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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 – Medicine Sunday (Take 1)
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Well, that midnight train pulled on all down the track / You’re standing there watching, with your hands folded behind your back / And you smile so pretty, and nod to the prison
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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 – Positively 4th Street (Take 5)
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[Verse 1] / You got a lot of nerve to say you are my friend / When I was down, you just stood there grinning / You got a lot of nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend / You
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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 – 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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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 – 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 – Like a Rolling Stone (Take 11)
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[Verse 1] / Once upon a time you dressed so fine / You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you? / People call, say "Beware doll, you're bound to fall" / You thought they
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Bob Dylan – She's Your Lover Now (Take 6)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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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 – 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 – Outlaw Blues (Take 2)
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Ain’t it hard to stumble / And land upside some lagoon? / Ain’t it hard to stumble / And land upside some lagoon? / Especially when it’s nine below zero / And three o’clock in the
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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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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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Neil Young – All Along The Watchtower (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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[Spoken] / This song's for you, Bob! Thanks for havin' Bob-fest! / "There must be some way out of here" / Said the joker to the thief / "There's too much confusion / I can't get
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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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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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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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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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Bob Dylan – Just Like a Woman
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[Verse 1] / Nobody feels any pain / Tonight as I stand inside the rain / Everybody knows that baby's got new clothes / But lately I see her ribbons and her bows / Have fallen from
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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 – 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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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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Eric Clapton – Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
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Ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe / It don't matter anyhow / 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
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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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Lou Reed – Foot of Pride
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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
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Tracy Chapman – The Times They Are A-Changin'
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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
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Bob Dylan – Obviously Five Believers
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[Chorus] / 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 didn't feel so
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Eddie Vedder (Ft. Mike McCready) – Masters of War
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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
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John Mellencamp – Like a Rolling Stone
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Once upon a time you dressed so fine / Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you? / People'd call, say, "Doll, you're bound to fall" / You thought they were all kiddin' you
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The O'Jays – Emotionally Yours
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[Intro] / Baby, I'm yours / Yours, baby, baby, yours / Yours, I just wanna be yours / [Verse 1] / Come baby, find me, come baby / Remind me of where I once begun / Come baby, show
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Mary Chapin Carpenter (Ft. Rosanne Cash & Shawn Colvin) – You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
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[Verse 1: Mary Chapin Carpenter] / Clouds so swift / Rain won't lift / Gate won't close / Railings froze / Get your mind off wintertime / 'Cause you ain't goin' nowhere / [Chorus
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Bob Dylan – Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
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The last track off Blonde on Blonde – it took up the entire fourth side on the double LP – and Dylan’s most open tribute song to a woman up to this point (on 1976’s Desire the last
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Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna
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Written during a black out in New York, while he was dating folk singer Joan Baez, but was falling in love with his first wife, Sara. “Visions of Johanna” is one of Dylan’s most
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Bob Dylan – 4th Time Around
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Taken from Blonde on Blonde, this song about Bob Dylan’s relationship with Edie Sedgewick.
“4th Time Around” is about their 4th time sleeping together Dylan denies it, but it is
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