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Bob Dylan
by Bob Dylan
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Overall Rating:
3.1862
Avg. Critic Score:
3.2650
Bob Dylan Lyrics
Lyrics
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- Well, I dont know why I love you like I do
- Nobody in the world can get along with you
- You got the ways of a devil sleeping in a lion's den
- I come home last night you wouldn't even let me in.
- Oh sometimes you're as sweet as nobody want to be
- Oh when you get the crazy notion of jumping all over me
- Well, you give me the blues, I guess you're satisfied
- When you give me the blues I wanna lay down and die.
- After when you had no shoes on your feet, pretty mama
- After when you had no food to eat
- Now you're that kind of woman that just don't understand
- You're taking all my money and give it to another man.
- Well, you're that kind of woman makes a man lose his brains
- You're that kind of woman drives me insane
- Well, you give me the blues, I guess you're satisfied
- You give me the blues, I wanna lay down and die.
- Rambling out of the wild west
- Leaving the towns I love best
- Thought I'd seen some ups and down
- 'Till I come into New York town
- People going down to the ground
- Building going up to the sky.
- Wintertime in New York town
- The wind blowing snow around
- Walk around with nowhere to go
- Somebody could freeze right to the bone
- I froze right to the bone
- New York Times said it was the coldest winter in seventeen years
- I didn't feel so cold then.
- I swung on to my old guitar
- Grabbed hold of a subway car
- And after a rocking, reeling, rolling ride
- I landed up on the downtown side:
- Greenwich Village.
- I walked down there and ended up
- In one of them coffee-houses on the block
- Got on the stage to sing and play
- Man there said, Come back some other day
- You sound like a hillbilly
- We want folksingers here.
- Well, I got a harmonica job begun to play
- Blowing my lungs out for a dollar a day
- I blowed inside out and upside down
- The man there said he loved my sound
- He was raving about he loved my sound
- Dollar a day's worth.
- After weeks and weeks of hanging around
- I finally got a job in New York town
- In a bigger place, bigger money too
- Even joined the Union and paid my dues.
- Now, a very great man once said
- That some people rob you with a fountain pen
- It don't take too long to find out
- Just what he was talking about
- A lot of people don't have much food on their table
- But they got a lot of forks and knives
- And they gotta cut something.
- So one morning when the sun was warm
- I rambled out of New York town
- Pulled my cap down over my eyes
- And heated out for the western skies
- So long New York
- Howdy, East Orange.
- Well, in my time of dying don't want nobody to mourn
- All I want for you to do is take my body home
- Well, well, well, so I can die easy
- Well, well, well
- Well, well, well, so I can die easy
- Jesus gonna make up, Jesus gonna make up
- Jesus gonna make up my dying bed.
- Well, meet me Jesus, meet me, meet me in the middle of the air
- If these wings should fail to me,
- Lord, won't you meet me with another girl ?
- Well, well, well, so I can die easy
- Well, well, well
- Well, well, well, so I can die easy
- Jesus gonna make up, Jesus gonna make up
- Jesus gonna make up my dying bed.
- Lord, in my time of dying don't want nobody to cry
- All I want you to do is take me when I die
- Well, well, well, so I can die easy
- Well, well, well
- Well, well, well, so I can die easy
- Jesus gonna make up, Jesus gonna make up
- Jesus gonna make up my dying bed.
- I am a man of constant sorrow
- I've seen trouble all my days
- I'll say goodbye to Colorado
- Where I was born and partly raised.
- Your mother says I'm a stranger
- My face you'll never see no more
- But there's one promise, darling:
- I'll see you on God's golden shore.
- Through this open world I'm about to trouble
- Through ice and snows, sleet and rain
- I'm about to ride that morning railroad
- Perhaps I'll die on that train.
- I'm going back to Colorado
- The place that I started from
- If I had known how bad you'd treat me honey
- I never would have come.
- Feeling funny in my mind, Lord,
- I believe I'm fixing to die, fixing to die
- Feeling funny in my mind, Lord
- I believe I'm fixing to die
- Well, I don't mind dying
- But I hate to leave my children crying
- Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground
- Look over yonder to that burying ground
- Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down
- Feeling funny in my eyes, Lord,
- I believe I'm fixing to die, fixing to die
- Feeling funny in my eyes, Lord
- I believe I'm fixing to die
- Well, I don't mind dying but
- I hate to leave my children crying
- There's a black smoke rising, Lord
- It's rising up above my head, up above my head
- It's rising up above my head, up above my head
- And tell Jesus make up my dying bed.
- I'm walking kind of funny, Lord
- I believe I'm fixing to die, fixing to die
- Yes I'm walking kind of funny, Lord
- I believe I'm fixing to die
- Fixing to die, fixing to die
- Well, I don't mind dying
- But I hate to leave my children crying.
- I've been around this whole country
- But I never yet found Fenneario.
- Well, as we marched down, as we marched down
- Well, as we marched down to Fennerio'
- Well, our captain fell in love with a lady like a dove
- Her name that she had was Pretty Peggy-O
- Well, what will your mother say, what will your mother say
- What will your mother say, Pretty Peggy-O
- What will your mother say to know you're going away
- You're never, never, never coming back-io ?
- Come a-running down your stairs
- Come a-running down your stairs
- Come a-running down your stairs, Pretty Peggy-O
- Come a-running down your stairs
- Combing back your yellow hair
- You're the prettiest darned girl I ever seen-io.
- The lieutenant he has gone
- The lieutenant he has gone
- The lieutenant he has gone, Pretty Peggy-O
- The lieutenant he has gone, long gone
- He's a-riding down in Texas with the rodeo.
- Well, our captain he is dead, our captain he is dead
- Our captain he is dead, Pretty Peggy-O
- Well, our captain he is dead, died for a maid
- He's buried somewhere in Louisiana-O.
- - I first heard this from Ric von Schmidt. He lives in Cambridge.
- Ric is a blues guitarplayer. I met him one day on
- The green pastures of the Harvard University. -
- Baby let me follow you down, baby let me follow you down
- Well I'll do anything in this godalmighty world
- If you just let me follow you down.
- Can I come home with you, baby can I come home with you ?
- Yes I'll do anything in this godalmighty world
- If you just let me come home with you.
- Baby let me follow you down, baby let me follow you down
- Well I'll do anything in this godalmighty world
- If you just let me follow you down.
- Yes I'll do anything in this godalmighty world
- If you just let me follow you down.
- There is a house down in New Orleans they call the rising sun
- And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl and me, oh God, I'm one.
- My mother was a tailor, she sowed these new blue jeans
- My sweetheart was a gambler, Lord, down in New Orleans.
- Now the only thing a gambler needs is a suitcase and a trunk
- And the only time when he's satisfied is when he's on a drunk.
- He fills his glasses up to the brim and he'll pass the cards around
- And the only pleasure he gets out of life is rambling from town to town
- .
- Oh tell my baby sister not to do what I have done
- But shun that house in New Orleans they call the rising sun.
- Well with one foot on the platform and the other foot on the train
- I'm going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain.
- I'm going back to New Orleans, my race is almost run
- I'm going back to end my life down in the rising sun.
- There is a house in New Orleans they call the rising sun
- And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl and me, oh God, I'm one.
- I was born in Dixie in a boomer shed
- Just a little shanty by the railroad track
- Freight train was it taught me how to cry
- The holler of the driver was my lullaby
- I got the freight train blues
- Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes
- And when the whistle blows I gotta go baby, don't you know
- Well, it looks like I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues.
- Well, my daddy was a fireman and my mama-ha
- She was the only daugther of an enginer
- My sweetheart was a brakeman and it ain't no joke
- Seems a waste to get a good man broke
- I got the freight train blues
- Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes
- And when the whistle blows I gotta go mama, don't you know
- Well, it looks like I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues.
- Well, the only thing that makes me laugh again
- Is a southbound whistle on a southbound train
- Every place I wanna go I never can go
- Because you know I got the freight train blues
- Oh Lord mama, I got them in the bottom of my rambling shoes.
- I'm out here a thousand miles from my home
- Walking a road other men have gone down
- I'm seeing a new world of people and things
- Hear paupers and peasants and princes and kings.
- Hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song
- About a funny old world that's coming along
- Seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn
- It looks like it's dying and it's hardly been born.
- Hey Woody Guthrie but I know that you know
- All the things that I'm saying and a many times more
- I'm singing you the song but I can't you sing enough
- 'Cause there's not many men that've done the things that you've done.
- Here's to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly too
- And to all the good people that travelled with you
- Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
- That come with the dust and are gone with the wind.
- I'm leaving tomorrow but I could leave today
- Somewhere down the road someday
- The very last thing that I'd want to do
- Is to say I've been hitting some hard travelling too.
- Well there's one kind of flavor I'll ask for you
- Well there's one kind of flavor I'll ask for you
- There's just one kind of flavor I'll ask for you
- You can see that my grave is kept clean.
- And there's two white horses following me
- And there's two white horses following me
- I got two white horses following me
- Waiting on my burying ground.
- Did you ever hear that coffin sound
- Did you ever hear that coffin sound
- Did you ever hear that coffin sound
- Means another poor boy is under the ground.
- Did you ever hear them church bells toll
- Did you ever hear them church bells toll
- Did you ever hear them church bells toll
- Means another poor boy is dead and gone.
- And my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold
- And my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold
- And my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold
- And I believe what the father told.
- And there's one last flavor I'll ask for you
- And there's one last flavor I'll ask for you
- And just one last flavor I'll ask for you
- You can see that my grave is kept clean.
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