Genius Lyrics
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Bob Dylan – Absolutely Sweet Marie
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This song, described as “up-tempo blues shuffle”, was recorded in four takes on March 7, 1966.
The song contains what has been termed “one of the most oft-repeated of Dylan’s
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The Flamin' Groovies – Absolutely Sweet Marie
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[Verse 1] / Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can’t jump it / Sometimes it gets so hard, you see / I just sitting here beating on my trumpet / With all these promises you
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George Harrison – Absolutely Sweet Marie
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(Can you handle another guitar hero? / Let me give you a little clue: / Hallelujah, Hare Krishna, Yeah yeah yeah ! / George Harrison!) / Well, your railroad gate, you know I just
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Bob Dylan – From a Buick 6 (Take 1, False Start)
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I got these graveyard woman, you know they--
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Bob Dylan – Lunatic Princess (Take 1)
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Why should you have to be so frantic / You always wanted to live life in the past / Now why you should be so Atlantic / You finally got your wish at last / You used to be oh so
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Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Take 2, Acoustic)
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My love she speaks like silence / Above all ideals and violence / She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful / Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire / People carry roses / And make
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Bob Dylan – California
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[Verse 1] / I'm goin' down south / 'Neath the borderline / I'm goin' down south / 'Neath the borderline / Some fat momma / Kissed my mouth one time / [Verse 2] / Well, I knew it
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Bob Dylan – Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Take 13)
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Ah, the rag man draws circles up and down the block / I'd ask him what the matter was, but I know he doesn't talk / And the ladies treat me kindly and they furnish me with tape
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Bob Dylan – Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (Take 1, Alternate Take)
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(playing Jingle Bells) / One two, one, two, three, four / He sits in your room, his tomb, with a fist full of tacks / Preoccupied with his vengeance / Cursing the dead that can’t
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Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan's 115th Dream (Take 2)
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I was riding on the mayflower when I thought I spied some land / I yelled down to captain arab, I'll have ya understand / Who came running to the deck and said boys forget the
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Bob Dylan – She Belongs to Me (Take 1)
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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
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Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues (Take 1)
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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
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Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Take 2)
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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
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Kris Kristofferson – I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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Close your eyes, close the door / You don't have to worry any more / I'll be your baby tonight / Shut the light, shut the shade / You don't have to be afraid / I'll be your baby
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Chrissie Hynde – I Shall Be Released
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They say everything can be replaced / Yet every distance is not near / So I remember every face / Of every man that put me here / I see my light come shinin' / From the west unto
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Neil Young – All Along The Watchtower (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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"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
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Bob Dylan – Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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Mama take this badge off of me / I can't use it anymore / It's getting dark, too dark to see / Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door / Knock knock knockin' on heaven's door
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Wolfgang Niedecken – Wo bess du hück Naach, Marie?
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Ich hann gewaad op dich, medden em Verkehrsstau / Ich hann gewaad op dich, obwohl ich woss: / Die kütt nit mieh! Ich hann gewaad op dich / Ich friere mir die Fööß blau / Kohm dir
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Neil Young – Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
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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
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Johnny Cash (Ft. June Carter Cash) – It Ain't Me, Babe (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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Go away 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 looking for someone / Who is never weak, but
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How Bob Dylan & The Beach Boys Changed Music 50 Years Ago Today
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Two albums released on the same day in 1966 marked the end of one era and the start of another.
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Johnny Winter – Highway 61 Revisited (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" / Abe says, "Man, you must be putting me on" / God say, "No". Abe say, "What?" / God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but / The next time
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Bob Dylan (Ft. Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Neil Young, Roger McGuinn & Tom Petty) – My Back Pages (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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[Roger McGuinn: Verse] / Crimson flames tied through my ears / Rolling high and mighty traps / Pounced with fire on flaming roads / Using ideas as my maps / “We’ll meet on edges
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
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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
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Stevie Wonder – Blowin' In The Wind (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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How many roads must a man walk down / Before they call him a man? / How many seas must a white dove sail / Before she sleeps in the sand? / How many times must those cannonballs be
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Bob Dylan – It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – License to Kill
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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
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Roger McGuinn – Mr. Tambourine Man
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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
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Willie Nelson – What Was It You Wanted (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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John Mellencamp – Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
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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
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The Clancy Brothers (Ft. Robbie O’Connell & Tommy Makem) – When the Ship Comes In (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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Oh, the time will come up / When the winds will stop / And the breeze will cease to be breathing / Like the stillness in the wind / Before the hurricane begins / The hour that the
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The Band – When I Paint My Masterpiece (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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[Verse] / Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble / Ancient footprints are everywhere / You can almost think that you’re seeing double / On a cold, dark night on the Spanish
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