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by Bob Dylan 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. [...]
by Bob Dylan 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 [...]
by Bob Dylan 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well my nerves are exploding And my body is tense I feel like the whole world got me pinned up against the fence I been hit too hard Seen too much Nothing can heal me now But your touch I just don’t know what I’m gonna do I was allright ’til I fell in love [...]
by Bob Dylan Seems like only yesterday I left my mind behind Down in the Gypsy Cafe 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 [...]
Words and Music by Bob Dylan) Well, today has been a sad and lonesome day Yeah, today has been a sad and lonesome day I’m just sitting here thinking with my mind a million miles away Well, they’re doing the double shuffle, throwing sand on the floor They’re doing the double shuffle, they’re throwing sand [...]
by Bob Dylan (arr) 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, [...]
by Bob Dylan (arr) 1. 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 [...]
by Bob Dylan (arr) 1. 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. 2. Feel bad this morning, ain’t got no home. No use in [...]
by Bob Dylan 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 [...]
by Bob Dylan 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 [...]
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 [...]
by Bob Dylan 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 [...]
by Bob Dylan 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 [...]
by Bob Dylan Here’s a foreign song I learned in UtahÑ Ha-va-ne-gei-lah O-de-ley-e-e-oo
may god bless and keep you allways may your wishes all come true may you allways do for others and let others do for you may you build a latter to the stars and climb on every rung may you stayyyyy forever young forever young forever young may you stay forever young may you grow [...]
by Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson 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 [...]