's either one or the other or neither of the two" ], [ "She says, \"Look out daddy, don't want you to tear your pants.", "You can get wrecked in this dance.\"", "They say whiskey will kill ya, but I don't think it will", "I'm riding with you to the top of the hill" ], [ "Oh, I miss you Nettie Moore", "And my happiness is o'er", "Winter's gone, the river's on the rise", "I loved you then and ever shall", "But there's no one here that's left to tell", "The world has gone black before my eyes" ], [ "Don't know why my baby never looked so good before", "I don't have to wonder no more", "She been cooking all day and it's gonna take me all night", "I can't eat all that stuff in a single bite" ], [ "The Judge is coming in, everybody rise", "Lift up your eyes", "You can do what you please, you don't need my advice", "Before you call me any dirty names you better think twice" ], [ "Getting light outside, the temperature dropped", "I think the rain has stopped", "I'm going to make you come to grips with fate", "When I'm through with you, you'll learn to keep your business straight" ], [ "Oh, I miss you Nettie Moore", "And my happiness is o'er", "Winter's gone, the river's on the rise", "I loved you then and ever shall", "But there's no one here that's left to tell", "The world has gone black before my eyes" ], [ "The bright spark of the steady lights", "Has dimmed my sights", "When you're around all my grief gives 'way", "A lifetime with you is like some heavenly day" ], [ "Everything I've ever known to be right has proven wrong", "I'll be drifting along", "The woman I'm lovin', she rules my heart", "No knife could ever cut our love apart" ], [ "Today I'll stand in faith and raise", "The voice of praise", "The sun is strong, I'm standing in the light", "I wish to God that it were night" ], [ "Oh, I miss you Nettie Moore", "And my happiness is o'er", "Winter's gone, the river's on the rise", "I loved you then and ever shall", "But there's no one here that's left to tell", "The world has gone black before my eyes" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/never-gonna-be-same-again/", "album": "Empire Burlesque", "year": 1985, "title": "Never Gonna Be the Same Again", "plays": 26, "lyrics": [ [ "Now you’re here beside me, baby", "You’re a living dream", "And every time you get this close", "It makes me want to scream", "You touched me and you knew", "That I was warm for you and then", "I ain’t never gonna be the same again" ], [ "Sorry if I hurt you, baby", "Sorry if I did", "Sorry if I touched the place", "Where your secrets are hid", "But you meant more than everything", "And I could not pretend", "I ain’t never gonna be the same again" ], [ "You give me something to think about, baby", "Every time I see ya", "Don’t worry, baby, I don’t mind leaving", "I’d just like it to be my idea" ], [ "You taught me how to love you, baby", "You taught me, oh, so well", "Now, I can’t go back to what was, baby", "I can’t unring the bell", "You took my reality", "And cast it to the wind", "And I ain’t never gonna be the same again" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/never-let-me-go/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "Never Let Me Go", "plays": 22, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/never-say-goodbye/", "album": "Planet Waves", "year": 1974, "title": "Never Say Goodbye", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Twilight on the frozen lake", "North wind about to break", "On footprints in the snow", "Silence down below" ], [ "You’re beautiful beyond words", "You’re beautiful to me", "You can make me cry", "Never say goodbye" ], [ "Time is all I have to give", "You can have it if you choose", "With me you can live", "Never say goodbye" ], [ "My dreams are made of iron and steel", "With a big bouquet", "Of roses hanging down", "From the heavens to the ground" ], [ "The crashing waves roll over me", "As I stand upon the sand", "Wait for you to come", "And grab hold of my hand" ], [ "Oh, baby, baby, baby blue", "You’ll change your last name, too", "You’ve turned your hair to brown", "Love to see it hangin’ down" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/nevertheless-im-love/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "Nevertheless (I’m in Love with You)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/new-morning/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "New Morning", "plays": 79, "lyrics": [ [ "Can’t you hear that rooster crowin’?", "Rabbit runnin’ down across the road", "Underneath the bridge where the water flowed through", "So happy just to see you smile", "Underneath the sky of blue", "On this new morning, new morning", "On this new morning with you" ], [ "Can’t you hear that motor turnin’?", "Automobile comin’ into style", "Comin’ down the road for a country mile or two", "So happy just to see you smile", "Underneath the sky of blue", "On this new morning, new morning", "On this new morning with you" ], [ "The night passed away so quickly", "It always does when you’re with me" ], [ "Can’t you feel that sun a-shinin’?", "Groundhog runnin’ by the country stream", "This must be the day that all of my dreams come true", "So happy just to be alive", "Underneath the sky of blue", "On this new morning, new morning", "On this new morning with you" ], [ "So happy just to be alive", "Underneath the sky of blue", "On this new morning, new morning", "On this new morning with you", "New morning . . ." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/new-pony/", "album": "Street-Legal", "year": 1978, "title": "New Pony", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Once I had a pony, her name was Lucifer", "I had a pony, her name was Lucifer", "She broke her leg and she needed shooting", "I swear it hurt me more than it could ever have hurted her" ], [ "Sometimes I wonder what’s going on in the mind of Miss X", "Sometimes I wonder what’s going on in the mind of Miss X", "You know she got such a sweet disposition", "I never know what the poor girl’s gonna do to me next" ], [ "I got a new pony, she knows how to fox-trot, lope and pace", "Well, I got a new pony, she knows how to fox-trot, lope and pace", "She got great big hind legs", "And long black shaggy hair above her face" ], [ "Well now, it was early in the mornin’, I seen your shadow in the door", "It was early in the mornin’, I seen your shadow in the door", "Now, I don’t have to ask nobody", "I know what you come here for" ], [ "They say you’re usin’ voodoo, your feet walk by themselves", "They say you’re usin’ voodoo, I seen your feet walk by themselves", "Oh, baby, that god you been prayin’ to", "Is gonna give ya back what you’re wishin’ on someone else" ], [ "Come over here pony, I, I wanna climb up one time on you", "Come over here pony, I, I wanna climb up one time on you", "Well, you’re so bad and nasty", "But I love you, yes I do" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/next-time-highway/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Next Time on the Highway", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/night-after-night/", "album": "", "title": "Night After Night", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Night after night you wander the streets of my mind", "Night after night don’t know what you think you will find", "No place to go, nowhere to turn", "Everything around you seems to burn, burn, burn", "And there’s never any mercy in sight night after night" ], [ "Night after night", "Night after night" ], [ "Night after night some new plan to blow up the world", "Night after night another old man kissing some young girl", "You look for salvation, you find none", "Just another broken heart, another barrel of a gun", "Just another stick of dynamite night after night" ], [ "Night after night", "Night after night" ], [ "Night after night you drop dead in your bed", "Night after night another bottle finds a head", "Night after night I think about cutting you loose", "But I just can’t do it, what would be the use?", "So I just keep a-holding you tight night after night" ], [ "Night after night", "Night after night" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ninety-miles-hour-down-dead-end-street/", "album": "Down in the Groove", "year": 1988, "title": "Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I took you home from a party and we kissed in fun", "A few stolen kisses and no harm was done", "Instead of stopping when we could we went right on", "Till suddenly we found that the brakes were gone." ], [ "You belong to someone else, and I do too", "It's just crazy bein' here with you", "As a bad motorcycle with the devil in the seat", "Going ninety miles an hour down a dead end street", "Ninety miles an hour down a dead end street." ], [ "I didn't want to want you, but now I have no choice", "It's too late to listen to that warning voice", "All I hear is thunder of two hearts beat", "Going ninety miles an hour down a dead end street", "Ninety miles an hour down a dead end street." ], [ "You're not free to belong to me", "And you know I could never be your own", "Your lips on mine are like a sweet, sweet wine", "But we're heading for a wall of stone." ], [ "Warning signs are flashing ev'ry where, but we pay no heed", "'Stead of slowing down the place, we keep a pickin' up speed", "Disaster's getting closer ev'ry time we meet", "Going ninety miles an hour down a dead end street", "Yeah, ninety miles an hour down a dead end street", "Well, ninety miles an hour down a dead end street." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/no-more-auction-block/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "No More Auction Block", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "No more auction block for me", "No more, no more", "No more auction block for me", "Many thousands gone" ], [ "No more driver's lash for me", "No more, no more", "No more driver's lash for me", "Many thousands gone" ], [ "No more whip lash for me", "No more, no more", "No more pint of salt for me", "Many thousands gone" ], [ "No more auction block for me", "No more, no more", "No more auction block for me", "Many thousands gone" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/no-time-think/", "album": "Street-Legal", "year": 1978, "title": "No Time to Think", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "In death, you face life with a child and a wife", "Who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls", "You’re a soldier of mercy, you’re cold and you curse", "“He who cannot be trusted must fall”" ], [ "Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety", "You fight for the throne and you travel alone", "Unknown as you slowly sink", "And there’s no time to think" ], [ "In the Federal City you been blown and shown pity", "In secret, for pieces of change", "The empress attracts you but oppression distracts you", "And it makes you feel violent and strange" ], [ "Memory, ecstasy, tyranny, hypocrisy", "Betrayed by a kiss on a cool night of bliss", "In the valley of the missing link", "And you have no time to think" ], [ "Judges will haunt you, the country priestess will want you", "Her worst is better than best", "I’ve seen all these decoys through a set of deep turquoise eyes", "And I feel so depressed" ], [ "China doll, alcohol, duality, mortality", "Mercury rules you and destiny fools you", "Like the plague, with a dangerous wink", "And there’s no time to think" ], [ "Your conscience betrayed you when some tyrant waylaid you", "Where the lion lies down with the lamb", "I’d have paid off the traitor and killed him much later", "But that’s just the way that I am" ], [ "Paradise, sacrifice, mortality, reality", "But the magician is quicker and his game", "Is much thicker than blood and blacker than ink", "And there’s no time to think" ], [ "Anger and jealousy’s all that he sells us", "He’s content when you’re under his thumb", "Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him", "To survive it you play deaf and dumb" ], [ "Equality, liberty, humility, simplicity", "You glance through the mirror and there’s eyes staring clear", "At the back of your head as you drink", "And there’s no time to think" ], [ "Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow", "Will offer their heads for a prayer", "You can’t find no salvation, you have no expectations", "Anytime, anyplace, anywhere" ], [ "Mercury, gravity, nobility, humility", "You know you can’t keep her and the water gets deeper", "That is leading you onto the brink", "But there’s no time to think" ], [ "You’ve murdered your vanity, buried your sanity", "For pleasure you must now resist", "Lovers obey you but they cannot sway you", "They’re not even sure you exist" ], [ "Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism", "Fools making laws for the breaking of jaws", "And the sound of the keys as they clink", "But there’s no time to think" ], [ "The bridge that you travel on goes to the Babylon girl", "With the rose in her hair", "Starlight in the East and you’re finally released", "You’re stranded but with nothing to share" ], [ "Loyalty, unity, epitome, rigidity", "You turn around for one real last glimpse of Camille", "’Neath the moon shinin’ bloody and pink", "And there’s no time to think" ], [ "Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you", "But no, you will not be deceived", "Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt", "You can give but you cannot receive" ], [ "No time to choose when the truth must die", "No time to lose or say goodbye", "No time to prepare for the victim that’s there", "No time to suffer or blink", "And no time to think" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/nobody-cept-you/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Nobody ‘Cept You", "plays": 8, "lyrics": [ [ "There’s nothing ’round here I believe in", "’Cept you, yeah you", "And there’s nothing to me that’s sacred", "’Cept you, yeah you" ], [ "You’re the one that reaches me", "You’re the one that I admire", "Every time we meet together", "My soul feels like it’s on fire", "Nothing matters to me", "And there’s nothing I desire", "’Cept you, yeah you" ], [ "Nothing ’round here I care to try for", "’Cept you, yeah you", "Got nothing left to live or die for", "’Cept you, yeah you" ], [ "There’s a hymn I used to hear", "In the churches all the time", "Make me feel so good inside", "So peaceful, so sublime", "And there’s nothing to remind me of that", "Old familiar chime", "’Cept you, uh huh you" ], [ "Used to play in the cemetery", "Dance and sing and run when I was a child", "Never seemed strange", "But now I just pass mournfully by", "That place where the bones of life are piled", "I know somethin’ has changed", "I’m a stranger here and no one sees me", "’Cept you, yeah you" ], [ "Nothing much matters or seems to please me", "’Cept you, yeah you", "Nothing hypnotizes me", "Or holds me in a spell", "Everything runs by me", "Just like water from a well", "Everybody wants my attention", "Everybody’s got something to sell", "’Cept you, yeah you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/north-country-blues/", "album": "The Times They Are A-Changin’", "year": 1964, "title": "North Country Blues", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Come gather ’round friends", "And I’ll tell you a tale", "Of when the red iron pits ran plenty", "But the cardboard filled windows", "And old men on the benches", "Tell you now that the whole town is empty" ], [ "In the north end of town", "My own children are grown", "But I was raised on the other", "In the wee hours of youth", "My mother took sick", "And I was brought up by my brother" ], [ "The iron ore poured", "As the years passed the door", "The drag lines an’ the shovels they was a-humming", "’Til one day my brother", "Failed to come home", "The same as my father before him" ], [ "Well a long winter’s wait", "From the window I watched", "My friends they couldn’t have been kinder And my schooling was cut", "As I quit in the spring", "To marry John Thomas, a miner" ], [ "Oh the years passed again", "And the givin’ was good", "With the lunch bucket filled every season", "What with three babies born", "The work was cut down", "To a half a day’s shift with no reason" ], [ "Then the shaft was soon shut", "And more work was cut", "And the fire in the air, it felt frozen", "’Til a man come to speak", "And he said in one week", "That number eleven was closin’" ], [ "They complained in the East", "They are paying too high", "They say that your ore ain’t worth digging", "That it’s much cheaper down", "In the South American towns", "Where the miners work almost for nothing" ], [ "So the mining gates locked", "And the red iron rotted", "And the room smelled heavy from drinking", "Where the sad, silent song", "Made the hour twice as long", "As I waited for the sun to go sinking" ], [ "I lived by the window", "As he talked to himself", "This silence of tongues it was building", "Then one morning’s wake", "The bed it was bare", "And I’s left alone with three children" ], [ "The summer is gone", "The ground’s turning cold", "The stores one by one they’re a-foldin’", "My children will go", "As soon as they grow", "Well, there ain’t nothing here now to hold them" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/northern-claim/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Northern Claim", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/not-dark-yet/", "album": "Time out of Mind", "year": 1997, "title": "Not Dark Yet", "plays": 166, "lyrics": [ [ "Shadows are falling and I’ve been here all day", "It’s too hot to sleep, time is running away", "Feel like my soul has turned into steel", "I’ve still got the scars that the sun didn’t heal", "There’s not even room enough to be anywhere", "It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there" ], [ "Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain", "Behind every beautiful thing there’s been some kind of pain", "She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind", "She put down in writing what was in her mind", "I just don’t see why I should even care", "It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there" ], [ "Well, I’ve been to London and I’ve been to gay Paree", "I’ve followed the river and I got to the sea", "I’ve been down on the bottom of a world full of lies", "I ain’t looking for nothing in anyone’s eyes", "Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear", "It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there" ], [ "I was born here and I’ll die here against my will", "I know it looks like I’m moving, but I’m standing still", "Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb", "I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from", "Don’t even hear a murmur of a prayer", "It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/nothing-was-delivered/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Nothing Was Delivered", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Nothing was delivered", "And I tell this truth to you", "Not out of spite or anger", "But simply because it’s true", "Now, I hope you won’t object to this", "Giving back all of what you owe", "The fewer words you have to waste on this", "The sooner you can go" ], [ "Nothing is better, nothing is best", "Take heed of this and get plenty of rest" ], [ "Nothing was delivered", "But I can’t say I sympathize", "With what your fate is going to be", "Yes, for telling all those lies", "Now you must provide some answers", "For what you sell has not been received", "And the sooner you come up with them", "The sooner you can leave" ], [ "Nothing is better, nothing is best", "Take heed of this and get plenty rest" ], [ "(Now you know)", "Nothing was delivered", "And it’s up to you to say", "Just what you had in mind", "When you made ev’rybody pay", "No, nothing was delivered", "Yes, ’n’ someone must explain", "That as long as it takes to do this", "Then that’s how long that you’ll remain" ], [ "Nothing is better, nothing is best", "Take heed of this and get plenty rest" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/o-come-all-ye-faithful-adeste-fideles/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "O’ Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/o-little-town-bethlehem/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "O’ Little Town of Bethlehem", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/obviously-five-believers/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Obviously Five Believers", "plays": 40, "lyrics": [ [ "Early in the mornin’", "Early in the mornin’", "I’m callin’ you to", "I’m callin’ you to", "Please come home", "Yes, I guess I could make it without you", "If I just didn’t feel so all alone" ], [ "Don’t let me down", "Don’t let me down", "I won’t let you down", "I won’t let you down", "No I won’t", "You know I can if you can, honey", "But, honey, please don’t" ], [ "I got my black dog barkin’", "Black dog barkin’", "Yes it is now", "Yes it is now", "Outside my yard", "Yes, I could tell you what he means", "If I just didn’t have to try so hard" ], [ "Your mama’s workin’", "Your mama’s moanin’", "She’s cryin’ you know", "She’s tryin’ you know", "You better go now", "Well, I’d tell you what she wants", "But I just don’t know how" ], [ "Fifteen jugglers", "Fifteen jugglers", "Five believers", "Five believers", "All dressed like men", "Tell yo’ mama not to worry because", "They’re just my friends" ], [ "Early in the mornin’", "Early in the mornin’", "I’m callin’ you to", "I’m callin’ you to", "Please come home", "Yes, I could make it without you", "If I just did not feel so all alone" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/odds-and-ends/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Odds and Ends", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I plan it all and I take my place", "You break your promise all over the place", "You promised to love me, but what do I see", "Just you comin’ and spillin’ juice over me", "Odds and ends, odds and ends", "Lost time is not found again" ], [ "Now, you take your file and you bend my head", "I never can remember anything that you said", "You promised to love me, but what do I know", "You’re always spillin’ juice on me like you got someplace to go", "Odds and ends, odds and ends", "Lost time is not found again" ], [ "Now, I’ve had enough, my box is clean", "You know what I’m sayin’ and you know what I mean", "From now on you’d best get on someone else", "While you’re doin’ it, keep that juice to yourself", "Odds and ends, odds and ends", "Lost time is not found again" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/oh-sister/", "album": "Desire", "year": 1976, "title": "Oh, Sister", "plays": 67, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, sister, when I come to lie in your arms", "You should not treat me like a stranger", "Our Father would not like the way that you act", "And you must realize the danger" ], [ "Oh, sister, am I not a brother to you", "And one deserving of affection?", "And is our purpose not the same on this earth", "To love and follow His direction?" ], [ "We grew up together", "From the cradle to the grave", "We died and were reborn", "And then mysteriously saved" ], [ "Oh, sister, when I come to knock on your door", "Don’t turn away, you’ll create sorrow", "Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore", "You may not see me tomorrow" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ol-roisin-beau/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Ol’ Roisin the Beau", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/little-street-singapore/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "On a Little Street in Singapore", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/night/", "album": "Planet Waves", "year": 1974, "title": "On a Night Like This", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "On a night like this", "So glad you came around", "Hold on to me so tight", "And heat up some coffee grounds", "We got much to talk about", "And much to reminisce", "It sure is right", "On a night like this" ], [ "On a night like this", "So glad you’ve come to stay", "Hold on to me, pretty miss", "Say you’ll never go away to stray", "Run your fingers down my spine", "Bring me a touch of bliss", "It sure feels right", "On a night like this" ], [ "On a night like this", "I can’t get any sleep", "The air is so cold outside", "And the snow’s so deep", "Build a fire, throw on logs", "And listen to it hiss", "And let it burn, burn, burn, burn", "On a night like this" ], [ "Put your body next to mine", "And keep me company", "There is plenty a-room for all", "So please don’t elbow me" ], [ "Let the four winds blow", "Around this old cabin door", "If I’m not too far off", "I think we did this once before", "There’s more frost on the window glass", "With each new tender kiss", "But it sure feels right", "On a night like this" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rainy-afternoon/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "On a Rainy Afternoon", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/road-again/", "album": "Bringing It All Back Home", "year": 1965, "title": "On the Road Again", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I woke up in the morning", "There’s frogs inside my socks", "Your mama, she’s a-hidin’", "Inside the icebox", "Your daddy walks in wearin’", "A Napoleon Bonaparte mask", "Then you ask why I don’t live here", "Honey, do you have to ask?" ], [ "Well, I go to pet your monkey", "I get a face full of claws", "I ask who’s in the fireplace", "And you tell me Santa Claus", "The milkman comes in", "He’s wearing a derby hat", "Then you ask why I don’t live here", "Honey, how come you have to ask me that?" ], [ "Well, I asked for something to eat", "I’m hungry as a hog", "So I get brown rice, seaweed", "And a dirty hot dog", "I’ve got a hole", "Where my stomach disappeared", "Then you ask why I don’t live here", "Honey, I gotta think you’re really weird" ], [ "Your grandpa’s cane", "It turns into a sword", "Your grandma prays to pictures", "That are pasted on a board", "Everything inside my pockets", "Your uncle steals", "Then you ask why I don’t live here", "Honey, I can’t believe that you’re for real" ], [ "Well, there’s fistfights in the kitchen", "They’re enough to make me cry", "The mailman comes in", "Even he’s gotta take a side", "Even the butler", "He’s got something to prove", "Then you ask why I don’t live here", "Honey, how come you don’t move?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/one-road/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "One for the Road", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/one-kind-favor/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "One Kind Favor", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/one-mans-loss/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "One Man’s Loss", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/one-more-cup-coffee-valley-below/", "album": "Desire", "year": 1976, "title": "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)", "plays": 151, "lyrics": [ [ "Your breath is sweet", "Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky", "Your back is straight, your hair is smooth", "On the pillow where you lie", "But I don’t sense affection", "No gratitude or love", "Your loyalty is not to me", "But to the stars above" ], [ "One more cup of coffee for the road", "One more cup of coffee ’fore I go", "To the valley below" ], [ "Your daddy he’s an outlaw", "And a wanderer by trade", "He’ll teach you how to pick and choose", "And how to throw the blade", "He oversees his kingdom", "So no stranger does intrude", "His voice it trembles as he calls out", "For another plate of food" ], [ "One more cup of coffee for the road", "One more cup of coffee ’fore I go", "To the valley below" ], [ "Your sister sees the future", "Like your mama and yourself", "You’ve never learned to read or write", "There’s no books upon your shelf", "And your pleasure knows no limits", "Your voice is like a meadowlark", "But your heart is like an ocean", "Mysterious and dark" ], [ "One more cup of coffee for the road", "One more cup of coffee ’fore I go", "To the valley below" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/one-more-night/", "album": "Nashville Skyline", "year": 1969, "title": "One More Night", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "One more night, the stars are in sight", "But tonight I’m as lonesome as can be", "Oh, the moon is shinin’ bright", "Lighting ev’rything in sight", "But tonight no light will shine on me" ], [ "Oh, it’s shameful and it’s sad I lost the only pal I had", "I just could not be what she wanted me to be", "I will turn my head up high", "To that dark and rolling sky", "For tonight no light will shine on me" ], [ "I was so mistaken when I thought that she’d be true", "I had no idea what a woman in love would do!" ], [ "One more night, I will wait for the light", "While the wind blows high above the tree", "Oh, I miss my darling so", "I didn’t mean to see her go", "But tonight no light will shine on me" ], [ "One more night, the moon is shinin’ bright", "And the wind blows high above the tree", "Oh, I miss that woman so", "I didn’t mean to see her go", "But tonight no light will shine on me" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/one-more-weekend/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "One More Weekend", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Slippin’ and slidin’ like a weasel on the run", "I’m lookin’ good to see you, yeah, and we can have some fun", "One more weekend, one more weekend with you", "One more weekend, one more weekend’ll do" ], [ "Come on down to my ship, honey, ride on deck", "We’ll fly over the ocean just like you suspect", "One more weekend, one more weekend with you", "One more weekend, one more weekend’ll do" ], [ "We’ll fly the night away", "Hang out the whole next day", "Things will be okay", "You wait and see", "We’ll go someplace unknown", "Leave all the children home", "Honey, why not go alone", "Just you and me" ], [ "Comin’ and goin’ like a rabbit in the wood", "I’m happy just to see you, yeah, lookin’ so good", "One more weekend, one more weekend with you", "One more weekend, one more weekend’ll do (yes, you will!)" ], [ "Like a needle in a haystack, I’m gonna find you yet", "You’re the sweetest gone mama that this boy’s ever gonna get", "One more weekend, one more weekend with you", "One more weekend, one more weekend’ll do" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/one-us-must-know-sooner-or-later/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)", "plays": 60, "lyrics": [ [ "I didn’t mean to treat you so bad", "You shouldn’t take it so personal", "I didn’t mean to make you so sad", "You just happened to be there, that’s all", "When I saw you say “goodbye” to your friend and smile", "I thought that it was well understood", "That you’d be comin’ back in a little while", "I didn’t know that you were sayin’ “goodbye” for good" ], [ "But, sooner or later, one of us must know", "You just did what you’re supposed to do", "Sooner or later, one of us must know", "That I really did try to get close to you" ], [ "I couldn’t see what you could show me", "Your scarf had kept your mouth well hid", "I couldn’t see how you could know me", "But you said you knew me and I believed you did", "When you whispered in my ear", "And asked me if I was leavin’ with you or her", "I didn’t realize just what I did hear", "I didn’t realize how young you were" ], [ "But, sooner or later, one of us must know", "You just did what you’re supposed to do", "Sooner or later, one of us must know", "That I really did try to get close to you" ], [ "I couldn’t see when it started snowin’", "Your voice was all that I heard", "I couldn’t see where we were goin’", "But you said you knew an’ I took your word", "And then you told me later, as I apologized", "That you were just kiddin’ me, you weren’t really from the farm", "An’ I told you, as you clawed out my eyes", "That I never really meant to do you any harm" ], [ "But, sooner or later, one of us must know", "You just did what you’re supposed to do", "Sooner or later, one of us must know", "That I really did try to get close to you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/one-too-many-mornings/", "album": "The Times They Are A-Changin’", "year": 1964, "title": "One Too Many Mornings", "plays": 237, "lyrics": [ [ "Down the street the dogs are barkin’", "And the day is a-gettin’ dark", "As the night comes in a-fallin’", "The dogs’ll lose their bark", "An’ the silent night will shatter", "From the sounds inside my mind", "For I’m one too many mornings", "And a thousand miles behind" ], [ "From the crossroads of my doorstep", "My eyes they start to fade", "As I turn my head back to the room", "Where my love and I have laid", "An’ I gaze back to the street", "The sidewalk and the sign", "And I’m one too many mornings", "An’ a thousand miles behind" ], [ "It’s a restless hungry feeling", "That don’t mean no one no good", "When ev’rything I’m a-sayin’", "You can say it just as good.", "You’re right from your side", "I’m right from mine", "We’re both just one too many mornings", "An’ a thousand miles behind" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/only-hobo/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Only a Hobo", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "As I was out walking on a corner one day", "I spied an old hobo, in a doorway he lay", "His face was all grounded in the cold sidewalk floor", "And I guess he’d been there for the whole night or more" ], [ "Only a hobo, but one more is gone", "Leavin’ nobody to sing his sad song", "Leavin’ nobody to carry him home", "Only a hobo, but one more is gone" ], [ "A blanket of newspaper covered his head", "As the curb was his pillow, the street was his bed", "One look at his face showed the hard road he’d come", "And a fistful of coins showed the money he bummed" ], [ "Only a hobo, but one more is gone", "Leavin’ nobody to sing his sad song", "Leavin’ nobody to carry him home", "Only a hobo, but one more is gone" ], [ "Does it take much of a man to see his whole life go down", "To look up on the world from a hole in the ground", "To wait for your future like a horse that’s gone lame", "To lie in the gutter and die with no name?" ], [ "Only a hobo, but one more is gone", "Leavin’ nobody to sing his sad song", "Leavin’ nobody to carry him home", "Only a hobo, but one more is gone" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/only-pawn-their-game/", "album": "The Times They Are A-Changin’", "year": 1964, "title": "Only a Pawn in Their Game", "plays": 8, "lyrics": [ [ "A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers’ blood", "A finger fired the trigger to his name", "A handle hid out in the dark", "A hand set the spark", "Two eyes took the aim", "Behind a man’s brain", "But he can’t be blamed", "He’s only a pawn in their game" ], [ "A South politician preaches to the poor white man", "“You got more than the blacks, don’t complain", "You’re better than them, you been born with white skin,” they explain.", "And the Negro’s name", "Is used it is plain", "For the politician’s gain", "As he rises to fame", "And the poor white remains", "On the caboose of the train", "But it ain’t him to blame", "He’s only a pawn in their game" ], [ "The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid", "And the marshals and cops get the same", "But the poor white man’s used in the hands of them all like a tool", "He’s taught in his school", "From the start by the rule", "That the laws are with him", "To protect his white skin", "To keep up his hate", "So he never thinks straight", "’Bout the shape that he’s in", "But it ain’t him to blame", "He’s only a pawn in their game" ], [ "From the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks", "And the hoofbeats pound in his brain", "And he’s taught how to walk in a pack", "Shoot in the back", "With his fist in a clinch", "To hang and to lynch", "To hide ’neath the hood", "To kill with no pain", "Like a dog on a chain", "He ain’t got no name", "But it ain’t him to blame", "He’s only a pawn in their game." ], [ "Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught", "They lowered him down as a king", "But when the shadowy sun sets on the one", "That fired the gun", "He’ll see by his grave", "On the stone that remains", "Carved next to his name", "His epitaph plain:", "Only a pawn in their game" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/open-door-homer/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Open the Door, Homer", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Now, there’s a certain thing", "That I learned from Jim", "That he’d always make sure I’d understand", "And that is that there’s a certain way", "That a man must swim", "If he expects to live off", "Of the fat of the land", "Open the door, Homer", "I’ve heard it said before", "Open the door, Homer", "I’ve heard it said before", "But I ain’t gonna hear it said no more" ], [ "Now, there’s a certain thing", "That I learned from my friend, Mouse", "A fella who always blushes", "And that is that ev’ryone", "Must always flush out his house", "If he don’t expect to be", "Goin’ ’round housing flushes", "Open the door, Homer", "I’ve heard it said before", "Open the door, Homer", "I’ve heard it said before", "But I ain’t gonna hear it said no more" ], [ "“Take care of all your memories”", "Said my friend, Mick", "“For you cannot relive them", "And remember when you’re out there", "Tryin’ to heal the sick", "That you must always", "First forgive them”", "Open the door, Homer", "I’ve heard it said before", "Open the door, Homer", "I’ve heard it said before", "But I ain’t gonna hear it said no more" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/orange-juice-blues-blues-breakfast/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I had a hard time waking this morning", "I got a lotta things on my mind", "Like those friends of yours", "They keep bringing me down", "Just hangin' round all the time" ], [ "I've had a hard time waking most mornings", "And it's been that way for a month or more", "You've had things your way", "But now I've got to say", "I'm on my way out the door" ], [ "Why don't you get right, try to get right, baby", "You haven't been right with me, why don't you get right?", "Try and get right, baby, don't you remember how it used to be?" ], [ "You had a hard time waking this morning", "And I can see it in your empty eyes", "But there's no need for talking", "Or walking round the block", "Just to figure out the reason why" ], [ "I have a hard time handing out warnings", "I'll just slide on out the door", "Cuz I'm tired of everything", "Being beautiful, beautiful", "And I ain't coming back no more" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/outlaw-blues/", "album": "Bringing It All Back Home", "year": 1965, "title": "Outlaw Blues", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Ain’t it hard to stumble", "And land in some funny lagoon?", "Ain’t it hard to stumble", "And land in some muddy lagoon?", "Especially when it’s nine below zero", "And three o’clock in the afternoon." ], [ "Ain’t gonna hang no picture", "Ain’t gonna hang no picture frame", "Ain’t gonna hang no picture", "Ain’t gonna hang no picture frame", "Well, I might look like Robert Ford", "But I feel just like a Jesse James" ], [ "Well, I wish I was on some", "Australian mountain range", "Oh, I wish I was on some", "Australian mountain range", "I got no reason to be there, but I", "Imagine it would be some kind of change" ], [ "I got my dark sunglasses", "I got for good luck my black tooth", "I got my dark sunglasses", "I’m carryin’ for good luck my black tooth", "Don’t ask me nothin’ about nothin’", "I just might tell you the truth" ], [ "I got a woman in Jackson", "I ain’t gonna say her name", "I got a woman in Jackson", "I ain’t gonna say her name", "She’s a brown-skin woman, but I", "Love her just the same" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/oxford-town/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "Oxford Town", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Oxford Town, Oxford Town", "Ev’rybody’s got their heads bowed down", "The sun don’t shine above the ground", "Ain’t a-goin’ down to Oxford Town" ], [ "He went down to Oxford Town", "Guns and clubs followed him down", "All because his face was brown", "Better get away from Oxford Town" ], [ "Oxford Town around the bend", "He come in to the door, he couldn’t get in", "All because of the color of his skin", "What do you think about that, my frien’?" ], [ "Me and my gal, my gal’s son", "We got met with a tear gas bomb", "I don’t even know why we come", "Goin’ back where we come from" ], [ "Oxford Town in the afternoon", "Ev’rybody singin’ a sorrowful tune", "Two men died ’neath the Mississippi moon", "Somebody better investigate soon" ], [ "Oxford Town, Oxford Town", "Ev’rybody’s got their heads bowed down", "The sun don’t shine above the ground", "Ain’t a-goin’ down to Oxford Town" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/paths-victory/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Paths of Victory", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Trails of troubles", "Roads of battles", "Paths of victory", "I shall walk" ], [ "The trail is dusty", "And my road it might be rough", "But the better roads are waiting", "And boys it ain’t far off" ], [ "Trails of troubles", "Roads of battles", "Paths of victory", "We shall walk" ], [ "I walked down by the river", "I turned my head up high", "I saw that silver linin’", "That was hangin’ in the sky" ], [ "Trails of troubles", "Roads of battles", "Paths of victory", "We shall walk" ], [ "The evenin’ dusk was rollin’", "I was walking down the track", "There was a one-way wind a-blowin’", "And it was blowin’ at my back" ], [ "Trails of troubles", "Roads of battles", "Paths of victory", "We shall walk" ], [ "The gravel road is bumpy", "It’s a hard road to ride", "But there’s a clearer road a-waitin’", "With the cinders on the side" ], [ "Trails of troubles", "Roads of battles", "Paths of victory", "We shall walk" ], [ "That evening train was rollin’", "The hummin’ of its wheels", "My eyes they saw a better day", "As I looked across the fields" ], [ "Trails of troubles", "Roads of battles", "Paths of victory", "We shall walk" ], [ "The trail is dusty", "The road it might be rough", "But the good road is a-waitin’", "And boys it ain’t far off" ], [ "Trails of troubles", "Roads of battles", "Paths of victory", "We shall walk" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/pattys-gone-laredo/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "Patty’s Gone To Laredo", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/pay-blood/", "album": "Tempest", "year": 2012, "title": "Pay in Blood", "plays": 477, "lyrics": [ [ "Well I`m grinding my life away, steady and sure", "Nothing more wretched than what I must endure", "I`m drenched in the light that shines from the sun", "I could stone you to death for the wrongs that you done" ], [ "Sooner or later you`ll make a mistake", "I`ll put you in a chain that you never can break", "Legs and arms and body and bone", "I pay in blood, but not my own" ], [ "Night after night, day after day", "They strip your useless hopes away", "The more I take, the more I give", "The more I die, the more I live" ], [ "I got something in my pocket make your eyeballs swim", "I got dogs that could tear you limb to limb", "I`m circling around in the southern zone", "I pay in blood, but not my own" ], [ "Another political pumping out his piss", "Another ragged beggar blowin’ ya a kiss", "Life is short and it don’t last long", "They`ll hang you in the morning and sing ya a song" ], [ "Someone must have slipped a drug in your wine", "You gulped it down and you lost your mind", "My head so hard, it must be made of stone", "I pay in blood, but not my own" ], [ "How I made it back home nobody knows", "Or how I survived so many blows", "I been through hell, what good did it do?", "My conscience is clear, what about you?", "I’ll give you justice, I’ll fatten your purse", "Show me your moral virtues first", "Hear me holler hear me moan", "I pay in blood but not my own" ], [ "You bit your lover in the bed,", "Come here I`ll break your lousy head", "Our nation must be saved and freed", "You been accused of murder, how do you plead?" ], [ "This is how I spend my days", "I came to bury not to praise", "I`ll drink my fill and sleep alone", "I pay in blood, but not my own" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/peggy-day/", "album": "Nashville Skyline", "year": 1969, "title": "Peggy Day", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Peggy Day stole my poor heart away", "By golly, what more can I say", "Love to spend the night with Peggy Day" ], [ "Peggy night makes my future look so bright", "Man, that girl is out of sight", "Love to spend the day with Peggy night" ], [ "Well, you know that even before I learned her name", "You know I loved her just the same", "An’ I tell ’em all, wherever I may go", "Just so they’ll know, that she’s my little lady", "And I love her so" ], [ "Peggy Day stole my poor heart away", "Turned my skies to blue from gray", "Love to spend the night with Peggy Day" ], [ "Peggy Day stole my poor heart away", "By golly, what more can I say", "Love to spend the night with Peggy Day", "Love to spend the night with Peggy Day" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/people-get-ready/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "People Get Ready", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/percys-song/", "album": "Biograph", "year": 1985, "title": "Percy’s Song", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Bad news, bad news", "Come to me where I sleep", "Turn, turn, turn again", "Sayin’ one of your friends", "Is in trouble deep", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "Tell me the trouble", "Tell once to my ear", "Turn, turn, turn again", "Joliet prison", "And ninety-nine years", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "Oh what’s the charge", "Of how this came to be", "Turn, turn, turn again", "Manslaughter", "In the highest of degree", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "I sat down and wrote", "The best words I could write", "Turn, turn, turn again", "Explaining to the judge", "I’d be there on Wednesday night", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "Without a reply", "I left by the moon", "Turn, turn, turn again", "And was in his chambers", "By the next afternoon", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "Could ya tell me the facts?", "I said without fear", "Turn, turn, turn again", "That a friend of mine", "Would get ninety-nine years", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "A crash on the highway", "Flew the car to a field", "Turn, turn, turn again", "There was four persons killed", "And he was at the wheel", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "But I knew him as good", "As I’m knowin’ myself", "Turn, turn, turn again", "And he wouldn’t harm a life", "That belonged to someone else", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "The judge spoke", "Out of the side of his mouth", "Turn, turn, turn again", "Sayin’, “The witness who saw", "He left little doubt”", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "That may be true", "He’s got a sentence to serve", "Turn, turn, turn again", "But ninety-nine years", "He just don’t deserve", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "Too late, too late", "For his case it is sealed", "Turn, turn, turn again", "His sentence is passed", "And it cannot be repealed", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "But he ain’t no criminal", "And his crime it is none", "Turn, turn, turn again", "What happened to him", "Could happen to anyone", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "And at that the judge jerked forward", "And his face it did freeze", "Turn, turn, turn again", "Sayin’, “Could you kindly leave", "My office now, please”", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "Well his eyes looked funny", "And I stood up so slow", "Turn, turn, turn again", "With no other choice", "Except for to go", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "I walked down the hallway", "And I heard his door slam", "Turn, turn, turn again", "I walked down the courthouse stairs", "And I did not understand", "Turn, turn to the rain", "And the wind" ], [ "And I played my guitar", "Through the night to the day", "Turn, turn, turn again", "And the only tune", "My guitar could play", "Was, “Oh the Cruel Rain", "And the Wind”" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/playboys-and-playgirls/", "album": "", "title": "Playboys and Playgirls", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, ye playboys and playgirls", "Ain’t a-gonna run my world", "Ain’t a-gonna run my world", "Ain’t a-gonna run my world", "Ye playboys and playgirls", "Ain’t a-gonna run my world", "Not now or no other time" ], [ "You fallout shelter sellers", "Can’t get in my door", "Can’t get in my door", "Can’t get in my door", "You fallout shelter sellers", "Can’t get in my door", "Not now or no other time" ], [ "Your Jim Crow ground", "Can’t turn me around", "Can’t turn me around", "Can’t turn me around", "Your Jim Crow ground", "Can’t turn me around", "Not now or no other time" ], [ "The laughter in the lynch mob", "Ain’t a-gonna do no more", "Ain’t a-gonna do no more", "Ain’t a-gonna do no more", "The laughter in the lynch mob", "Ain’t a-gonna do no more", "Not now or no other time" ], [ "You insane tongues of war talk", "Ain’t a-gonna guide my road", "Ain’t a-gonna guide my road", "Ain’t a-gonna guide my road", "You insane tongues of war talk", "Ain’t a-gonna guide my road", "Not now or no other time" ], [ "You red baiters and race haters", "Ain’t a-gonna hang around here", "Ain’t a-gonna hang around here", "Ain’t a-gonna hang around here", "You red baiters and race haters", "Ain’t a-gonna hang around here", "Not now or no other time" ], [ "Ye playboys and playgirls", "Ain’t a-gonna own my world", "Ain’t a-gonna own my world", "Ain’t a-gonna own my world", "Ye playboys and playgirls", "Ain’t a-gonna own my world", "Not now or no other time" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/please-mrs-henry/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Please, Mrs. Henry", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I’ve already had two beers", "I’m ready for the broom", "Please, Missus Henry, won’t you", "Take me to my room?", "I’m a good ol’ boy", "But I’ve been sniffin’ too many eggs", "Talkin’ to too many people", "Drinkin’ too many kegs", "Please, Missus Henry, Missus Henry, please!", "Please, Missus Henry, Missus Henry, please!", "I’m down on my knees", "An’ I ain’t got a dime" ], [ "Well, I’m groanin’ in a hallway", "Pretty soon I’ll be mad", "Please, Missus Henry, won’t you", "Take me to your dad?", "I can drink like a fish", "I can crawl like a snake", "I can bite like a turkey", "I can slam like a drake", "Please, Missus Henry, Missus Henry, please!", "Please, Missus Henry, Missus Henry, please!", "I’m down on my knees", "An’ I ain’t got a dime" ], [ "Now, don’t crowd me, lady", "Or I’ll fill up your shoe", "I’m a sweet bourbon daddy", "An’ tonight I am blue", "I’m a thousand years old", "And I’m a generous bomb", "I’m T-boned and punctured", "But I’m known to be calm", "Please, Missus Henry, Missus Henry, please!", "Please, Missus Henry, Missus Henry, please!", "I’m down on my knees", "An’ I ain’t got a dime" ], [ "Now, I’m startin’ to drain", "My stool’s gonna squeak", "If I walk too much farther", "My crane’s gonna leak", "Look, Missus Henry", "There’s only so much I can do", "Why don’t you look my way", "An’ pump me a few?", "Please, Missus Henry, Missus Henry, please!", "Please, Missus Henry, Missus Henry, please!", "I’m down on my knees", "An’ I ain’t got a dime" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/pledging-my-time/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Pledging My Time", "plays": 21, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, early in the mornin’", "’Til late at night", "I got a poison headache", "But I feel all right", "I’m pledging my time to you", "Hopin’ you’ll come through, too" ], [ "Well, the hobo jumped up", "He came down natur’lly", "After he stole my baby", "Then he wanted to steal me", "But I’m pledging my time to you", "Hopin’ you’ll come through, too" ], [ "Won’t you come with me, baby?", "I’ll take you where you wanna go", "And if it don’t work out", "You’ll be the first to know", "I’m pledging my time to you", "Hopin’ you’ll come through, too" ], [ "Well, the room is so stuffy", "I can hardly breathe", "Ev’rybody’s gone but me and you", "And I can’t be the last to leave", "I’m pledging my time to you", "Hopin’ you’ll come through, too" ], [ "Well, they sent for the ambulance", "And one was sent", "Somebody got lucky", "But it was an accident", "Now I’m pledging my time to you", "Hopin’ you’ll come through, too" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/po-boy/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "Po’ Boy", "plays": 41, "lyrics": [ [ "Man comes to the door—I say, “For whom are you looking?”", "He says, “Your wife.” I say, “She’s busy in the kitchen cookin’”", "Poor boy, where you been?", "I already tol’ you—won’t tell you again" ], [ "I say, “How much you want for that?” I go into the store", "The man says, “Three dollars.” “All right,” I say, “Will you take four?”", "Poor boy, never say die", "Things will be all right by and by" ], [ "Been workin’ on the mainline—workin’ like the devil", "The game is the same—it’s just on a different level", "Poor boy, dressed in black", "Police at your back" ], [ "Poor boy in a red hot town", "Out beyond the twinklin’ stars", "Ridin’ first-class trains—making the rounds", "Tryin’ to keep from fallin’ between the cars" ], [ "Othello told Desdemona, “I’m cold, cover me with a blanket", "By the way, what happened to that poison wine?” She says, “I gave it to you, you drank it”", "Poor boy, layin’ ’em straight", "Pickin’ up the cherries fallin’ off the plate" ], [ "Time and love has branded me with its claws", "Had to go to Florida, dodgin’ them Georgia laws", "Poor boy, sitting in the gloom", "Calls down to room service, says, \"Send up a room.\"" ], [ "My mother was a daughter of a wealthy farmer", "My father was a traveling salesman, I never met him", "When my mother died, my uncle took me in—he ran a funeral parlor", "He did a lot of nice things for me and I won’t forget him" ], [ "All I know is that I’m thrilled by your kiss", "I don’t know any more than this", "Poor boy, pickin’ up sticks", "Build ya a house out of mortar and bricks" ], [ "Knockin’ on the door, I say, “Who is it and where are you from?”", "Man says, “Freddy!” I say, “Freddy who?” He says, “Freddy or not here I come”", "Poor boy ’neath the stars that shine", "Washin’ them dishes, feedin’ them swine" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/po-lazarus/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Po’ Lazarus", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/political-world/", "album": "Oh Mercy", "year": 1989, "title": "Political World", "plays": 28, "lyrics": [ [ "We live in a political world", "Love don’t have any place", "We’re living in times where men commit crimes", "And crime don’t have a face" ], [ "We live in a political world", "Icicles hanging down", "Wedding bells ring and angels sing", "Clouds cover up the ground" ], [ "We live in a political world", "Wisdom is thrown into jail", "It rots in a cell, is misguided as hell", "Leaving no one to pick up a trail" ], [ "We live in a political world", "Where mercy walks the plank", "Life is in mirrors, death disappears", "Up the steps into the nearest bank" ], [ "We live in a political world", "Where courage is a thing of the past", "Houses are haunted, children are unwanted", "The next day could be your last" ], [ "We live in a political world", "The one we can see and can feel", "But there’s no one to check, it’s all a stacked deck", "We all know for sure that it’s real" ], [ "We live in a political world", "In the cities of lonesome fear", "Little by little you turn in the middle", "But you’re never sure why you’re here" ], [ "We live in a political world", "Under the microscope", "You can travel anywhere and hang yourself there", "You always got more than enough rope" ], [ "We live in a political world", "Turning and a-thrashing about", "As soon as you’re awake, you’re trained to take", "What looks like the easy way out" ], [ "We live in a political world", "Where peace is not welcome at all", "It’s turned away from the door to wander some more", "Or put up against the wall" ], [ "We live in a political world", "Everything is hers or his", "Climb into the frame and shout God’s name", "But you’re never sure what it is" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/polka-dots-moonbeams/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "Polka Dots and Moonbeams", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/poor-boy-blues/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Poor Boy Blues", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Mm, tell mama", "Where’d ya sleep last night?", "Cain’t ya hear me cryin’?", "Hm, hm, hm" ], [ "Hey, tell me baby", "What’s the matter here?", "Cain’t ya hear me cryin’?", "Hm, hm, hm" ], [ "Hey, stop you ol’ train", "Let a poor boy ride", "Cain’t ya hear me cryin’?", "Hm, hm, hm" ], [ "Hey, Mister Bartender", "I swear I’m not too young", "Cain’t ya hear me cryin’?", "Hm, hm, hm" ], [ "Blow your whistle, policeman", "My poor feet are trained to run", "Cain’t ya hear me cryin’?", "Hm, hm, hm" ], [ "Long-distance operator", "I hear this phone call is on the house", "Cain’t ya hear me cryin’?", "Hm, hm, hm" ], [ "Ashes and diamonds", "The diff’rence I cain’t see", "Cain’t ya hear me cryin’?", "Hm, hm, hm" ], [ "Mister Judge and Jury", "Cain’t you see the shape I’m in?", "Don’t ya hear me cryin’?", "Hm, hm, hm" ], [ "Mississippi River", "You a-runnin’ too fast for me", "Cain’t ya hear me cryin’?", "Hm, hm, hm" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/positively-4th-street/", "album": "Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits", "year": 1967, "title": "Positively 4th Street", "plays": 359, "lyrics": [ [ "You got a lotta nerve", "To say you are my friend", "When I was down", "You just stood there grinning" ], [ "You got a lotta nerve", "To say you got a helping hand to lend", "You just want to be on", "The side that’s winning" ], [ "You say I let you down", "You know it’s not like that", "If you’re so hurt", "Why then don’t you show it" ], [ "You say you lost your faith", "But that’s not where it’s at", "You had no faith to lose", "And you know it" ], [ "I know the reason", "That you talk behind my back", "I used to be among the crowd", "You’re in with" ], [ "Do you take me for such a fool", "To think I’d make contact", "With the one who tries to hide", "What he don’t know to begin with" ], [ "You see me on the street", "You always act surprised", "You say, “How are you?” “Good luck”", "But you don’t mean it" ], [ "When you know as well as me", "You’d rather see me paralyzed", "Why don’t you just come out once", "And scream it" ], [ "No, I do not feel that good", "When I see the heartbreaks you embrace", "If I was a master thief", "Perhaps I’d rob them" ], [ "And now I know you’re dissatisfied", "With your position and your place", "Don’t you understand", "It’s not my problem" ], [ "I wish that for just one time", "You could stand inside my shoes", "And just for that one moment", "I could be you" ], [ "Yes, I wish that for just one time", "You could stand inside my shoes", "You’d know what a drag it is", "To see you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/precious-angel/", "album": "Slow Train Coming", "year": 1979, "title": "Precious Angel", "plays": 73, "lyrics": [ [ "Precious angel, under the sun", "How was I to know you’d be the one", "To show me I was blinded, to show me I was gone", "How weak was the foundation I was standing upon?" ], [ "Now there’s spiritual warfare and flesh and blood breaking down", "Ya either got faith or ya got unbelief and there ain’t no neutral ground", "The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived", "When the truth’s in our hearts and we still don’t believe?" ], [ "Shine your light, shine your light on me", "Shine your light, shine your light on me", "Shine your light, shine your light on me", "Ya know I just couldn’t make it by myself", "I’m a little too blind to see" ], [ "My so-called friends have fallen under a spell", "They look me squarely in the eye and they say, “All is well”", "Can they imagine the darkness that will fall from on high", "When men will beg God to kill them and they won’t be able to die?" ], [ "Sister, lemme tell you about a vision I saw", "You were drawing water for your husband, you were suffering under the law", "You were telling him about Buddha, you were telling him about Mohammed", "in the same breath", "You never mentioned one time the Man who came and died a criminal’s death" ], [ "Shine your light, shine your light on me", "Shine your light, shine your light on me", "Shine your light, shine your light on me", "Ya know I just couldn’t make it by myself", "I’m a little too blind to see" ], [ "Precious angel, you believe me when I say", "What God has given to us no man can take away", "We are covered in blood, girl, you know our forefathers were slaves", "Let us hope they’ve found mercy in their bone-filled graves" ], [ "You’re the queen of my flesh, girl, you’re my woman, you’re my delight", "You’re the lamp of my soul, girl, and you torch up the night", "But there’s violence in the eyes, girl, so let us not be enticed", "On the way out of Egypt, through Ethiopia, to the judgment hall of Christ" ], [ "Shine your light, shine your light on me", "Shine your light, shine your light on me", "Shine your light, shine your light on me", "Ya know I just couldn’t make it by myself", "I’m a little too blind to see" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/precious-memories/", "album": "Knocked Out Loaded", "year": 1986, "title": "Precious Memories", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "As I travel down life's pathway,", "Know not what the years may hold.", "As I ponder, hopes grow fonder,", "Precious memories flood my soul" ], [ "Precious father, loving mother,", "Glide across the lonely years.", "And old homes scenes of my childhood", "In fond memory appears." ], [ "Precious memories, how they linger", "How they ever flood my soul.", "In the stillness of the midnight,", "Precious sacred scenes unfold." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/pressing/", "album": "Saved", "year": 1980, "title": "Pressing On", "plays": 65, "lyrics": [ [ "Well I’m pressing on", "Yes, I’m pressing on", "Well I’m pressing on", "To the higher calling of my Lord" ], [ "Many try to stop me, shake me up in my mind", "Say, “Prove to me that He is Lord, show me a sign”", "What kind of sign they need when it all come from within", "When what’s lost has been found, what’s to come has already been?" ], [ "Well I’m pressing on", "Yes, I’m pressing on", "Well I’m pressing on", "To the higher calling of my Lord" ], [ "Shake the dust off of your feet, don’t look back", "Nothing now can hold you down, nothing that you lack", "Temptation’s not an easy thing, Adam given the devil reign", "Because he sinned I got no choice, it run in my vein" ], [ "Well I’m pressing on", "Yes, I’m pressing on", "Well I’m pressing on", "To the higher calling of my Lord" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/pretty-mary/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Pretty Mary", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/pretty-peggy-o/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "Pretty Peggy-O", "plays": 52, "lyrics": [ [ "I've been around this whole country", "But I never yet found Fenneario" ], [ "Well, as we marched down, as we marched down", "Well, as we marched down to Fennerio'", "Well, our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove", "Her name that she had was Pretty Peggy-O" ], [ "Well, what will your mother say, what will your mother say", "What will your mother say, Pretty Peggy-O", "What will your mother say to know you're going away", "You're never, never, never coming back-io ?" ], [ "Come a-running down your stairs", "Come a-running down your stairs", "Come a-running down your stairs, Pretty Peggy-O", "Come a-running down your stairs", "Combing back your yellow hair", "You're the prettiest darned girl I ever seen-io." ], [ "The lieutenant he has gone", "The lieutenant he has gone", "The lieutenant he has gone, Pretty Peggy-O", "The lieutenant he has gone, long gone", "He's a-riding down in Texas with the rodeo." ], [ "Well, our captain he is dead, our captain he is dead", "Our captain he is dead, Pretty Peggy-O", "Well, our captain he is dead, died for a maid", "He's buried somewhere in Louisiana-O." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/pretty-saro/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait", "year": 2013, "title": "Pretty Saro", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/property-jesus/", "album": "Shot of Love", "year": 1981, "title": "Property of Jesus", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Go ahead and talk about him because he makes you doubt", "Because he has denied himself the things that you can’t live without", "Laugh at him behind his back just like the others do", "Remind him of what he used to be when he comes walkin’ through" ], [ "He’s the property of Jesus", "Resent him to the bone", "You got something better", "You’ve got a heart of stone" ], [ "Stop your conversation when he passes on the street", "Hope he falls upon himself, oh, won’t that be sweet", "Because he can’t be exploited by superstition anymore", "Because he can’t be bribed or bought by the things that you adore" ], [ "He’s the property of Jesus", "Resent him to the bone", "You got something better", "You’ve got a heart of stone" ], [ "When the whip that’s keeping you in line doesn’t make him jump", "Say he’s hard-of-hearin’, say that he’s a chump", "Say he’s out of step with reality as you try to test his nerve", "Because he doesn’t pay no tribute to the king that you serve" ], [ "He’s the property of Jesus", "Resent him to the bone", "You got something better", "You’ve got a heart of stone" ], [ "Say that he’s a loser ’cause he got no common sense", "Because he don’t increase his worth at someone else’s expense", "Because he’s not afraid of trying, ’cause he don’t look at you and smile", "’Cause he doesn’t tell you jokes or fairy tales, say he’s got no style" ], [ "He’s the property of Jesus", "Resent him to the bone", "You got something better", "You’ve got a heart of stone" ], [ "You can laugh at salvation, you can play Olympic games", "You think that when you rest at last you’ll go back from where you came", "But you’ve picked up quite a story and you’ve changed since the womb", "What happened to the real you, you’ve been captured but by whom?" ], [ "He’s the property of Jesus", "Resent him to the bone", "You got something better", "You’ve got a heart of stone" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/queen-jane-approximately/", "album": "Highway 61 Revisited", "year": 1965, "title": "Queen Jane Approximately", "plays": 76, "lyrics": [ [ "When your mother sends back all your invitations", "And your father to your sister he explains", "That you’re tired of yourself and all of your creations", "Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?", "Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?" ], [ "Now when all of the flower ladies want back what they have lent you", "And the smell of their roses does not remain", "And all of your children start to resent you", "Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?", "Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?" ], [ "Now when all the clowns that you have commissioned", "Have died in battle or in vain", "And you’re sick of all this repetition", "Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?", "Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?" ], [ "When all of your advisers heave their plastic", "At your feet to convince you of your pain", "Trying to prove that your conclusions should be more drastic", "Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?", "Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?" ], [ "Now when all the bandits that you turned your other cheek to", "All lay down their bandanas and complain", "And you want somebody you don’t have to speak to", "Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?", "Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/quinn-eskimo-mighty-quinn/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)", "plays": 6, "lyrics": [ [ "Ev’rybody’s building the big ships and the boats", "Some are building monuments", "Others, jotting down notes", "Ev’rybody’s in despair", "Ev’ry girl and boy", "But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here", "Ev’rybody’s gonna jump for joy", "Come all without, come all within", "You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn" ], [ "I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet", "But guarding fumes and making haste", "It ain’t my cup of meat", "Ev’rybody’s ’neath the trees", "Feeding pigeons on a limb", "But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here", "All the pigeons gonna run to him", "Come all without, come all within", "You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn" ], [ "A cat’s meow and a cow’s moo, I can recite ’em all", "Just tell me where it hurts yuh, honey", "And I’ll tell you who to call", "Nobody can get no sleep", "There’s someone on ev’ryone’s toes", "But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here", "Ev’rybody’s gonna wanna doze", "Come all without, come all within", "You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/quit-your-low-down-ways/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Quit Your Low Down Ways", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, you can read out your Bible", "You can fall down on your knees, pretty mama", "And pray to the Lord", "But it ain’t gonna do no good." ], [ "You’re gonna need", "You’re gonna need my help someday", "Well, if you can’t quit your sinnin’", "Please quit your low down ways" ], [ "Well, you can run down to the White House", "You can gaze at the Capitol Dome, pretty mama", "You can pound on the President’s gate", "But you oughta know by now it’s gonna be too late" ], [ "You’re gonna need", "You’re gonna need my help someday", "Well, if you can’t quit your sinnin’", "Please quit your low down ways" ], [ "Well, you can run down to the desert", "Throw yourself on the burning sand", "You can raise up your right hand, pretty mama", "But you better understand you done lost your one good man" ], [ "You’re gonna need", "You’re gonna need my help someday", "Well, if you can’t quit your sinnin’", "Please quit your low down ways" ], [ "And you can hitchhike on the highway", "You can stand all alone by the side of the road", "You can try to flag a ride back home, pretty mama", "But you can’t ride in my car no more" ], [ "You’re gonna need", "You’re gonna need my help someday", "Well, if you can’t quit your sinnin’", "Please quit your low down ways" ], [ "Oh, you can read out your Bible", "You can fall down on your knees, pretty mama", "And pray to the Lord", "But it ain’t gonna do no good" ], [ "You’re gonna need", "You’re gonna need my help someday", "Well, if you can’t quit your sinnin’", "Please quit your low down ways" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/radio-announcement-for-niagara-falls-shows/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "Radio Announcement for Niagara Falls shows", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ragged-dirty/", "album": "World Gone Wrong", "year": 1993, "title": "Ragged & Dirty", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "Lord, I'm broke, I'm hungry, ragged and dirty too,", "Broke and hungry, ragged and dirty too.", "If I clean up, sweet momma, can I stay all night with you?" ], [ "Lord, I went to my window, babe, I couldn't see through my blinds,", "Went to my window, babe, I couldn't see through my blinds,", "Heard my best friend a-comin' and I thought I heard my baby cry." ], [ "Lord, if I can't come in here, baby, then just let me sit down in your door,", "If I can't come in here, baby, then just let me sit down in your door,", "And I would leave so soon that your man won't never know." ], [ "How can I live here, baby, Lord, and feel at ease?", "How can I live here, baby, Lord, and feel at ease?", "Well, that woman I got, man, she does just what she feels." ], [ "Lord, you shouldn't mistreat me, baby, because I'm young and wild,", "Shouldn't mistreat me, baby, because I'm young and wild.", "You must always remember, baby, you was once a child." ], [ "'Cause I'm leaving in the morning, if I have to ride the blinds,", "Leaving in the morning, if I have to ride the blinds.", "Well, I been mistreated and I swear I don't mind dyin'" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/railroad-bill/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait", "year": 2013, "title": "Railroad Bill", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rainy-day-women-12-35/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", "plays": 963, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, they’ll stone ya when you’re trying to be so good", "They’ll stone ya just a-like they said they would", "They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin’ to go home", "Then they’ll stone ya when you’re there all alone", "But I would not feel so all alone", "Everybody must get stoned" ], [ "Well, they’ll stone ya when you’re walkin’ ’long the street", "They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin’ to keep your seat", "They’ll stone ya when you’re walkin’ on the floor", "They’ll stone ya when you’re walkin’ to the door", "But I would not feel so all alone", "Everybody must get stoned" ], [ "They’ll stone ya when you’re at the breakfast table", "They’ll stone ya when you are young and able", "They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin’ to make a buck", "They’ll stone ya and then they’ll say, “good luck”", "Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone", "Everybody must get stoned" ], [ "Well, they’ll stone you and say that it’s the end", "Then they’ll stone you and then they’ll come back again", "They’ll stone you when you’re riding in your car", "They’ll stone you when you’re playing your guitar", "Yes, but I would not feel so all alone", "Everybody must get stoned" ], [ "Well, they’ll stone you when you walk all alone", "They’ll stone you when you are walking home", "They’ll stone you and then say you are brave", "They’ll stone you when you are set down in your grave", "But I would not feel so all alone", "Everybody must get stoned" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rake-and-ramblin-boy/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "Rake and Ramblin’ Boy", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rambler-gambler/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 7: No Direction Home", "year": 2005, "title": "Rambler, Gambler", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I’m a rambler, I’m a gambler", "I’m a long way from my home", "If the people don’t like me", "They can leave me alone" ], [ "Come sit down beside me", "Come sit down right here", "Come sit down, love, I want you", "Love you boldly, so dear" ], [ "When you get to Wyoming", "A letter you’ll see", "If you get into trouble", "Just you write and tell me" ], [ "For I once had a lover", "Her age was sixteen", "She’s a flower of velvet and the rose of Celine" ], [ "Her parents was against me", "Now she is the same", "If I writ on your book, love", "Just you blot out my name" ], [ "Oh there’s changes in the ocean", "There’s changes in the sea", "There’s changes in my true love", "Ain’t no change in me" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rambling-gambling-willie/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Rambling, Gambling Willie", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Come around you rovin’ gamblers and a story I will tell", "About the greatest gambler, you all should know him well", "His name was Will O’Conley and he gambled all his life", "He had twenty-seven children, yet he never had a wife", "And it’s ride, Willie, ride", "Roll, Willie, roll", "Wherever you are a-gamblin’ now, nobody really knows" ], [ "He gambled in the White House and in the railroad yards", "Wherever there was people, there was Willie and his cards", "He had the reputation as the gamblin’est man around", "Wives would keep their husbands home when Willie came to town", "And it’s ride, Willie, ride", "Roll, Willie, roll", "Wherever you are a-gamblin’ now, nobody really knows" ], [ "Sailin’ down the Mississippi to a town called New Orleans", "They’re still talkin’ about their card game on that Jackson River Queen", "“I’ve come to win some money,” Gamblin’ Willie says", "When the game finally ended up, the whole damn boat was his", "And it’s ride, Willie, ride", "Roll, Willie, roll", "Wherever you are a-gamblin’ now, nobody really knows" ], [ "Up in the Rocky Mountains in a town called Cripple Creek", "There was an all-night poker game, lasted about a week", "Nine hundred miners had laid their money down", "When Willie finally left the room, he owned the whole damn town", "And it’s ride, Willie, ride", "Roll, Willie, roll", "Wherever you are a-gamblin’ now, nobody really knows" ], [ "But Willie had a heart of gold and this I know is true", "He supported all his children and all their mothers too", "He wore no rings or fancy things, like other gamblers wore", "He spread his money far and wide, to help the sick and the poor", "And it’s ride, Willie, ride", "Roll, Willie, roll", "Wherever you are a-gamblin’ now, nobody really knows" ], [ "When you played your cards with Willie, you never really knew", "Whether he was bluffin’ or whether he was true", "He won a fortune from a man who folded in his chair", "The man, he left a diamond flush, Willie didn’t even have a pair", "And it’s ride, Willie, ride", "Roll, Willie, roll", "Wherever you are a-gamblin’ now, nobody really knows" ], [ "It was late one evenin’ during a poker game", "A man lost all his money, he said Willie was to blame", "He shot poor Willie through the head, which was a tragic fate", "When Willie’s cards fell on the floor, they were aces backed with eights", "And it’s ride, Willie, ride", "Roll, Willie, roll", "Wherever you are a-gamblin’ now, nobody really knows" ], [ "So all you rovin’ gamblers, wherever you might be", "The moral of the story is very plain to see", "Make your money while you can, before you have to stop", "For when you pull that dead man’s hand, your gamblin’ days are up", "And it’s ride, Willie, ride", "Roll, Willie, roll", "Wherever you are a-gamblin’ now, nobody really knows" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rank-strangers-me/", "album": "Down in the Groove", "year": 1988, "title": "Rank Strangers to Me", "plays": 26, "lyrics": [ [ "I wandered again to my home in the mountain", "Where in youth's early days I was happy and free", "I looked for my friends but I never could find them", "I found they were all rank strangers to me." ], [ "Ev'rybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger", "No mother or dad not a friend could I see", "They knew not my name and I knew not their faces", "I found they were all rank strangers to me." ], [ "They all moved a way, said a voice of a stranger", "\"To that bautiful home by the bright crystal sea\"", "Some beautiful day I'll meet 'em in heaven", "Where no one will be a stranger to me." ], [ "Ev'rybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger", "No mother or dad not a friend could I see", "They knew not my name and I knew not their faces", "I found they were all rank strangers to me." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/red-river-shore/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "Red River Shore", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Some of us turn off the lights and we lay", "Up in the moonlight shooting by", "Some of us scare ourselves to death in the dark", "To be where the angels fly", "Pretty maids all in a row lined up", "Outside my cabin door", "I’ve never wanted any of ’em wanting me", "’Cept the girl from the Red River shore" ], [ "Well I sat by her side and for a while I tried", "To make that girl my wife", "She gave me her best advice when she said", "Go home and lead a quiet life", "Well I been to the East and I been to the West", "And I been out where the black winds roar", "Somehow, though, I never did get that far", "With the girl from the Red River shore" ], [ "Well I knew when I first laid eyes on her", "I could never be free", "One look at her and I knew right away", "She should always be with me", "Well the dream dried up a long time ago", "Don’t know where it is anymore", "True to life, true to me", "Was the girl from the Red River shore" ], [ "Well I’m wearing the cloak of misery", "And I’ve tasted jilted love", "And the frozen smile upon my face", "Fits me like a glove", "But I can’t escape from the memory", "Of the one that I’ll always adore", "All those nights when I lay in the arms", "Of the girl from the Red River shore" ], [ "Well we’re livin’ in the shadows of a fading past", "Trapped in the fires of time", "I tried not to ever hurt anybody", "And to stay out of a life of crime", "And when it’s all been said and done", "I never did know the score", "One more day is another day away", "From the girl from the Red River shore" ], [ "Well I’m a stranger here in a strange land", "But I know this is where I belong", "I ramble and gamble for the one I love", "And the hills will give me a song", "Though nothing looks familiar to me", "I know I’ve stayed here before", "Once a thousand nights ago", "With the girl from the Red River shore" ], [ "Well I went back to see about her once", "Went back to straighten it out", "Everybody that I talked to had seen us there", "Said they didn’t know who I was talkin’ about", "Well the sun went down a long time ago", "And doesn’t seem to shine anymore", "I wish I could have spent every hour of my life", "With the girl from the Red River shore" ], [ "Now I heard of a guy who lived a long time ago", "A man full of sorrow and strife", "That if someone around him died and was dead", "He knew how to bring him on back to life", "Well I don’t know what kind of language he used", "Or if they do that kind of thing anymore", "Sometimes I think nobody ever saw me here at all", "’Cept the girl from the Red River shore" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/restless-farewell/", "album": "The Times They Are A-Changin’", "year": 1964, "title": "Restless Farewell", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh all the money that in my whole life I did spend", "Be it mine right or wrongfully", "I let it slip gladly past the hands of my friends", "To tie up the time most forcefully", "But the bottles are done", "We’ve killed each one", "And the table’s full and overflowed", "And the corner sign", "Says it’s closing time", "So I’ll bid farewell and be down the road" ], [ "Oh ev’ry girl that ever I’ve touched", "I did not do it harmfully", "And ev’ry girl that ever I’ve hurt", "I did not do it knowin’ly", "But to remain as friends", "And make amends", "You need the time and stay behind", "And since my feet are now fast", "And point away from the past", "I’ll bid farewell and be down the line" ], [ "Oh ev’ry foe that ever I faced", "The cause was there before we came", "And ev’ry cause that ever I fought", "I fought it full without regret or shame", "But the dark does die", "As the curtain is drawn and somebody’s eyes", "Must meet the dawn", "And if I see the day", "I’d only have to stay", "So I’ll bid farewell in the night and be gone" ], [ "Oh, ev’ry thought that’s strung a knot in my mind", "I might go insane if it couldn’t be sprung", "But it’s not to stand naked under unknowin’ eyes", "It’s for myself and my friends my stories are sung", "But the time ain’t tall, yet on time you depend", "And no word is possessed by no special friend", "And though the line is cut", "It ain’t quite the end", "I’ll just bid farewell till we meet again" ], [ "Oh a false clock tries to tick out my time", "To disgrace, distract, and bother me", "And the dirt of gossip blows into my face", "And the dust of rumors covers me", "But if the arrow is straight", "And the point is slick", "It can pierce through dust no matter how thick", "So I’ll make my stand", "And remain as I am", "And bid farewell and not give a damn" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ring-them-bells/", "album": "Oh Mercy", "year": 1989, "title": "Ring Them Bells", "plays": 31, "lyrics": [ [ "Ring them bells, ye heathen", "From the city that dreams", "Ring them bells from the sanctuaries", "’Cross the valleys and streams", "For they’re deep and they’re wide", "And the world’s on its side", "And time is running backwards", "And so is the bride" ], [ "Ring them bells St. Peter", "Where the four winds blow", "Ring them bells with an iron hand", "So the people will know", "Oh it’s rush hour now", "On the wheel and the plow", "And the sun is going down", "Upon the sacred cow" ], [ "Ring them bells Sweet Martha", "For the poor man’s son", "Ring them bells so the world will know", "That God is one", "Oh the shepherd is asleep", "Where the willows weep", "And the mountains are filled", "With lost sheep" ], [ "Ring them bells for the blind and the deaf", "Ring them bells for all of us who are left", "Ring them bells for the chosen few", "Who will judge the many when the game is through", "Ring them bells, for the time that flies", "For the child that cries", "When innocence dies" ], [ "Ring them bells St. Catherine", "From the top of the room", "Ring them from the fortress", "For the lilies that bloom", "Oh the lines are long", "And the fighting is strong", "And they’re breaking down the distance", "Between right and wrong" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rita-may/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "Rita May", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Rita May, Rita May", "You got your body in the way", "You’re so damn nonchalant", "But it’s your mind that I want", "You got me huffin’ and a-puffin’", "Next to you I feel like nothin’", "Rita May" ], [ "Rita May, Rita May", "How’d you ever get that way?", "When do you ever see the light?", "Don’t you ever feel a fright?", "You got me burnin’ and I’m turnin’", "But I know I must be learnin’", "Rita May" ], [ "All my friends have told me", "If I hang around with you", "That I’ll go blind", "But I know that when you hold me", "That there really must be somethin’", "On your mind" ], [ "Rita May, Rita May", "Laying in a stack of hay", "Do you remember where you been?", "What’s that crazy place you’re in?", "I’m gonna have to go to college", "’Cause you are the book of knowledge", "Rita May" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/river-theme/", "album": "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", "year": 1973, "title": "River Theme", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rock-salt-and-nails/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Rock, Salt and Nails", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rocks-and-gravel/", "album": "", "title": "Rocks And Gravel", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "Takes rocks and gravel, baby, make a solid road,", "Make a solid road.", "Takes rocks and gravel, baby, make a solid road,", "Make a solid road." ], [ "Takes a good woman mama,", "To satisfy my weary soul." ], [ "Have you ever been down on that Mobil and K. C. line,", "Have you ever been down on that Mobil and K. C. line?" ], [ "Well I just wanna ask you,", "If you seen that gal of mine,", "Don't the clouds look lonesome shining across the sea,", "Don't the clouds look lonesome shining across the sea,", "Don't my gal look good,", "When she's comin' after me?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/roll-john/", "album": "Tempest", "year": 2012, "title": "Roll on John", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Doctor, doctor, tell me the time of day", "Another bottle’s empty, another penny spent", "He turned around and he slowly walked away", "They shot him in the back and down he went" ], [ "Shine your light", "Move it on", "You burned so bright", "Roll on, John" ], [ "From the Liverpool docks to the red light Hamburg streets", "Down in the quarry with the Quarrymen", "Playing to the big crowds, playing to the cheap seats", "Another day in the life on your way to your journey’s end" ], [ "Shine your light", "Move it on", "You burned so bright", "Roll on, John" ], [ "Sailing through the trade winds bound for the South", "Rags on your back just like any other slave", "They tied your hands and they clamped your mouth", "Wasn’t no way out of that deep, dark cave" ], [ "Shine your light", "Move it on", "You burned so bright", "Roll on, John" ], [ "I heard the news today, oh boy", "They hauled your ship up on the shore", "Now the city gone dark, there is no more joy", "They tore the heart right out and cut it to the core" ], [ "Shine your light", "Move it on", "You burned so bright", "Roll on, John" ], [ "Put down your bags and get ‘em packed", "Leave right now, you won’t be far from wrong", "The sooner you go, the quicker you’ll be back", "You been cooped up on an island far too long" ], [ "Shine your light", "Move it on", "You burned so bright", "Roll on, John" ], [ "Slow down, you’re moving way too fast", "Come together right now over me", "Your bones are weary, you’re about to breathe your last", "Lord, you know how hard that it can be" ], [ "Shine your light", "Move it on", "You burned so bright", "Roll on, John" ], [ "Roll on John, roll through the rain and snow", "Take the right hand road and go where the buffalo roam", "They’ll trap you in an ambush ‘fore you know", "Too late now to sail back home" ], [ "Shine your light", "Move it on", "You burned so bright", "Roll on, John" ], [ "Tyger, tyger, burning bright", "I pray the Lord my soul to keep", "In the forest of the night", "Cover him over, and let him sleep" ], [ "Shine your light", "Move it on", "You burned so bright", "Roll on, John" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/roll-train/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Roll on Train", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rollin-and-tumblin/", "album": "Modern Times", "year": 2006, "title": "Rollin’ and Tumblin’", "plays": 57, "lyrics": [ [ "I rolled and I tumbled, I cried the whole night long", "I rolled and I tumbled, I cried the whole night long", "Woke up this mornin', I must have bet my money wrong" ], [ "I got troubles so hard, I can't stand the strain", "I got troubles so hard, I just can't stand the strain", "Some young lazy slut has charmed away my brains" ], [ "The landscape is glowin', gleamin' in the golden light of day", "The landscape is glowin', gleamin' in the gold light of day", "I ain't holding nothin' back now, I ain't standin' in anybody's way" ], [ "I'm flat-out spent, this woman been drivin' me to tears", "I'm flat-out spent, this woman she been drivin' me to tears", "This woman so crazy, I swear I ain't gonna touch another one for years" ], [ "Well, the warm weather is comin' and the buds are on the vine", "The warm weather's comin', the buds are on the vine", "Ain't nothing so depressing as trying to satisfy this woman of mine" ], [ "I got up this mornin', saw the rising sun return", "Well, I got up this mornin', seen the rising sun return", "Sooner or later you too shall burn" ], [ "The night's filled with shadows, the years are filled with early doom", "The night's filled with shadows, the years are filled with early doom", "I've been conjuring up all these long dead souls from their crumblin' tombs" ], [ "Let's forgive each other darlin', let's go down to the greenwood glen", "Let's forgive each other darlin', let's go down to the greenwood glen", "Let's put our heads together, let's put old matters to an end" ], [ "Now I rolled and I tumbled and I cried the whole night long", "Ah, I rolled and I tumbled, I cried the whole night long", "I woke up this morning, I think I must be travelin' wrong" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/romance-durango/", "album": "Desire", "year": 1976, "title": "Romance in Durango", "plays": 37, "lyrics": [ [ "Hot chili peppers in the blistering sun", "Dust on my face and my cape", "Me and Magdalena on the run", "I think this time we shall escape" ], [ "Sold my guitar to the baker’s son", "For a few crumbs and a place to hide", "But I can get another one", "And I’ll play for Magdalena as we ride" ], [ "No llores, mi querida", "Dios nos vigila", "Soon the horse will take us to Durango", "Agarrame, mi vida", "Soon the desert will be gone", "Soon you will be dancing the fandango" ], [ "Past the Aztec ruins and the ghosts of our people", "Hoofbeats like castanets on stone", "At night I dream of bells in the village steeple", "Then I see the bloody face of Ramon" ], [ "Was it me that shot him down in the cantina", "Was it my hand that held the gun?", "Come, let us fly, my Magdalena", "The dogs are barking and what’s done is done" ], [ "No Ilores, mi querida", "Dios nos vigila", "Soon the horse will take us to Durango", "Agarrame, mi vida", "Soon the desert will be gone", "Soon you will be dancing the fandango" ], [ "At the corrida we’ll sit in the shade", "And watch the young torero stand alone", "We’ll drink tequila where our grandfathers stayed", "When they rode with Villa into Torreón" ], [ "Then the padre will recite the prayers of old", "In the little church this side of town", "I will wear new boots and an earring of gold", "You’ll shine with diamonds in your wedding gown" ], [ "The way is long but the end is near", "Already the fiesta has begun", "The face of God will appear", "With His serpent eyes of obsidian" ], [ "No Ilores, mi querida", "Dio nos vigila", "Soon the horse will take us to Durango", "Agarrame, mi vida", "Soon the desert will be gone", "Soon you will be dancing the fandango" ], [ "Was that the thunder that I heard?", "My head is vibrating, I feel a sharp pain", "Come sit by me, don’t say a word", "Oh, can it be that I am slain?" ], [ "Quick, Magdalena, take my gun", "Look up in the hills, that flash of light", "Aim well my little one", "We may not make it through the night" ], [ "No Ilores, mi querida", "Dios nos vigila", "Soon the horse will take us to Durango", "Agarrame, mi vida", "Soon the desert will be gone", "Soon you will be dancing the fandango" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ruben-remus/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Ruben Remus", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Wrote a letter this mornin',", "Put it in your hat,", "'Cause no one to read it", "And I know you knew that.", "I bought a joke, a trick or two,", "Just to bring and show you,", "Caught ya with the trickster too.", "Sometimes I wonder how ya knew", "A hypnotist, fancytalker,", "Ruben Remus ain't no doctor" ], [ "I knew the man and tried to remember", "Just where it was that I'd seen his face.", "Long ago, in a movie show,", "He was like that man singin' bass.", "Knew him by his nurs'ry rhyme:", "The Story Of The Rabbit Man.", "Fell right in and said to him:", "\"I'd like to help you if I can.\"", "I know the film would only shock ya,", "Ruben Remus ain't no doctor!" ], [ "He only needed what you had,", "Asked for nothing more,", "Said he'd like to take you on,", "But it's been done before.", "You couldn't see he's a travelin' man", "And he cannot take your hand.", "It's very hard to understand", "Why his songs were never banned.", "Guess the man would never knock ya,", "Ruben Remus ain't no doctor!" ], [ "No one seen ya since he's been gone,", "It's been a day, maybe more.", "I took a walk in your yard", "And knocked on your back door.", "Why don't you let me in?", "I'm not the man who did ya in.", "Is mr. Remus still your friend?", "You say you don't remember him.", "Turn me down, would ya?", "Well, I've got news for you.", "Turn me down would ya,", "Can't ya tell", "I'm gonna change your mind", "before I'm... trough..." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sad-eyed-lady-lowlands/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "With your mercury mouth in the missionary times", "And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes", "And your silver cross, and your voice like chimes", "Oh, who among them do they think could bury you?", "With your pockets well protected at last", "And your streetcar visions which you place on the grass", "And your flesh like silk, and your face like glass", "Who among them do they think could carry you?", "Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands", "Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes", "My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums", "Should I leave them by your gate", "Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?" ], [ "With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace", "And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace", "And your basement clothes and your hollow face", "Who among them can think he could outguess you?", "With your silhouette when the sunlight dims", "Into your eyes where the moonlight swims", "And your matchbook songs and your gypsy hymns", "Who among them would try to impress you?", "Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands", "Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes", "My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums", "Should I leave them by your gate", "Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?" ], [ "The kings of Tyrus with their convict list", "Are waiting in line for their geranium kiss", "And you wouldn’t know it would happen like this", "But who among them really wants just to kiss you?", "With your childhood flames on your midnight rug", "And your Spanish manners and your mother’s drugs", "And your cowboy mouth and your curfew plugs", "Who among them do you think could resist you?", "Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands", "Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes", "My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums", "Should I leave them by your gate", "Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?" ], [ "Oh, the farmers and the businessmen, they all did decide", "To show you the dead angels that they used to hide", "But why did they pick you to sympathize with their side?", "Oh, how could they ever mistake you?", "They wished you’d accepted the blame for the farm", "But with the sea at your feet and the phony false alarm", "And with the child of a hoodlum wrapped up in your arms", "How could they ever, ever persuade you?", "Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands", "Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes", "My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums", "Should I leave them by your gate", "Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?" ], [ "With your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row", "And your magazine-husband who one day just had to go", "And your gentleness now, which you just can’t help but show", "Who among them do you think would employ you?", "Now you stand with your thief, you’re on his parole", "With your holy medallion which your fingertips fold", "And your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul", "Oh, who among them do you think could destroy you?", "Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands", "Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes", "My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums", "Should I leave them by your gate", "Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sally-gal/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 7: No Direction Home", "year": 2005, "title": "Sally Gal", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I’m gonna get you Sally girl", "I’m gonna get you Sally girl", "I’m gonna get you Sally girl", "I’m gonna get you Sally gal" ], [ "I’m just one o’ them ramblin’ men", "Ramblin’ since I don’t know when", "Here I come and I’m a-gone again", "Sally says I got no end" ], [ "I’m gonna get you Sally girl", "I’m gonna get you Sally girl", "I’m gonna get you Sally girl", "I’m gonna get you Sally gal" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sally-sue-brown/", "album": "Down in the Groove", "year": 1988, "title": "Sally Sue Brown", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Look who's back in town", "Ain't nobody but Sally Sue Brown", "All you boys better run for cover", "If you don't a-wanna be a hearted broken lover." ], [ "See her in that very tight skirt", "Got what it takes", "Just to make you hurt", "Don't you see by those big bright eyes", "Prefer to treat her nasty and low down lies." ], [ "Makes no difference where she's been", "I'm go in south and doin' them things again", "Bake in a hot tub, down the line", "I'd rather see you ruin this a-heart of mine." ], [ "I'll go see them come down my way", "Like a fool you're gonna hear me say:", "\"I'll lay at your bed Sally Sue Brown", "Please let me love you, baby", "Don't put me down\"." ], [ "Makes no difference where she's been", "I'm go in south and doin' them things again", "Bake in a hot tub, down the line", "I'd rather see you ruin this a-heart of mine." ], [ "I'll go see them come down my way", "Like a fool you're gonna hear me say:", "\"I'll lay at your bed Sally Sue Brown", "Please let me love you, baby", "Don't put me down\"." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/santa-f/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Santa Fe", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Santa Fe, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear Santa Fe", "My woman needs it ev’ryday", "She promised this a-lad she’d stay", "She’s rollin’ up a lotta bread to toss away" ], [ "She’s in Santa Fe, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear Santa Fe", "Now she’s opened up an old maid’s home", "She’s proud, but she needs to roam", "She’s gonna write herself a roadside poem about Santa Fe" ], [ "Santa Fe, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear Santa Fe", "Since I’m never gonna cease to roam", "I’m never, ever far from home", "But I’ll build a geodesic dome and sail away" ], [ "Don’t feel bad, no, no, no, no, don’t feel bad", "It’s the best food I’ve ever had", "Makes me feel so glad", "That she’s cooking in a homemade pad", "She never caught a cold so bad when I’m away" ], [ "Santa Fe, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear Santa Fe", "My shrimp boat’s in the bay", "I won’t have my nature this way", "And I’m leanin’ on the wheel each day to drift away from" ], [ "Santa Fe, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear Santa Fe", "My sister looks good at home", "She’s lickin’ on an ice cream cone", "She’s packin’ her big white comb", "What does it weigh?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sara/", "album": "Desire", "year": 1976, "title": "Sara", "plays": 33, "lyrics": [ [ "I laid on a dune, I looked at the sky", "When the children were babies and played on the beach", "You came up behind me, I saw you go by", "You were always so close and still within reach" ], [ "Sara, Sara", "Whatever made you want to change your mind?", "Sara, Sara", "So easy to look at, so hard to define" ], [ "I can still see them playin’ with their pails in the sand", "They run to the water their buckets to fill", "I can still see the shells fallin’ out of their hands", "As they follow each other back up the hill" ], [ "Sara, Sara", "Sweet virgin angel, sweet love of my life", "Sara, Sara", "Radiant jewel, mystical wife" ], [ "Sleepin’ in the woods by a fire in the night", "Drinkin’ white rum in a Portugal bar", "Them playin’ leapfrog and hearin’ about Snow White", "You in the marketplace in Savanna-la-Mar" ], [ "Sara, Sara", "It’s all so clear, I could never forget", "Sara, Sara", "Lovin’ you is the one thing I’ll never regret" ], [ "I can still hear the sounds of those Methodist bells", "I’d taken the cure and had just gotten through", "Stayin’ up for days in the Chelsea Hotel", "Writin’ “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” for you" ], [ "Sara, Sara", "Wherever we travel we’re never apart", "Sara, oh Sara", "Beautiful lady, so dear to my heart" ], [ "How did I meet you? I don’t know", "A messenger sent me in a tropical storm", "You were there in the winter, moonlight on the snow", "And on Lily Pond Lane when the weather was warm" ], [ "Sara, oh Sara", "Scorpio Sphinx in a calico dress", "Sara, Sara", "You must forgive me my unworthiness" ], [ "Now the beach is deserted except for some kelp", "And a piece of an old ship that lies on the shore", "You always responded when I needed your help", "You gimme a map and a key to your door" ], [ "Sara, oh Sara", "Glamorous nymph with an arrow and bow", "Sara, oh Sara", "Don’t ever leave me, don’t ever go" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sarah-jane/", "album": "Dylan", "year": 1973, "title": "Sarah Jane", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/saved/", "album": "Saved", "year": 1980, "title": "Saved", "plays": 83, "lyrics": [ [ "I was blinded by the devil", "Born already ruined", "Stone-cold dead", "As I stepped out of the womb", "By His grace I have been touched", "By His word I have been healed", "By His hand I’ve been delivered", "By His spirit I’ve been sealed" ], [ "I’ve been saved", "By the blood of the lamb", "Saved", "By the blood of the lamb", "Saved", "Saved", "And I’m so glad", "Yes, I’m so glad", "I’m so glad", "So glad", "I want to thank You, Lord", "I just want to thank You, Lord", "Thank You, Lord" ], [ "By His truth I can be upright", "By His strength I do endure", "By His power I’ve been lifted", "In His love I am secure", "He bought me with a price", "Freed me from the pit", "Full of emptiness and wrath", "And the fire that burns in it" ], [ "I’ve been saved", "By the blood of the lamb", "Saved", "By the blood of the lamb", "Saved", "Saved", "And I’m so glad", "Yes, I’m so glad", "I’m so glad", "So glad", "I want to thank You, Lord", "I just want to thank You, Lord", "Thank You, Lord" ], [ "Nobody to rescue me", "Nobody would dare", "I was going down for the last time", "But by His mercy I’ve been spared", "Not by works", "But by faith in Him who called", "For so long I’ve been hindered", "For so long I’ve been stalled" ], [ "I’ve been saved", "By the blood of the lamb", "Saved", "By the blood of the lamb", "Saved", "Saved", "And I’m so glad", "Yes, I’m so glad", "I’m so glad", "So glad", "I want to thank You, Lord", "I just want to thank You, Lord", "Thank You, Lord" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/saving-grace/", "album": "Saved", "year": 1980, "title": "Saving Grace", "plays": 103, "lyrics": [ [ "If you find it in Your heart, can I be forgiven?", "Guess I owe You some kind of apology", "I’ve escaped death so many times, I know I’m only living", "By the saving grace that’s over me" ], [ "By this time I’d-a thought I would be sleeping", "In a pine box for all eternity", "My faith keeps me alive, but I still be weeping", "For the saving grace that’s over me" ], [ "Well, the death of life, then come the resurrection", "Wherever I am welcome is where I’ll be", "I put all my confidence in Him, my sole protection", "Is the saving grace that’s over me" ], [ "Well, the devil’s shining light, it can be most blinding", "But to search for love, that ain’t no more than vanity", "As I look around this world all that I’m finding", "Is the saving grace that’s over me" ], [ "The wicked know no peace and you just can’t fake it", "There’s only one road and it leads to Calvary", "It gets discouraging at times, but I know I’ll make it", "By the saving grace that’s over me" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/scarlet-town/", "album": "Tempest", "year": 2012, "title": "Scarlet Town", "plays": 335, "lyrics": [ [ "In Scarlet Town where I was born", "There’s ivy leaf and silver thorn", "The streets have names you can’t pronounce", "Gold is down to a quarter of an ounce" ], [ "The music starts and the people sway", "Everybody says, are you going my way?", "Uncle Tom still working for Uncle Bill", "Scarlet town is under the hill" ], [ "Scarlet Town in the month of May", "Sweet William on his deathbed lay", "Mistress Mary by the side of the bed", "Kissing his face, heaping prayers on his head" ], [ "So brave, so true, so gentle is he", "I’ll weep for him as he’d weep for me", "Little Boy Blue come blow your horn", "In Scarlet Town where I was born" ], [ "Scarlet Town in the hot noon hours", "There’s palm leaf shadows and scattered flowers", "Beggars crouching at the gate", "Help comes but it comes too late" ], [ "On marble slabs and in fields of stone", "You make your humble wishes known", "I touched the garment but the hem was torn", "In Scarlet Town where I was born" ], [ "In Scarlet Town the end is near", "The seven wonders of the world are here", "The evil and the good living side by side", "All human forms seem glorified" ], [ "Put your heart on a platter and see who’ll bite", "See who’ll hold you and kiss you good night", "There’s walnut groves and maple wood", "In Scarlet town crying won’t do you no good" ], [ "In Scarlet Town you fight your father’s foes", "Up on the hill a chilly wind blows", "You fight ‘em on high and you fight ‘em down in", "You fight ‘em with whisky, morphine and gin" ], [ "You got legs that can drive men mad", "A lot of things we didn’t do that I wish we had", "In Scarlet Town the sky is clear", "You'll wish to God that you stayed right here" ], [ "Set ‘em up Joe, play Walking The Floor", "Play it for my flat chested junky whore", "I’m staying up late and I’m making amends", "While the smile of heaven descends" ], [ "If love is a sin than beauty is a crime", "All things are beautiful in their time", "The black and the white, the yellow and the brown", "It’s all right there for ya in Scarlet Town" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/see-my-grave-kept-clean/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "Well there's one kind of favor I'll ask for you", "Well there's one kind of favor I'll ask for you", "There's just one kind of favor I'll ask for you", "You can see that my grave is kept clean." ], [ "And there's two white horses following me", "And there's two white horses following me", "I got two white horses following me", "Waiting on my burying ground." ], [ "Did you ever hear that coffin sound", "Did you ever hear that coffin sound", "Did you ever hear that coffin sound", "Means another poor boy is underground." ], [ "Did you ever hear them church bells toll", "Did you ever hear them church bells toll", "Did you ever hear them church bells toll", "Means another poor boy is dead and gone." ], [ "And my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold", "And my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold", "And my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold", "Now I believe what the Bible told." ], [ "There's just one last favor I'll ask for you", "And there's one last favor I'll ask for you", "There's just one last favor I'll ask for you", "See that my grave is kept clean." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/see-you-later-allen-ginsberg/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "See You Later Allen Ginsberg", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/seeing-real-you-last/", "album": "Empire Burlesque", "year": 1985, "title": "Seeing the Real You at Last", "plays": 242, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I thought that the rain would cool things down", "But it looks like it don’t", "I’d like to get you to change your mind", "But it looks like you won’t" ], [ "From now on I’ll be busy", "Ain’t goin’ nowhere fast", "I’m just glad it’s over", "And I’m seeing the real you at last" ], [ "Well, didn’t I risk my neck for you", "Didn’t I take chances?", "Didn’t I rise above it all for you", "The most unfortunate circumstances?" ], [ "Well, I have had some rotten nights", "Didn’t think that they would pass", "I’m just thankful and grateful", "To be seeing the real you at last" ], [ "I’m hungry and I’m irritable", "And I’m tired of this bag of tricks", "At one time there was nothing wrong with me", "That you could not fix" ], [ "Well, I sailed through the storm", "Strapped to the mast", "But the time has come", "And I’m seeing the real you at last" ], [ "When I met you, baby", "You didn’t show no visible scars", "You could ride like Annie Oakley", "You could shoot like Belle Starr" ], [ "Well, I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble", "Trouble always comes to pass", "But all I care about now", "Is that I’m seeing the real you at last" ], [ "Well, I’m gonna quit this baby talk now", "I guess I should have known", "I got troubles, I think maybe you got troubles", "I think maybe we’d better leave each other alone" ], [ "Whatever you gonna do", "Please do it fast", "I’m still trying to get used to", "Seeing the real you at last" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/senor-tales-yankee-power/", "album": "Street-Legal", "year": 1978, "title": "Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)", "plays": 265, "lyrics": [ [ "Señor, señor, do you know where we’re headin’?", "Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?", "Seems like I been down this way before", "Is there any truth in that, señor?" ], [ "Señor, señor, do you know where she is hidin’?", "How long are we gonna be ridin’?", "How long must I keep my eyes glued to the door?", "Will there be any comfort there, señor?" ], [ "There’s a wicked wind still blowin’ on that upper deck", "There’s an iron cross still hangin' down from around her neck", "There’s a marchin’ band still playin’ in that vacant lot", "Where she held me in her arms one time and said, “Forget me not”" ], [ "Señor, señor, I can see that painted wagon", "I can smell the tail of the dragon", "Can’t stand the suspense anymore", "Can you tell me who to contact here, señor?" ], [ "Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled", "Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field", "A gypsy with a broken flag and a flashing ring", "Said, “Son, this ain’t a dream no more, it’s the real thing”" ], [ "Señor, señor, you know their hearts is as hard as leather", "Well, give me a minute, let me get it together", "I just gotta pick myself up off the floor", "I’m ready when you are, señor" ], [ "Señor, señor, let’s disconnect these cables", "Overturn these tables", "This place don’t make sense to me no more", "Can you tell me what we’re waiting for, señor?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/series-dreams/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Series of Dreams", "plays": 10, "lyrics": [ [ "I was thinking of a series of dreams", "Where nothing comes up to the top", "Everything stays down where it’s wounded", "And comes to a permanent stop", "Wasn’t thinking of anything specific", "Like in a dream, when someone wakes up and screams", "Nothing too very scientific", "Just thinking of a series of dreams" ], [ "Thinking of a series of dreams", "Where the time and the tempo fly", "And there’s no exit in any direction", "’Cept the one that you can’t see with your eyes", "Wasn’t making any great connection", "Wasn’t falling for any intricate scheme", "Nothing that would pass inspection", "Just thinking of a series of dreams" ], [ "Dreams where the umbrella is folded", "Into the path you are hurled", "And the cards are no good that you’re holding", "Unless they’re from another world" ], [ "In one, numbers were burning", "In another, I witnessed a crime", "In one, I was running, and in another", "All I seemed to be doing was climb", "Wasn’t looking for any special assistance", "Not going to any great extremes", "I’d already gone the distance", "Just thinking of a series of dreams" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/seven-curses/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Seven Curses", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Old Reilly stole a stallion", "But they caught him and they brought him back", "And they laid him down on the jailhouse ground", "With an iron chain around his neck" ], [ "Old Reilly’s daughter got a message", "That her father was goin’ to hang", "She rode by night and came by morning", "With gold and silver in her hand" ], [ "When the judge he saw Reilly’s daughter", "His old eyes deepened in his head", "Sayin’, “Gold will never free your father", "The price, my dear, is you instead”" ], [ "“Oh I’m as good as dead,” cried Reilly", "“It’s only you that he does crave", "And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all", "Get on your horse and ride away”" ], [ "“Oh father you will surely die", "If I don’t take the chance to try", "And pay the price and not take your advice", "For that reason I will have to stay”" ], [ "The gallows shadows shook the evening", "In the night a hound dog bayed", "In the night the grounds were groanin’", "In the night the price was paid" ], [ "The next mornin’ she had awoken", "To know that the judge had never spoken", "She saw that hangin’ branch a-bendin’", "She saw her father’s body broken" ], [ "These be seven curses on a judge so cruel:", "That one doctor will not save him", "That two healers will not heal him", "That three eyes will not see him" ], [ "That four ears will not hear him", "That five walls will not hide him", "That six diggers will not bury him", "And that seven deaths shall never kill him" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/seven-days/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Seven Days", "plays": 18, "lyrics": [ [ "Seven days, seven more days she’ll be comin’", "I’ll be waiting at the station for her to arrive", "Seven more days, all I gotta do is survive" ], [ "She been gone ever since I been a child", "Ever since I seen her smile, I ain’t forgotten her eyes", "She had a face that could outshine the sun in the skies" ], [ "I been good, I been good while I been waitin’", "Maybe guilty of hesitatin’, I just been holdin’ on", "Seven more days, all that’ll be gone" ], [ "There’s kissing in the valley", "Thieving in the alley", "Fighting every inch of the way", "Trying to be tender", "With somebody I remember", "In a night that’s always brighter’n the day" ], [ "Seven days, seven more days that are connected", "Just like I expected, she’ll be comin’ on forth", "My beautiful comrade from the north" ], [ "There’s kissing in the valley", "Thieving in the alley", "Fighting every inch of the way", "Trying to be tender", "With somebody I remember", "In a night that’s always brighter’n the day" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shake-shake-mama/", "album": "Together Through Life", "year": 2009, "title": "Shake Shake Mama", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I get the blues for you baby when I look up at the sun", "I get the blues for you baby when I look up at the sun", "Come back here we can have some real fun" ], [ "Well it's early in the evening and everything is still", "Well it's early in the evening and everything is still", "One more time, I'm walking up on heartbreak hill" ], [ "Shake, shake mama, like a ship goin' out to sea", "Shake, shake mama, like a ship goin' out to sea", "You took all my money and you give it to Richard Lee" ], [ "Down by the river Judge Simpson walkin' around", "Down by the river Judge Simpson walkin' around", "Nothing shocks me more than that old clown" ], [ "Some of you women you really know your stuff", "Some of you women you really know your stuff", "But your clothes are all torn and your language is a little too rough" ], [ "Shake, shake mama, shake it 'til the break of day", "Shake, shake mama, shake it 'til the break of day", "I'm right here baby, I'm not that far away" ], [ "I'm motherless, fatherless, almost friendless too", "I'm motherless, fatherless, almost friendless too", "It's Friday morning on Franklin Avenue" ], [ "Shake, shake mama, raise your voice and pray", "Shake, shake mama, raise your voice and pray", "If you're goin' on home, better go the shortest way" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/she-belongs-me/", "album": "Bringing It All Back Home", "year": 1965, "title": "She Belongs to Me", "plays": 491, "lyrics": [ [ "She’s got everything she needs", "She’s an artist, she don’t look back", "She’s got everything she needs", "She’s an artist, she don’t look back", "She can take the dark out of the nighttime", "And paint the daytime black" ], [ "You will start out standing", "Proud to steal her anything she sees", "You will start out standing", "Proud to steal her anything she sees", "But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole", "Down upon your knees" ], [ "She never stumbles", "She’s got no place to fall", "She never stumbles", "She’s got no place to fall", "She’s nobody’s child", "The Law can’t touch her at all" ], [ "She wears an Egyptian ring", "That sparkles before she speaks", "She wears an Egyptian ring", "That sparkles before she speaks", "She’s a hypnotist collector", "You are a walking antique" ], [ "Bow down to her on Sunday", "Salute her when her birthday comes", "Bow down to her on Sunday", "Salute her when her birthday comes", "For Halloween give her a trumpet", "And for Christmas, buy her a drum" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shell-be-coming-round-mountain/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shes-my-mind-again/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "She’s on My Mind Again", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shes-your-lover-now/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "She’s Your Lover Now", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "The pawnbroker roared", "Also, so, so did the landlord", "The scene was so crazy, wasn’t it?", "Both were so glad", "To watch me destroy what I had", "Pain sure brings out the best in people, doesn’t it?", "Why didn’t you just leave me if you didn’t want to stay?", "Why’d you have to treat me so bad?", "Did it have to be that way?", "Now you stand here expectin’ me to remember somethin’ you forgot to say", "Yes, and you, I see you’re still with her, well", "That’s fine ’cause she’s comin’ on so strange, can’t you tell?", "Somebody had better explain", "She’s got her iron chain", "I’d do it, but I, I just can’t remember how", "You talk to her", "She’s your lover now" ], [ "I already assumed", "That we’re in the felony room", "But I ain’t a judge, you don’t have to be nice to me", "But please tell that", "To your friend in the cowboy hat", "You know he keeps on sayin’ ev’rythin’ twice to me", "You know I was straight with you", "You know I’ve never tried to change you in any way", "You know if you didn’t want to be with me", "That you could . . . didn’t have to stay", "Now you stand here sayin’ you forgive and forget. Honey, what can I say?", "Yes, you, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can’t you reach?", "I see you kiss her on the cheek ev’rytime she gives a speech", "With her picture books of the pyramid", "And her postcards of Billy the Kid (why must everybody bow?)", "You better talk to her ’bout it", "You’re her lover now" ], [ "Oh, ev’rybody that cares", "Is goin’ up the castle stairs", "But I’m not up in your castle, honey", "It’s true, I just can’t recall", "San Francisco at all", "I can’t even remember El Paso, uh, honey", "You never had to be faithful", "I didn’t want you to grieve", "Oh, why was it so hard for you", "If you didn’t want to be with me, just to leave?", "Now you stand here while your finger’s goin’ up my sleeve", "An’ you, just what do you do anyway? Ain’t there nothin’ you can say?", "She’ll be standin’ on the bar soon", "With a fish head an’ a harpoon", "An’ a fake beard plastered on her brow", "You’d better do somethin’ quick", "She’s your lover now" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shelter-storm/", "album": "Blood on the Tracks", "year": 1975, "title": "Shelter from the Storm", "plays": 376, "lyrics": [ [ "’Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood", "When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud", "I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form", "“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”" ], [ "And if I pass this way again, you can rest assured", "I’ll always do my best for her, on that I give my word", "In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm", "“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”" ], [ "Not a word was spoke between us, there was little risk involved", "Everything up to that point had been left unresolved", "Try imagining a place where it’s always safe and warm", "“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”" ], [ "I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail", "Poisoned in the bushes an’ blown out on the trail", "Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn", "“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”" ], [ "Suddenly I turned around and she was standin’ there", "With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair", "She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns", "“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”" ], [ "Now there’s a wall between us, somethin’ there’s been lost", "I took too much for granted, got my signals crossed", "Just to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn", "“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”" ], [ "Well, the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount", "But nothing really matters much, it’s doom alone that counts", "And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn", "“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”" ], [ "I’ve heard newborn babies wailin’ like a mournin’ dove", "And old men with broken teeth stranded without love", "Do I understand your question, man, is it hopeless and forlorn?", "“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”" ], [ "In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes", "I bargained for salvation an’ they gave me a lethal dose", "I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn", "“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”" ], [ "Well, I’m livin’ in a foreign country but I’m bound to cross the line", "Beauty walks a razor’s edge, someday I’ll make it mine", "If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born", "“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shenandoah/", "album": "Down in the Groove", "year": 1988, "title": "Shenandoah", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you", "Look away, you rollin' river", "Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you", "Look away. We're bound away", "Across the wide Missouri" ], [ "Now the Missouri is a mighty river", "Look away, you rollin' river.", "Indians camp along her border", "Look away. We're bound away", "Across the wide Missouri" ], [ "Well a white man loved an Indian maiden", "Look away, you rollin' river", "With notions his canoe was laden", "Look away, we're bound away", "Across the wide Missouri" ], [ "Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter", "Look away, you rollin' river", "It was for her I'd cross the water.", "Look away, we're bound away", "Across the wide Missouri" ], [ "For seven long years I courted Sally", "Look away, you rollin' river", "Seven more years I longed to have her", "Look away, we're bound away", "Across the wide Missouri" ], [ "Well, it's fare-thee-well, my dear,", "I'm bound to leave you", "Look away you rollin' river", "Shenandoah, I will not deceive you", "Look away, we're bound away", "Across the wide Missouri" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shooting-star/", "album": "Oh Mercy", "year": 1989, "title": "Shooting Star", "plays": 126, "lyrics": [ [ "Seen a shooting star tonight", "And I thought of you", "You were trying to break into another world", "A world I never knew", "I always kind of wondered", "If you ever made it through", "Seen a shooting star tonight", "And I thought of you" ], [ "Seen a shooting star tonight", "And I thought of me", "If I was still the same", "If I ever became what you wanted me to be", "Did I miss the mark or overstep the line", "That only you could see?", "Seen a shooting star tonight", "And I thought of me" ], [ "Listen to the engine, listen to the bell", "As the last fire truck from hell", "Goes rolling by", "All good people are praying", "It’s the last temptation, the last account", "The last time you might hear the sermon on the mount", "The last radio is playing" ], [ "Seen a shooting star tonight", "Slip away", "Tomorrow will be", "Another day", "Guess it’s too late to say the things to you", "That you needed to hear me say", "Seen a shooting star tonight", "Slip away" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shot-love/", "album": "Shot of Love", "year": 1981, "title": "Shot of Love", "plays": 76, "lyrics": [ [ "I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love" ], [ "Don’t need a shot of heroin to kill my disease", "Don’t need a shot of turpentine, only bring me to my knees", "Don’t need a shot of codeine to help me to repent", "Don’t need a shot of whiskey, help me be president" ], [ "I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love" ], [ "Doctor, can you hear me? I need some Medicaid", "I seen the kingdoms of the world and it’s makin’ me feel afraid", "What I got ain’t painful, it’s just bound to kill me dead", "Like the men that followed Jesus when they put a price upon His head" ], [ "I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love" ], [ "I don’t need no alibi when I’m spending time with you", "I’ve heard all of them rumors and you have heard ’em too", "Don’t show me no picture show or give me no book to read", "It don’t satisfy the hurt inside nor the habit that it feeds" ], [ "I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love" ], [ "Why would I want to take your life?", "You’ve only murdered my father, raped his wife", "Tattooed my babies with a poison pen", "Mocked my God, humiliated my friends" ], [ "I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love" ], [ "Don’t wanna be with nobody tonight", "Veronica not around nowhere, Mavis just ain’t right", "There’s a man that hates me and he’s swift, smooth and near", "Am I supposed to set back and wait until he’s here?" ], [ "I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love" ], [ "What makes the wind wanna blow tonight?", "Don’t even feel like crossing the street and my car ain’t actin’ right", "Called home, everybody seemed to have moved away", "My conscience is beginning to bother me today" ], [ "I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love" ], [ "I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love", "If you’re a doctor, I need a shot of love" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sign-language/", "album": "", "title": "Sign Language", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "You speak to me", "In sign language", "As I’m eating a sandwich", "In a small café", "At a quarter to three", "But I can’t respond", "To your sign language", "You’re taking advantage", "Bringing me down", "Can’t you make any sound?" ], [ "’Twas there by the bakery", "Surrounded by fakery", "Tell her my story", "Still I’m still there", "Does she know I still care?" ], [ "Link Wray was playin’", "On a jukebox I was payin’", "For the words I was sayin’", "So misunderstood", "He didn’t do me no good" ], [ "You speak to me", "In sign language", "As I’m eating a sandwich", "In a small café", "At a quarter to three", "But I can’t respond", "To your sign language", "You’re taking advantage", "Bringing me down", "Can’t you make any sound?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sign-on-the-cross/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "Sign on the Cross", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Now, I try, oh for so awf’ly long", "And I just try to be", "And now, oh it’s a gold mine", "But it’s so fine", "Yes, but I know in my head", "That we’re all so misled", "And it’s that ol’ sign on the cross", "That worries me" ], [ "Now, when I was just a bawlin’ child", "I saw what I wanted to be", "And it’s all for the sake", "Of that picture I should see", "But I was lost on the moon", "As I heard that front door slam", "And that old sign on the cross", "Still worries me" ], [ "Well, it’s that old sign on the cross", "Well, it’s that old key to the kingdom", "Well, it’s that old sign on the cross", "Like you used to be", "But, when I hold my head so high", "As I see my ol’ friends go by", "And it’s still that sign on the cross", "That worries me" ], [ "Well, it seem to be the sign on the cross. Ev’ry day,", "ev’ry night, see the sign on the cross just layin’ up", "on top of the hill. Yes, we thought it might have", "disappeared long ago, but I’m here to tell you, friends,", "that I’m afraid it’s lyin’ there still. Yes, just a", "little time is all you need, you might say, but I don’t", "know ’bout that any more, because the bird is here and", "you might want to enter it, but, of course, the door might", "be closed. But I just would like to tell you one time,", "if I don’t see you again, that the thing is, that the sign", "on the cross is the thing you might need the most." ], [ "Yes, the sign on the cross", "Is just a sign on the cross", "Well, there is some on every chisel", "And there is some in the championship, too", "Oh, when your, when your days are numbered", "And your nights are long", "You might think you’re weak", "But I mean to say you’re strong", "Yes you are, if that sign on the cross", "If it begins to worry you", "Well, that’s all right because sing a song", "And all your troubles will pass right on through" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sign-window/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "Sign on the Window", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Sign on the window says “Lonely”", "Sign on the door said “No Company Allowed”", "Sign on the street says “Y’ Don’t Own Me”", "Sign on the porch says “Three’s A Crowd”", "Sign on the porch says “Three’s A Crowd”" ], [ "Her and her boyfriend went to California", "Her and her boyfriend done changed their tune", "My best friend said, “Now didn’ I warn ya", "Brighton girls are like the moon", "Brighton girls are like the moon”" ], [ "Looks like a-nothing but rain . . .", "Sure gonna be wet tonight on Main Street . . .", "Hope that it don’t sleet" ], [ "Build me a cabin in Utah", "Marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout", "Have a bunch of kids who call me “Pa”", "That must be what it’s all about", "That must be what it’s all about" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/silent-weekend/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes RAW", "year": 2014, "title": "Silent Weekend", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Silent weekend", "My baby she gave it to me", "Silent weekend", "My baby she gave it to me", "She’s actin’ tough and hardy", "She says it ain’t my party", "And she’s leavin’ me in misery" ], [ "Silent weekend", "My baby she took me by surprise", "Silent weekend", "My baby she took me by surprise", "She’s rockin’ and a-reelin’", "Head up to ceiling", "An’ swinging with some other guys" ], [ "Silent weekend", "Oh Lord, I wish Monday would come", "Silent weekend", "Oh Lord, I sure wish Monday would come", "She’s uppity, she’s rollin’", "She’s in the groove, she’s strolling", "Over to the jukebox playin’ deaf and dumb" ], [ "Well, I done a whole lotta thinkin’ ’bout a whole lot of cheatin’", "And I, maybe I did some just to please", "But I just walloped a lotta pizza after makin’ our peace", "Puts ya down on bended knees" ], [ "Silent weekend", "Man alive, I’m burnin’ up on my brain", "Silent weekend", "Man alive, I’m burnin’ up on my brain", "She knows when I’m just teasin’", "But it’s not likely in the season", "To open up a passenger train" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/silhouettes/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Silhouettes", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/silver-bells/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "Silver Bells", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/silver-dagger/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964", "year": 2004, "title": "Silver Dagger", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Don't sing love songs; you'll wake my mother", "She's sleeping here, right by my side", "And in her right hand, a silver dagger", "She says that I can't be your bride.", "All men are false, says my mother", "They'll tell you wicked, lovin' lies", "The very next evening, they'll court another", "Leave you alone to pine and sigh.", "My daddy is a handsome devil", "He's got a chain five miles long", "And on every link a heart does dangle", "Of another maid he's loved and wronged.", "Go court another tender maiden", "And hope that she will be your wife", "For I've been warned and I've decided", "To sleep alone all of my life." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/silvio/", "album": "Down in the Groove", "year": 1988, "title": "Silvio", "plays": 594, "lyrics": [ [ "Stake my future on a hell of a past", "Looks like tomorrow is coming on fast", "Ain't complaining 'bout what I got", "Seen better times, but who has not?" ], [ "Silvio", "Silver and gold", "Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold", "Silvio", "I gotta go", "Find out something only dead men know" ], [ "Honest as the next jade rolling that stone", "When I come knocking don't throw me no bone", "I'm an old boll weevil looking for a home", "If you don't like it you can leave me alone" ], [ "I can snap my fingers and require the rain", "From a clear blue sky and turn it off again", "I can stroke your body and relieve your pain", "And charm the whistle off an evening train" ], [ "I give what I got until I got no more", "I take what I get until I even the score", "You know I love you and furthermore", "When it's time to go you got an open door" ], [ "I can tell you fancy, I can tell you plain", "You give something up for everything you gain", "Since every pleasure's got an edge of pain", "Pay for your ticket and don't complain" ], [ "One of these days and it won't be long", "Going down in the valley and sing my song", "I will sing it loud and sing it strong", "Let the echo decide if I was right or wrong" ], [ "Silvio", "Silver and gold", "Won't buy back the beat of a heart grown cold", "Silvio", "I gotta go", "Find out something only dead men know" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/simple-twist-fate/", "album": "Blood on the Tracks", "year": 1975, "title": "Simple Twist of Fate", "plays": 804, "lyrics": [ [ "They sat together in the park", "As the evening sky grew dark", "She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones", "’Twas then he felt alone and wished that he’d gone straight", "And watched out for a simple twist of fate" ], [ "They walked along by the old canal", "A little confused, I remember well", "And stopped into a strange hotel with a neon burnin’ bright", "He felt the heat of the night hit him like a freight train", "Moving with a simple twist of fate" ], [ "A saxophone someplace far off played", "As she was walkin’ by the arcade", "As the light bust through a beat-up shade where he was wakin’ up,", "She dropped a coin into the cup of a blind man at the gate", "And forgot about a simple twist of fate" ], [ "He woke up, the room was bare", "He didn’t see her anywhere", "He told himself he didn’t care, pushed the window open wide", "Felt an emptiness inside to which he just could not relate", "Brought on by a simple twist of fate" ], [ "He hears the ticking of the clocks", "And walks along with a parrot that talks", "Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailors all come in", "Maybe she’ll pick him out again, how long must he wait", "Once more for a simple twist of fate" ], [ "People tell me it’s a sin", "To know and feel too much within", "I still believe she was my twin, but I lost the ring", "She was born in spring, but I was born too late", "Blame it on a simple twist of fate" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sittin-top-world/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Sittin’ on Top of the World", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Was in the summer,", "One early fall,", "Just tryin' to find my", "Little all and all", "Now she's gone,", "An' I don't worry.", "Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world." ], [ "Was in the spring,", "One summer's day.", "Just when she left me,", "She gone to stay.", "Now she's gone.", "An' I don't worry.", "Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world." ], [ "Now don't come runnin'", "Holdin' up your hand.", "Can get me a woman", "Quick as you can get a man.", "Now she's gone.", "An' I don't worry.", "Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world." ], [ "Happen for days,", "Didn't know your name.", "Oh, why should I worry", "Or crave you in vain?", "Now she's gone.", "An' I don't worry.", "Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world." ], [ "Went to the station,", "Down in the yard,", "Gonna get me a freight train,", "Work's done got hard.", "Now she's gone.", "An' I don't worry.", "Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world." ], [ "The lonesome days,", "They have gone by,", "Why should I beg you?", "You said good-bye.", "Now she's gone.", "An' I don't worry.", "Lord, I'm sittin' on top of the world." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sitting-barbed-wire-fence/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Sitting on a Barbed-Wire Fence", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I paid fifteen million dollars, twelve hundred and seventy-two cents", "I paid one thousand two hundred twenty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents", "See my hound dog bite a rabbit", "And my football’s sittin’ on a barbed-wire fence" ], [ "Well, my temperature rises and my feet don’t walk so fast", "Yes, my temperature rises and my feet don’t walk so fast", "Well, this Arabian doctor came in, gave me a shot", "But wouldn’t tell me if what I had would last" ], [ "Well, this woman I’ve got, she’s filling me with her drive", "Yes, this woman I’ve got, she’s thrillin’ me with her hive", "She’s calling me Stan", "Or else she calls me Mister Clive" ], [ "Of course, you’re gonna think this song is a riff", "I know you’re gonna think this song is a cliff", "Unless you’ve been inside a tunnel", "And fell down 69, 70 feet over a barbed-wire fence" ], [ "All night!" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/skylark/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "Skylark", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/slow-train/", "album": "Slow Train Coming", "year": 1979, "title": "Slow Train", "plays": 127, "lyrics": [ [ "Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted", "Can’t help but wonder what’s happenin’ to my companions", "Are they lost or are they found", "Have they counted the cost it’ll take to bring down", "All their earthly principles they’re gonna have to abandon?", "There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend" ], [ "I had a woman down in Alabama", "She was a backwoods girl, but she sure was realistic", "She said, “Boy, without a doubt", "Have to quit your mess and straighten out", "You could die down here, be just another accident statistic”", "There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend" ], [ "All that foreign oil controlling American soil", "Look around you, it’s just bound to make you embarrassed", "Sheiks walkin’ around like kings", "Wearing fancy jewels and nose rings", "Deciding America’s future from Amsterdam and to Paris", "And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend" ], [ "Man’s ego is inflated, his laws are outdated, they don’t apply no more", "You can’t rely no more to be standin’ around waitin'", "In the home of the brave", "Jefferson turnin’ over in his grave", "Fools glorifying themselves, trying to manipulate Satan", "And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend" ], [ "Big-time negotiators, false healers and woman haters", "Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition", "But the enemy I see", "Wears a cloak of decency", "All nonbelievers and men stealers talkin’ in the name of religion", "And there’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend" ], [ "People starving and thirsting, grain elevators are bursting", "Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it", "They say lose your inhibitions", "Follow your own ambitions", "They talk about a life of brotherly love show me someone who knows how to live it", "There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend" ], [ "Well, my baby went to Illinois with some bad-talkin’ boy she could destroy", "A real suicide case, but there was nothin’ I could do to stop it", "I don’t care about economy", "I don’t care about astronomy", "But it sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets", "There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/solid-rock/", "album": "Saved", "year": 1980, "title": "Solid Rock", "plays": 162, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I’m hangin’ on to a solid rock", "Made before the foundation of the world", "And I won’t let go, and I can’t let go, won’t let go", "And I can’t let go, won’t let go and I can’t let go no more" ], [ "For me He was chastised, for me He was hated", "For me He was rejected by a world that He created", "Nations are angry, cursed are some", "People are expecting a false peace to come" ], [ "Well, I’m hangin’ on to a solid rock", "Made before the foundation of the world", "And I won’t let go and I can’t let go, won’t let go", "And I can’t let go, won’t let go and I can’t let go no more" ], [ "It’s the ways of the flesh to war against the spirit", "Twenty-four hours a day you can feel it and you can hear it", "Using all the devices under the sun", "And He never give up ’til the battle’s lost or won" ], [ "Well, I’m hangin’ on to a solid rock", "Made before the foundation of the world", "And I won’t let go and I can’t let go, won’t let go", "And I can’t let go, won’t let go and I can’t let go no more" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/some-enchanted-evening/", "album": "Shadows in the Night", "year": 2015, "title": "Some Enchanted Evening", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/someday-baby/", "album": "Modern Times", "year": 2006, "title": "Someday Baby", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I don’t care what you do, I don’t care what you say", "I don’t care where you go or how long you stay", "Someday baby, you ain’t gonna worry po’ me anymore" ], [ "Well you take my money and you turn me out", "You fill me up with nothin’ but self doubt", "Someday baby, you ain’t gonna worry po’ me anymore" ], [ "When I was young, driving was my crave", "You drive me so hard, almost to the grave", "Someday baby, you ain’t gonna worry po’ me anymore" ], [ "Something is the matter, my mind tied up in knots", "I keep recycling the same old thoughts", "Someday baby, you ain’t gonna worry po’ me anymore" ], [ "So many good things in life I overlooked", "I don’t know what to do now, you got me so hooked", "Someday baby, you ain’t gonna worry po’ me anymore" ], [ "Gonna get myself together, I’m gonna wring your neck", "When all else fails I’ll make it a matter of self-respect", "Someday baby, you ain’t gonna worry po’ me anymore" ], [ "You can take your clothes, put ’m in a sack", "You goin’ down the road, baby and you can’t come back", "Someday baby, you ain’t gonna worry po’ me anymore" ], [ "I try to be friendly, I try to be kind", "Now I’m gonna drive you from your home, just like I was driven from mine Someday baby, you ain’t gonna worry po’ me anymore" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/someones-got-hold-my-heart/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "They say, “Eat, drink and be merry\"", "\"Take the bull by the horns”", "I keep seeing visions of you, a lily among thorns", "Everything looks a little far away to me" ], [ "Gettin’ harder and harder to recognize the trap", "Too much information about nothin’", "Too much educated rap", "It’s just like you told me, just like you said it would be" ], [ "The moon rising like wildfire", "I feel the breath of a storm", "Something I got to do tonight", "You go inside and stay warm" ], [ "Someone’s got a hold of my heart", "Someone’s got a hold of my heart", "Someone’s got a hold of my heart", "You—", "Yeah, you got a hold of my heart" ], [ "Just got back from a city of flaming red skies", "Everybody thinks with their stomach", "There’s plenty of spies", "Every street is crooked, they just wind around till they disappear" ], [ "Madame Butterfly, she lulled me to sleep", "Like an ancient river", "So wide and deep", "She said, “Be easy, baby, ain’t nothin’ worth stealin’ here”" ], [ "You’re the one I’ve been waitin’ for", "You’re the one I desire", "But you must first realize", "I’m not another man for hire" ], [ "Someone’s got a hold of my heart", "Someone’s got a hold of my heart", "Someone’s got a hold of my heart", "You, you, you, you", "Yeah, you got a hold of my heart" ], [ "Hear that hot-blooded singer", "On the bandstand croon", "September song, Memphis in June", "While they’re beating the devil out of a guy who’s wearing a powder blue wig" ], [ "I been to Babylon", "I gotta confess", "I could still hear the voice crying in the wilderness", "What looks large from a distance, close up is never that big", "Never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine", "Never could learn to look at your face and call it mine" ], [ "Someone’s got a hold of my heart", "Someone’s got a hold of my heart", "Someone’s got a hold of my heart", "You—", "Yeah, you got a hold of my heart" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/something-there-about-you/", "album": "Planet Waves", "year": 1974, "title": "Something There Is About You", "plays": 26, "lyrics": [ [ "Something there is about you that strikes a match in me", "Is it the way your body moves or is it the way your hair blows free?", "Or is it because you remind me of something that used to be", "Somethin’ that crossed over from another century?" ], [ "Thought I’d shaken the wonder and the phantoms of my youth", "Rainy days on the Great Lakes, walkin’ the hills of old Duluth", "There was me and Danny Lopez, cold eyes, black night and then there was Ruth", "Something there is about you that brings back a long-forgotten truth" ], [ "Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings", "Don’t have to look no further, you’re the soul of many things", "I could say that I’d be faithful, I could say it in one sweet, easy breath", "But to you that would be cruelty and to me it surely would be death" ], [ "Something there is about you that moves with style and grace", "I was in a whirlwind, now I’m in some better place", "My hand’s on the sabre and you’ve picked up the baton", "Somethin’ there is about you that I can’t quite put my finger on" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/somethings-burning-baby/", "album": "Empire Burlesque", "year": 1985, "title": "Something’s Burning, Baby", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Something is burning, baby, are you aware?", "Something is the matter, baby, there’s smoke in your hair", "Are you still my friend, baby, show me a sign", "Is the love in your heart for me turning blind?" ], [ "You’ve been avoiding the main streets for a long, long while", "The truth that I’m seeking is in your missing file", "What’s your position, baby, what’s going on?", "Why is the light in your eyes nearly gone?" ], [ "I know everything about this place, or so it seems", "Am I no longer a part of your plans or your dreams?", "Well, it is so obvious that something has changed", "What’s happening, baby, to make you act so strange?" ], [ "Something is burning, baby, here’s what I say", "Even the bloodhounds of London couldn’t find you today", "I see the shadow of a man, baby, makin’ you blue", "Who is he, baby, and what’s he to you?" ], [ "We’ve reached the edge of the road, baby, where the pasture begins", "Where charity is supposed to cover up a multitude of sins", "But where do you live, baby, and where is the light?", "Why are your eyes just staring off in the night?" ], [ "I can feel it in the night when I think of you", "I can feel it in the light and it’s got to be true", "You can’t live by bread alone, you won’t be satisfied", "You can’t roll away the stone if your hands are tied" ], [ "Got to start someplace, baby, can you explain?", "Please don’t fade away on me, baby, like the midnight train", "Answer me, baby, a casual look will do", "Just what in the world has come over you?" ], [ "I can feel it in the wind and it’s upside down", "I can feel it in the dust as I get off the bus on the outskirts of town", "I’ve had the Mexico City blues since the last hairpin curve", "I don’t wanna see you bleed, I know what you need but it ain’t what you deserve" ], [ "Something is burning, baby, something’s in flames", "There’s a man going ’round calling names", "Ring down when you’re ready, baby, I’m waiting for you", "I believe in the impossible, you know that I do" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/song-canada/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Song for Canada", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/song-woody/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "Song to Woody", "plays": 53, "lyrics": [ [ "I’m out here a thousand miles from my home", "Walkin’ a road other men have gone down", "I’m seein’ your world of people and things", "Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings" ], [ "Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song", "’Bout a funny ol’ world that’s a-comin’ along", "Seems sick an’ it’s hungry, it’s tired an’ it’s torn", "It looks like it’s a-dyin’ an’ it’s hardly been born" ], [ "Hey, Woody Guthrie, but I know that you know", "All the things that I’m a-sayin’ an’ a-many times more", "I’m a-singin’ you the song, but I can’t sing enough", "’Cause there’s not many men that done the things that you’ve done" ], [ "Here’s to Cisco an’ Sonny an’ Leadbelly too", "An’ to all the good people that traveled with you", "Here’s to the hearts and the hands of the men", "That come with the dust and are gone with the wind" ], [ "I’m a-leavin’ tomorrow, but I could leave today", "Somewhere down the road someday", "The very last thing that I’d want to do", "Is to say I’ve been hittin’ some hard travelin’ too" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/soon-after-midnight/", "album": "Tempest", "year": 2012, "title": "Soon After Midnight", "plays": 416, "lyrics": [ [ "I’m searching for phrases to sing your praises", "I need to tell someone", "It’s soon after midnight and my day has just begun" ], [ "A gal named Honey took my money", "She was passing by", "It’s soon after midnight and the moon is in my eye" ], [ "My heart is cheerful, it’s never fearful", "I been down on the killing floors", "I’m in no great hurry, I’m not afraid of your fury", "I've faced stronger walls than yours" ], [ "Charlotte’s a harlot, dresses in scarlet", "Mary dresses in green", "It’s soon after midnight and I’ve got a date with a fairy queen" ], [ "They chirp and they chatter, what does it matter", "They’re lying there dying in their blood", "Two Timing Slim, who’s ever heard of him?", "I’ll drag his corpse through the mud" ], [ "It’s now or never, more than ever", "When I met you I didn’t think you would do", "It’s soon after midnight and I don’t want nobody but you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/spanish-harlem-incident/", "album": "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "year": 1964, "title": "Spanish Harlem Incident", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Gypsy gal, the hands of Harlem", "Cannot hold you to its heat", "Your temperature’s too hot for taming", "Your flaming feet burn up the street", "I am homeless, come and take me", "Into reach of your rattling drums", "Let me know, babe, about my fortune", "Down along my restless palms" ], [ "Gypsy gal, you got me swallowed", "I have fallen far beneath", "Your pearly eyes, so fast an’ slashing", "An’ your flashing diamond teeth", "The night is pitch black, come an’ make my", "Pale face fit into place, ah, please!", "Let me know, babe, I’m nearly drowning", "If it’s you my lifelines trace" ], [ "I been wond’rin’ all about me", "Ever since I seen you there", "On the cliffs of your wildcat charms I’m riding", "I know I’m ’round you but I don’t know where", "You have slayed me, you have made me", "I got to laugh halfways off my heels", "I got to know, babe, will you surround me?", "So I can tell if I’m really real" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/spanish-loving-tongue/", "album": "Dylan", "year": 1973, "title": "Spanish is the Loving Tongue", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/spirit-water/", "album": "Modern Times", "year": 2006, "title": "Spirit on the Water", "plays": 547, "lyrics": [ [ "Spirit on the water", "Darkness on the face of the deep", "I keep thinking about you baby", "I can’t hardly sleep", "I’m traveling by land", "Traveling through the dawn of day", "You’re always on my mind", "I can’t stay away", "I’d forgotten about you", "Then you turned up again", "I always knew", "That we were meant to be more than friends", "When you are near", "It’s just as plain as it can be", "I’m wild about you, gal", "You ought to be a fool about me" ], [ "Can’t explain", "The sources of this hidden pain", "You burned your way into my heart", "You got the key to my brain", "I’ve been trampling through mud", "Praying to the powers above", "I’m sweating blood", "You got a face that begs for love", "Life without you", "Doesn’t mean a thing to me", "If I can’t have you", "I’ll throw my love into the deep blue sea", "Sometimes I wonder", "Why you can’t treat me right", "You do good all day", "Then you do wrong all night" ], [ "When you’re with me", "I’m a thousand times happier than I could ever say", "What does it matter", "What price I pay", "They brag about your sugar", "Brag about it all over town", "Put some sugar in my bowl", "I feel like laying down", "I’m pale as a ghost", "Holding a blossom on a stem", "You ever seen a ghost? No", "But you have heard of them", "I hear your name", "Ringing up and down the line", "I’m saying it plain", "These ties are strong enough to bind" ], [ "I been in a brawl", "Now I’m feeling the wall", "I’m going away baby", "I won’t be back ’til fall", "High on the hill", "You can carry all my thoughts with you", "You’ve numbed my will", "This love could tear me in two", "I wanna be with you in paradise", "And it seems so unfair", "I can’t go back to paradise no more", "I killed a man back there", "You think I’m over the hill", "You think I’m past my prime", "Let me see what you got", "We can have a whoppin’ good time" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/stack-lee/", "album": "World Gone Wrong", "year": 1993, "title": "Stack A Lee", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Hawlin Alley on a dark and drizzly night,", "Billy Lyons and Stack-A-Lee had one terrible fight.", "All about that John B. Stetson hat." ], [ "Stack-A-Lee walked to the bar-room, and he called for a glass of beer,", "Turned around to Billy Lyons, said, \"What are you doin' here?\"", "\"Waitin' for a train, please bring my woman home." ], [ "\"Stack-A-Lee, oh Stack-A-Lee. please don't take my life.", "Got three little children and a-weepin', lovin' wife.", "You're a bad man, bad man, Stack-A-Lee.\"" ], [ "\"God bless your children and I'll take care of your wife.", "You stole my John B., now I'm bound to take your life.\"", "All about that John B. Stetson hat." ], [ "Stack-A-Lee turned to Billy Lyons and he shot him right through the head,", "Only taking one shot to kill Billy Lyons dead.", "All about that John B. Stetson hat." ], [ "Sent for the doctor, well the doctor he did come,", "Just pointed out Stack-A-Lee, said, \"Now what have you done?\"", "You're a bad man, bad man, Stack-A-Lee.\"" ], [ "Six big horses and a rubber-tired hack,", "Taking him to the cemetery, buy they failed to bring him back.", "All about that John B. Stetson hat." ], [ "Hawlin Alley, thought I heard the bulldogs bark.", "It must have been old Stack-A-Lee stumbling in the dark.", "He's a bad man, gonna land him right back in jail." ], [ "High police walked on to Stack-A-Lee, he was lying fast asleep.", "High police walked on to Stack-A-Lee, and he jumped forty feet.", "He's a bad man, gonna land him right back in jail." ], [ "Well they got old Stack-A-Lee and they laid him right back in jail.", "Couldn't get a man around to go Stack-A Lee's bail", "All about that John B. Stetson hat." ], [ "Stack-A-Lee turned to the jailer, he said, \"Jailer, I can't sleep.", "'Round my bedside Billy Lyons began to creep.\"", "All about that John B. Stetson hat." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/stage-fright/", "album": "Before the Flood", "year": 1974, "title": "Stage Fright", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Now deep in the heart of a lonely kid", "Who suffered so much for what he did,", "They gave this ploughboy his fortune and fame,", "Since that day he ain't been the same." ], [ "See the man with the stage fright", "Just standin' up there to give it all his might.", "And he got caught in the spotlight,", "But when we get to the end", "He wants to start all over again." ], [ "I've got fire water right on my breath", "And the doctor warned me I might catch a death.", "Said, \"You can make it in your disguise,", "Just never show the fear that's in your eyes.\"" ], [ "See the man with the stage fright,", "Just standin' up there to give it all his might.", "He got caught in the spotlight,", "But when we get to the end", "He wants to start all over again." ], [ "Now if he says that he's afraid,", "Take him at his word.", "And for the price that the poor boy has paid,", "He gets to sing just like a bird, oh, ooh ooh ooh." ], [ "Your brow is sweatin' and your mouth gets dry,", "Fancy people go driftin' by.", "The moment of truth is right at hand,", "Just one more nightmare you can stand." ], [ "See the man with the stage fright", "Just standin' up there to give it all his might.", "And he got caught in the spotlight,", "But when we get to the end", "He wants to start all over again, hmm hmm," ], [ "You wanna try it once again, hmm hmm,", "Please don't make him stop, hmm hmm,", "Let him take it from the top, hmm hmm,", "Let him start all over again." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/standing-doorway/", "album": "Time out of Mind", "year": 1997, "title": "Standing in the Doorway", "plays": 58, "lyrics": [ [ "I’m walking through the summer nights", "Jukebox playing low", "Yesterday everything was going too fast", "Today, it’s moving too slow", "I got no place left to turn", "I got nothing left to burn", "Don’t know if I saw you, if I would kiss you or kill you", "It probably wouldn’t matter to you anyhow", "You left me standing in the doorway crying", "I got nothing to go back to now" ], [ "The light in this place is so bad", "Making me sick in the head", "All the laughter is just making me sad", "The stars have turned cherry red", "I’m strumming on my gay guitar", "Smoking a cheap cigar", "The ghost of our old love has not gone away", "Don’t look like it will anytime soon", "You left me standing in the doorway crying", "Under the midnight moon" ], [ "Maybe they’ll get me and maybe they won’t", "But not tonight and it won’t be here", "There are things I could say but I don’t", "I know the mercy of God must be near", "I’ve been riding the midnight train", "Got ice water in my veins", "I would be crazy if I took you back", "It would go up against every rule", "You left me standing in the doorway crying", "Suffering like a fool" ], [ "When the last rays of daylight go down", "Buddy, you’ll roll no more", "I can hear the church bells ringing in the yard", "I wonder who they’re ringing for", "I know I can’t win", "But my heart just won’t give in", "Last night I danced with a stranger", "But she just reminded me you were the one", "You left me standing in the doorway crying", "In the dark land of the sun" ], [ "I’ll eat when I’m hungry, drink when I’m dry", "And live my life on the square", "And even if the flesh falls off of my face", "I know someone will be there to care", "It always means so much", "Even the softest touch", "I see nothing to be gained by any explanation", "There are no words that need to be said", "You left me standing in the doorway crying", "Blues wrapped around my head" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/standing-highway/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Standing on the Highway", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I’m standin’ on the highway", "Tryin’ to bum a ride, tryin’ to bum a ride", "Tryin’ to bum a ride", "Well, I’m standin’ on the highway", "Tryin’ to bum a ride, tryin’ to bum a ride", "Tryin’ to bum a ride", "Nobody seem to know me", "Everybody pass me by" ], [ "Well, I’m standin’ on the highway", "Tryin’ to hold up, tryin’ to hold up", "Tryin’ to hold up and be brave", "Well, I’m standin’ on the highway", "Tryin’ to hold up, tryin’ to hold up and be brave", "One road’s goin’ to the bright lights", "The other’s goin’ down to my grave" ], [ "Well, I’m lookin’ down at two cards", "They seem to be handmade", "Well, I’m lookin’ down at two cards", "They seem to be handmade", "One looks like it’s the ace of diamonds", "The other looks like it is the ace of spades" ], [ "Well, I’m standin’ on the highway", "Watchin’ my life roll by", "Well, I’m standin’ on the highway", "Watchin’ my life roll by", "Well, I’m standin’ on the highway", "Tryin’ to bum a ride" ], [ "Well, I’m standin’ on the highway", "Wonderin’ where everybody went,", "wonderin’ where everybody went", "Wonderin’ where everybody went", "Well, I’m standin’ on the highway", "Wonderin’ where everybody went,", "wonderin’ where everybody went", "Wonderin’ where everybody went", "Please mister, pick me up", "I swear I ain’t gonna kill nobody’s kids" ], [ "I wonder if my good gal", "I wonder if she knows I’m here", "Nobody else seems to know I’m here", "I wonder if my good gal", "I wonder if she knows I’m here", "Nobody else seems to know I’m here", "If she knows I’m here, Lawd", "I wonder if she said a prayer" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/stay-me/", "album": "Shadows in the Night", "year": 2015, "title": "Stay with Me", "plays": 68, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/step-it-and-go/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Step it Up and Go", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Got a little girl, little and low,", "She used to love me but she don't no more.", "She gotta step it up and go-Yeah, go.", "Can't stand pat, swear you gotta step it up and go." ], [ "Got a little girl, she stays upstairs,", "Make a livin' by puttin' on airs.", "Gotta step it up and go-Yeah, man.", "Can't stand pat, swear you gotta step it up and go." ], [ "Front door shut, back door too,", "Blinds pulled down, what' cha gonna do?", "Gotta step it up and go-Yeah, go.", "Can't stand pat, swear you gotta step it up and go." ], [ "Got a little girl, her name is Ball,", "Give a little bit, she took it all.", "I said step it up and go-Yeah, man.", "Can't stand pat, swear you gotta step it up and go." ], [ "Me an' my baby walkin' down the street,", "Tellin' everybody 'bout the chief of police.", "Gotta step it up and go-Yeah, go.", "Can't stand pat, swear you gotta step it up and go." ], [ "Tell my woman I'll see her at home,", "Ain't no lovin' since she been gone.", "Gotta step it up and go-Yeah, go.", "Can't stand pat, swear you gotta step it up and go." ], [ "Well, I'll sing this verse, ain't gonna sing no more,", "Hear my gal call me and I got to go.", "Step it up and go-Yeah, man.", "Can't stand pat, swear you gotta step it up and go." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/still-town/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Still in Town", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/stuck-inside-mobile-memphis-blues-again/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again", "plays": 748, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, the ragman draws circles", "Up and down the block", "I’d ask him what the matter was", "But I know that he don’t talk", "And the ladies treat me kindly", "And furnish me with tape", "But deep inside my heart", "I know I can’t escape", "Oh, Mama, can this really be the end", "To be stuck inside of Mobile", "With the Memphis blues again" ], [ "Well, Shakespeare, he’s in the alley", "With his pointed shoes and his bells", "Speaking to some French girl", "Who says she knows me well", "And I would send a message", "To find out if she’s talked", "But the post office has been stolen", "And the mailbox is locked", "Oh, Mama, can this really be the end", "To be stuck inside of Mobile", "With the Memphis blues again" ], [ "Mona tried to tell me", "To stay away from the train line", "She said that all the railroad men", "Just drink up your blood like wine", "An’ I said, “Oh, I didn’t know that", "But then again, there’s only one I’ve met", "An’ he just smoked my eyelids", "An’ punched my cigarette”", "Oh, Mama, can this really be the end", "To be stuck inside of Mobile", "With the Memphis blues again" ], [ "Grandpa died last week", "And now he’s buried in the rocks", "But everybody still talks about", "How badly they were shocked", "But me, I expected it to happen", "I knew he’d lost control", "When he built a fire on Main Street", "And shot it full of holes", "Oh, Mama, can this really be the end", "To be stuck inside of Mobile", "With the Memphis blues again" ], [ "Now the senator came down here", "Showing ev’ryone his gun", "Handing out free tickets", "To the wedding of his son", "An’ me, I nearly got busted", "An’ wouldn’t it be my luck", "To get caught without a ticket", "And be discovered beneath a truck", "Oh, Mama, can this really be the end", "To be stuck inside of Mobile", "With the Memphis blues again" ], [ "Now the preacher looked so baffled", "When I asked him why he dressed", "With twenty pounds of headlines", "Stapled to his chest", "But he cursed me when I proved it to him", "Then I whispered, “Not even you can hide", "You see, you’re just like me", "I hope you’re satisfied”", "Oh, Mama, can this really be the end", "To be stuck inside of Mobile", "With the Memphis blues again" ], [ "Now the rainman gave me two cures", "Then he said, “Jump right in”", "The one was Texas medicine", "The other was just railroad gin", "An’ like a fool I mixed them", "An’ it strangled up my mind", "An’ now people just get uglier", "An’ I have no sense of time", "Oh, Mama, can this really be the end", "To be stuck inside of Mobile", "With the Memphis blues again" ], [ "When Ruthie says come see her", "In her honky-tonk lagoon", "Where I can watch her waltz for free", "’Neath her Panamanian moon", "An’ I say, “Aw come on now", "You must know about my debutante”", "An’ she says, “Your debutante just knows what you need", "But I know what you want”", "Oh, Mama, can this really be the end", "To be stuck inside of Mobile", "With the Memphis blues again" ], [ "Now the bricks lay on Grand Street", "Where the neon madmen climb", "They all fall there so perfectly", "It all seems so well timed", "An’ here I sit so patiently", "Waiting to find out what price", "You have to pay to get out of", "Going through all these things twice", "Oh, Mama, can this really be the end", "To be stuck inside of Mobile", "With the Memphis blues again" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/subterranean-homesick-blues/", "album": "Bringing It All Back Home", "year": 1965, "title": "Subterranean Homesick Blues", "plays": 120, "lyrics": [ [ "Johnny’s in the basement", "Mixing up the medicine", "I’m on the pavement", "Thinking about the government", "The man in the trench coat", "Badge out, laid off", "Says he’s got a bad cough", "Wants to get it paid off", "Look out kid", "It’s somethin’ you did", "God knows when", "But you’re doin’ it again", "You better duck down the alley way", "Lookin’ for a new friend", "The man in the coon-skin cap", "By the big pen", "Wants eleven dollar bills", "You only got ten" ], [ "Maggie comes fleet foot", "Face full of black soot", "Talkin’ that the heat put", "Plants in the bed but", "The phone’s tapped anyway", "Maggie says that many say", "They must bust in early May", "Orders from the D.A.", "Look out kid", "Don’t matter what you did", "Walk on your tiptoes", "Don’t try “No-Doz”", "Better stay away from those", "That carry around a fire hose", "Keep a clean nose", "Watch the plain clothes", "You don’t need a weatherman", "To know which way the wind blows" ], [ "Get sick, get well", "Hang around a ink well", "Ring bell, hard to tell", "If anything is goin’ to sell", "Try hard, get barred", "Get back, write braille", "Get jailed, jump bail", "Join the army, if you fail", "Look out kid", "You’re gonna get hit", "But users, cheaters", "Six-time losers", "Hang around the theaters", "Girl by the whirlpool", "Lookin’ for a new fool", "Don’t follow leaders", "Watch the parkin’ meters" ], [ "Ah get born, keep warm", "Short pants, romance, learn to dance", "Get dressed, get blessed", "Try to be a success", "Please her, please him, buy gifts", "Don’t steal, don’t lift", "Twenty years of schoolin’", "And they put you on the day shift", "Look out kid", "They keep it all hid", "Better jump down a manhole", "Light yourself a candle", "Don’t wear sandals", "Try to avoid the scandals", "Don’t wanna be a bum", "You better chew gum", "The pump don’t work", "’Cause the vandals took the handles" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sugar-baby/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "Sugar Baby", "plays": 130, "lyrics": [ [ "I got my back to the sun ’cause the light is too intense", "I can see what everybody in the world is up against", "You can’t turn back—you can’t come back, sometimes we push too far", "One day you’ll open up your eyes and you’ll see where we are" ], [ "Sugar Baby get on down the road", "You ain’t got no brains, no how", "You went years without me", "Might as well keep going now" ], [ "Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff", "Plenty of places to hide things here if you wanna hide ’em bad enough", "I’m staying with Aunt Sally, but you know, she’s not really my aunt", "Some of these memories you can learn to live with and some of them you can’t" ], [ "Sugar Baby get on down the line", "You ain’t got no brains, no how", "You went years without me", "You might as well keep going now" ], [ "The ladies down in Darktown, they’re doing the Darktown Strut", "You always got to be prepared but you never know for what", "There ain’t no limit to the amount of trouble women bring", "Love is pleasing, love is teasing, love’s not an evil thing" ], [ "Sugar Baby, get on down the road", "You ain’t got no brains, no how", "You went years without me", "You might as well keep going now" ], [ "Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick", "Happiness can come suddenly and leave just as quick", "Any minute of the day the bubble could burst", "Try to make things better for someone, sometimes you just end up making it a thousand times worse" ], [ "Sugar Baby, get on down the road", "You ain’t got no brains, no how", "You went years without me", "Might as well keep going now" ], [ "Your charms have broken many a heart and mine is surely one", "You got a way of tearing a world apart, love, see what you done", "Just as sure as we’re living, just as sure as you’re born", "Look up, look up—seek your Maker—’fore Gabriel blows his horn" ], [ "Sugar Baby, get on down the line", "You ain’t got no sense, no how", "You went years without me", "Might as well keep going now" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/summer-days/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "Summer Days", "plays": 885, "lyrics": [ [ "Summer days, summer nights are gone", "Summer days and the summer nights are gone", "I know a place where there’s still somethin’ going on" ], [ "I got a house on a hill, I got hogs all out in the mud", "I got a house on a hill, I got hogs out lying in the mud", "Got a long haired woman, she got royal Indian blood" ], [ "Everybody get ready—lift up your glasses and sing", "Everybody get ready to lift up your glasses and sing", "Well, I’m standin’ on the table, I’m proposing a toast to the King" ], [ "Well, I’m drivin’ in the flats in a Cadillac car", "The girls all say, “You’re a worn out star”", "My pockets are loaded and I’m spending every dime", "How can you say you love someone else when you know it’s me all the time?" ], [ "Well, the fog’s so thick you can’t spy the land", "The fog is so thick that you can’t even spy the land", "What good are you anyway, if you can’t stand up to some old businessman?" ], [ "Wedding bells ringin’, the choir is beginning to sing", "Yes, the wedding bells are ringing and the choir is beginning to sing", "What looks good in the day, at night is another thing" ], [ "She’s looking into my eyes, she’s holding my hand", "She’s looking into my eyes, she’s holding my hand", "She says, “You can’t repeat the past.” I say, “You can’t? What do you mean,", "you can’t? Of course you can.”" ], [ "Where do you come from? Where do you go?", "Sorry that’s nothin’ you would need to know", "Well, my back has been to the wall for so long, it seems like it’s stuck", "Why don’t you break my heart one more time just for good luck" ], [ "I got eight carburetors, boys, I’m using ’em all", "Well, I got eight carburetors and boys, I’m using ’em all", "I’m short on gas, my motor’s starting to stall" ], [ "My dogs are barking, there must be someone around", "My dogs are barking, there must be someone around", "I got my hammer ringin’, pretty baby, but the nails ain’t goin’ down" ], [ "You got something to say, speak or hold your peace", "Well, you got something to say, speak now or hold your peace", "If it’s information you want you can go get it from the police" ], [ "Politician got on his jogging shoes", "He must be running for office, got no time to lose", "You been suckin’ the blood out of the genius of generosity", "You been rolling your eyes—you been teasing me" ], [ "Standing by God’s river, my soul is beginnin’ to shake", "Standing by God’s river, my soul is beginnin’ to shake", "I’m countin’ on you love, to give me a break" ], [ "Well, I’m leaving in the morning as soon as the dark clouds lift", "Yes, I’m leaving in the morning just as soon as the dark clouds lift", "Gonna break in the roof—set fire to the place as a parting gift" ], [ "Summer days, summer nights are gone", "Summer days, summer nights are gone", "I know a place where there’s still somethin’ going on" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/suze-cough-song/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Suze (The Cough Song)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sweetheart-you/", "album": "Infidels", "year": 1983, "title": "Sweetheart Like You", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, the pressure’s down, the boss ain’t here", "He gone North, he ain’t around", "They say that vanity got the best of him", "But he sure left here after sundown", "By the way, that’s a cute hat", "And that smile’s so hard to resist", "But what’s a sweetheart like you doin’ in a dump like this?" ], [ "You know, I once knew a woman who looked like you", "She wanted a whole man, not just a half", "She used to call me sweet daddy when I was only a child", "You kind of remind me of her when you laugh", "In order to deal in this game, got to make the queen disappear", "It’s done with a flick of the wrist", "What’s a sweetheart like you doin’ in a dump like this?" ], [ "You know, a woman like you should be at home", "That’s where you belong", "Watching out for someone who loves you true", "Who would never do you wrong", "Just how much abuse will you be able to take?", "Well, there’s no way to tell by that first kiss", "What’s a sweetheart like you doin’ in a dump like this?" ], [ "You know you can make a name for yourself", "You can hear them tires squeal", "You can be known as the most beautiful woman", "Who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal" ], [ "You know, news of you has come down the line", "Even before ya came in the door", "They say in your father’s house, there’s many mansions", "Each one of them got a fireproof floor", "Snap out of it, baby, people are jealous of you", "They smile to your face, but behind your back they hiss", "What’s a sweetheart like you doin’ in a dump like this?" ], [ "Got to be an important person to be in here, honey", "Got to have done some evil deed", "Got to have your own harem when you come in the door", "Got to play your harp until your lips bleed" ], [ "They say that patriotism is the last refuge", "To which a scoundrel clings", "Steal a little and they throw you in jail", "Steal a lot and they make you king", "There’s only one step down from here, baby", "It’s called the land of permanent bliss", "What’s a sweetheart like you doin’ in a dump like this?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tv-talkin-song/", "album": "Under the Red Sky", "year": 1990, "title": "T.V. Talkin’ Song", "plays": 20, "lyrics": [ [ "One time in London I’d gone out for a walk", "Past a place called Hyde Park where people talk", "’Bout all kinds of different gods, they have their point of view", "To anyone passing by, that’s who they’re talking to" ], [ "There was someone on a platform talking to the folks", "About the T.V. god and all the pain that it invokes", "“It’s too bright a light,” he said, “for anybody’s eyes", "If you’ve never seen one it’s a blessing in disguise”" ], [ "I moved in closer, got up on my toes", "Two men in front of me were coming to blows", "The man was saying something ’bout children when they’re young", "Being sacrificed to it while lullabies are being sung" ], [ "“The news of the day is on all the time", "All the latest gossip, all the latest rhyme", "Your mind is your temple, keep it beautiful and free", "Don’t let an egg get laid in it by something you can’t see”" ], [ "“Pray for peace!” he said. You could feel it in the crowd", "My thoughts began to wander. His voice was ringing loud", "“It will destroy your family, your happy home is gone", "No one can protect you from it once you turn it on”" ], [ "“It will lead you into some strange pursuits", "Lead you to the land of forbidden fruits", "It will scramble up your head and drag your brain about", "Sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out”" ], [ "“It’s all been designed,” he said, “to make you lose your mind", "And when you go back to find it, there’s nothing there to find", "Every time you look at it, your situation’s worse", "If you feel it grabbing out for you, send for the nurse\"" ], [ "The crowd began to riot and they grabbed hold of the man", "There was pushing, there was shoving and everybody ran", "The T.V. crew was there to film it, they jumped right over me", "Later on that evening, I watched it on T.V." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/take-message-mary/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Take a Message to Mary", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Take a message to Mary", "But don't tell her where I am", "Take a message to Mary", "But don't say I'm in a jam", "You can tell her that I had to see the world", "Tell her that my ship set sail", "You can say she'd better not wait for me", "But don't tell her I'm in jail, oh", "don't tell her I'm in jail." ], [ "Take a message to Mary", "But don't tell her what I've done", "Please, don't mention the stage coach", "And the shot from a carried gun", "You better tell her that I had to change my plans", "And cancel out the wedding-day", "But please, don't mention the lonely cell", "Where I'm gonna pine away, until my dying-day." ], [ "Take a message to Mary", "But don't tell her all you know", "My heart is aching for Mary", "Lord knows I miss her so", "Just tell her that I went to Timbukto", "Tell her I'm searching for gold", "You can say she better find someone new", "To cherish and to hold, oh Lord,", "this cell is so cold." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/take-me-i-am-or-let-me-go/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Why must you always try to make me over ?", "Take me as I am or let me go", "White lilies never grow on stalks of clover", "Take me as I am or let me go." ], [ "You're trying to reshape me in a moment", "In the image of someone you used to know", "I won't be a stand-in for an old love", "Take me as I am or let me go." ], [ "You've tried to change me ever since you've met me", "Take me as I am or let me go.", "If you cannot overlook my faults, forget me", "Take me as I am or let me go." ], [ "You're trying to reshape me in a mould love", "In the image of someone you used to know", "But I won't be a stand-in for an old love", "Take me as I am or let me go" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/talkin-bear-mountain-picnic-massacre-blues/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "I saw it advertised one day", "Bear Mountain picnic was comin’ my way", "“Come along ’n’ take a trip", "We’ll bring you up there on a ship", "Bring the wife and kids", "Bring the whole family”", "Yippee!" ], [ "Well, I run right down ’n’ bought a ticket", "To this Bear Mountain Picnic", "But little did I realize", "I was in for a picnic surprise", "Had nothin’ to do with mountains", "I didn’t even come close to a bear" ], [ "Took the wife ’n’ kids down to the pier", "Six thousand people there", "Everybody had a ticket for the trip", "“Oh well,” I said, “it’s a pretty big ship", "Besides, anyway, the more the merrier”" ], [ "Well, we all got on ’n’ what d’ya think", "That big old boat started t’ sink", "More people kept a-pilin’ on", "That old ship was a-slowly goin’ down", "Funny way t’ start a picnic" ], [ "Well, I soon lost track of m’ kids ’n’ wife", "So many people there I never saw in m’ life", "That old ship sinkin’ down in the water", "Six thousand people tryin’ t’ kill each other", "Dogs a-barkin’, cats a-meowin’", "Women screamin’, fists a-flyin’, babies cryin’", "Cops a-comin’, me a-runnin’", "Maybe we just better call off the picnic" ], [ "I got shoved down ’n’ pushed around", "All I could hear there was a screamin’ sound", "Don’t remember one thing more", "Just remember wakin’ up on a little shore", "Head busted, stomach cracked", "Feet splintered, I was bald, naked . . .", "Quite lucky to be alive though" ], [ "Feelin’ like I climbed outa m’ casket", "I grabbed back hold of m’ picnic basket", "Took the wife ’n’ kids ’n’ started home", "Wishin’ I’d never got up that morn" ], [ "Now, I don’t care just what you do", "If you wanta have a picnic, that’s up t’ you", "But don’t tell me about it, I don’t wanta hear it", "’Cause, see, I just lost all m’ picnic spirit", "Stay in m’ kitchen, have m’ own picnic . . .", "In the bathroom" ], [ "Now, it don’t seem to me quite so funny", "What some people are gonna do f’r money", "There’s a bran’ new gimmick every day", "Just t’ take somebody’s money away", "I think we oughta take some o’ these people", "And put ’em on a boat, send ’em up to Bear Mountain . . .", "For a picnic" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/talkin-hava-negeilah-blues/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Talkin’ Hava Negeilah Blues", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Here's a foreign song I learned in Utah", "Ha-va-ne-gei-lah", "O-de-ley-e-e-oo-" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/talkin-john-birch-paranoid-blues/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues", "plays": 13, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I was feelin’ sad and feelin’ blue", "I didn’t know what in the world I wus gonna do", "Them Communists they wus comin’ around", "They wus in the air", "They wus on the ground", "They wouldn’t gimme no peace . . ." ], [ "So I run down most hurriedly", "And joined up with the John Birch Society", "I got me a secret membership card", "And started off a-walkin’ down the road", "Yee-hoo, I’m a real John Bircher now!", "Look out you Commies!" ], [ "Now we all agree with Hitler’s views", "Although he killed six million Jews", "It don’t matter too much that he was a Fascist", "At least you can’t say he was a Communist!", "That’s to say like if you got a cold you take a shot of malaria" ], [ "Well, I wus lookin’ everywhere for them gol-darned Reds", "I got up in the mornin’ ’n’ looked under my bed", "Looked in the sink, behind the door", "Looked in the glove compartment of my car", "Couldn’t find ’em . . ." ], [ "I wus lookin’ high an’ low for them Reds everywhere", "I wus lookin’ in the sink an’ underneath the chair", "I looked way up my chimney hole", "I even looked deep down inside my toilet bowl", "They got away . . ." ], [ "Well, I wus sittin’ home alone an’ started to sweat", "Figured they wus in my T.V. set", "Peeked behind the picture frame", "Got a shock from my feet, hittin’ right up in the brain", "Them Reds caused it!", "I know they did . . . them hard-core ones" ], [ "Well, I quit my job so I could work all alone", "Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes", "Followed some clues from my detective bag", "And discovered they wus red stripes on the American flag!", "That ol’ Betsy Ross . . ." ], [ "Well, I investigated all the books in the library", "Ninety percent of ’em gotta be burned away", "I investigated all the people that I knowed", "Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go", "The other two percent are fellow Birchers . . . just like me" ], [ "Now Eisenhower, he’s a Russian spy", "Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt guy", "To my knowledge there’s just one man", "That’s really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell", "I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus" ], [ "Well, I fin’ly started thinkin’ straight", "When I run outa things to investigate", "Couldn’t imagine doin’ anything else", "So now I’m sittin’ home investigatin’ myself!", "Hope I don’t find out anything . . . hmm, great God!" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/talkin-new-york/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "Talkin’ New York", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Ramblin’ outa the wild West", "Leavin’ the towns I love the best", "Thought I’d seen some ups and downs", "’Til I come into New York town", "People goin’ down to the ground", "Buildings goin’ up to the sky" ], [ "Wintertime in New York town", "The wind blowin’ snow around", "Walk around with nowhere to go", "Somebody could freeze right to the bone", "I froze right to the bone", "New York Times said it was the coldest winter in seventeen years", "I didn’t feel so cold then" ], [ "I swung onto my old guitar", "Grabbed hold of a subway car", "And after a rocking, reeling, rolling ride", "I landed up on the downtown side", "Greenwich Village" ], [ "I walked down there and ended up", "In one of them coffee-houses on the block", "Got on the stage to sing and play", "Man there said, “Come back some other day", "You sound like a hillbilly", "We want folk singers here”" ], [ "Well, I got a harmonica job, begun to play", "Blowin’ my lungs out for a dollar a day", "I blowed inside out and upside down", "The man there said he loved m’ sound", "He was ravin’ about how he loved m’ sound", "Dollar a day’s worth" ], [ "And after weeks and weeks of hangin’ around", "I finally got a job in New York town", "In a bigger place, bigger money too", "Even joined the union and paid m’ dues" ], [ "Now, a very great man once said", "That some people rob you with a fountain pen", "It didn’t take too long to find out", "Just what he was talkin’ about", "A lot of people don’t have much food on their table", "But they got a lot of forks ’n’ knives", "And they gotta cut somethin’" ], [ "So one mornin’ when the sun was warm", "I rambled out of New York town", "Pulled my cap down over my eyes", "And headed out for the western skies", "So long, New York", "Howdy, East Orange" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/talkin-world-war-iii-blues/", "album": "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan", "year": 1963, "title": "Talkin’ World War III Blues", "plays": 15, "lyrics": [ [ "Some time ago a crazy dream came to me", "I dreamt I was walkin’ into World War Three", "I went to the doctor the very next day", "To see what kinda words he could say", "He said it was a bad dream", "I wouldn’t worry ’bout it none, though", "They were my own dreams and they’re only in my head" ], [ "I said, “Hold it, Doc, a World War passed through my brain”", "He said, “Nurse, get your pad, this boy’s insane”", "He grabbed my arm, I said, “Ouch!”", "As I landed on the psychiatric couch", "He said, “Tell me about it”" ], [ "Well, the whole thing started at 3 o’clock fast", "It was all over by quarter past", "I was down in the sewer with some little lover", "When I peeked out from a manhole cover", "Wondering who turned the lights on" ], [ "Well, I got up and walked around", "And up and down the lonesome town", "I stood a-wondering which way to go", "I lit a cigarette on a parking meter and walked on down the road", "It was a normal day" ], [ "Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell", "And I leaned my head and I gave a yell", "“Give me a string bean, I’m a hungry man”", "A shotgun fired and away I ran", "I don’t blame them too much though, I know I look funny" ], [ "Down at the corner by a hot-dog stand", "I seen a man", "I said, “Howdy friend, I guess there’s just us two”", "He screamed a bit and away he flew", "Thought I was a Communist" ], [ "Well, I spied a girl and before she could leave", "“Let’s go and play Adam and Eve”", "I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin’", "When she said, “Hey man, you crazy or sumpin’", "You see what happened last time they started”" ], [ "Well, I seen a Cadillac window uptown", "And there was nobody aroun’", "I got into the driver’s seat", "And I drove down 42nd Street", "In my Cadillac. Good car to drive after a war" ], [ "Well, I remember seein’ some ad", "So I turned on my Conelrad", "But I didn’t pay my Con Ed bill", "So the radio didn’t work so well", "Turned on my record player—", "It was Rock-a-day Johnny singin’, “Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa", "Our Love’s A-gonna Grow Ooh-wah, Ooh-wah”" ], [ "I was feelin’ kinda lonesome and blue", "I needed somebody to talk to", "So I called up the operator of time", "Just to hear a voice of some kind", "“When you hear the beep it will be three o’clock”", "She said that for over an hour", "And I hung up" ], [ "Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then", "Sayin’, “Hey I’ve been havin’ the same old dreams", "But mine was a little different you see", "I dreamt that the only person left after the war was me", "I didn’t see you around”" ], [ "Well, now time passed and now it seems", "Everybody’s having them dreams", "Everybody sees themselves", "Walkin’ around with no one else", "Half of the people can be part right all of the time", "Some of the people can be all right part of the time", "But all of the people can’t be all right all of the time", "I think Abraham Lincoln said that", "“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”", "I said that" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tangled-blue/", "album": "Blood on the Tracks", "year": 1975, "title": "Tangled Up In Blue", "plays": 1685, "lyrics": [ [ "Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’", "I was layin’ in bed", "Wond’rin’ if she’d changed at all", "If her hair was still red", "Her folks they said our lives together", "Sure was gonna be rough", "They never did like Mama’s homemade dress", "Papa’s bankbook wasn’t big enough", "And I was standin’ on the side of the road", "Rain fallin’ on my shoes", "Heading out for the East Coast", "Lord knows I’ve paid some dues gettin’ through", "Tangled up in blue" ], [ "She was married when we first met", "Soon to be divorced", "I helped her out of a jam, I guess", "But I used a little too much force", "We drove that car as far as we could", "Abandoned it out West", "Split up on a dark sad night", "Both agreeing it was best", "She turned around to look at me", "As I was walkin’ away", "I heard her say over my shoulder", "“We’ll meet again someday on the avenue”", "Tangled up in blue" ], [ "I had a job in the great north woods", "Working as a cook for a spell", "But I never did like it all that much", "And one day the ax just fell", "So I drifted down to New Orleans", "Where I happened to be employed", "Workin’ for a while on a fishin’ boat", "Right outside of Delacroix", "But all the while I was alone", "The past was close behind", "I seen a lot of women", "But she never escaped my mind, and I just grew", "Tangled up in blue" ], [ "She was workin’ in a topless place", "And I stopped in for a beer", "I just kept lookin’ at the side of her face", "In the spotlight so clear", "And later on as the crowd thinned out", "I’s just about to do the same", "She was standing there in back of my chair", "Said to me, “Don’t I know your name?”", "I muttered somethin’ underneath my breath", "She studied the lines on my face", "I must admit I felt a little uneasy", "When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe", "Tangled up in blue" ], [ "She lit a burner on the stove", "And offered me a pipe", "“I thought you’d never say hello,” she said", "“You look like the silent type”", "Then she opened up a book of poems", "And handed it to me", "Written by an Italian poet", "From the thirteenth century", "And every one of them words rang true", "And glowed like burnin’ coal", "Pourin’ off of every page", "Like it was written in my soul from me to you", "Tangled up in blue" ], [ "I lived with them on Montague Street", "In a basement down the stairs", "There was music in the cafés at night", "And revolution in the air", "Then he started into dealing with slaves", "And something inside of him died", "She had to sell everything she owned", "And froze up inside", "And when finally the bottom fell out", "I became withdrawn", "The only thing I knew how to do", "Was to keep on keepin’ on like a bird that flew", "Tangled up in blue" ], [ "So now I’m goin’ back again", "I got to get to her somehow", "All the people we used to know", "They’re an illusion to me now", "Some are mathematicians", "Some are carpenters’ wives", "Don’t know how it all got started", "I don’t know what they’re doin’ with their lives", "But me, I’m still on the road", "Headin’ for another joint", "We always did feel the same", "We just saw it from a different point of view", "Tangled up in blue" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tattle-o-day/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait", "year": 2013, "title": "Tattle O’Day", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tears-rage/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Tears of Rage", "plays": 81, "lyrics": [ [ "We carried you in our arms", "On Independence Day", "And now you’d throw us all aside", "And put us on our way", "Oh what dear daughter ’neath the sun", "Would treat a father so", "To wait upon him hand and foot", "And always tell him, “No?”", "Tears of rage, tears of grief", "Why must I always be the thief?", "Come to me now, you know", "We’re so alone", "And life is brief" ], [ "We pointed out the way to go", "And scratched your name in sand", "Though you just thought it was nothing more", "Than a place for you to stand", "Now, I want you to know that while we watched", "You discover there was no one true", "Most ev’rybody really thought", "It was a childish thing to do", "Tears of rage, tears of grief", "Must I always be the thief?", "Come to me now, you know", "We’re so low", "And life is brief" ], [ "It was all very painless", "When you went out to receive", "All that false instruction", "Which we never could believe", "And now the heart is filled with gold", "As if it was a purse", "But, oh, what kind of love is this", "Which goes from bad to worse?", "Tears of rage, tears of grief", "Must I always be the thief?", "Come to me now, you know", "We’re so low", "And life is brief" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tell-me/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Tell Me", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Tell me—I’ve got to know", "Tell me—Tell me before I go", "Does that flame still burn, Does that fire still glow", "Or has it died out and melted like the snow", "Tell me", "Tell me" ], [ "Tell me—what are you focused upon", "Tell me—will it come to me after you’re gone", "Tell me quick with a glance on the side", "Shall I hold you close or shall I let you go by", "Tell me", "Tell me" ], [ "Are you lookin’ at me and thinking of somebody else", "Can you feel the heat and the beat of my pulse", "Do you have any secrets", "That will only come out in time", "Do you lay in bed and stare at the stars", "Is your main friend someone who’s an old acquaintance of ours", "Tell me", "Tell me" ], [ "Tell me—what’s in back of them pretty brown eyes", "Tell me—behind what door your treasure lies", "Ever gone broke in a big way", "Ever done the opposite of what the experts say", "Tell me", "Tell me" ], [ "Is it some kind of game that you’re playin’ with me", "Am I imagining something that never can be", "Do you have any morals", "Do you have any point of view", "Is that a smile I see on your face", "Will it take you to glory or to disgrace", "Tell me", "Tell me" ], [ "Tell me—is my name in your book", "Tell me—will you go back and take another look", "Tell me the truth, tell me no lies", "Are you someone whom anyone prays for or cries", "Tell me", "Tell me" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tell-me-it-isnt-true/", "album": "Nashville Skyline", "year": 1969, "title": "Tell Me That It Isn’t True", "plays": 76, "lyrics": [ [ "I have heard rumors all over town", "They say that you’re planning to put me down", "All I would like you to do", "Is tell me that it isn’t true" ], [ "They say that you’ve been seen with some other man", "That he’s tall, dark and handsome, and you’re holding his hand", "Darlin’, I’m a-countin’ on you", "Tell me that it isn’t true" ], [ "To know that some other man is holdin’ you tight", "It hurts me all over, it doesn’t seem right" ], [ "All of those awful things that I have heard", "I don’t want to believe them, all I want is your word", "So darlin’, you better come through", "Tell me that it isn’t true" ], [ "All of those awful things that I have heard", "I don’t want to believe them, all I want is your word", "So darlin’, I’m countin’ on you", "Tell me that it isn’t true" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tell-me-momma/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966", "year": 1998, "title": "Tell Me, Momma", "plays": 15, "lyrics": [ [ "Ol’ black Bascom, don’t break no mirrors", "Cold black water dog, make no tears", "You say you love me with what may be love", "Don’t you remember makin’ baby love?", "Got your steam drill built and you’re lookin’ for some kid", "To get it to work for you like your nine-pound hammer did", "But I know that you know that I know that you show", "Something is tearing up your mind" ], [ "Tell me, momma", "Tell me, momma", "Tell me, momma, what is it?", "What’s wrong with you this time?" ], [ "Hey, John, come and get me some candy goods", "Shucks, it sure feels like it’s in the woods", "Spend some time on your January trips", "You got tombstone moose up and your grave-yard whips", "If you’re anxious to find out when your friendship’s gonna end", "Come on, baby, I’m your friend!", "And I know that you know that I know that you show", "Something is tearing up your mind" ], [ "Tell me, momma", "Tell me, momma", "Tell me, momma, what is it?", "What’s wrong with you this time?" ], [ "Ohh, we bone the editor, can’t get read", "But his painted sled, instead it’s a bed", "Yes, I see you on your window ledge", "But I can’t tell just how far away you are from the edge", "And, anyway, you’re just gonna make people jump and roar", "Watcha wanna go and do that for?", "For I know that you know that I know that you know", "Something is tearing up your mind" ], [ "Ah, tell me, momma", "Tell me, momma", "Tell me, momma, what is it?", "What’s wrong with you this time?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tell-ol-bill/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "Tell Ol’ Bill", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tempest/", "album": "Tempest", "year": 2012, "title": "Tempest", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "The pale moon rose in its glory", "Out on the western town", "She told a sad, sad story", "Of the great ship that went down" ], [ "‘Twas the fourteen day of April", "Over the waves she rode", "Sailing into tomorrow", "To a golden age foretold" ], [ "The night was bright with starlight", "The seas were sharp and clear", "Moving through the shadows", "The promised hour was near" ], [ "Lights were holding steady", "Gliding over the foam", "All the lords and ladies", "Heading for their eternal home" ], [ "The chandeliers were swaying", "From the balustrades above", "The orchestra was playing", "Songs of faded love" ], [ "The watchman he lay dreaming", "As the ballroom dancers twirled", "He dreamed the Titanic was sinking", "Into the underworld", "Leo took his sketchbook", "He was often so inclined", "He closed his eyes and painted", "The scenery in his mind" ], [ "Cupid struck his bosom", "And broke it with a snap", "The closest woman to him", "He fell into her lap" ], [ "He heard a loud commotion", "Something sounded wrong", "His inner spirit was saying", "That he couldn’t stand here long" ], [ "He staggered to the quarterdeck", "No time now to sleep", "Water on the quarterdeck", "Already three foot deep" ], [ "Smokestack leaning sideways", "Heavy feet began to pound", "He walked into the whirlwind", "Sky spinning all around" ], [ "The ship was going under", "The universe opened wide", "The roll was called up yonder", "The angels turned aside" ], [ "Lights down in the hallway", "Flickering dim and dull", "Dead bodies already floating", "In the double bottomed hull" ], [ "The engines then exploded", "Propellers they failed to start", "The boilers overloaded", "The ship's bow split apart" ], [ "Passengers were flying", "Backward, forward, far and fast", "They mumbled, fumbled, tumbled", "Each one more weary than the last" ], [ "The veil was torn asunder", "‘Tween the hours of twelve and one", "No change, no sudden wonder", "Could undo what had been done" ], [ "The watchman lay there dreaming", "At fourty-five degrees", "He dreamed the Titanic was sinking", "Dropping to her knees" ], [ "Wellington, he was sleeping", "His bed began to slide", "His valiant heart was beating", "He pushed the tables aside" ], [ "Glass of shattered crystal", "Lay scattered ‘round about", "He strapped on both his pistols", "How long could he hold out?" ], [ "His men and his companions", "Were nowhere to be seen", "In silence there he waited for", "Time and space to intervene" ], [ "The passageway was narrow", "There was blackness in the air", "He saw every kind of sorrow", "Heard voices everywhere" ], [ "Alarm bells were ringing", "To hold back the swelling tide", "Friends and lovers clinging", "To each other side by side" ], [ "Mothers and their daughters", "Descending down the stairs", "Jumped into the icy waters", "Love and pity sent their prayers" ], [ "The rich man, Mr. Astor", "Kissed his darling wife", "He had no way of knowing", "Be the last trip of his life" ], [ "Calvin, Blake and Wilson", "Gambled in the dark", "Not one of them would ever live to", "Tell the tale of disembark" ], [ "Brother rose up against brother", "In every circumstance", "They fought and slaughtered each other", "In a deadly dance" ], [ "They lowered down the lifeboats", "From the sinking wreck", "There were traitors, there were turncoats", "Broken backs and broken necks" ], [ "The bishop left his cabin", "To help all those in need", "Turned his eyes up to the heavens", "Said, “The poor are yours to feed.”" ], [ "Davey the brothel keeper", "Came out, dismissed his girls", "Saw the water getting deeper", "Saw the changing of his world" ], [ "Jim Dandy smiled", "He'd never learned to swim", "Saw the little crippled child", "And he gave his seat to him" ], [ "He saw the starlight shining", "Streaming from the East", "Death was on the rampage", "But his heart was now at peace" ], [ "They battened down the hatches", "But the hatches wouldn’t hold", "They drowned upon the staircase", "Of brass and polished gold" ], [ "Leo said to Cleo", "“I think I’m going mad.”", "But he'd lost his mind already", "Whatever mind he had" ], [ "He tried to block the doorway", "To save all those from harm", "Blood from an open wound", "Pouring down his arm" ], [ "Petals fell from flowers", "‘Til all of them were gone", "In the long and dreadful hours", "The wizard’s curse played on" ], [ "The host was pouring brandy", "He was going down slow", "He stayed right ‘til the end", "He was the last to go" ], [ "There were many, many others", "Nameless here forevermore", "They'd never sailed the ocean", "Or left their homes before" ], [ "The watchman, he lay dreaming", "The damage had been done", "He dreamed the Titanic was sinking", "And he tried to tell someone" ], [ "The captain, barely breathing", "Kneeling at the wheel", "Above him and beneath him", "Fifty thousand tons of steel" ], [ "He looked over at his compass", "And he gazed into its face", "Needle pointing downward", "He knew he lost the race" ], [ "In the dark illumination", "He remembered bygone years", "He read the Book of Revelation", "And he filled his cup with tears" ], [ "When the Reaper’s task had ended", "Sixteen hundred had gone to rest", "The good, the bad, the rich, the poor", "The loveliest and the best" ], [ "They waited at the landing", "And they tried to understand", "But there is no understanding", "On the judgment of God’s hand" ], [ "News came over the wires", "And struck with deadly force", "Love had lost its fires", "All things had run their course" ], [ "The watchman he lay dreaming", "Of all things that can be", "He dreamed the Titanic was sinking", "Into the deep blue sea" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/temporary-achilles/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Temporary Like Achilles", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Standing on your window, honey", "Yes, I’ve been here before", "Feeling so harmless", "I’m looking at your second door", "How come you don’t send me no regards?", "You know I want your lovin’", "Honey, why are you so hard?" ], [ "Kneeling ’neath your ceiling", "Yes, I guess I’ll be here for a while", "I’m tryin’ to read your portrait, but", "I’m helpless, like a rich man’s child", "How come you send someone out to have me barred?", "You know I want your lovin’", "Honey, why are you so hard?" ], [ "Like a poor fool in his prime", "Yes, I know you can hear me walk", "But is your heart made out of stone, or is it lime", "Or is it just solid rock?" ], [ "Well, I rush into your hallway", "Lean against your velvet door", "I watch upon your scorpion", "Who crawls across your circus floor", "Just what do you think you have to guard?", "You know I want your lovin’", "Honey, but you’re so hard" ], [ "Achilles is in your alleyway", "He don’t want me here, he does brag", "He’s pointing to the sky", "And he’s hungry, like a man in drag", "How come you get someone like him to be your guard?", "You know I want your lovin’", "Honey, but you’re so hard" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lucky-old-sun/", "album": "Shadows in the Night", "year": 2015, "title": "That Lucky Old Sun", "plays": 30, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/that-old-black-magic/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "That Old Black Magic", "plays": 45, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/thats-breaks/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "That’s the Breaks", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/auld-triangle/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "The Auld Triangle", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ballad-frankie-lee-and-judas-priest/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest", "plays": 20, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, Frankie Lee and Judas Priest", "They were the best of friends", "So when Frankie Lee needed money one day", "Judas quickly pulled out a roll of tens", "And placed them on a footstool", "Just above the plotted plain", "Sayin’, “Take your pick, Frankie Boy", "My loss will be your gain”" ], [ "Well, Frankie Lee, he sat right down", "And put his fingers to his chin", "But with the cold eyes of Judas on him", "His head began to spin", "“Would ya please not stare at me like that,” he said", "“It’s just my foolish pride", "But sometimes a man must be alone", "And this is no place to hide”" ], [ "Well, Judas, he just winked and said", "“All right, I’ll leave you here", "But you’d better hurry up and choose which of those bills you want", "Before they all disappear”", "“I’m gonna start my pickin’ right now", "Just tell me where you’ll be”", "Judas pointed down the road", "And said, “Eternity!”" ], [ "“Eternity?” said Frankie Lee", "With a voice as cold as ice", "“That’s right,” said Judas Priest, “Eternity", "Though you might call it ‘Paradise’”", "“I don’t call it anything”", "Said Frankie Lee with a smile", "“All right,” said Judas Priest", "“I’ll see you after a while”" ], [ "Well, Frankie Lee, he sat back down", "Feelin’ low and mean", "When just then a passing stranger", "Burst upon the scene", "Saying, “Are you Frankie Lee, the gambler", "Whose father is deceased?", "Well, if you are, there’s a fellow callin’ you down the road", "And they say his name is Priest”" ], [ "“Oh, yes, he is my friend”", "Said Frankie Lee in fright", "“I do recall him very well", "In fact, he just left my sight”", "“Yes, that’s the one,” said the stranger", "As quiet as a mouse", "“Well, my message is, he’s down the road", "Stranded in a house”" ], [ "Well, Frankie Lee, he panicked", "He dropped ev’rything and ran", "Until he came up to the spot", "Where Judas Priest did stand", "“What kind of house is this,” he said", "“Where I have come to roam?”", "“It’s not a house,” said Judas Priest", "“It’s not a house . . . it’s a home”" ], [ "Well, Frankie Lee, he trembled", "He soon lost all control", "Over ev’rything which he had made", "While the mission bells did toll", "He just stood there staring", "At that big house as bright as any sun", "With four and twenty windows", "And a woman’s face in ev’ry one" ], [ "Well, up the stairs ran Frankie Lee", "With a soulful, bounding leap", "And, foaming at the mouth", "He began to make his midnight creep", "For sixteen nights and days he raved", "But on the seventeenth he burst", "Into the arms of Judas Priest", "Which is where he died of thirst" ], [ "No one tried to say a thing", "When they took him out in jest", "Except, of course, the little neighbor boy", "Who carried him to rest", "And he just walked along, alone", "With his guilt so well concealed", "And muttered underneath his breath", "“Nothing is revealed”" ], [ "Well, the moral of the story", "The moral of this song", "Is simply that one should never be", "Where one does not belong", "So when you see your neighbor carryin’ somethin’", "Help him with his load", "And don’t go mistaking Paradise", "For that home across the road" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ballad-ira-hayes/", "album": "Dylan", "year": 1973, "title": "The Ballad of Ira Hayes", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/boxer/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "The Boxer", "plays": 7, "lyrics": [ [ "Im just a poor boy", "Though my storys seldom told", "I have squadered my resistance", "For a pocketful of numbles", "Such are promises, all lies and jest", "Still a man hears what he wants to hear", "And disregards the rest." ], [ "When I left my home and family", "I was no more than a boy", "In the company of strangers", "In the quiet of the railway station", "Running scared, laying low", "Seeking out the poorer quarters", "Where the ragged people go", "Looking for the places only they would know." ], [ "Asking only workmans wages", "I come looking for a job", "But I get no offers", "Just a come-on from the whores on seventh avenue", "I do declare", "There were times when I was so lonesome", "I took some comfort there." ], [ "Then Im laying out my winter clothes", "And wishing I was gone, going home", "Where the new york city winters arent bleeding me", "Leading me", "Going home." ], [ "In the clearing stands a boxer", "And a fighter by his trade", "And he carries the reminders", "Of every glove that laid him down", "And cut him till he cried out", "In his anger and his shame", "I am leaving, I am leaving", "But the fighter still remains." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/christmas-blues/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "The Christmas Blues", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/christmas-song/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "The Christmas Song", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/death-emmett-till/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "The Death of Emmett Till", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "’Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago", "When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door", "This boy’s dreadful tragedy I can still remember well", "The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till" ], [ "Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up", "They said they had a reason, but I can’t remember what", "They tortured him and did some things too evil to repeat", "There were screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds", "out on the street" ], [ "Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain", "And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain", "The reason that they killed him there, and I’m sure it ain’t no lie", "Was just for the fun of killin’ him and to watch him slowly die" ], [ "And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial", "Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till", "But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this", "awful crime", "And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody seemed to mind" ], [ "I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see", "The smiling brothers walkin’ down the courthouse stairs", "For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free", "While Emmett’s body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea" ], [ "If you can’t speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that’s so unjust", "Your eyes are filled with dead men’s dirt, your mind is filled with dust", "Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it", "must refuse to flow", "For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low!" ], [ "This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man", "That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan", "But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give", "We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/first-noel/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "The First Noel", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/french-girl/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "The French Girl", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/girl-greenbriar-shore/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/grooms-still-waiting-altar/", "album": "Shot of Love", "year": 1981, "title": "The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar", "plays": 5, "lyrics": [ [ "Prayed in the ghetto with my face in the cement", "Heard the last moan of a boxer, seen the massacre of the innocent", "Felt around for the light switch, became nauseated", "She was walking down the hallway while the walls deteriorated" ], [ "West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar", "I see the turning of the page", "Curtain risin’ on a new age", "See the groom still waitin’ at the altar" ], [ "Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery", "Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your silence for snobbery", "Got the message this morning, the one that was sent to me", "About the madness of becomin’ what one was never meant to be" ], [ "West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar", "I see the burning of the stage", "Curtain risin’ on a new age", "See the groom still waitin’ at the altar" ], [ "Don’t know what I can say about Claudette that wouldn’t come back to haunt me Finally had to give her up ’bout the time she began to want me", "But I know God has mercy on them who are slandered and humiliated", "I’d a-done anything for that woman if she didn’t make me feel so obligated" ], [ "West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar", "I see the burning of the cage", "Curtain risin’ on a new stage", "See the groom still waitin’ at the altar" ], [ "Put your hand on my head, baby, do I have a temperature?", "I see people who are supposed to know better standin’ around like furniture There’s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it", "Tonight you got the power to take it, tomorrow you won’t have the power to keep it" ], [ "West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar", "I see the burning of the stage", "Curtain risin’ on a new age", "See the groom still waitin’ at the altar" ], [ "Cities on fire, phones out of order", "They’re killing nuns and soldiers, there’s fighting on the border", "What can I say about Claudette? Ain’t seen her since January", "She could be respectfully married or running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires" ], [ "West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar", "I see the burning of the stage", "Curtain risin’ on a new age", "See the groom still waitin’ at the altar" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hills-mexico/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "The Hills of Mexico", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/levees-gonna-break/", "album": "Modern Times", "year": 2006, "title": "The Levee’s Gonna Break", "plays": 73, "lyrics": [ [ "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "Everybody saying this is a day only the Lord could make" ], [ "Well I worked on the levee Mama, both night and day", "Well I worked on the levee Mama, both night and day", "I got to the river and I threw my clothes away" ], [ "I paid my time and now I'm as good as new", "I paid my time and now I'm as good as new", "They can't take me back, not unless I want them to" ], [ "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "Some of these people gonna strip you of all they can take" ], [ "I can't stop here, I ain't ready to unload", "I can't stop here, I ain't ready to unload", "Riches and salvation can be waiting behind the next bend in the road" ], [ "I picked you up from the gutter and this is the thanks I get", "I picked you up from the gutter and this is the thanks I get", "You say you want me to quit ya, I told you no, not just yet" ], [ "I look in your eyes, I see nobody else but me", "I look in your eyes, I see nobody other than me", "I see all that I am and all I hope to be" ], [ "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "Some of these people don't know which road to take" ], [ "When I'm with you I forget I was ever blue", "When I'm with you I forget I was ever blue", "Without you there's no meaning in anything I do" ], [ "Some people on the road carrying everything that they own", "Some people on the road carrying everything that they own", "Some people got barely enough skin to cover their bones" ], [ "Put on your cat clothes, Mama, put on your evening dress", "Put on your cat clothes, Mama, put on your evening dress", "A few more years of hard work then there'll be a thousand years of happiness" ], [ "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "I tried to get you to love me, but I won't repeat that mistake" ], [ "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "Plenty of cheap stuff out there still around to take" ], [ "I woke up this morning, butter and eggs in my bed", "I woke up this morning, butter and eggs in my bed", "I ain't got enough room to even raise my head" ], [ "Come back, baby, say we never more will part", "Come back, baby, say we never more will part", "Don't be a stranger without a brain or heart" ], [ "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "If it keep on rainin' the levee gonna break", "Some people still sleepin', some people are wide awake" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lonesome-death-hattie-carroll/", "album": "The Times They Are A-Changin’", "year": 1964, "title": "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll", "plays": 296, "lyrics": [ [ "William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll", "With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger", "At a Baltimore hotel society gath’rin’", "And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him", "As they rode him in custody down to the station", "And booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murder", "But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears", "Take the rag away from your face", "Now ain’t the time for your tears" ], [ "William Zanzinger, who at twenty-four years", "Owns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres", "With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him", "And high office relations in the politics of Maryland", "Reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders", "And swear words and sneering, and his tongue it was snarling", "In a matter of minutes on bail was out walking", "But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears", "Take the rag away from your face", "Now ain’t the time for your tears" ], [ "Hattie Carroll was a maid of the kitchen", "She was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children", "Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage", "And never sat once at the head of the table", "And didn’t even talk to the people at the table", "Who just cleaned up all the food from the table", "And emptied the ashtrays on a whole other level", "Got killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane", "That sailed through the air and came down through the room", "Doomed and determined to destroy all the gentle", "And she never done nothing to William Zanzinger", "But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears", "Take the rag away from your face", "Now ain’t the time for your tears" ], [ "In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel", "To show that all’s equal and that the courts are on the level", "And that the strings in the books ain’t pulled and persuaded", "And that even the nobles get properly handled", "Once that the cops have chased after and caught ’em", "And that the ladder of law has no top and no bottom", "Stared at the person who killed for no reason", "Who just happened to be feelin’ that way without warnin’", "And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished", "And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance", "William Zanzinger with a six-month sentence", "Oh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears", "Bury the rag deep in your face", "For now’s the time for your tears" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lonesome-river/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs", "year": 2008, "title": "The Lonesome River", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/man-me/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "The Man in Me", "plays": 155, "lyrics": [ [ "The man in me will do nearly any task", "And as for compensation, there’s little he would ask", "Take a woman like you", "To get through to the man in me" ], [ "Storm clouds are raging all around my door", "I think to myself I might not take it anymore", "Take a woman like your kind", "To find the man in me" ], [ "But, oh, what a wonderful feeling", "Just to know that you are near", "Sets my heart a-reeling", "From my toes up to my ears" ], [ "The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein’ seen", "But that’s just because he doesn’t want to turn into some machine", "Took a woman like you", "To get through to the man in me" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/night-they-drove-old-dixie-down/", "album": "Before the Flood", "year": 1974, "title": "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "Virgil Caine is the name,", "and I served on the Danville train,", "'Til Stoneman's cavalry", "came and tore up the tracks again.", "In the winter of '65,", "We were hungry, just barely alive.", "By May the tenth, Richmond had fell,", "it's a time I remember, oh so well," ], [ "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,", "and the bells were ringing,", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,", "and the people were singin'." ], [ "They went", "La, La, La, La, La, La,", "La, La, La, La, La, La,", "La, La," ], [ "Back with my wife in Tennessee,", "When one day she called to me,", "\"Virgil, quick, come see,", "there goes Robert E. Lee!\"", "Now I don't mind choppin' wood,", "and I don't care if the money's no good.", "Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,", "But they should never have taken the very best." ], [ "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,", "and the bells were ringing,", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,", "and the people were singin'." ], [ "Like my father before me,", "I will work the land,", "Like my brother above me,", "who took a rebel stand.", "He was just eighteen, proud and brave,", "But a Yankee laid him in his grave,", "I swear by the mud below my feet,", "You can't raise a Caine back up", "when he's in defeat." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/the-night-we-called-it-a-day/", "album": "Shadows in the Night", "year": 2015, "title": "The Night We Called it a Day", "plays": 47, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shape-im/", "album": "Before the Flood", "year": 1974, "title": "The Shape I’m In", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Go out yonder, peace in the valley", "Come downtown, have to rumble in the alley", "Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in" ], [ "Has anybody seen my lady", "This living alone will drive me crazy", "Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in" ], [ "I'm gonna go down by the wa - ter", "But I ain't gonna jump in, no, no", "I'll just be looking for my mak - er", "And I hear that that's where she's been? Oh!" ], [ "Out of nine lives, I spent seven", "Now, how in the world do you get to Heaven", "Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in" ], [ "I just spent 60 days in the jailhouse", "For the crime of having no dough", "Now here I am back out on the street", "For the crime of having nowhere to go" ], [ "Save your neck or save your brother", "Looks like it's one or the other", "Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in" ], [ "Now two young kids might start a ruckus", "You know they feel you trying to shuck us", "Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/spanish-song/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "The Spanish Song", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/times-they-are-changin/", "album": "The Times They Are A-Changin’", "year": 1964, "title": "The Times They Are A-Changin’", "plays": 633, "lyrics": [ [ "Come gather ’round people", "Wherever you roam", "And admit that the waters", "Around you have grown", "And accept it that soon", "You’ll be drenched to the bone", "If your time to you is worth savin’", "Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone", "For the times they are a-changin’" ], [ "Come writers and critics", "Who prophesize with your pen", "And keep your eyes wide", "The chance won’t come again", "And don’t speak too soon", "For the wheel’s still in spin", "And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’", "For the loser now will be later to win", "For the times they are a-changin’" ], [ "Come senators, congressmen", "Please heed the call", "Don’t stand in the doorway", "Don’t block up the hall", "For he that gets hurt", "Will be he who has stalled", "There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’", "It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls", "For the times they are a-changin’" ], [ "Come mothers and fathers", "Throughout the land", "And don’t criticize", "What you can’t understand", "Your sons and your daughters", "Are beyond your command", "Your old road is rapidly agin’", "Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand", "For the times they are a-changin’" ], [ "The line it is drawn", "The curse it is cast", "The slow one now", "Will later be fast", "As the present now", "Will later be past", "The order is rapidly fadin’", "And the first one now will later be last", "For the times they are a-changin’" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/the-tracks-of-my-tears/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "The Tracks of My Tears", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/water-wide/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975", "year": 2002, "title": "The Water Is Wide", "plays": 12, "lyrics": [ [ "The water is wide and I can't cross over", "Neither have I wings that I could fly", "Build me a boat that can carry two", "And both shall row my love and I." ], [ "There is a ship and it sails on the sea", "Loaded deep as deep can be", "But not as deep as the love I'm in", "I know not if I sink or swim." ], [ "I leaned my back up against an oak", "Thinkin' it was a trusty tree", "But first it bent and then it broke", "Just like my own false love to me." ], [ "Oh love is gentle, love is kind", "Gay as a jewel when first it's new", "But love grows old and waxes cold", "And fades away like some morning dew." ], [ "The water is wide and I can't cross over", "Neither have I wings to fly", "Build me a boat that can carry two", "And both shall row my love and I" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/weight/", "album": "Before the Flood", "year": 1974, "title": "The Weight", "plays": 4, "lyrics": [ [ "I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' about half past dead;", "I just need some place where I can lay my head.", "\"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?\"", "He just grinned and shook my hand, and \"No!\", was all he said." ], [ "Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free;", "Take a load off Fanny, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me." ], [ "I picked up my bag, I went lookin' for a place to hide;", "When I saw Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side.", "I said, \"Hey, Carmen, come on, let's go downtown.\"", "She said, \"I gotta go, but m'friend can stick around.\"" ], [ "Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free;", "Take a load off Fanny, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me." ], [ "Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothin' you can say", "It's just ol' Luke, and Luke's waitin' on the Judgement Day.", "\"Well, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?\"", "He said, \"Do me a favor, son, woncha stay an' keep Anna Lee company?\"" ], [ "Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free;", "Take a load off Fanny, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me." ], [ "Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me in the fog.", "He said, \"I will fix your rack, if you'll take Jack, my dog.\"", "I said, \"Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man.\"", "He said, \"That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can.\"" ], [ "Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free;", "Take a load off Fanny, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me." ], [ "Catch a cannon ball now, t'take me down the line", "My bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time.", "To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one.", "Who sent me here with her regards for everyone." ], [ "Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free;", "Take a load off Fanny, And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/wicked-messenger/", "album": "John Wesley Harding", "year": 1967, "title": "The Wicked Messenger", "plays": 125, "lyrics": [ [ "There was a wicked messenger", "From Eli he did come", "With a mind that multiplied the smallest matter", "When questioned who had sent for him", "He answered with his thumb", "For his tongue it could not speak, but only flatter" ], [ "He stayed behind the assembly hall", "It was there he made his bed", "Oftentimes he could be seen returning", "Until one day he just appeared", "With a note in his hand which read", "“The soles of my feet, I swear they’re burning”" ], [ "Oh, the leaves began to fallin’", "And the seas began to part", "And the people that confronted him were many", "And he was told but these few words", "Which opened up his heart", "“If ye cannot bring good news, then don’t bring any”" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/these-hands/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait", "year": 2013, "title": "These Hands", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/they-killed-him/", "album": "Knocked Out Loaded", "year": 1986, "title": "They Killed Him", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "There was a man named Hatma Gandi", "He would not bow down he would not fight", "He knew the deal was down and dirty", "And nothing wrong could make it right away", "But he knew his duty and the prize he had to pay", "Just another holy man who tried to be a friend", "My God, they killed him." ], [ "Another man from Atlanta, Georgia", "By name of Martin Luther King", "He shook the land like the rolling thunder", "And made the bells of freedom ring today", "With a dream of beauty that they could not burn away", "Just another holy man who dared to make a stand", "My God, they killed him." ], [ "The only Son of God Almighty", "The holy one called Jesus Christ", "He healed the lame and fed the hungry", "And for his love they took his life away", "On the road to glory where the story never ends", "Just the holy Son of Man we'll never understand", "My God, they killed him." ], [ "There was a man named Mahatma Gandi", "A man named Martin Luther King", "The only Son of God Almighty", "The only one called Jesus Christ", "On the road to glory where the story never ends", "Just the holy Son of Man we'll never understand", "My God, they killed him." ], [ "There was a man named Mahatma Gandi", "A man named Martin Luther King", "The only Son of God Almighty", "The only one called Jesus Christ", "On the road to glory where the story never ends", "Just the holy Son of Man we'll never understand", "My God, they killed him." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/things-have-changed/", "album": "The Essential Bob Dylan", "year": 2000, "title": "Things Have Changed", "plays": 975, "lyrics": [ [ "A worried man with a worried mind", "No one in front of me and nothing behind", "There’s a woman on my lap and she’s drinking champagne", "Got white skin, blood in my eyes", "I’m looking up into the sapphire-tinted skies", "I’m well dressed, waiting on the last train" ], [ "Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose", "Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose" ], [ "People are crazy and times are strange", "I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range", "I used to care, but things have changed" ], [ "This place ain’t doing me any good", "I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood", "Just for a second there I thought I saw something move", "Gonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug rag", "Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag", "Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove" ], [ "Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too", "Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through" ], [ "People are crazy and times are strange", "I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range", "I used to care, but things have changed" ], [ "I’ve been walking forty miles of bad road", "If the Bible is right, the world will explode", "I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can", "Some things are too hot to touch", "The human mind can only stand so much", "You can’t win with a losing hand" ], [ "Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet", "Putting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street" ], [ "People are crazy and times are strange", "I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range", "I used to care, but things have changed" ], [ "I hurt easy, I just don’t show it", "You can hurt someone and not even know it", "The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity", "Gonna get low down, gonna fly high", "All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie", "I’m in love with a woman who don’t even appeal to me" ], [ "Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake", "I’m not that eager to make a mistake" ], [ "People are crazy and times are strange", "I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range", "I used to care, but things have changed" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/thirsty-boots/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait", "year": 2013, "title": "Thirsty Boots", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/dream-you/", "album": "Together Through Life", "year": 2009, "title": "This Dream of You", "plays": 12, "lyrics": [ [ "How long can I stay in this nowhere café", "'Fore night turns into day", "I wonder why I'm so frightened of dawn", "All I have and all I know", "Is this dream of you", "Which keeps me living on" ], [ "There's a moment when all old things", "Become new again", "But that moment might have been here and gone", "All I have and all I know", "Is this dream of you", "Which keeps me living on" ], [ "I look away, but I keep seeing it", "I don't want to believe, but I keep believing it", "Shadows dance upon the wall", "Shadows that seem to know it all" ], [ "Am I too blind to see?", "Is my heart playing tricks on me?", "Too late to stop now even though all my friends are gone", "All I have and all I know", "Is this dream of you", "Which keeps me living on" ], [ "Everything I touch seems to disappear", "Everywhere I turn you are always here", "I'll run this race until my earthly death", "I'll defend this place with my dying breath" ], [ "From a cheerless room in a curtained gloom", "I saw a star from heaven fall", "I turned and looked again but it was gone", "All I have and all I know", "Is this dream of you", "Which keeps me living on" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/evening-so-soon/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait", "year": 2013, "title": "This Evening So Soon", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/land-your-land/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 7: No Direction Home", "year": 2005, "title": "This Land Is Your Land", "plays": 32, "lyrics": [ [ "As I was walking that ribbon of highway", "I saw above me that endless skyway", "I saw below me that golden valley", "This land was made for you and me" ], [ "This land is your land, this land is my land", "From California to the New York Island", "From the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters", "This land was made for you and me" ], [ "I've roamed and rambled, and I've followed my footsteps", "To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts", "And all around me a voice was sounding", "This land was made for you and me" ], [ "This land is your land, this land is my land", "From California to the New York Island", "From the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters", "This land was made for you and me" ], [ "The sun comes shining as I was strolling", "The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling", "The fog was lifting a voice come chanting", "This land was made for you and me" ], [ "This land is your land, this land is my land", "From California to the New York Island", "From the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters", "This land was made for you and me" ], [ "As I was walkin', I saw a sign there", "And that sign said, \"No Tresspassin'\"", "But on the other side it didn't say nothin'", "Now that side was made for you and me!" ], [ "This land is your land, this land is my land", "From California to the New York Island", "From the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters", "This land was made for you and me" ], [ "In the squares of the city, in the shadow of the steeple", "Near the relief office I see my people", "And some are grumblin', and some are wonderin'", "If this land's still made for you and me" ], [ "This land is your land, this land is my land", "From California to the New York Island", "From the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters", "This land was made for you and me" ], [ "Nobody living can ever stop me", "As I go walking that freedom highway", "Nobody living can make me turn back", "This land was made for you and me" ], [ "This land is your land, this land is my land", "From California to the New York Island", "From the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters", "This land was made for you and me" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/wheels-fire/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "This Wheel’s On Fire", "plays": 121, "lyrics": [ [ "If your mem’ry serves you well", "We were goin’ to meet again and wait", "So I’m goin’ to unpack all my things", "And sit before it gets too late", "No man alive will come to you", "With another tale to tell", "But you know that we shall meet again", "If your mem’ry serves you well", "This wheel’s on fire", "Rolling down the road", "Best notify my next of kin", "This wheel shall explode!" ], [ "If your mem’ry serves you well", "I was goin’ to confiscate your lace", "And wrap it up in a sailor’s knot", "And hide it in your case", "If I knew for sure that it was yours . . .", "But it was oh so hard to tell", "But you knew that we would meet again", "If your mem’ry serves you well", "This wheel’s on fire", "Rolling down the road", "Best notify my next of kin", "This wheel shall explode!" ], [ "If your mem’ry serves you well", "You’ll remember you’re the one", "That called on me to call on them", "To get you your favors done", "And after ev’ry plan had failed", "And there was nothing more to tell", "You knew that we would meet again", "If your mem’ry served you well", "This wheel’s on fire", "Rolling down the road", "Best notify my next of kin", "This wheel shall explode!" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/three-angels/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "Three Angels", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Three angels up above the street", "Each one playing a horn", "Dressed in green robes with wings that stick out", "They’ve been there since Christmas morn", "The wildest cat from Montana passes by in a flash", "Then a lady in a bright orange dress", "One U-Haul trailer, a truck with no wheels", "The Tenth Avenue bus going west", "The dogs and pigeons fly up and they flutter around", "A man with a badge skips by", "Three fellas crawlin’ on their way back to work", "Nobody stops to ask why", "The bakery truck stops outside of that fence", "Where the angels stand high on their poles", "The driver peeks out, trying to find one face", "In this concrete world full of souls", "The angels play on their horns all day", "The whole earth in progression seems to pass by", "But does anyone hear the music they play", "Does anyone even try?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/thunder-mountain/", "album": "Modern Times", "year": 2006, "title": "Thunder on the Mountain", "plays": 739, "lyrics": [ [ "Thunder on the mountain, fires on the moon", "There's a ruckus in the alley and the sun will be here soon", "Today's the day, gonna grab my trombone and blow", "Well, there's hot stuff here and it's everywhere I go", "I was thinkin' 'bout Alicia Keys, couldn't keep from crying", "When she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line", "I'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be", "I been looking for her even clear through Tennessee", "Feel like my soul is beginning to expand", "Look into my heart and you will sort of understand", "You brought me here, now you're trying to run me away", "The writing's on the wall, come read it, come see what it say" ], [ "Thunder on the mountain, rolling like a drum", "Gonna sleep over there, that's where the music coming from", "I don't need any guide, I already know the way", "Remember this, I'm your servant both night and day", "The pistols are poppin' and the power is down", "I'd like to try somethin' but I'm so far from town", "The sun keeps shinin' and the North Wind keeps picking up speed", "Gonna forget about myself for a while, gonna go out and see what others need", "I've been sitting down studying the art of love", "I think it will fit me like a glove", "I want some real good woman to do just what I say", "Everybody got to wonder what's the matter with this cruel world today" ], [ "Thunder on the mountain rolling to the ground", "Gonna get up in the morning walk the hard road down", "Some sweet day I'll stand beside my king", "I wouldn't betray your love or any other thing", "Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bitches", "I'll recruit my army from the orphanages", "I been to St. Herman's church and I've said my religious vows", "I've sucked the milk out of a thousand cows", "I got the porkchops, she got the pie", "She ain't no angel and neither am I", "Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes", "I'll say this, I don't give a damn about your dreams" ], [ "Thunder on the mountain heavy as can be", "Mean old twister bearing down on me", "All the ladies of Washington scrambling to get out of town", "Looks like something bad gonna happen, better roll your airplane down", "Everybody's going and I want to go too", "Don't wanna take a chance with somebody new", "I did all I could and I did it right there and then", "I've already confessed – no need to confess again", "Gonna make a lot of money, gonna go up north", "I'll plant and I'll harvest what the earth brings forth", "The hammer's on the table, the pitchfork's on the shelf", "For the love of God, you ought to take pity on yourself" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tight-connection-my-heart-has-anyone-seen-my-love/", "album": "Empire Burlesque", "year": 1985, "title": "Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love)", "plays": 14, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I had to move fast", "And I couldn’t with you around my neck", "I said I’d send for you and I did", "What did you expect?", "My hands are sweating", "And we haven’t even started yet", "I’ll go along with the charade", "Until I can think my way out", "I know it was all a big joke", "Whatever it was about", "Someday maybe", "I’ll remember to forget" ], [ "I’m gonna get my coat", "I feel the breath of a storm", "There’s something I’ve got to do tonight", "You go inside and stay warm" ], [ "Has anybody seen my love", "Has anybody seen my love", "Has anybody seen my love", "I don’t know", "Has anybody seen my love?" ], [ "You want to talk to me", "Go ahead and talk", "Whatever you got to say to me", "Won’t come as any shock", "I must be guilty of something", "You just whisper it into my ear", "Madame Butterfly", "She lulled me to sleep", "In a town without pity", "Where the water runs deep", "She said, “Be easy, baby", "There ain’t nothin’ worth stealin’ in here”" ], [ "You’re the one I’ve been looking for", "You’re the one that’s got the key", "But I can’t figure out whether I’m too good for you", "Or you’re too good for me" ], [ "Has anybody seen my love", "Has anybody seen my love", "Has anybody seen my love", "I don’t know", "Has anybody seen my love?" ], [ "Well, they’re not showing any lights tonight", "And there’s no moon", "There’s just a hot-blooded singer", "Singing “Memphis in June”", "While they’re beatin’ the devil out of a guy", "Who’s wearing a powder-blue wig", "Later he’ll be shot", "For resisting arrest", "I can still hear his voice crying", "In the wilderness", "What looks large from a distance", "Close up ain’t never that big" ], [ "Never could learn to drink that blood", "And call it wine", "Never could learn to hold you, love", "And call you mine" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/time-passes-slowly/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "Time Passes Slowly", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Time passes slowly up here in the mountains", "We sit beside bridges and walk beside fountains", "Catch the wild fishes that float through the stream", "Time passes slowly when you’re lost in a dream" ], [ "Once I had a sweetheart, she was fine and good-lookin’", "We sat in her kitchen while her mama was cookin’", "Stared out the window to the stars high above", "Time passes slowly when you’re searchin’ for love" ], [ "Ain’t no reason to go in a wagon to town", "Ain’t no reason to go to the fair", "Ain’t no reason to go up, ain’t no reason to go down", "Ain’t no reason to go anywhere" ], [ "Time passes slowly up here in the daylight", "We stare straight ahead and try so hard to stay right", "Like the red rose of summer that blooms in the day", "Time passes slowly and fades away" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tin-angel/", "album": "Tempest", "year": 2012, "title": "Tin Angel", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "It was late last night when the boss came home", "To a deserted mansion and a desolate throne", "Servant said, “Boss, the lady’s gone", "She left this morning just ‘fore dawn.”" ], [ "“You got something to tell me, tell it to me, man.", "Come to the point as straight as you can.”", "“Old Henry Lee, chief of the clan,", "Came riding through the woods and took her by the hand.”" ], [ "The boss he laid back flat on his bed", "He cursed the heat and he clutched his head", "He pondered the future of his fate", "To wait another day would be far too late" ], [ "\"Go fetch me my coat and my tie", "And the cheapest labor that money can buy", "Saddle me up my buckskin mare", "If you see me go by, put up a prayer.\"" ], [ "Well, they rode all night and they rode all day", "Eastward long on the broad highway", "His spirit was tired and his vision was bent", "His men deserted him and onward he went" ], [ "He came to a place where the light was dull", "His forehead pounding in his skull", "Heavy heart was wracked with pain", "Insomnia raging in his brain" ], [ "Well he threw down his helmet and his cross-handled sword", "He renounced his faith, he denied his Lord", "Crawled on his belly, put his ear to the wall", "One way or another he'd put an end to it all" ], [ "He leaned down, cut the electric wire", "Stared into the flames and he snorted the fire", "Peered through the darkness, caught a glimpse of the two", "It was hard to tell for certain who was who" ], [ "He lowered himself down on a golden chain", "His nerves were quaking in every vein", "His knuckles were bloody, he sucked in the air", "He ran his fingers through his greasy hair" ], [ "They looked at each other and their glasses clinked", "One single unit inseparably linked", "“Got a strange premonition there’s a man close by.”", "“Don’t worry about him, he wouldn’t harm a fly.”" ], [ "From behind the curtain the boss crossed the floor", "He moved his feet and he bolted the door", "Shadows hiding the lines in his face", "With all the nobility of an ancient race" ], [ "She turned, she was startled with a look of surprise", "With a hatred that could hit the skies", "“You’re a reckless fool, I can see it in your eyes.", "To come this way was by no means wise.”" ], [ "“Get up, stand up, you greedy lipped wench", "And cover your face or suffer the consequence.", "You are making my heart full sick.", "Put your clothes back on double quick.”" ], [ "“Silly boy, you think me a saint.", "I’ll listen no more to your words of complaint.", "You’ve given me nothing but the sweetest lies.", "Now hold your tongue and feed your eyes.”" ], [ "“I’d have given you the stars and the planets too", "But what good would these things do you?", "Bow the heart, if not the knee", "Or never again this world you’ll see.”" ], [ "“Oh, please let not your heart be cold.", "This man is dearer to me than gold.”", "“Oh my dear, you must be blind.", "He’s a gutless ape with a worthless mind.”" ], [ "“You had your way too long with me.", "Now it’s me who’ll determine how things shall be.", "Try to escape,” he cussed and cursed", "“You’ll have to try to get past me first.”" ], [ "“I dare not let your passion rule.", "You think my heart, the heart of a fool.", "And you sir, you cannot deny", "You made a monkey of me, what and for why?”" ], [ "“I’ll have no more of this insulting chat.", "The devil can have you, I’ll see to that.", "Look sharp or step aside,", "Or in the cradle you’ll wish you died.”" ], [ "The gun went boom and the shot rang clear", "First bullet grazed his ear", "Second ball went right straight in", "And he bent in the middle like a twisted pin" ], [ "He crawled to the corner and he lowered his head", "He gripped the chair and he grabbed the bed", "It would take more than needle and thread", "Bleeding from the mouth, he’s as good as dead" ], [ "“You shot my husband down, you fiend.”", "“Husband, what husband, what the hell do you mean?", "He was a man of strife, a man of sin.", "I cut him down and I’ll throw him to the wind.”" ], [ "“Hear this,” she said, with angry breath", "“You too shall meet the lord of death.", "It was I who brought your soul to life.”", "And she raised her robe and she drew out a knife" ], [ "His face was hard and caked with sweat", "His arms ached and his hands were wet", "“You’re a murderous queen and a bloody wife.", "If you don’t mind, I’ll have the knife.”" ], [ "“We’re two of a kind and our blood runs hot.", "But we’re no way similar in body and thought.", "All husbands are good men, as all wives know.”", "Then she pierced him to the heart and his blood did flow" ], [ "His knees went limp and he reached for the door", "His doom was sealed, he slid to the floor", "He whispered in her ear, “This is all your fault.", "My fighting days have come to a halt.”" ], [ "She touched his lip and kissed his cheek", "He tried to speak, but his breath was weak", "“You died for me, now I'll die for you.”", "She put the blade to her heart and she ran it through" ], [ "All three lovers together in a heap", "Thrown into the grave forever to sleep", "Funeral torches blazed away", "Through the towns and the villages all night and all day" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tiny-montgomery/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Tiny Montgomery", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well you can tell ev’rybody", "Down in ol’ Frisco", "Tell ’em", "Tiny Montgomery says hello" ], [ "Now ev’ry boy and girl’s", "Gonna get their bang", "’Cause Tiny Montgomery’s", "Gonna shake that thing", "Tell ev’rybody", "Down in ol’ Frisco", "That Tiny Montgomery’s comin’", "Down to say hello" ], [ "Skinny Moo and", "Half-track Frank", "They’re gonna both be gettin’", "Outa the tank", "One bird book", "And a buzzard and a crow", "Tell ’em all", "That Tiny’s gonna say hello" ], [ "Scratch your dad", "Do that bird", "Suck that pig", "And bring it on home", "Pick that drip", "And bake that dough", "Tell ’em all", "That Tiny says hello" ], [ "Now he’s king of the drunks", "An’ he squeezes, too", "Watch out, Lester", "Take it, Lou", "Join the monks", "The C.I.O.", "Tell ’em all", "That Tiny Montgomery says hello" ], [ "Now grease that pig", "And sing praise", "Go on out", "And gas that dog", "Trick on in", "Honk that stink", "Take it on down", "And watch it grow", "Play it low", "And pick it up", "Take it on in", "In a plucking cup", "Three-legged man", "And a hot-lipped hoe", "Tell ’em all", "Montgomery says hello" ], [ "Well you can tell ev’rybody", "Down in ol’ Frisco", "Tell ’em all", "Montgomery says hello" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/be-alone-you/", "album": "Nashville Skyline", "year": 1969, "title": "To Be Alone with You", "plays": 126, "lyrics": [ [ "To be alone with you", "Just you and me", "Now won’t you tell me true", "Ain’t that the way it oughta be?", "To hold each other tight", "The whole night through", "Ev’rything is always right", "When I’m alone with you" ], [ "To be alone with you", "At the close of the day", "With only you in view", "While evening slips away", "It only goes to show", "That while life’s pleasures be few", "The only one I know", "Is when I’m alone with you" ], [ "They say that nighttime is the right time", "To be with the one you love", "Too many thoughts get in the way in the day", "But you’re always what I’m thinkin’ of", "I wish the night were here", "Bringin’ me all of your charms", "When only you are near", "To hold me in your arms" ], [ "I’ll always thank the Lord", "When my working day’s through", "I get my sweet reward", "To be alone with you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ramona/", "album": "Another Side of Bob Dylan", "year": 1964, "title": "To Ramona", "plays": 381, "lyrics": [ [ "Ramona", "Come closer", "Shut softly your watery eyes", "The pangs of your sadness", "Shall pass as your senses will rise", "The flowers of the city", "Though breathlike", "Get deathlike at times", "And there’s no use in tryin’", "T’ deal with the dyin’", "Though I cannot explain that in lines" ], [ "Your cracked country lips", "I still wish to kiss", "As to be under the strength of your skin", "Your magnetic movements", "Still capture the minutes I’m in", "But it grieves my heart, love", "To see you tryin’ to be a part of", "A world that just don’t exist", "It’s all just a dream, babe", "A vacuum, a scheme, babe", "That sucks you into feelin’ like this" ], [ "I can see that your head", "Has been twisted and fed", "By worthless foam from the mouth", "I can tell you are torn", "Between stayin’ and returnin’", "On back to the South", "You’ve been fooled into thinking", "That the finishin’ end is at hand", "Yet there’s no one to beat you", "No one t’ defeat you", "’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad" ], [ "I’ve heard you say many times", "That you’re better ’n no one", "And no one is better ’n you", "If you really believe that", "You know you got", "Nothing to win and nothing to lose", "From fixtures and forces and friends", "Your sorrow does stem", "That hype you and type you", "Making you feel", "That you must be exactly like them" ], [ "I’d forever talk to you", "But soon my words", "They would turn into a meaningless ring", "For deep in my heart", "I know there is no help I can bring", "Everything passes", "Everything changes", "Just do what you think you should do", "And someday maybe", "Who knows, baby", "I’ll come and be cryin’ to you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tombstone-blues/", "album": "Highway 61 Revisited", "year": 1965, "title": "Tombstone Blues", "plays": 169, "lyrics": [ [ "The sweet pretty things are in bed now of course", "The city fathers they’re trying to endorse", "The reincarnation of Paul Revere’s horse", "But the town has no need to be nervous" ], [ "The ghost of Belle Starr she hands down her wits", "To Jezebel the nun she violently knits", "A bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sits", "At the head of the chamber of commerce" ], [ "Mama’s in the fact’ry", "She ain’t got no shoes", "Daddy’s in the alley", "He’s lookin’ for the fuse", "I’m in the streets", "With the tombstone blues" ], [ "The hysterical bride in the penny arcade", "Screaming she moans, “I’ve just been made”", "Then sends out for the doctor who pulls down the shade", "Says, “My advice is to not let the boys in”" ], [ "Now the medicine man comes and he shuffles inside", "He walks with a swagger and he says to the bride", "“Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride", "You will not die, it’s not poison”" ], [ "Mama’s in the fact’ry", "She ain’t got no shoes", "Daddy’s in the alley", "He’s lookin’ for the fuse", "I’m in the streets", "With the tombstone blues" ], [ "Well, John the Baptist after torturing a thief", "Looks up at his hero the Commander-in-Chief", "Saying, “Tell me great hero, but please make it brief", "Is there a hole for me to get sick in?”" ], [ "The Commander-in-Chief answers him while chasing a fly", "Saying, “Death to all those who would whimper and cry”", "And dropping a barbell he points to the sky", "Saying, “The sun’s not yellow it’s chicken”" ], [ "Mama’s in the fact’ry", "She ain’t got no shoes", "Daddy’s in the alley", "He’s lookin’ for the fuse", "I’m in the streets", "With the tombstone blues" ], [ "The king of the Philistines his soldiers to save", "Puts jawbones on their tombstones and flatters their graves", "Puts the pied pipers in prison and fattens the slaves", "Then sends them out to the jungle" ], [ "Gypsy Davey with a blowtorch he burns out their camps", "With his faithful slave Pedro behind him he tramps", "With a fantastic collection of stamps", "To win friends and influence his uncle" ], [ "Mama’s in the fact’ry", "She ain’t got no shoes", "Daddy’s in the alley", "He’s lookin’ for the fuse", "I’m in the streets", "With the tombstone blues" ], [ "The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone", "Causes Galileo’s math book to get thrown", "At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone", "But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter" ], [ "Now I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill", "I would set him in chains at the top of the hill", "Then send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille", "He could die happily ever after" ], [ "Mama’s in the fact’ry", "She ain’t got no shoes", "Daddy’s in the alley", "He’s lookin’ for the fuse", "I’m in the streets", "With the tombstone blues" ], [ "Where Ma Rainey and Beethoven once unwrapped their bedroll", "Tuba players now rehearse around the flagpole", "And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul", "To the old folks home and the college" ], [ "Now I wish I could write you a melody so plain", "That could hold you dear lady from going insane", "That could ease you and cool you and cease the pain", "Of your useless and pointless knowledge" ], [ "Mama’s in the fact’ry", "She ain’t got no shoes", "Daddy’s in the alley", "He’s lookin’ for the fuse", "I’m in the streets", "With the tombstone blues" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tomorrow-long-time/", "album": "Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume II", "year": 1971, "title": "Tomorrow Is a Long Time", "plays": 69, "lyrics": [ [ "If today was not an endless highway", "If tonight was not a crooked trail", "If tomorrow wasn’t such a long time", "Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all", "Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin’", "Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’", "Only if she was lyin’ by me", "Then I’d lie in my bed once again" ], [ "I can’t see my reflection in the waters", "I can’t speak the sounds that show no pain", "I can’t hear the echo of my footsteps", "Or can’t remember the sound of my own name", "Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin’", "Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’", "Only if she was lyin’ by me", "Then I’d lie in my bed once again" ], [ "There’s beauty in the silver, singin’ river", "There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky", "But none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty", "That I remember in my true love’s eyes", "Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin’", "Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’", "Only if she was lyin’ by me", "Then I’d lie in my bed once again" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tomorrow-night/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "Tomorrow Night", "plays": 58, "lyrics": [ [ "Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said to night ?", "Tomorrow night, will all the thrill be gone ?", "Tomorrow night, will it be just another memory", "Or just another song, that's in my heart to linger on ?" ], [ "Your lips are so tender, your heart is beating fast", "And you willingly surrender to me, my darling will it last ?", "Tomorrow night, will you be with me when the moon is bright ?", "Tomorrow night, will you say those lovely things you said tonight ?" ], [ "Your lips are so tender, your heart is beating fast", "And you willingly surrender to me, my darling will it last ?", "Tomorrow night, will you be with me when the moon is bright ?", "Tomorrow night, will you say those lovely things you said tonight ?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tonight-ill-be-staying-here-you/", "album": "Nashville Skyline", "year": 1969, "title": "Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You", "plays": 144, "lyrics": [ [ "Throw my ticket out the window", "Throw my suitcase out there, too", "Throw my troubles out the door", "I don’t need them anymore", "’Cause tonight I’ll be staying here with you" ], [ "I should have left this town this morning", "But it was more than I could do", "Oh, your love comes on so strong", "And I’ve waited all day long", "For tonight when I’ll be staying here with you" ], [ "Is it really any wonder", "The love that a stranger might receive", "You cast your spell and I went under", "I find it so difficult to leave" ], [ "I can hear that whistle blowin’", "I see that stationmaster, too", "If there’s a poor boy on the street", "Then let him have my seat", "’Cause tonight I’ll be staying here with you" ], [ "Throw my ticket out the window", "Throw my suitcase out there, too", "Throw my troubles out the door", "I don’t need them anymore", "’Cause tonight I’ll be staying here with you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/too-much-nothing/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Too Much of Nothing", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Now, too much of nothing", "Can make a man feel ill at ease", "One man’s temper might rise", "While another man’s temper might freeze", "In the day of confession", "We cannot mock a soul", "Oh, when there’s too much of nothing", "No one has control" ], [ "Say hello to Valerie", "Say hello to Vivian", "Send them all my salary", "On the waters of oblivion" ], [ "Too much of nothing", "Can make a man abuse a king", "He can walk the streets and boast like most", "But he wouldn’t know a thing", "Now, it’s all been done before", "It’s all been written in the book", "But when there’s too much of nothing", "Nobody should look" ], [ "Say hello to Valerie", "Say hello to Vivian", "Send them all my salary", "On the waters of oblivion" ], [ "Too much of nothing", "Can turn a man into a liar", "It can cause one man to sleep on nails", "And another man to eat fire", "Ev’rybody’s doin’ somethin’", "I heard it in a dream", "But when there’s too much of nothing", "It just makes a fella mean" ], [ "Say hello to Valerie", "Say hello to Vivian", "Send them all my salary", "On the waters of oblivion" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tough-mama/", "album": "Planet Waves", "year": 1974, "title": "Tough Mama", "plays": 44, "lyrics": [ [ "Tough Mama, meat shakin’ on your bones", "I'm gonna go down to the river and get some stones", "Sister's on the highway with that steel-drivin' crew", "Papa's in the big house, his workin' days are through", "Tough Mama, 
can I blow a little smoke on you?" ], [ "Dark Lady, Won't you move it on over and make some room?", "Rollin’ steady, sweepin’ through the country like a broom", "Put your arms around me, like a circle ‘round the sun", "You got a pocket full of money but you can’t help me none", "Shady Lady, the Dress that you are wearin’ weighs a ton" ], [ "Angel Baby, born of a blinding light and a changing wind", "Drive me crazy, you know who you are and where you’ve been", "Starin’ at the ceiling, standin’ on the chair", "Big fires blazing, ashes in the air", "Angel Baby, I wonder what you done back there" ], [ "I’m crestfallen—the world of illusion is at my door", "I hear you callin’, same old thing like it was before", "Crawlin’ through the meadow like a lion in the den", "Headin’ for the round-up at the rainbow’s end", "Tough Mama, let’s get on the road again" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/train-a-travelin/", "album": "", "title": "Train A-Travelin’", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "There’s an iron train a-travelin’ that’s been a-rollin’ through the years", "With a firebox of hatred and a furnace full of fears", "If you ever heard its sound or seen its blood-red broken frame", "Then you heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name" ], [ "Did you ever stop to wonder ’bout the hatred that it holds?", "Did you ever see its passengers, its crazy mixed-up souls?", "Did you ever start a-thinkin’ that you gotta stop that train?", "Then you heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name" ], [ "Do you ever get tired of the preachin’ sounds of fear", "When they’re hammered at your head and pounded in your ear?", "Have you ever asked about it and not been answered plain?", "Then you heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name" ], [ "I’m a-wonderin’ if the leaders of the nations understand", "This murder-minded world that they’re leavin’ in my hands", "Have you ever laid awake at night and wondered ’bout the same?", "Then you’ve heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name" ], [ "Have you ever had it on your lips or said it in your head", "That the person standin’ next to you just might be misled?", "Does the raving of the maniacs make your insides go insane?", "Then you’ve heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name" ], [ "Do the kill-crazy bandits and the haters get you down?", "Does the preachin’ and the politics spin your head around?", "Does the burning of the buses give your heart a pain?", "Then you’ve heard my voice a-singin’ and you know my name" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/trouble/", "album": "Shot of Love", "year": 1981, "title": "Trouble", "plays": 7, "lyrics": [ [ "Trouble in the city, trouble in the farm", "You got your rabbit’s foot, you got your good-luck charm", "But they can’t help you none when there’s trouble" ], [ "Trouble", "Trouble, trouble, trouble", "Nothin’ but trouble" ], [ "Trouble in the water, trouble in the air", "Go all the way to the other side of the world, you’ll find trouble there", "Revolution even ain’t no solution for trouble" ], [ "Trouble", "Trouble, trouble, trouble", "Nothin’ but trouble" ], [ "Drought and starvation, packaging of the soul", "Persecution, execution, governments out of control", "You can see the writing on the wall inviting trouble" ], [ "Trouble", "Trouble, trouble, trouble", "Nothin’ but trouble" ], [ "Put your ear to the train tracks, put your ear to the ground", "You ever feel like you’re never alone even when there’s nobody else around?", "Since the beginning of the universe man’s been cursed by trouble" ], [ "Trouble", "Trouble, trouble, trouble", "Nothin’ but trouble" ], [ "Nightclubs of the broken-hearted, stadiums of the damned", "Legislature, perverted nature, doors that are rudely slammed", "Look into infinity, all you see is trouble" ], [ "Trouble", "Trouble, trouble, trouble", "Nothin’ but trouble" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/trouble-in-mind/", "album": "", "title": "Trouble in Mind", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I got to know, Lord, when to pull back on the reins", "Death can be the result of the most underrated pain", "Satan whispers to ya, “Well, I don’t want to bore ya", "But when ya get tired of the Miss So-and-so I got another woman for ya”" ], [ "Trouble in mind, Lord, trouble in mind", "Lord, take away this trouble in mind" ], [ "When the deeds that you do don’t add up to zero", "It’s what’s inside that counts, ask any war hero", "You think you can hide but you’re never alone", "Ask Lot what he thought when his wife turned to stone" ], [ "Trouble in mind, Lord, trouble in mind", "Lord, take away this trouble in mind" ], [ "Here comes Satan, prince of the power of the air", "He’s gonna make you a law unto yourself, gonna build a bird’s nest in your hair", "He’s gonna deaden your conscience ’til you worship the work of your own hands", "You’ll be serving strangers in a strange, forsaken land" ], [ "Trouble in mind, Lord, trouble in mind", "Lord, take away this trouble in mind" ], [ "Well, your true love has caught you where you don’t belong", "You say, “Baby, everybody’s doing it so I guess it can’t be wrong”", "The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie", "Then you’re all the time defending what you can never justify" ], [ "Trouble in mind, Lord, trouble in mind", "Lord, take away this trouble in mind" ], [ "So many of my brothers, they still want to be the boss", "They can’t relate to the Lord’s kingdom, they can’t relate to the cross", "They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives", "Put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs or their wives" ], [ "Trouble in mind, Lord, trouble in mind", "Lord, take away this trouble in mind" ], [ "When my life is over, it’ll be like a puff of smoke", "How long must I suffer, Lord, how long must I be provoked?", "Satan will give you a little taste, then he’ll move in with rapid speed", "Lord, keep my blind side covered and see that I don’t bleed" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/true-love-tends-forget/", "album": "Street-Legal", "year": 1978, "title": "True Love Tends to Forget", "plays": 14, "lyrics": [ [ "I’m getting weary looking in my baby’s eyes", "When she’s near me she’s so hard to recognize", "I finally realize there’s no room for regret", "True love, true love, true love tends to forget" ], [ "Hold me, baby be near", "You told me that you’d be sincere", "Every day of the year’s like playin’ Russian roulette", "True love, true love, true love tends to forget" ], [ "I was lyin’ down in the reeds without any oxygen", "I saw you in the wilderness among the men", "Saw you drift into infinity and come back again", "All you got to do is wait and I’ll tell you when" ], [ "You’re a tearjerker, baby, but I’m under your spell", "You’re a hard worker, baby, and I know you well", "But this weekend in hell is making me sweat", "True love, true love, true love tends to forget" ], [ "I was lyin’ down in the reeds without any oxygen", "I saw you in the wilderness among the men", "Saw you drift into infinity and come back again", "All you got to do is wait and I’ll tell you when" ], [ "You belong to me, baby, without any doubt", "Don’t forsake me, baby, don’t sell me out", "Don’t keep me knockin’ about from Mexico to Tibet", "True love, true love, true love tends to forget" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/trust-yourself/", "album": "Empire Burlesque", "year": 1985, "title": "Trust Yourself", "plays": 25, "lyrics": [ [ "Trust yourself", "Trust yourself to do the things that only you know best", "Trust yourself", "Trust yourself to do what’s right and not be second-guessed", "Don’t trust me to show you beauty", "When beauty may only turn to rust", "If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself" ], [ "Trust yourself", "Trust yourself to know the way that will prove true in the end", "Trust yourself", "Trust yourself to find the path where there is no if and when", "Don’t trust me to show you the truth", "When the truth may only be ashes and dust", "If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself" ], [ "Well, you’re on your own, you always were", "In a land of wolves and thieves", "Don’t put your hope in ungodly man", "Or be a slave to what somebody else believes" ], [ "Trust yourself", "And you won’t be disappointed when vain people let you down", "Trust yourself", "And look not for answers where no answers can be found", "Don’t trust me to show you love", "When my love may be only lust", "If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/try-me-little-girl/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Try Me Little Girl", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/trying-get-heaven/", "album": "Time out of Mind", "year": 1997, "title": "Tryin’ to Get to Heaven", "plays": 287, "lyrics": [ [ "The air is getting hotter", "There’s a rumbling in the skies", "I’ve been wading through the high muddy water", "With the heat rising in my eyes", "Every day your memory grows dimmer", "It doesn’t haunt me like it did before", "I’ve been walking through the middle of nowhere", "Trying to get to heaven before they close the door" ], [ "When I was in Missouri", "They would not let me be", "I had to leave there in a hurry", "I only saw what they let me see", "You broke a heart that loved you", "Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore", "I’ve been walking that lonesome valley", "Trying to get to heaven before they close the door" ], [ "People on the platforms", "Waiting for the trains", "I can hear their hearts a-beatin’", "Like pendulums swinging on chains", "I tried to give you everything", "That your heart was longing for", "I’m just going down the road feeling bad", "Trying to get to heaven before they close the door" ], [ "I’m going down the river", "Down to New Orleans", "They tell me everything is gonna be all right", "But I don’t know what “all right” even means", "I was riding in a buggy with Miss Mary-Jane", "Miss Mary-Jane got a house in Baltimore", "I been all around the world, boys", "Now I’m trying to get to heaven before they close the door" ], [ "Gonna sleep down in the parlor", "And relive my dreams", "I’ll close my eyes and I wonder", "If everything is as hollow as it seems", "When you think that you’ve lost everything", "You find out you can always lose a little more", "I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down", "Now I’m trying to get to heaven before they close the door" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tupelo/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Tupelo", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/turkey-chase/", "album": "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid", "year": 1973, "title": "Turkey Chase", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tweedle-dee-tweedle-dum/", "album": "“Love and Theft”", "year": 2001, "title": "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum", "plays": 488, "lyrics": [ [ "Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee", "They’re throwing knives into the tree", "Two big bags of dead man’s bones", "Got their noses to the grindstones", "Living in the Land of Nod", "Trustin’ their fate to the hands of God", "They pass by so silently", "Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee" ], [ "Well, they’re going to the country, they’re gonna retire", "They’re taking a street car named Desire", "Looking in the window at the pecan pie", "Lot of things they’d like they would never buy", "Neither one gonna turn and run", "They’re making a voyage to the sun", "“His Master’s voice is calling me,”", "Says Tweedle-dee Dum to Tweedle-dee Dee" ], [ "Tweedle-dee Dee and Tweedle-dee Dum", "All that and more and then some", "They walk among the stately trees", "They know the secrets of the breeze T", "weedle-dee Dum says to Tweedle-dee Dee", "“Your presence is obnoxious to me.”", "They’re like babies sittin’ on a woman’s knee", "Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee" ], [ "Well, they’re living in a happy harmony", "Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee", "They’re one day older and a dollar short", "They’ve got a parade permit and a police escort", "Tweedle-dee Dee—he’s on his hands and his knees", "Saying, “Throw me somethin’, Mister, please.”", "“What’s good for you is good for me,”", "Says Tweedle-dee Dum to Tweedle-dee Dee" ], [ "Well a childish dream is a deathless need", "And a noble truth is a sacred creed", "They’re lying low and they’re makin’ hay", "They seem determined to go all the way", "One is a lowdown, sorry old man", "The other will stab you where you stand", "“I’ve had too much of your company,”", "Says Tweedle-dee Dum to Tweedle-dee Dee" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/two-soldiers/", "album": "World Gone Wrong", "year": 1993, "title": "Two Soldiers", "plays": 24, "lyrics": [ [ "He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy,", "His voice was low with pain.", "\"I'll do your bidding, comrade mine,", "If I ride back again.", "But if you ride back and I am left,", "You'll do as much for me,", "Mother, you know, must hear the news,", "So write to her tenderly." ], [ "\"She's waiting at home like a patient saint,", "Her fond face pale with woe.", "Her heart will be broken when I am gone,", "I'll see her soon, I know.\"", "Just then the order came to charge,", "For an instance hand touched hand.", "They said, \"Aye,\" and away they rode,", "That brave and devoted band." ], [ "Straight was the track to the top of the hill,", "The rebels they shot and shelled,", "Plowed furrows of death through the toiling ranks,", "And guarded them as they fell.", "There soon came a horrible dying yell", "From heights that they could not gain,", "And those whom doom and death had spared", "Rode slowly back again." ], [ "But among the dead that were left on the hill", "Was the boy with the curly hair.", "The tall dark man who rode by his side", "Lay dead beside him there.", "There's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl", "The words that her lover had said.", "Momma, you know, awaits the news,", "And she'll only know he's dead." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ugliest-girl-world/", "album": "Down in the Groove", "year": 1988, "title": "Ugliest Girl in the World", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "The woman that I love she got a hook in her nose", "her eyebrows meet, she wears second hand clothes", "She speaks with a stutter and she walks with a hop", "I don't know why I love her but I just can't stop" ], [ "You know I love her", "Yeah I love her", "I'm in love with the Ugliest Girl in the World" ], [ "If I ever lose her I will go insane", "I go half crazy when she calls my name", "When she says babababababy I l-l-love you", "There ain't nothing in the world that I wouldn't do" ], [ "You know I love her", "Yeah I love her", "I'm in love with the Ugliest Girl in the World" ], [ "The woman that I love she got two flat feet", "Her knees knock together walking down the street", "She cracks her knuckles and she snores in bed", "She ain't much to look at but like I said" ], [ "You know I love her", "Yeah I love her", "I'm in love with the Ugliest Girl in the World" ], [ "I don't mean to say that she got nothing goin'", "She got a weird sense of humor that's all her own", "When I get low she sets me on my feet", "Got a five inch smile but her breath is sweet" ], [ "You know I love her", "Yeah I love her", "I'm in love with the Ugliest Girl in the World" ], [ "The woman that I love she a got a prizefighter nose", "Cauliflower ears and a run in her hose", "She speaks with a stutter and she walks with a hop", "I don't know why I love her but I just can't stop" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/unbelievable/", "album": "Under the Red Sky", "year": 1990, "title": "Unbelievable", "plays": 29, "lyrics": [ [ "It’s unbelievable, it’s strange but true", "It’s inconceivable it could happen to you", "You go north and you go south", "Just like bait in the fish’s mouth", "Ya must be livin’ in the shadow of some kind of evil star", "It’s unbelievable it would get this far" ], [ "It’s undeniable what they’d have you to think", "It’s indescribable, it can drive you to drink", "They said it was the land of milk and honey", "Now they say it’s the land of money", "Who ever thought they could ever make that stick", "It’s unbelievable you can get this rich this quick" ], [ "Every head is so dignified", "Every moon is so sanctified", "Every urge is so satisfied as long as you’re with me", "All the silver, all the gold", "All the sweethearts you can hold", "That don’t come back with stories untold", "Are hanging on a tree" ], [ "It’s unbelievable like a lead balloon", "It’s so impossible to even learn the tune", "Kill that beast and feed that swine", "Scale that wall and smoke that vine", "Feed that horse and saddle up the drum", "It’s unbelievable, the day would finally come" ], [ "Once there was a man who had no eyes", "Every lady in the land told him lies", "He stood beneath the silver sky and his heart began to bleed", "Every brain is civilized", "Every nerve is analyzed", "Everything is criticized when you are in need" ], [ "It’s unbelievable, it’s fancy-free", "So interchangeable, so delightful to see", "Turn your back, wash your hands", "There’s always someone who understands", "It don’t matter no more what you got to say", "It’s unbelievable it would go down this way" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/under-control/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Under Control", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/under-red-sky/", "album": "Under the Red Sky", "year": 1990, "title": "Under the Red Sky", "plays": 148, "lyrics": [ [ "There was a little boy and there was a little girl", "And they lived in an alley under the red sky", "There was a little boy and there was a little girl", "And they lived in an alley under the red sky" ], [ "There was an old man and he lived in the moon", "One summer’s day he came passing by", "There was an old man and he lived in the moon", "And one day he came passing by" ], [ "Someday little girl, everything for you is gonna be new", "Someday little girl, you’ll have a diamond as big as your shoe" ], [ "Let the wind blow low, let the wind blow high", "One day the little boy and the little girl were both baked in a pie", "Let the wind blow low, let the wind blow high", "One day the little boy and the little girl were both baked in a pie" ], [ "This is the key to the kingdom and this is the town", "This is the blind horse that leads you around" ], [ "Let the bird sing, let the bird fly", "One day the man in the moon went home and the river went dry", "Let the bird sing, let the bird fly", "The man in the moon went home and the river went dry" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/under-your-spell/", "album": "Knocked Out Loaded", "year": 1986, "title": "Under Your Spell", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Somethin’ about you that I can’t shake", "Don’t know how much more of this I can take", "Baby, I’m under your spell" ], [ "I was knocked out and loaded in the naked night", "When my last dream exploded, I noticed your light", "Baby, oh what a story I could tell" ], [ "It’s been nice seeing you, you read me like a book", "If you ever want to reach me, you know where to look", "Baby, I’ll be at the same hotel" ], [ "I’d like to help you but I’m in a bit of a jam", "I’ll call you tomorrow if there’s phones where I am", "Baby, caught between heaven and hell" ], [ "But I will be back, I will survive", "You’ll never get rid of me as long as you’re alive", "Baby, can’t you tell" ], [ "Well it’s four in the morning by the sound of the birds", "I’m starin’ at your picture, I’m hearin’ your words", "Baby, they ring in my head like a bell" ], [ "Everywhere you go it’s enough to break hearts", "Someone always gets hurt, a fire always starts", "You were too hot to handle, you were breaking every vow", "I trusted you baby, you can trust me now" ], [ "Turn back baby, wipe your eye", "Don’t think I’m leaving here without a kiss goodbye", "Baby, is there anything left to tell?" ], [ "I’ll see you later when I’m not so out of my head", "Maybe next time I’ll let the dead bury the dead", "Baby, what more can I tell?" ], [ "Well the desert is hot, the mountain is cursed", "Pray that I don’t die of thirst", "Baby, two feet from the well" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/union-sundown/", "album": "Infidels", "year": 1983, "title": "Union Sundown", "plays": 30, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, my shoes, they come from Singapore", "My flashlight’s from Taiwan", "My tablecloth’s from Malaysia", "My belt buckle’s from the Amazon", "You know, this shirt I wear comes from the Philippines", "And the car I drive is a Chevrolet", "It was put together down in Argentina", "By a guy makin’ thirty cents a day" ], [ "Well, it’s sundown on the union", "And what’s made in the U.S.A.", "Sure was a good idea", "’Til greed got in the way" ], [ "Well, this silk dress is from Hong Kong", "And the pearls are from Japan", "Well, the dog collar’s from India", "And the flower pot’s from Pakistan", "All the furniture, it says “Made in Brazil”", "Where a woman, she slaved for sure", "Bringin’ home thirty cents a day to a family of twelve", "You know, that’s a lot of money to her" ], [ "Well, it’s sundown on the union", "And what’s made in the U.S.A.", "Sure was a good idea", "’Til greed got in the way" ], [ "Well, you know, lots of people complainin’ that there is no work", "I say, “Why you say that for", "When nothin’ you got is U.S.–made?”", "They don’t make nothin’ here no more", "You know, capitalism is above the law", "It say, “It don’t count ’less it sells”", "When it costs too much to build it at home", "You just build it cheaper someplace else" ], [ "Well, it’s sundown on the union", "And what’s made in the U.S.A.", "Sure was a good idea", "’Til greed got in the way" ], [ "Well, the job that you used to have", "They gave it to somebody down in El Salvador", "The unions are big business, friend", "And they’re goin’ out like a dinosaur", "They used to grow food in Kansas", "Now they want to grow it on the moon and eat it raw", "I can see the day coming when even your home garden", "Is gonna be against the law" ], [ "Well, it’s sundown on the union", "And what’s made in the U.S.A.", "Sure was a good idea", "’Til greed got in the way" ], [ "Democracy don’t rule the world", "You’d better get that in your head", "This world is ruled by violence", "But I guess that’s better left unsaid", "From Broadway to the Milky Way", "That’s a lot of territory indeed", "And a man’s gonna do what he has to do", "When he’s got a hungry mouth to feed" ], [ "Well, it’s sundown on the union", "And what’s made in the U.S.A.", "Sure was a good idea", "’Til greed got in the way" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/unknown-instrumental/", "album": "", "title": "Unknown Instrumental", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cripple-creek/", "album": "Before the Flood", "year": 1974, "title": "Up On Cripple Creek", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "When I get off of this mountain", "You know where I want to go", "Straight down the Mississippi river", "To the Gulf of Mexico" ], [ "To Lake Charles, Louisiana", "Little Bessie, a girl that I once knew", "And she told me just to come on by", "If there's anything she could do" ], [ "Up on Cripple Creek she sends me", "If I spring a leak she mends me", "I don't have to speak she defends me", "A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one" ], [ "Good luck had just stung me", "To the race track I did go", "She bet on one horse to win", "And I bet on another to show" ], [ "Odds were in my favor", "I had him five to one", "When that nag to win came around the track", "Sure enough he had won" ], [ "Up on Cripple Creek she sends me", "If I spring a leak she mends me", "I don't have to speak she defends me", "A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one" ], [ "I took up all of my winnings", "And I gave my little Bessie half", "And she tore it up and blew it in my face", "Just for a laugh" ], [ "Now there's one thing in the whole wide world", "I sure would like to see", "That's when that little love of mine", "Dips her doughnut in my tea" ], [ "Up on Cripple Creek she sends me", "If I spring a leak she mends me", "I don't have to speak she defends me", "A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one" ], [ "Now me and my mate were back at the shack", "We had Spike Jones on the box", "She said, \"I can't take the way he sings", "But I love to hear him talk\"" ], [ "Now that just gave my heart a fall", "To the bottom of my feet", "And I swore as I took another pull", "My Bessie can't be beat" ], [ "Up on Cripple Creek she sends me", "If I spring a leak she mends me", "I don't have to speak she defends me", "A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one" ], [ "Now, it's hot in California", "And up north it's freezing cold", "And this living off the road", "Is getting pretty old" ], [ "So I guess I'll call up my big mama", "Tell her I'll be rolling in", "Bet you know, deep down, I'm kinda tempted", "To go and see my Bessie again" ], [ "Up on Cripple Creek she sends me", "If I spring a leak she mends me", "I don't have to speak she defends me", "A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/me/", "album": "Biograph", "year": 1985, "title": "Up to Me", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Everything went from bad to worse, money never changed a thing", "Death kept followin’, trackin’ us down, at least I heard your bluebird sing", "Now somebody’s got to show their hand, time is an enemy", "I know you’re long gone, I guess it must be up to me" ], [ "If I’d thought about it I never would’ve done it, I guess I would’ve let it slide", "If I’d lived my life by what others were thinkin’, the heart inside me would’ve died", "I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity", "Someone had to reach for the risin’ star, I guess it was up to me" ], [ "Oh, the Union Central is pullin’ out and the orchids are in bloom", "I’ve only got me one good shirt left and it smells of stale perfume", "In fourteen months I’ve only smiled once and I didn’t do it consciously", "Somebody’s got to find your trail, I guess it must be up to me" ], [ "It was like a revelation when you betrayed me with your touch", "I’d just about convinced myself that nothin’ had changed that much", "The old Rounder in the iron mask slipped me the master key", "Somebody had to unlock your heart, he said it was up to me" ], [ "Well, I watched you slowly disappear down into the officers’ club", "I would’ve followed you in the door but I didn’t have a ticket stub", "So I waited all night ’til the break of day, hopin’ one of us could get free", "When the dawn came over the river bridge, I knew it was up to me" ], [ "Oh, the only decent thing I did when I worked as a postal clerk", "Was to haul your picture down off the wall near the cage where I used to work", "Was I a fool or not to try to protect your identity?", "You looked a little burned out, my friend, I thought it might be up to me" ], [ "Well, I met somebody face to face and I had to remove my hat", "She’s everything I need and love but I can’t be swayed by that", "It frightens me, the awful truth of how sweet life can be", "But she ain’t a-gonna make me move, I guess it must be up to me" ], [ "We heard the Sermon on the Mount and I knew it was too complex", "It didn’t amount to anything more than what the broken glass reflects", "When you bite off more than you can chew you pay the penalty", "Somebody’s got to tell the tale, I guess it must be up to me" ], [ "Well, Dupree came in pimpin’ tonight to the Thunderbird Café", "Crystal wanted to talk to him, I had to look the other way", "Well, I just can’t rest without you, love, I need your company", "But you ain’t a-gonna cross the line, I guess it must be up to me" ], [ "There’s a note left in the bottle, you can give it to Estelle", "She’s the one you been wond’rin’ about, but there’s really nothin’ much to tell", "We both heard voices for a while, now the rest is history", "Somebody’s got to cry some tears, I guess it must be up to me" ], [ "So go on, boys, and play your hands, life is a pantomime", "The ringleaders from the county seat say you don’t have all that much time", "And the girl with me behind the shades, she ain’t my property", "One of us has got to hit the road, I guess it must be up to me" ], [ "And if we never meet again, baby, remember me", "How my lone guitar played sweet for you that old-time melody", "And the harmonica around my neck, I blew it for you, free", "No one else could play that tune, you know it was up to me" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/visions-johanna/", "album": "Blonde on Blonde", "year": 1966, "title": "Visions of Johanna", "plays": 216, "lyrics": [ [ "Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin' to be so quiet?", "We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it", "And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin’ you to defy it", "Lights flicker from the opposite loft", "In this room the heat pipes just cough", "The country music station plays soft", "But there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off", "Just Louise and her lover so entwined", "And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind" ], [ "In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman’s bluff with the key chain", "And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the “D” train", "We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight", "Ask himself if it’s him or them that’s really insane", "Louise, she’s all right, she’s just near", "She’s delicate and seems like the mirror", "But she just makes it all too concise and too clear", "That Johanna’s not here", "The ghost of ’lectricity howls in the bones of her face", "Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place" ], [ "Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously", "He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously", "And when bringing her name up", "He speaks of a farewell kiss to me", "He’s sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all", "Muttering small talk at the wall while I’m in the hall", "How can I explain?", "Oh, it’s so hard to get on", "And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn" ], [ "Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial", "Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while", "But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues", "You can tell by the way she smiles", "See the primitive wallflower freeze", "When the jelly-faced women all sneeze", "Hear the one with the mustache say, “Jeeze", "I can’t find my knees”", "Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule", "But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel" ], [ "The peddler now speaks to the countess who’s pretending to care for him", "Sayin’, “Name me someone that’s not a parasite and I’ll go out and say a prayer for him”", "But like Louise always says", "“Ya can’t look at much, can ya man?”", "As she, herself, prepares for him", "And Madonna, she still has not showed", "We see this empty cage now corrode", "Where her cape of the stage once had flowed", "The fiddler, he now steps to the road", "He writes ev’rything’s been returned which was owed", "On the back of the fish truck that loads", "While my conscience explodes", "The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain", "And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/waiting-you/", "album": "", "title": "Waitin’ for You", "plays": 157, "lyrics": [ [ "I never dreamed there could be someone made just for me", "I’m not letting her have her way", "I come here to see what she has to say", "Oh, the poor gal always wins the day", "I’m staying ahead of the game, she’s doing the same", "And the whiskey’s flying into my head", "The fiddler’s arm has gone dead", "And talk is beginning to spread" ], [ "When did our love go bad?", "Whatever happened to the best friend that I had?", "Been so long since I held you tight", "Been so long since we said goodnight", "The taste of tears is bittersweet", "When you’re near me, my heart forgets to beat", "You’re there every night among the good and the true", "And I’ll be around, waitin’ for you" ], [ "The king of them all is starting to fall", "I lost my gal at the boatman’s ball", "The night has a thousand hearts and eyes", "Hope may vanish but it never dies", "I’ll see you tomorrow when freedom rings", "I’m gonna stay on top of things", "It’s the middle of the summer and the moon is blue", "I’ll be around waitin’ for you" ], [ "Another deal gone down, another man done gone", "You put up with it all and you carry on", "Something holding you back but you’ll come through", "I’d bet the world and everything in it on you", "Happiness is but a state of mind", "Anytime you want you can cross the state line", "You don’t need to be rich or well-to-do", "I’ll be around waitin’ for you" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/walkin-down-line/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Walkin’ Down the Line", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, I’m walkin’ down the line", "I’m walkin’ down the line", "An’ I’m walkin’ down the line", "My feet’ll be a-flyin’", "To tell about my troubled mind" ], [ "I got a heavy-headed gal", "I got a heavy-headed gal", "I got a heavy-headed gal", "She ain’t a-feelin’ well", "When she’s better only time will tell" ], [ "Well, I’m walkin’ down the line", "I’m walkin’ down the line", "An’ I’m walkin’ down the line", "My feet’ll be a-flyin’", "To tell about my troubled mind" ], [ "My money comes and goes", "My money comes and goes", "My money comes and goes", "And rolls and flows and rolls and flows", "Through the holes in the pockets in my clothes" ], [ "Well, I’m walkin’ down the line", "I’m walkin’ down the line", "An’ I’m walkin’ down the line", "My feet’ll be a-flyin’", "To tell about my troubled mind" ], [ "I see the morning light", "I see the morning light", "Well, it’s not because", "I’m an early riser", "I didn’t go to sleep last night" ], [ "Well, I’m walkin’ down the line", "I’m walkin’ down the line", "An’ I’m walkin’ down the line", "My feet’ll be a-flyin’", "To tell about my troubled mind" ], [ "I got my walkin’ shoes", "I got my walkin’ shoes", "I got my walkin’ shoes", "An’ I ain’t a-gonna lose", "I believe I got the walkin’ blues" ], [ "Well, I’m walkin’ down the line", "I’m walkin’ down the line", "An’ I’m walkin’ down the line", "My feet’ll be a-flyin’", "To tell about my troubled mind" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/wallflower/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Wallflower", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Wallflower, wallflower", "Won’t you dance with me?", "I’m sad and lonely too", "Wallflower, wallflower", "Won’t you dance with me?", "I’m fallin’ in love with you" ], [ "Just like you I’m wondrin’ what I’m doin’ here", "Just like you I’m wondrin’ what’s goin’ on" ], [ "Wallflower, wallflower", "Won’t you dance with me?", "The night will soon be gone" ], [ "I have seen you standing in the smoky haze", "And I know that you’re gonna be mine one of these days", "Mine alone" ], [ "Wallflower, wallflower", "Take a chance on me", "Please let me ride you home" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/walls-red-wing/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Walls of Red Wing", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, the age of the inmates", "I remember quite freely:", "No younger than twelve", "No older ’n seventeen", "Thrown in like bandits", "And cast off like criminals", "Inside the walls", "The walls of Red Wing" ], [ "From the dirty old mess hall", "You march to the brick wall", "Too weary to talk", "And too tired to sing", "Oh, it’s all afternoon", "You remember your hometown", "Inside the walls", "The walls of Red Wing" ], [ "Oh, the gates are cast iron", "And the walls are barbed wire", "Stay far from the fence", "With the ’lectricity sting", "And it’s keep down your head", "And stay in your number", "Inside the walls", "The walls of Red Wing" ], [ "Oh, it’s fare thee well", "To the deep hollow dungeon", "Farewell to the boardwalk", "That takes you to the screen", "And farewell to the minutes", "They threaten you with it", "Inside the walls", "The walls of Red Wing" ], [ "It’s many a guard", "That stands around smilin’", "Holdin’ his club", "Like he was a king", "Hopin’ to get you", "Behind a wood pilin’", "Inside the walls", "The walls of Red Wing" ], [ "The night aimed shadows", "Through the crossbar windows", "And the wind punched hard", "To make the wall-siding sing", "It’s many a night", "I pretended to be a-sleepin’", "Inside the walls", "The walls of Red Wing" ], [ "As the rain rattled heavy", "On the bunkhouse shingles", "And the sounds in the night", "They made my ears ring", "’Til the keys of the guards", "Clicked the tune of the morning", "Inside the walls", "The walls of Red Wing" ], [ "Oh, some of us’ll end up", "In St. Cloud Prison", "And some of us’ll wind up", "To be lawyers and things", "And some of us’ll stand up", "To meet you on your crossroads", "From inside the walls", "The walls of Red Wing" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/waltzing-sin/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Waltzing with Sin", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/wanted-man/", "album": "", "title": "Wanted Man", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Wanted man in California, wanted man in Buffalo", "Wanted man in Kansas City, wanted man in Ohio", "Wanted man in Mississippi, wanted man in old Cheyenne", "Wherever you might look tonight, you might see this wanted man" ], [ "I might be in Colorado or Georgia by the sea", "Working for some man who may not know at all who I might be", "If you ever see me comin’ and if you know who I am", "Don’t you breathe it to nobody ’cause you know I’m on the lam" ], [ "Wanted man by Lucy Watson, wanted man by Jeannie Brown", "Wanted man by Nellie Johnson, wanted man in this next town", "But I’ve had all that I’ve wanted of a lot of things I had", "And a lot more than I needed of some things that turned out bad" ], [ "I got sidetracked in El Paso, stopped to get myself a map", "Went the wrong way into Juarez with Juanita on my lap", "Then I went to sleep in Shreveport, woke up in Abilene", "Wonderin’ why the hell I’m wanted at some town halfway between" ], [ "Wanted man in Albuquerque, wanted man in Syracuse", "Wanted man in Tallahassee, wanted man in Baton Rouge", "There’s somebody set to grab me anywhere that I might be", "And wherever you might look tonight, you might get a glimpse of me" ], [ "Wanted man in California, wanted man in Buffalo", "Wanted man in Kansas City, wanted man in Ohio", "Wanted man in Mississippi, wanted man in old Cheyenne", "Wherever you might look tonight, you might see this wanted man" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/watching-river-flow/", "album": "Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume II", "year": 1971, "title": "Watching the River Flow", "plays": 500, "lyrics": [ [ "What’s the matter with me", "I don’t have much to say", "Daylight sneakin’ through the window", "And I’m still in this all-night café", "Walkin’ to and fro beneath the moon", "Out to where the trucks are rollin’ slow", "To sit down on this bank of sand", "And watch the river flow" ], [ "Wish I was back in the city", "Instead of this old bank of sand", "With the sun beating down over the chimney tops", "And the one I love so close at hand", "If I had wings and I could fly", "I know where I would go", "But right now I’ll just sit here so contentedly", "And watch the river flow" ], [ "People disagreeing on all just about everything, yeah", "Makes you stop and all wonder why", "Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street", "Who just couldn’t help but cry", "Oh, this ol’ river keeps on rollin’, though", "No matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blow", "And as long as it does I’ll just sit here", "And watch the river flow" ], [ "People disagreeing everywhere you look", "Makes you wanna stop and read a book", "Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street", "That was really shook", "But this ol’ river keeps on rollin’, though", "No matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blow", "And as long as it does I’ll just sit here", "And watch the river flow" ], [ "Watch the river flow", "Watchin’ the river flow", "Watchin’ the river flow", "But I’ll sit down on this bank of sand", "And watch the river flow" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/watered-down-love/", "album": "Shot of Love", "year": 1981, "title": "Watered-Down Love", "plays": 41, "lyrics": [ [ "Love that’s pure hopes all things", "Believes all things, won’t pull no strings", "Won’t sneak up into your room, tall, dark and handsome", "Capture your heart and hold it for ransom" ], [ "You don’t want a love that’s pure", "You wanna drown love", "You want a watered-down love" ], [ "Love that’s pure, it don’t make no false claims", "Intercedes for you ’stead of casting you blame", "Will not deceive you or lead you into transgression", "Won’t write it up and make you sign a false confession" ], [ "You don’t want a love that’s pure", "You wanna drown love", "You want a watered-down love" ], [ "Love that’s pure won’t lead you astray", "Won’t hold you back, won’t mess up your day", "Won’t pervert you, corrupt you with stupid wishes", "It don’t make you envious, it don’t make you suspicious" ], [ "You don’t want a love that’s pure", "You wanna drown love", "You want a watered-down love" ], [ "Love that’s pure ain’t no accident", "Always on time, is always content", "An eternal flame, quietly burning", "Never needs to be proud, restlessly yearning" ], [ "You don’t want a love that’s pure", "You wanna drown love", "You want a watered-down love" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/we-better-talk-over/", "album": "Street-Legal", "year": 1978, "title": "We Better Talk This Over", "plays": 15, "lyrics": [ [ "I think we better talk this over", "Maybe when we both get sober", "You’ll understand I’m only a man", "Doin’ the best that I can" ], [ "This situation can only get rougher", "Why should we needlessly suffer?", "Let’s call it a day, go our own different ways", "Before we decay" ], [ "You don’t have to be afraid of looking into my face", "We’ve done nothing to each other time will not erase" ], [ "I feel displaced, I got a low-down feeling", "You been two-faced, you been double-dealing", "I took a chance, got caught in the trance", "Of a downhill dance" ], [ "Oh, child, why you wanna hurt me?", "I’m exiled, you can’t convert me", "I’m lost in the haze of your delicate ways", "With both eyes glazed" ], [ "You don’t have to yearn for love, you don’t have to be alone", "Somewheres in this universe there’s a place that you can call home" ], [ "I guess I’ll be leaving tomorrow", "If I have to beg, steal or borrow", "It’d be great to cross paths in a day and a half", "Look at each other and laugh" ], [ "But I don’t think it’s liable to happen", "Like the sound of one hand clappin’", "The vows that we kept are now broken and swept", "’Neath the bed where we slept" ], [ "Don’t think of me and fantasize on what we never had", "Be grateful for what we’ve shared together and be glad", "Why should we go on watching each other through a telescope?", "Eventually we’ll hang ourselves on all this tangled rope" ], [ "Oh, babe, time for a new transition", "I wish I was a magician", "I would wave a wand and tie back the bond", "That we’ve both gone beyond" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/wedding-song/", "album": "Planet Waves", "year": 1974, "title": "Wedding Song", "plays": 9, "lyrics": [ [ "I love you more than ever, more than time and more than love", "I love you more than money and more than the stars above", "Love you more than madness, more than waves upon the sea", "Love you more than life itself, you mean that much to me" ], [ "Ever since you walked right in, the circle’s been complete", "I’ve said goodbye to haunted rooms and faces in the street", "To the courtyard of the jester which is hidden from the sun", "I love you more than ever and I haven’t yet begun" ], [ "You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live", "When I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give", "Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from the hole", "Quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul" ], [ "You gave me babies one, two, three, what is more, you saved my life", "Eye for eye and tooth for tooth, your love cuts like a knife", "My thoughts of you don’t ever rest, they’d kill me if I lie", "I’d sacrifice the world for you and watch my senses die" ], [ "The tune that is yours and mine to play upon this earth", "We’ll play it out the best we know, whatever it is worth", "What’s lost is lost, we can’t regain what went down in the flood", "But happiness to me is you and I love you more than blood" ], [ "It’s never been my duty to remake the world at large", "Nor is it my intention to sound a battle charge", "’Cause I love you more than all of that with a love that doesn’t bend", "And if there is eternity I’d love you there again" ], [ "Oh, can’t you see that you were born to stand by my side", "And I was born to be with you, you were born to be my bride", "You’re the other half of what I am, you’re the missing piece", "And I love you more than ever with that love that doesn’t cease" ], [ "You turn the tide on me each day and teach my eyes to see", "Just bein’ next to you is a natural thing for me", "And I could never let you go, no matter what goes on", "‘Cause I love you more than ever now that the past is gone" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/went-see-gypsy/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "Went to See the Gypsy", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Went to see the gypsy", "Stayin’ in a big hotel", "He smiled when he saw me coming", "And he said, “Well, well, well”", "His room was dark and crowded", "Lights were low and dim", "“How are you?” he said to me", "I said it back to him" ], [ "I went down to the lobby", "To make a small call out", "A pretty dancing girl was there", "And she began to shout", "“Go on back to see the gypsy", "He can move you from the rear", "Drive you from your fear", "Bring you through the mirror", "He did it in Las Vegas", "And he can do it here”" ], [ "Outside the lights were shining", "On the river of tears", "I watched them from the distance", "With music in my ears" ], [ "I went back to see the gypsy", "It was nearly early dawn", "The gypsy’s door was open wide", "But the gypsy was gone", "And that pretty dancing girl", "She could not be found", "So I watched that sun come rising", "From that little Minnesota town" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/what-can-i-do-you/", "album": "Saved", "year": 1980, "title": "What Can I Do for You?", "plays": 93, "lyrics": [ [ "You have given everything to me", "What can I do for You?", "You have given me eyes to see", "What can I do for You?" ], [ "Pulled me out of bondage and You made me renewed inside", "Filled up a hunger that had always been denied", "Opened up a door no man can shut and You opened it up so wide", "And You’ve chosen me to be among the few", "What can I do for You?" ], [ "You have laid down Your life for me", "What can I do for You?", "You have explained every mystery", "What can I do for You?" ], [ "Soon as a man is born, you know the sparks begin to fly", "He gets wise in his own eyes and he’s made to believe a lie", "Who would deliver him from the death he’s bound to die?", "Well, You’ve done it all and there’s no more anyone can pretend to do", "What can I do for You?" ], [ "You have given all there is to give", "What can I do for You?", "You have given me life to live", "How can I live for You?" ], [ "I know all about poison, I know all about fiery darts", "I don’t care how rough the road is, show me where it starts", "Whatever pleases You, tell it to my heart", "Well, I don’t deserve it but I sure did make it through", "What can I do for You?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/what-good-am-i/", "album": "Oh Mercy", "year": 1989, "title": "What Good Am I?", "plays": 241, "lyrics": [ [ "What good am I if I’m like all the rest", "If I just turn away, when I see how you’re dressed", "If I shut myself off so I can’t hear you cry", "What good am I?" ], [ "What good am I if I know and don’t do", "If I see and don’t say, if I look right through you", "If I turn a deaf ear to the thunderin’ sky", "What good am I?" ], [ "What good am I while you softly weep", "And I hear in my head what you say in your sleep", "And I freeze in the moment like the rest who don’t try", "What good am I?" ], [ "What good am I then to others and me", "If I’ve had every chance and yet still fail to see", "If my hands are tied must I not wonder within", "Who tied them and why and where must I have been?" ], [ "What good am I if I say foolish things", "And I laugh in the face of what sorrow brings", "And I just turn my back while you silently die", "What good am I?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/what-was-it-you-wanted/", "album": "Oh Mercy", "year": 1989, "title": "What Was It You Wanted?", "plays": 22, "lyrics": [ [ "What was it you wanted?", "Tell me again so I’ll know", "What’s happening in there", "What’s going on in your show", "What was it you wanted", "Could you say it again?", "I’ll be back in a minute", "You can get it together by then" ], [ "What was it you wanted", "You can tell me, I’m back", "We can start it all over", "Get it back on the track", "You got my attention", "Go ahead, speak", "What was it you wanted", "When you were kissing my cheek?" ], [ "Was there somebody looking", "When you give me that kiss", "Someone there in the shadows", "Someone that I might have missed?", "Is there something you needed", "Something I don’t understand", "What was it you wanted", "Do I have it here in my hand?" ], [ "Whatever you wanted", "Slipped out of my mind", "Would you remind me again", "If you’d be so kind", "Has the record been breaking", "Did the needle just skip", "Is there somebody waiting", "Was there a slip of the lip?" ], [ "What was it you wanted", "I ain’t keeping score", "Are you the same person", "That was here before?", "Is it something important?", "Maybe not", "What was it you wanted?", "Tell me again I forgot" ], [ "Whatever you wanted", "What could it be", "Did somebody tell you", "That you could get it from me", "Is it something that comes natural", "Is it easy to say", "Why do you want it", "Who are you anyway?" ], [ "Is the scenery changing", "Am I getting it wrong", "Is the whole thing going backwards", "Are they playing our song?", "Where were you when it started", "Do you want it for free", "What was it you wanted", "Are you talking to me?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/what-will-you-do-when-jesus-comes/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "What Will You Do When Jesus Comes?", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/whatll-i-do/", "album": "Shadows in the Night", "year": 2015, "title": "What’ll I Do", "plays": 58, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/whats-it-gonna-be-when-it-comes/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "What’s it Gonna Be When it Comes Up", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/whatcha-gonna-do/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964", "year": 2010, "title": "Whatcha Gonna Do?", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When the shadow comes under your door", "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When the shadow comes under your door", "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When the shadow comes under your door", "O Lord, O Lord", "What shall you do?" ], [ "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When the devil calls your cards", "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When the devil calls your cards", "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When the devil calls your cards", "O Lord, O Lord", "What shall you do?" ], [ "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When your water turns to wine", "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When your water turns to wine", "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When your water turns to wine", "O Lord, O Lord", "What should you do?" ], [ "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When you can’t play God no more", "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When you can’t play God no more", "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When you can’t play God no more", "O Lord, O Lord", "What shall you do?" ], [ "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When the shadow comes creepin’ in your room", "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When the shadow comes creepin’ in your room", "Tell me what you’re gonna do", "When the shadow comes creepin’ in your room", "O Lord, O Lord", "What should you do?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-did-you-leave-heaven/", "album": "Down in the Groove", "year": 1988, "title": "When Did You Leave Heaven?", "plays": 10, "lyrics": [ [ "When did you leave heaven ?", "How could they let you go ?", "How's every thing in heaven ?", "I'd like to know." ], [ "Why did you trade heaven ?", "For all these earthly things ?", "Where on earth you hide halo ?", "Where did you lose your wings ?" ], [ "Have they missed you ?", "Can you get back in ?", "If I kiss you would it be a sin ?", "I am only human but you are so divine.", "When did you leave heaven angel mine ?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-he-returns/", "album": "Slow Train Coming", "year": 1979, "title": "When He Returns", "plays": 47, "lyrics": [ [ "The iron hand it ain’t no match for the iron rod", "The strongest wall will crumble and fall to a mighty God", "For all those who have eyes and all those who have ears", "It is only He who can reduce me to tears", "Don’t you cry and don’t you die and don’t you burn", "For like a thief in the night, He’ll replace wrong with right", "When He returns" ], [ "Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through", "He unleashed His power at an unknown hour that no one knew", "How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice?", "How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness?", "Can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride?", "Will I ever learn that there’ll be no peace, that the war won’t cease", "Until He returns?" ], [ "Surrender your crown on this blood-stained ground, take off your mask", "He sees your deeds, He knows your needs even before you ask", "How long can you falsify and deny what is real?", "How long can you hate yourself for the weakness you conceal?", "Of every earthly plan that be known to man, He is unconcerned", "He’s got plans of His own to set up His throne", "When He returns" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-i-got-troubles/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 7: No Direction Home", "year": 2005, "title": "When I Got Troubles", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well I got trouble", "Trouble's on my mind", "Yep, when I got trouble", "Trouble's on my mind", "Well, I'm gonna forget my trouble", "Leave my trouble behind, behind" ], [ "I'm gonna swing it up", "Swing it down", "Got the fever, then wham, wham wham!" ], [ "Well, swing your troubles", "Swing your troubles away", "Yeah, well, swing baby", "Swing your troubles today" ], [ "Yea, yea, yea, yeah!" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-i-paint-my-masterpiece/", "album": "Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume II", "year": 1971, "title": "When I Paint My Masterpiece", "plays": 182, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble", "Ancient footprints are everywhere", "You can almost think that you’re seein’ double", "On a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs", "Got to hurry on back to my hotel room", "Where I’ve got me a date with Botticelli’s niece", "She promised that she’d be right there with me", "When I paint my masterpiece" ], [ "Oh, the hours I’ve spent inside the Coliseum", "Dodging lions and wastin’ time", "Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle, I could hardly stand to see ’em", "Yes, it sure has been a long, hard climb", "Train wheels runnin’ through the back of my memory", "When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese", "Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody", "When I paint my masterpiece" ], [ "Sailin’ round the world in a dirty gondola", "Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!" ], [ "I left Rome and landed in Brussels", "On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried", "Clergymen in uniform and young girls pullin’ muscles", "Everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside", "Newspapermen eating candy", "Had to be held down by big police", "Someday, everything is gonna be diff’rent", "When I paint my masterpiece" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-deal-goes-down/", "album": "Modern Times", "year": 2006, "title": "When the Deal Goes Down", "plays": 148, "lyrics": [ [ "In the still of the night, in the world's ancient light", "Where wisdom grows up in strife", "My bewildering brain, toils in vain", "Through the darkness on the pathways of life", "Each invisible prayer is like a cloud in the air", "Tomorrow keeps turning around", "We live and we die, we know not why", "But I'll be with you when the deal goes down" ], [ "We eat and we drink, we feel and we think", "Far down the street we stray", "I laugh and I cry and I'm haunted by", "Things I never meant nor wished to say", "The midnight rain follows the train", "We all wear the same thorny crown", "Soul to soul, our shadows roll", "And I'll be with you when the deal goes down" ], [ "The moon gives light and shines by night", "I scarcely feel the glow", "We learn to live and then we forgive", "O'er the road we're bound to go", "More frailer than the flowers, these precious hours", "That keep us so tightly bound", "You come to my eyes like a vision from the skies", "And I'll be with you when the deal goes down" ], [ "I picked up a rose and it poked through my clothes", "I followed the winding stream", "I heard a deafening noise, I felt transient joys", "I know they're not what they seem", "In this earthly domain, full of disappointment and pain", "You'll never see me frown", "I owe my heart to you, and that's sayin' it true", "And I'll be with you when the deal goes down" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-night-comes-falling-sky/", "album": "Empire Burlesque", "year": 1985, "title": "When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky", "plays": 61, "lyrics": [ [ "Look out across the fields, see me returning", "Smoke is in your eye, you draw a smile", "From the fireplace where my letters to you are burning", "You’ve had time to think about it for a while" ], [ "Well, I’ve walked two hundred miles, now look me over", "It’s the end of the chase and the moon is high", "It won’t matter who loves who", "You’ll love me or I’ll love you", "When the night comes falling from the sky" ], [ "I can see through your walls and I know you’re hurting", "Sorrow covers you up like a cape", "Only yesterday I know that you’ve been flirting", "With disaster that you managed to escape" ], [ "I can’t provide for you no easy answers", "Who are you that I should have to lie?", "You’ll know all about it, love", "It’ll fit you like a glove", "When the night comes falling from the sky" ], [ "I can hear your trembling heart beat like a river", "You must have been protecting someone last time I called.", "I’ve never asked you for nothing you couldn’t deliver", "I’ve never asked you to set yourself up for a fall" ], [ "I saw thousands who could have overcome the darkness", "For the love of a lousy buck, I’ve watched them die", "Stick around, baby, we’re not through", "Don’t look for me, I’ll see you", "When the night comes falling from the sky" ], [ "In your teardrops, I can see my own reflection", "It was on the northern border of Texas where I crossed the line", "I don’t want to be a fool starving for affection", "I don’t want to drown in someone else’s wine" ], [ "For all eternity I think I will remember", "That icy wind that’s howling in your eye", "You will seek me and you’ll find me", "In the wasteland of your mind", "When the night comes falling from the sky" ], [ "Well, I sent you my feelings in a letter", "But you were gambling for support", "This time tomorrow I’ll know you better", "When my memory is not so short" ], [ "This time I’m asking for freedom", "Freedom from a world which you deny", "And you’ll give it to me now", "I’ll take it anyhow", "When the night comes falling from the sky" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-ship-comes/", "album": "The Times They Are A-Changin’", "year": 1964, "title": "When the Ship Comes in", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh the time will come up", "When the winds will stop", "And the breeze will cease to be breathin’", "Like the stillness in the wind", "’Fore the hurricane begins", "The hour when the ship comes in" ], [ "Oh the seas will split", "And the ship will hit", "And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking", "Then the tide will sound", "And the wind will pound", "And the morning will be breaking" ], [ "Oh the fishes will laugh", "As they swim out of the path", "And the seagulls they’ll be smiling", "And the rocks on the sand", "Will proudly stand", "The hour that the ship comes in" ], [ "And the words that are used", "For to get the ship confused", "Will not be understood as they’re spoken", "For the chains of the sea", "Will have busted in the night", "And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean" ], [ "A song will lift", "As the mainsail shifts", "And the boat drifts on to the shoreline", "And the sun will respect", "Every face on the deck", "The hour that the ship comes in" ], [ "Then the sands will roll", "Out a carpet of gold", "For your weary toes to be a-touchin’", "And the ship’s wise men", "Will remind you once again", "That the whole wide world is watchin’" ], [ "Oh the foes will rise", "With the sleep still in their eyes", "And they’ll jerk from their beds and think they’re dreamin’", "But they’ll pinch themselves and squeal", "And know that it’s for real", "The hour when the ship comes in" ], [ "Then they’ll raise their hands", "Sayin’ we’ll meet all your demands", "But we’ll shout from the bow your days are numbered", "And like Pharoah’s tribe", "They’ll be drownded in the tide", "And like Goliath, they’ll be conquered" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-you-awake/", "album": "Before the Flood", "year": 1974, "title": "When You Awake", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Ollie told me I'm a fool. So I", "walked on down the road a mile, Went to the house that brings a smile", "Sat upon my grandpa's knee, And what do you think he said to me?" ], [ "When You Awake you will remember ev'rything, You will be", "hangin' on a string from your... When you believe, You will relieve the only soul", "That you were born with to grow old and never know" ], [ "Ollie showed me the fork in the road.", "You can take to the left or go straight to the right,", "Use your days and save your nights,", "Be careful where you step, and watch wha-cha eat,", "Sleep with the light on and you got it beat." ], [ "When You Awake you will remember ev'rything, You will be", "hangin' on a string from your... When you believe, You will relieve the only soul", "That you were born with to grow old and never know" ], [ "Ollie warned me it's a mean old world,", "The street don't greet ya, yes, it's true;", "But what am I supposed to do:", "Read the writing on the wall,", "I heard itwhen I was very small." ], [ "When You Awake you will remember ev'rything, You will be", "hangin' on a string from your... When you believe, You will relieve the only soul", "That you were born with to grow old and never know" ], [ "Wash my hand in lye water, I got a date with the", "captains daughter. You can go and tell your brother. We sure gonna", "love one another, Oh! You", "may be right and ya might be wrong, I ain't gonna worry all day long." ], [ "Snow's gonna come and the frost gonna bite, My old car froze", "up last night. Ain't no reason to hang your head I could wake up in the", "mornin' dead. Oh! And", "if I thought it would do any good, I'd stand on the rock where Moses stood." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-you-gonna-wake/", "album": "Slow Train Coming", "year": 1979, "title": "When You Gonna Wake Up?", "plays": 148, "lyrics": [ [ "God don’t make no promises that He don’t keep", "You got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep" ], [ "When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up", "When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?" ], [ "Counterfeit philosophies have polluted all of your thoughts", "Karl Marx has got ya by the throat, Henry Kissinger’s got you tied up in knots" ], [ "When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up", "When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?" ], [ "You got innocent men in jail, your insane asylums are filled", "You got unrighteous doctors dealing drugs that’ll never cure your ills" ], [ "When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up", "When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?" ], [ "You got men who can’t hold their peace and women who can’t control their tongues", "The rich seduce the poor and the old are seduced by the young" ], [ "When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up", "When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?" ], [ "Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools", "You got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules" ], [ "When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up", "When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?" ], [ "Spiritual advisors and gurus to guide your every move", "Instant inner peace and every step you take has got to be approved" ], [ "When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up", "When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?" ], [ "Do you ever wonder just what God requires?", "You think He’s just an errand boy to satisfy your wandering desires" ], [ "When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up", "When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?" ], [ "You can’t take it with you and you know that it’s too worthless to be sold", "They tell you, “Time is money,” as if your life was worth its weight in gold" ], [ "When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up", "When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?" ], [ "There’s a Man up on a cross and He’s been crucified", "Do you have any idea why or for who He died?" ], [ "When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up", "When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/where-are-you-tonight-journey-through-dark-heat/", "album": "Street-Legal", "year": 1978, "title": "Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)", "plays": 33, "lyrics": [ [ "There’s a long-distance train rolling through the rain", "Tears on the letter I write", "There’s a woman I long to touch and I miss her so much", "But she’s drifting like a satellite" ], [ "There’s a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze", "Laughter down on Elizabeth Street", "And a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone", "Where she bathed in a stream of pure heat" ], [ "Her father would emphasize you got to be more than streetwise", "But he practiced what he preached from the heart", "A full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted to me", "The time and the place that the trouble would start" ], [ "There’s a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage", "And a longtime golden-haired stripper onstage", "And she winds back the clock and she turns back the page", "Of a book that no one can write", "Oh, where are you tonight?" ], [ "The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure", "To live it you have to explode", "In that last hour of need, we entirely agreed", "Sacrifice was the code of the road" ], [ "I left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. John", "Strong men belittled by doubt", "I couldn’t tell her what my private thoughts were", "But she had some way of finding them out" ], [ "He took dead-center aim but he missed just the same", "She was waiting, putting flowers on the shelf", "She could feel my despair as I climbed up her hair", "And discovered her invisible self" ], [ "There’s a lion in the road, there’s a demon escaped", "There’s a million dreams gone, there’s a landscape being raped", "As her beauty fades and I watch her undrape", "I won’t but then again, maybe I might", "Oh, if I could just find you tonight" ], [ "I fought with my twin, that enemy within", "’Til both of us fell by the way", "Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees", "While the law looks the other way" ], [ "Your partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimes", "The guy you were lovin’ couldn’t stay clean", "It felt outa place, my foot in his face", "But he should-a stayed where his money was green" ], [ "I bit into the root of forbidden fruit", "With the juice running down my leg", "Then I dealt with your boss, who’d never known about loss", "And who always was too proud to beg" ], [ "There’s a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room", "And a pathway that leads up to the stars", "If you don’t believe there’s a price for this sweet paradise", "Remind me to show you the scars" ], [ "There’s a new day at dawn and I’ve finally arrived", "If I’m there in the morning, baby, you’ll know I’ve survived", "I can’t believe it, I can’t believe I’m alive", "But without you it just doesn’t seem right", "Oh, where are you tonight?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/where-are-you/", "album": "Shadows in the Night", "year": 2015, "title": "Where Are You?", "plays": 18, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/where-teardrops-fall/", "album": "Oh Mercy", "year": 1989, "title": "Where Teardrops Fall", "plays": 14, "lyrics": [ [ "Far away where the soft winds blow", "Far away from it all", "There is a place you go", "Where teardrops fall" ], [ "Far away in the stormy night", "Far away and over the wall", "You are there in the flickering light", "Where teardrops fall" ], [ "We banged the drum slowly", "And played the fife lowly", "You know the song in my heart", "In the turning of twilight", "In the shadows of moonlight", "You can show me a new place to start" ], [ "I’ve torn my clothes and I’ve drained the cup", "Strippin’ away at it all", "Thinking of you when the sun comes up", "Where teardrops fall" ], [ "By rivers of blindness", "In love and with kindness", "We could hold up a toast if we meet", "To the cuttin’ of fences", "To sharpen the senses", "That linger in the fireball heat" ], [ "Roses are red, violets are blue", "And time is beginning to crawl", "I just might have to come see you", "Where teardrops fall" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/who-killed-davey-moore/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Who Killed Davey Moore?", "plays": 8, "lyrics": [ [ "Who killed Davey Moore", "Why an’ what’s the reason for?" ], [ "“Not I,” says the referee", "“Don’t point your finger at me", "I could’ve stopped it in the eighth", "An’ maybe kept him from his fate", "But the crowd would’ve booed, I’m sure", "At not gettin’ their money’s worth", "It’s too bad he had to go", "But there was a pressure on me too, you know", "It wasn’t me that made him fall", "No, you can’t blame me at all”" ], [ "Who killed Davey Moore", "Why an’ what’s the reason for?" ], [ "“Not us,” says the angry crowd", "Whose screams filled the arena loud", "“It’s too bad he died that night", "But we just like to see a fight", "We didn’t mean for him t’ meet his death", "We just meant to see some sweat", "There ain’t nothing wrong in that", "It wasn’t us that made him fall", "No, you can’t blame us at all”" ], [ "Who killed Davey Moore", "Why an’ what’s the reason for?" ], [ "“Not me,” says his manager", "Puffing on a big cigar", "“It’s hard to say, it’s hard to tell", "I always thought that he was well", "It’s too bad for his wife an’ kids he’s dead", "But if he was sick, he should’ve said", "It wasn’t me that made him fall", "No, you can’t blame me at all”" ], [ "Who killed Davey Moore", "Why an’ what’s the reason for?" ], [ "“Not me,” says the gambling man", "With his ticket stub still in his hand", "“It wasn’t me that knocked him down", "My hands never touched him none", "I didn’t commit no ugly sin", "Anyway, I put money on him to win", "It wasn’t me that made him fall", "No, you can’t blame me at all”" ], [ "Who killed Davey Moore", "Why an’ what’s the reason for?" ], [ "“Not me,” says the boxing writer", "Pounding print on his old typewriter", "Sayin’, “Boxing ain’t to blame", "There’s just as much danger in a football game”", "Sayin’, “Fistfighting is here to stay", "It’s just the old American way", "It wasn’t me that made him fall", "No, you can’t blame me at all”" ], [ "Who killed Davey Moore", "Why an’ what’s the reason for?" ], [ "“Not me,” says the man whose fists", "Laid him low in a cloud of mist", "Who came here from Cuba’s door", "Where boxing ain’t allowed no more", "“I hit him, yes, it’s true", "But that’s what I am paid to do", "Don’t say ‘murder,’ don’t say ‘kill’", "It was destiny, it was God’s will”" ], [ "Who killed Davey Moore", "Why an’ what’s the reason for?" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/why-try-to-change-me-now/", "album": "Shadows in the Night", "year": 2015, "title": "Why Try to Change Me Now", "plays": 167, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/wiggle-wiggle/", "album": "Under the Red Sky", "year": 1990, "title": "Wiggle Wiggle", "plays": 105, "lyrics": [ [ "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a gypsy queen", "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle all dressed in green", "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle ’til the moon is blue", "Wiggle ’til the moon sees you" ], [ "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle in your boots and shoes", "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, you got nothing to lose", "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a swarm of bees", "Wiggle on your hands and knees" ], [ "Wiggle to the front, wiggle to the rear", "Wiggle ’til you wiggle right out of here", "Wiggle ’til it opens, wiggle ’til it shuts", "Wiggle ’til it bites, wiggle ’til it cuts" ], [ "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup", "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop", "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead", "Wiggle—you can raise the dead" ], [ "Wiggle ’til you’re high, wiggle ’til you’re higher", "Wiggle ’til you vomit fire", "Wiggle ’til it whispers, wiggle ’til it hums", "Wiggle ’til it answers, wiggle ’til it comes" ], [ "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like satin and silk", "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a pail of milk", "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, rattle and shake", "Wiggle like a big fat snake" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/wigwam/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Wigwam", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/wild-mountain-thyme/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait", "year": 2013, "title": "Wild Mountain Thyme", "plays": 10, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/wild-wolf/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Wild Wolf", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/wildwood-flower/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Wildwood Flower", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/will-circle-be-unbroken/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", "plays": 3, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/winter-wonderland/", "album": "Christmas in the Heart", "year": 2009, "title": "Winter Wonderland", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/winterlude/", "album": "New Morning", "year": 1970, "title": "Winterlude", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Winterlude, Winterlude, oh darlin’", "Winterlude by the road tonight", "Tonight there will be no quarrelin’", "Ev’rything is gonna be all right", "Oh, I see by the angel beside me", "That love has a reason to shine", "You’re the one I adore, come over here and give me more", "Then Winterlude, this dude thinks you’re fine" ], [ "Winterlude, Winterlude, my little apple", "Winterlude by the corn in the field", "Winterlude, let’s go down to the chapel", "Then come back and cook up a meal", "Well, come out when the skating rink glistens", "By the sun, near the old crossroads sign", "The snow is so cold, but our love can be bold", "Winterlude, don’t be rude, please be mine" ], [ "Winterlude, Winterlude, my little daisy", "Winterlude by the telephone wire", "Winterlude, it’s makin’ me lazy", "Come on, sit by the logs in the fire", "The moonlight reflects from the window", "Where the snowflakes, they cover the sand", "Come out tonight, ev’rything will be tight", "Winterlude, this dude thinks you’re grand" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/god-our-side/", "album": "The Times They Are A-Changin’", "year": 1964, "title": "With God on Our Side", "plays": 29, "lyrics": [ [ "Oh my name it is nothin’", "My age it means less", "The country I come from", "Is called the Midwest", "I’s taught and brought up there", "The laws to abide", "And that the land that I live in", "Has God on its side" ], [ "Oh the history books tell it", "They tell it so well", "The cavalries charged", "The Indians fell", "The cavalries charged", "The Indians died", "Oh the country was young", "With God on its side" ], [ "Oh the Spanish-American", "War had its day", "And the Civil War too", "Was soon laid away", "And the names of the heroes", "l’s made to memorize", "With guns in their hands", "And God on their side" ], [ "Oh the First World War, boys", "It closed out its fate", "The reason for fighting", "I never got straight", "But I learned to accept it", "Accept it with pride", "For you don’t count the dead", "When God’s on your side" ], [ "When the Second World War", "Came to an end", "We forgave the Germans", "And we were friends", "Though they murdered six million", "In the ovens they fried", "The Germans now too", "Have God on their side" ], [ "I’ve learned to hate Russians", "All through my whole life", "If another war starts", "It’s them we must fight", "To hate them and fear them", "To run and to hide", "And accept it all bravely", "With God on my side" ], [ "But now we got weapons", "Of the chemical dust", "If fire them we’re forced to", "Then fire them we must", "One push of the button", "And a shot the world wide", "And you never ask questions", "When God’s on your side" ], [ "Through many dark hour", "I’ve been thinkin’ about this", "That Jesus Christ", "Was betrayed by a kiss", "But I can’t think for you", "You’ll have to decide", "Whether Judas Iscariot", "Had God on his side" ], [ "So now as I’m leavin’", "I’m weary as Hell", "The confusion I’m feelin’", "Ain’t no tongue can tell", "The words fill my head", "And fall to the floor", "If God’s on our side", "He’ll stop the next war" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/woogie-boogie/", "album": "Self Portrait", "year": 1970, "title": "Woogie Boogie", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/working-guru/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait", "year": 2013, "title": "Working on a Guru", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/workingmans-blues-2/", "album": "Modern Times", "year": 2006, "title": "Workingman’s Blues #2", "plays": 267, "lyrics": [ [ "There’s an evening’s haze settling over the town", "Starlight by the edge of the creek", "The buying power of the proletariat’s gone down", "Money’s getting shallow and weak", "The place I love best is a sweet memory", "It’s a new path that we trod", "They say low wages are a reality", "If we want to compete abroad" ], [ "My cruel weapons been laid back on the shelf", "Come and sit down on my knee", "You are dearer to me than myself", "As you yourself can see", "I’m listening to the steel rails hum", "Got both eyes tight shut", "I’m just trying to keep the hunger from", "Creepin’ its way into my gut" ], [ "Meet me at the bottom, don’t lag behind", "Bring me my boots and shoes", "You can hang back or fight your best on the front line", "Sing a little bit of these workingman’s blues" ], [ "I’m sailing on back getting ready for the long haul", "Leaving everything behind", "If I stay here I’ll lose it all", "The bandits will rob me blind", "I’m trying to feed my soul with thought", "Gonna sleep off the rest of the day", "Sometimes nobody wants what you got", "Sometimes you can’t give it away" ], [ "I woke up this morning and sprang to my feet", "Went into town on a whim", "I saw my father there in the street", "At least I think it was him", "In the dark I hear the night birds call", "The hills are rugged and steep", "I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall", "If I told you my whole story you’d weep" ], [ "Meet me at the bottom, don’t lag behind", "Bring me my boots and shoes", "You can hang back or fight your best on the front line", "Sing a little bit of these workingman’s blues" ], [ "They burned my barn and they stole my horse", "I can’t save a dime", "It’s a long way down and I don’t want to be forced", "Into a life of continual crime", "I can see for myself that the sun is sinking", "O’er the banks of the deep blue sea", "Tell me, am I wrong in thinking", "That you have forgotten me" ], [ "Now they worry and they hurry and they fuss and they fret", "They waste your nights and days", "Them, I will forget", "You, I’ll remember always", "It’s a cold black night and it’s midsummer’s eve", "And the stars are spinning around", "I still find it so hard to believe", "That someone would kick me when I’m down" ], [ "Meet me at the bottom, don’t lag behind", "Bring me my boots and shoes", "You can hang back or fight your best on the front line", "Sing a little bit of these workingman’s blues" ], [ "I’ll be back home in a month or two", "When the frost is on the vine", "I’ll punch my spear right straight through", "Half-ways down your spine", "I’ll lift up my arms to the starry skies", "And pray the fugitive’s prayer", "I’m guessing tomorrow the sun will rise", "I hope the final judgment’s fair" ], [ "The battle is over up in the hills", "And the mist is closing in", "Look at me, with all of my spoils", "What did I ever win?", "Gotta brand new suit and a brand new wife", "I can live on rice and beans", "Some people never worked a day in their life", "They don’t know what work even means" ], [ "Meet me at the bottom, don’t lag behind", "Bring me my boots and shoes", "You can hang back or fight your best on the front line Sing a little bit of these workingman’s blues" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/world-gone-wrong/", "album": "World Gone Wrong", "year": 1993, "title": "World Gone Wrong", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Strange things have happened, like never before.", "My baby told me I would have to go.", "I can't be good no more, once like I did before.", "I can't be good, baby,", "Honey, because the world's gone wrong." ], [ "Feel bad this morning, ain't got no home.", "No use in worrying, 'cause the world gone wrong,", "I can't be good no more, once like I did before.", "I can't be good, baby,", "Honey, because the world's gone wrong." ], [ "I told you, baby, right to your head,", "If I didn't leave you I would have to kill you dead.", "I can't be good no more, once like I did before.", "I can't be good, baby,", "Honey, because the world's gone wrong." ], [ "I tried to be loving and treat you kind,", "But it seems like you never right, you got no loyal mind.", "I can't be good no more, once like I did before.", "I can't be good, baby,", "Honey, because the world's gone wrong." ], [ "If you have a woman and she don't treat you kind,", "Praise the Good Lord to get her out of your mind.", "I can't be good no more, once like I did before.", "I can't be good, baby,", "Honey, because the world's gone wrong." ], [ "Said, when you been good now, can't do no more,", "Just tell her kindly, \"there is the front door.\"", "I can't be good no more, once like I did before.", "I can't be good, baby,", "Honey, because the world's gone wrong." ], [ "Pack up my suitcase, give me my hat,", "No use to ask me, baby, 'cause I'll never be back.", "I can't be good no more, once like I did before.", "I can't be good, baby,", "Honey, because the world's gone wrong." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/worried-blues/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Worried Blues", "plays": 1, "lyrics": [ [ "I got those worried blues,", "And I got those worried blues,", "I got those worried blues,", "I got those worried blues,", "Lord, I'm a-going where I never been before." ], [ "I'm going where the chilly winds don't blow,", "I'm going where the chilly winds don't blow,", "Worried blues", "I'm going where the chilly winds don't blow,", "I'm going where the chilly winds don't blow,", "I'm going where the climate suits my clothes." ], [ "Honey babe don't leave me now,", "Honey babe don't leave me now,", "Oh honey babe don't leave me now,", "Honey babe don't leave me now.", "I got trouble in my mind.", "Listen to that cold whistle blow,", "Lord listen to that cold whistle blow,", "Listen to that cold whistle blow,", "Listen to that cold whistle blow,", "I'm going where I'm never been before.", "So I got those worries blues, lord,", "I got the worried blues,", "I got the worried blues ,", "And I got the worried blues.", "I'm a-going where I never been before." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/yazoo-street-scandal/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Yazoo Street Scandal", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Stranded out in the night,", "Eliza took me down", "To see the widow give", "Rain to the town.", "It's against the law", "To be a tonic man,", "But the widow knows", "She's got the upper hand.", "So I went on in", "Feelin' kinda wheezy.", "You know she soothed my mind, boys,", "She rocked me kinda slow and easy", "All day and all night." ], [ "Pick a card before you go", "It's a long trip to Mexico." ], [ "Eliza wait by the door,", "I can't stay here anymore, no, no." ], [ "Then she took a pill", "She washed her feet in the mud", "She said \"Look out son,", "You know, I just ordered a flood", "For forty days and forty nights\"." ], [ "Then I dropped my shoes,", "Eliza called my name.", "She said it looked to her", "Like it's gonna rain.", "Then the cotton king", "Came in chokin'", "And the widow laughed and said:", "\"I ain't jokin'.", "Take once for all\"", "She said \"Now don't ya tease me.", "I just fell in love, boy,", "So rock me kinda slow and kinda easy,", "All day and all night.\"" ], [ "Sweet William said", "With a drunken head:", "\"If I had a boat,", "I'd help y'all float\".", "Eliza stood there watching,", "William in a trance,", "As the widow did the St. Vitus dance.", "But just then an old man", "With a boat named \"Breezy\"", "Said: \"You can ride with Clyde, boys,", "If you rock it kinda slow and easy,", "All day and all night\"." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ye-shall-be-changed/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "Ye Shall Be Changed", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "You harbor resentment", "You know there ain’t too much of a thrill", "You wish for contentment", "But you got an emptiness that can’t be filled", "You’ve had enough of hatred", "Your bones are breaking, can’t find nothing sacred" ], [ "Ye shall be changed, ye shall be changed", "In a twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet blows", "The dead will arise and burst out of your clothes", "And ye shall be changed" ], [ "Everything you’ve gotten", "You’ve gotten by sweat, blood and muscle", "From early in the morning ’til way past dark", "All you ever do is hustle", "All your loved ones have walked out the door", "You’re not even sure ’bout your wife and kids no more, but" ], [ "Ye shall be changed, ye shall be changed", "In a twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet blows", "The dead will arise and burst out of your clothes", "And ye shall be changed" ], [ "The past don’t control you", "But the future’s like a roulette wheel spinning", "Deep down inside", "You know you need a whole new beginning", "Don’t have to go to Russia or Iran", "Just surrender to God and He’ll move you right here where you stand, and" ], [ "Ye shall be changed, ye shall be changed", "In a twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet blows", "The dead will arise and burst out of your clothes", "And ye shall be changed" ], [ "You drink bitter water", "And you been eating the bread of sorrow", "You can’t live for today", "When all you’re ever thinking of is tomorrow", "The path you’ve endured has been rough", "When you’ve decided that you’ve had enough, then" ], [ "Ye shall be changed, ye shall be changed", "In a twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet blows", "The dead will arise and burst out of your clothes", "And ye shall be changed" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/yea-heavy-and-bottle-bread/", "album": "The Basement Tapes", "year": 1975, "title": "Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "Well, the comic book and me, just us, we caught the bus", "The poor little chauffeur, though, she was back in bed", "On the very next day, with a nose full of pus", "Yea! Heavy and a bottle of bread", "Yea! Heavy and a bottle of bread", "Yea! Heavy and a bottle of bread" ], [ "It’s a one-track town, just brown, and a breeze, too", "Pack up the meat, sweet, we’re headin’ out", "For Wichita in a pile of fruit", "Get the loot, don’t be slow, we’re gonna catch a trout", "Get the loot, don’t be slow, we’re gonna catch a trout", "Get the loot, don’t be slow, we’re gonna catch a trout" ], [ "Now, pull that drummer out from behind that bottle", "Bring me my pipe, we’re gonna shake it", "Slap that drummer with a pie that smells", "Take me down to California, baby", "Take me down to California, baby", "Take me down to California, baby" ], [ "Yes, the comic book and me, just us, we caught the bus", "The poor little chauffeur, though, she was back in bed", "On the very next day, with a nose full of pus", "Yea! Heavy and a bottle of bread", "Yea! Heavy and a bottle of bread", "Yea! Heavy and a bottle of bread" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/you-aint-goin-nowhere/", "album": "Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume II", "year": 1971, "title": "You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere", "plays": 108, "lyrics": [ [ "Clouds so swift", "Rain won’t lift", "Gate won’t close", "Railings froze", "Get your mind off wintertime", "You ain’t goin’ nowhere", "Whoo-ee! Ride me high", "Tomorrow’s the day", "My bride’s gonna come", "Oh, oh, are we gonna fly", "Down in the easy chair!" ], [ "I don’t care", "How many letters they sent", "Morning came and morning went", "Pick up your money", "And pack up your tent", "You ain’t goin’ nowhere", "Whoo-ee! Ride me high", "Tomorrow’s the day", "My bride’s gonna come", "Oh, oh, are we gonna fly", "Down in the easy chair!" ], [ "Buy me a flute", "And a gun that shoots", "Tailgates and substitutes", "Strap yourself", "To the tree with roots", "You ain’t goin’ nowhere", "Whoo-ee! Ride me high", "Tomorrow’s the day", "My bride’s gonna come", "Oh, oh, are we gonna fly", "Down in the easy chair!" ], [ "Genghis Khan", "He could not keep", "All his kings", "Supplied with sleep", "We’ll climb that hill no matter how steep", "When we get up to it", "Whoo-ee! Ride me high", "Tomorrow’s the day", "My bride’s gonna come", "Oh, oh, are we gonna fly", "Down in the easy chair!" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/you-angel-you/", "album": "Planet Waves", "year": 1974, "title": "You Angel You", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [ [ "You angel you", "You got me under your wing", "The way you walk and the way you talk", "I feel I could almost sing" ], [ "You angel you", "You’re as fine as anything’s fine", "The way you walk and the way you talk", "It sure plays on my mind" ], [ "You know I can’t sleep at night for trying", "Never did feel this way before", "I get up at night and walk the floor", "If this is love then gimme more", "And more and more and more and more" ], [ "You angel you", "You’re as fine as can be", "The way you smile like a sweet baby child", "It just falls all over me" ], [ "You know I can’t sleep at night for trying", "Never did feel this way before", "Never did get up and walk the floor", "If this is love then gimme more", "And more and more and more" ], [ "You angel you", "You got me under your wing", "The way you walk and the way you talk", "It says everything" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/you-changed-my-life/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991", "year": 1991, "title": "You Changed My Life", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "I was listening to the voices of death on parade", "Singing about conspiracy, wanted me to be afraid", "Working for a system I couldn't understand or trust", "Suffered ridicule and wanting to give it all up in disgust" ], [ "But you changed my life", "Came along in a time of strife", "In hunger and need, you made my heart bleed", "You changed my life" ], [ "Talk about salvation, people suddenly get tired", "They got a million things to do, they're all so inspired", "You do the work of the devil, you got a million friends", "They'll be there when you got something, they'll take it all in the end" ], [ "But you changed my life", "Came along in a time of strife", "I was under the gun, clouds blocking the sun", "You changed my life" ], [ "Well, the nature of man is to beg and to steal", "I do it myself, it's not so unreal", "The call of the wild is forever at my door", "Wants me to fly like an eagle while being chained to the floor" ], [ "But you changed my life", "Came along in a time of strife", "From silver and gold to what man cannot hold", "You changed my life" ], [ "I was eating with the pigs off a fancy tray", "I was told I was looking good and to have a nice day", "It all seemed so proper, it all seemed so elite", "Eating that absolute garbage while being so discreet" ], [ "But you changed my life", "Came along in a time of strife", "From silver and gold to what man cannot hold", "You changed my life" ], [ "You were glowing in the sun while being peaceably calm", "While orphans of man danced to the beat of the palm", "Your eyes were on fire, your feet were of brass", "In the world you had made they made you an outcast" ], [ "You changed my life", "Came along in a time of strife", "From silver and gold to what man cannot hold", "You changed my life" ], [ "There was someone in my body that I could hardly see", "Invading my privacy making my decisions for me", "Holding me back, not letting me stand", "Making me feel like a stranger in a strange land" ], [ "But you changed my life", "Came along in a time of strife", "You come down the line, give me a new mind", "You changed my life" ], [ "My Lord and my Savior, my companion, my friend", "Heart fixer, mind regulator, true to the end", "My creator, my comforter, my cause for joy", "What the world is set against but will never destroy" ], [ "You changed my life", "Came along in a time of strife", "You came in like the wind, like Errol Flynn", "You changed my life" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/you-dont-have-to-do-that/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965 – 1966 Deluxe Edition", "year": 2015, "title": "You Don’t Have to Do That", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/you-wanna-ramble/", "album": "Knocked Out Loaded", "year": 1986, "title": "You Wanna Ramble", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well I told my baby", "I said \"Baby, I know", "where you been", "Well, I know who you are", "And what league you played in\"", "You wanna ramble", "To the break of dawn", "You wanna ramble", "To the break of dawn", "You wanna ramble", "To the break of dawn." ], [ "Well, the night is so empty", "So quit and still", "For only fifteen", "hundred dollars", "You can have anybody killed", "You wanna ramble", "To the break of dawn", "You wanna ramble", "To the break of dawn", "You wanna ramble", "To the break of dawn." ], [ "Well, I told my baby", "Further down the line", "I said, \"What happens tomorrow", "Is on your head, not mine\"", "You wanna ramble", "To the break of dawn", "You wanna ramble", "To the break of dawn", "You wanna ramble", "To the break of dawn." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/you-win-again/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "You Win Again", "plays": 2, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/youre-big-girl-now/", "album": "Blood on the Tracks", "year": 1975, "title": "You’re a Big Girl Now", "plays": 212, "lyrics": [ [ "Our conversation was short and sweet", "It nearly swept me off-a my feet", "And I’m back in the rain, oh, oh", "And you are on dry land", "You made it there somehow", "You’re a big girl now" ], [ "Bird on the horizon, sittin’ on a fence", "He’s singin’ his song for me at his own expense", "And I’m just like that bird, oh, oh", "Singin’ just for you", "I hope that you can hear", "Hear me singin’ through these tears" ], [ "Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast", "Oh, but what a shame if all we’ve shared can’t last", "I can change, I swear, oh, oh", "See what you can do", "I can make it through", "You can make it too" ], [ "Love is so simple, to quote a phrase", "You’ve known it all the time, I’m learnin’ it these days", "Oh, I know where I can find you, oh, oh", "In somebody’s room", "It’s a price I have to pay", "You’re a big girl all the way" ], [ "A change in the weather is known to be extreme", "But what’s the sense of changing horses in midstream?", "I’m going out of my mind, oh, oh", "With a pain that stops and starts", "Like a corkscrew to my heart", "Ever since we’ve been apart" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/youre-gonna-make-me-lonesome-when-you-go/", "album": "Blood on the Tracks", "year": 1975, "title": "You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go", "plays": 12, "lyrics": [ [ "I’ve seen love go by my door", "It’s never been this close before", "Never been so easy or so slow", "Been shooting in the dark too long", "When somethin’s not right it’s wrong", "Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go" ], [ "Dragon clouds so high above", "I’ve only known careless love", "It’s always hit me from below", "This time around it’s more correct", "Right on target, so direct", "Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go" ], [ "Purple clover, Queen Anne’s lace", "Crimson hair across your face", "You could make me cry if you don’t know", "Can’t remember what I was thinkin’ of", "You might be spoilin’ me too much, love", "Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go" ], [ "Flowers on the hillside, bloomin’ crazy", "Crickets talkin’ back and forth in rhyme", "Blue river runnin’ slow and lazy", "I could stay with you forever and never realize the time" ], [ "Situations have ended sad", "Relationships have all been bad", "Mine’ve been like Verlaine’s and Rimbaud", "But there’s no way I can compare", "All those scenes to this affair", "Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go" ], [ "Yer gonna make me wonder what I’m doin’", "Stayin’ far behind without you", "Yer gonna make me wonder what I’m sayin’", "Yer gonna make me give myself a good talkin’ to" ], [ "I’ll look for you in old Honolulu", "San Francisco, Ashtabula", "Yer gonna have to leave me now, I know", "But I’ll see you in the sky above", "In the tall grass, in the ones I love", "Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/youre-gonna-quit-me/", "album": "Good as I Been to You", "year": 1992, "title": "You’re Gonna Quit Me", "plays": 31, "lyrics": [ [ "You're gonna quit me, baby,", "Good as I been to you, Lawd, Lawd.", "Good as I been to you, Lawd, Lawd.", "Good as I been to you." ], [ "Give you my money, honey,", "Buy you shoes and clothes, Lawd, Lawd." ], [ "You're gonna quit me, baby,", "Put me outta doors, Lawd, Lawd." ], [ "Six months on the chain gang,", "Believe me, it ain't no fun, Lawd, Lawd." ], [ "Day you quit me, baby,", "That's the day you die, Lawd, Lawd." ], [ "Jailhouse ain't no plaything,", "Believe me, ain't no lie, Lawd, Lawd." ], [ "Day you quit me, baby,", "That's the day you die, Lawd, Lawd." ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/youre-no-good/", "album": "Bob Dylan", "year": 1962, "title": "You’re No Good", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [ [ "Well I don't know why I love you like I do", "Nobody in the world can get along with you.", "You got the ways of a devil sleeping in a lion's den", "I come home last night you wouldn't even let me in." ], [ "Well sometimes you're as sweet as anybody want to be", "When you get a crazy notion of jumpin' all over me", "Well you give me the blues I guess you're satisfied", "An' you give me the blues I wanna lay down and die." ], [ "I helped you when you had no shoes on your feet, pretty mama", "I helped you when you had no food to eat.", "You're the kind of woman I just don't understand", "You're takin' all my money and give it to another man." ], [ "Well you're the kinda woman makes a man lose his brain", "You're the kinda woman drives a man insane", "You give me the blues, I guess you're satisfied", "You give me the blues, I wanna lay down and die" ], [ "Well you give me the blues, I wanna lay down and die" ] ] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/young-at-heart/", "album": "Fallen Angels", "year": 2016, "title": "Young at Heart", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/young-daily-growing/", "album": "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete", "year": 2014, "title": "Young But Daily Growing", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] }, { "url": "https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/your-cheatin-heart/", "album": "Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings", "year": 2019, "title": "Your Cheatin’ Heart", "plays": 0, "lyrics": [] } ]