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Bob Dylan – Someday Baby - Alternate Version, Modern Times
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I don't care what you do, don't care what you say / Don't care where you go, or how long you stay / Someday baby, you ain't gonna worry po' me any more / You take my money and you
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Bob Dylan – Someday Baby
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[Verse 1] / 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 any more / [Verse 2
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Bob Dylan – Under Your Spell
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[Intro] / Something’ about you that I can’t shake / Don’t know how much more of this I can take / Baby, I’m under your spell / [Verse 1] / I was knocked out and loaded in the naked
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Bob Dylan – To Ramona
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With multiple allusions to Dylan’s relationship with fellow folk singer Joan Baez, “To Ramona” is a folk waltz which signals Dylan’s shifting interest from political anthems to a
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Bob Dylan – 32-20 Blues
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[Chorus] / When I send for my baby, man, and she don't come / Send for my baby, man, and she don't come / All the doctors in Hot Springs sure ain't gonna help her none / If she
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Bob Dylan – Cocaine Blues
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Everytime my baby and me go up town / Police come and they knock me down / Cocaine, all around my brain / Hey baby, better come here quick / This old cocaine is making me sick
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Bob Dylan – Can't Wait (Alternate Version from "Oh Mercy")
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[Spoken Intro] / If we do it in … how about B flat? / [Verse 1] / I can't wait, wait for you to change your mind / I can't wait, waitin' just makin' me go blind / Did you ever lay
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Bob Dylan – Mary and the Soldier (Unreleased, "World Gone Wrong")
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[Verse 1] / Come all you lads of high renown / That would hear of a fair young maiden / She roved out on a summer's day / For to view the soldiers paradin' / They marched so bold
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Bob Dylan (Ft. Ralph Stanley) – The Lonesome River
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I sit here alone on the banks of the river / The lonesome wind blows and the water rolls high / I can hear a voice calling out there in the darkness / But I sit here alone too
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Bob Dylan – Most of the Time (Alternate version)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Bob Dylan – Dignity (Piano Demo)
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Fat man looking into shining steel / Thin man looking at his last meal / Hollow man looking in a cottonfield / For dignity / Wise man looking in a blade of grass / Young man
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Bob Dylan – When I Paint My Masterpiece
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Bob Dylan – Born in Time (Unreleased version #2)
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[Verse 1] / In the lonely night / In the stardust of a pale blue light / I think of you in black and white / When we were made of dreams / [Verse 2] / I walk alone through the
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Bob Dylan – Song to Woody
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One of Dylan’s very first songs, “Song to Woody” celebrates his folk heroes, primarily Woody Guthrie. It borrows the tune from Guthrie’s 1913 Massacre.
Dylan would revisit Woody
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Bob Dylan – Nettie Moore
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A track off Modern Times, we see Bob reviewing the art he trades in and the life he’s lived.
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Bob Dylan – Shelter from the Storm
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Written during a creative period during his separation and divorce with first wife, Sara Dylan.
The title may have been taken from a lyric in Creedence Clearwater Revival’s
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Bob Dylan – Marchin' to the City
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[Verse 1] / Snowflakes are falling on my head / Lord have mercy, it feel heavy as lead / I've been hit too hard and I've seen too much / Nothing can heal me now but your touch / [
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Bob Dylan – Narrow Way
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[Verse 1] / I'm gonna walk across the desert 'til I'm in my right mind / I won't even think about what I left behind / Nothing back there anyway that I can call my own / Go back
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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 – Beyond the Horizon
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[Intro] / 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
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Bob Dylan – You Wanna Ramble
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
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This 1964 R&B hit written and performed by Sam Cooke is among the most recognizable pop songs associated with the African American Civil Rights Movement.
One of Cooke’s
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Bob Dylan – Tell Ol’ Bill (Alternate Version, North Country Soundtrack)
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The river whispers in my ear / I've hardly a penny to my name / The heavens never seemed so near / All of my body glows with flame / The tempest struggles in the air / And to
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Bob Dylan – Ain't Talkin'
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[Verse 1] / As I walked out tonight in the mystic garden / The wounded flowers were danglin' from the vine / I was passin' by yon cool and crystal fountain / Someone hit me from
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Bob Dylan – Spirit on the Water
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[Verse 1] / Spirit on the water / Darkness on the face of the deep / I keep thinking about you baby / I can't hardly sleep / [Verse 2] / I'm traveling by land / Traveling through
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Bob Dylan – Gotta Serve Somebody
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“Gotta Serve Somebody” is a song by Bob Dylan from his 1979 studio album Slow Train Coming. It won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Male in 1979. The song was
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Bob Dylan – Marchin' to the City (Unreleased version #2)
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Well I'm sitting in church / In an old wooden chair / I knew nobody / Would look for me there / Sorrow and pity / Rule the earth and the skies / Looking for nothing / Anyone's eyes
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Bob Dylan – Huck's Tune
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Bob Dylan – The Levee's Gonna Break
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Dylan borrows from Memphis Minnie to make political and moral comments about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Based on the 1929 song, “When the Levee Breaks” by Kansas Joe
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Bob Dylan – Got My Mind Made Up
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[Intro] / Don't ever try to change me / I been in this thing too long / There's nothing' you can say or do / To make me think I'm wrong / [Verse 1] / Well, I'm going' off to Libya
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Bob Dylan – Dreamin’ of You
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“Dreamin' of You,” recorded early in Dylan’s 1997 Time Out of Mind sessions, never made the album. Instead, it was not officially sold until 2008, when Dylan released The Bootleg
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Bob Dylan – Mississippi (Alternate Version #3)
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[Verse 1] / I'm standing in the shadows with an aching heart / I'm looking at the world tear itself apart / Minutes turned to hours, hours turned to days / I'm still loving you in
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Bob Dylan – When the Deal Goes Down
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Bob Dylan – Joey
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This biographical song concerns mobster “Crazy” Joe Gallo, who was gunned down in 1972 while celebrating his birthday at a restaurant in New York.
The song attracted controversy
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Bob Dylan – Red River Shore
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[Verse 1] / Some of us turn off the lights and we live / With the moonlight shooting by / Some of us scare ourselves to death in the dark / To be where the angels fly / Pretty
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