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Bob Dylan – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
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Dylan wanted to hire an actual school marching band for the opening track on Blonde on Blonde so that the backing music had that amateurish, “ramshackle” sloppiness – but the
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Joan Osborne – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
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Well, they'll stone you when you're tryin' to be so good / They'll stone you just like they said they would / They'll stone you when you're tryna go home / Then they'll stone you
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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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Bob Dylan – Pledging My Time
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[Verse 1] / Well, early in the morning / 'Til late at night / I got a poison headache / But I feel alright / [Refrain] / I’m pledgin' my time to you / Hopin' you’ll come through
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10 Times Bob Dylan Sounded Just Like A Rapper
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The music legend’s lyrics common with hip-hop than you’d expect.
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Bob Dylan – Girl Of The North Country (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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If you're traveling in the north country fair / Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline / Remember me to the one who lives there / For she once was a true love of mine / If you
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Bob Dylan & The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down [Before the Flood]
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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
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Bob Dylan & The Band – Lay Lady Lay [Before the Flood]
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[Verse 1] / 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
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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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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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[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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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 & The Band – Blowin’ in the Wind [Before the Flood]
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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
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Genius Lists – Songs That Reference Drugs
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This is a reference page for songs that heavily reference drugs. (Not a little but a lot.)
A recent study of Genius.com user demographics suggested the need for this reference
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I Can Make a Mess – Positively 4th Street
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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
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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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Ron Wood – Seven Days (Dylan 30th Anniversary)
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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
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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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Dave Melillo – It Ain't Me Babe
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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's never weak but
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Bob Dylan & The Band – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door [Before the Flood]
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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 / Feel like I’m knockin' on heaven’s door / Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven’s door
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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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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 – 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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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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James Blunt – I Want You
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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
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Bob Dylan – Leopard-Skin Pill Box Hat
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“Leopard-Skin Pill Box Hat” is a 12-bar blues tune recorded for the 1966 album Blonde on Blonde. The song chronicles the jealous pique of a spurned lover while at the same time
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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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Bob Dylan & The Band – When You Awake [Before the Flood]
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Ole 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
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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 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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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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