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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
by Bob Dylan
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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Lyrics
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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 cannon balls fly
- Before they're forever banned?
- The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
- The answer is blowin' in the wind.
- How many times must a man look up
- Before he can see the sky?
- Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
- Before he can hear people cry?
- Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
- That too many people have died?
- The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
- The answer is blowin' in the wind.
- How many years can a mountain exist
- Before it's washed to the sea?
- Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
- Before they're allowed to be free?
- Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
- Pretending he just doesn't see?
- The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
- The answer is blowin' in the wind.
- Come you masters of war
- You that build all the guns
- You that build the death planes
- You that build all the bombs
- You that hide behind walls
- You that hide behind desks
- I just want you to know
- I can see through your masks.
- You that never done nothin'
- But build to destroy
- You play with my world
- Like it's your little toy
- You put a gun in my hand
- And you hide from my eyes
- And you turn and run farther
- When the fast bullets fly.
- Like Judas of old
- You lie and deceive
- A world war can be won
- You want me to believe
- But I see through your eyes
- And I see through your brain
- Like I see through the water
- That runs down my drain.
- You fasten all the triggers
- For the others to fire
- Then you set back and watch
- When the death count gets higher
- You hide in your mansion'
- As young people's blood
- Flows out of their bodies
- And is buried in the mud.
- You've thrown the worst fear
- That can ever be hurled
- Fear to bring children
- Into the world
- For threatening my baby
- Unborn and unnamed
- You ain't worth the blood
- That runs in your veins.
- How much do I know
- To talk out of turn
- You might say that I'm young
- You might say I'm unlearned
- But there's one thing I know
- Though I'm younger than you
- That even Jesus would never
- Forgive what you do.
- Let me ask you one question
- Is your money that good
- Will it buy you forgiveness
- Do you think that it could
- I think you will find
- When your death takes its toll
- All the money you made
- Will never buy back your soul.
- And I hope that you die
- And your death'll come soon
- I will follow your casket
- In the pale afternoon
- And I'll watch while you're lowered
- Down to your deathbed
- And I'll stand over your grave
- 'Til I'm sure that you're dead.
- Well, I'm walkin' down the highway
- With my suitcase in my hand
- Yes, I'm walkin' down the highway
- With my suitcase in my hand
- Lord, I really miss my baby
- She's in some far-of land.
- Well, your streets are gettin' empty
- Lord your highway's gettin' filled
- And your streets are gettin' empty
- And your highway's gettin' filled
- Well, the way I love that woman
- I swear it's bound to get me killed.
- Well, I been gamblin' so long
- Lord, I ain't got much more to lose
- Yes, I been gamblin' so long
- Lord, I ain't got much more to lose
- Right now I'm havin' trouble
- Please don't take away my highway shoes.
- Well, I'm bound to get lucky, baby
- Or I'm bound to die tryin'
- Yes, I'm a-bound to get lucky, baby
- Lord, Lord I'm a-bound to die tryin'
- Well, meet me in the middle of the ocean
- And we'll leave this ol' highway behind.
- Well, the ocean took my baby
- My baby stole my heart from me
- Yes, the ocean took my baby
- My baby took my heart from me
- She packed it all up in a suitcase
- Lord, she took it away to Italy, Italy.
- So, I'm walkin' down your highway
- Just as far my poor eyes can see
- Yes, I'm a-walkin' down your highway
- Just as far my eyes can see
- From the Golden Gate Bridge
- All the way to the Statue of Liberty.
- Well, the Lone Ranger and Tonto
- They are ridin' down the line
- Fixin' ev'rybody's troubles
- Ev'rybody's 'cept mine
- Somebody musta tol' 'em
- That I was doin' fine.
- Oh you five and ten cent women
- With nothin' in your heads
- I got a real gal I'm lovin'
- And Lord I'll be love her till I'm dead
- Go away from my door and window too
- Right now.
- Lord, I ain't goin' down to no race track
- See no sports car run
- I don't have no sports car
- And I don't even care to have one
- I can walk anytime around the block.
- Well, the wind keeps a-blowin' me
- Up and down the street
- With my hat in my hand
- And my boots on my feet
- Watch out so you don't step on me.
- Well, look it here buddy
- You want to be like me
- Pull out your six-shooter
- And rob every bank you can see
- Tell the judge I said it was all right
- Yes.
- Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son ?
- And where have you been my darling young one ?
- I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
- I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
- I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
- I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
- I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
- And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
- It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
- Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son ?
- And what did you see, my darling young one ?
- I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
- I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
- I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
- I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
- I saw a white ladder all covered with water
- I saw ten thousand takers whose tongues were all broken
- I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
- And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
- It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
- And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son ?
- And what did you hear, my darling young one ?
- I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
- I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
- I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
- I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
- I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
- Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
- Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
- And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
- And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
- Oh, who did you meet my blue-eyed son ?
- Who did you meet, my darling young one ?
- I met a young child beside a dead pony
- I met a white man who walked a black dog
- I met a young woman whose body was burning
- I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
- I met one man who was wounded in love
- I met another man who was wounded and hatred
- And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
- And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
- And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son ?
- And what'll you do now my darling young one ?
- I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
- I'll walk to the deepths of the deepest black forest
- Where the people are a many and their hands are all empty
- Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
- Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
- Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
- Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
- Where black is the color, where none is the number
- And I'll tell and think it and speak it and breathe it
- And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
- Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
- But I'll know my songs well before I start singin'
- And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
- It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
- It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
- It don't matter, anyhow
- And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
- If you don't know by now
- When your rooster crows at the breaks of dawn
- Look out your window and I'll be gone
- You're the reason I'm traveling on
- Don't think twice, it's all right.
- It ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
- That light I never knowed
- And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
- I'm on the dark side of the road
- But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
- To try and make me change my mind and stay
- We never did too much talking anyway
- So don't think twice, it's all right.
- It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
- Like you never done before
- It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
- I can't hear you any more
- I'm a-thinking and a-wond'rin' walking down the road
- I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
- I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
- Don't think twice, it's all right.
- So long honey, babe
- Where I'm bound, I can't tell
- Goodbye's too good a word, babe
- So I'll just say fare thee well
- I ain't saying you treated me unkind
- You could have done better but I don't mind
- You just kinda wasted my precious time
- But don't think twice, it's all right.
- While riding on a train goin' west
- I feel asleep for take my a rest
- I dreamed a dream that make me sad
- Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.
- With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
- Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon
- Where we together weathered many a storm
- Laughin' and singing 'till the early hours of the morn'.
- By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung
- Our words were told, our songs were songs
- Where we longed for nothin' and were satisfied
- Joking and talking about the world outside.
- With haunted hearts through the heat and cold
- We never thought we could ever get very old
- We thought we could sit forever in fun
- Our chances really was a million to one.
- As easy it was to tell black from white
- It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
- And our choices they were few and the thought never hit
- That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.
- How many a year has passed and gone
- Many a gamble has been lost and won
- And many a road taken by many a first friend
- And each one I've never seen again.
- I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
- That we could sit simply in that room again
- Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
- I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.
- Oxford Town, Oxford Town
- Ev'rybody's got their hats bowed down
- The sun don't shine above the ground
- Ain't a-goin' down to Oxford Town.
- He went down to Oxford Town
- Guns and clubs followed him down
- All because his face was brown
- Better get away from Oxford Town.
- Oxford Town around the bend
- He comes to the door, he couln't get in
- All because of the color of his skin
- What do you think about that, my frien' ?
- Me and my gal, my gal's son
- We got met with a tear gas bomb
- I don't even know why we come
- Goin' back where we come from.
- Oxford Town in the afternoon
- Ev'rybody singin' a sorrowful tune
- Two men died 'neath the Mississippi moon
- Somebody better investigate soon.
- Corrina, Corrina,
- Gal, where you been so long?
- Corrina, Corrina,
- Gal, where you been so long?
- I been worr'in' 'bout you, baby,
- Baby, please come home.
- I got a bird that whistles,
- I got a bird that sings.
- I got a bird that whistles,
- I got a bird that sings.
- But I ain' a-got Corrina,
- Life don't mean a thing.
- Corrina, Corrina,
- Gal, you're on my mind.
- Corrina, Corrina,
- Gal, you're on my mind.
- I'm a-thinkin' 'bout you, baby,
- I just can't keep from crying.
- Honey, just allow me one more chance
- To get along with you
- Honey, just allow me one more chance
- Ah'll do anything with you
- Well, I'm a-walkin' down the road
- With my head in my hand
- I'm lookin' for a woman
- Needs a worried man
- Just-a one kind favor I ask you
- Allow me just-a one more chance.
- Honey, just allow me one more chance
- To ride your aeroplane
- Honey, just allow me one more chance
- To ride your passenger train
- Well, I've been lookin' all over
- For a gal like you
- I can't find nobody
- So you'll have to do
- Just-a kind a favor I ask you
- Allow me just-a one more chance.
- Honey, just allow me one more chance
- To get along with you
- Honey, just allow me one more chance
- Ah'll do anything with you
- Well, lookin' for a woman
- That ain't got no man
- Is just lookin' for a needle
- That is lost in the sand
- Just-a one kind favor I ask you
- Allow me just-a one more chance.
- Well, I took me a woman late last night
- I's three-fourths drunk she looked all right
- 'Til she started peelin' off her onion gook
- She took off her wig, said, "How do I look" ?
- I's high flyin', bare naked ...Out the window.
- Well, sometimes I might get drunk
- Walk like a duck and smell like a skunk
- Don't hurt me none, don't hurt my pride
- 'Cause I got my little lady right by my side
- (She's a tryin' a hide pretendin'
- She don't know me).
- I's out there paintin' on the old wood shed
- When a can a black paint it fell on my head
- I went down to scrub and rub
- But I had to sit in back of the tub
- (Cost a quarter
- Half price).
- Well, my telephone rang it would not stop
- It's President Kennedy callin' me up
- He said, "My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow" ?
- I said, "My friend, John, "Brigitte Bardot,
- Anita Ekberg
- Sophia Loren"
- Country'll grow.
- Well, I got a woman five feet short
- She yells and hollers and squeals and snorts
- She tickles my nose pats me on the head
- Blows me over and kicks me out of bed
- (She's a man eater
- Meat grinder
- Bad looser).
- Oh, there ain't no use in me workin' alla time
- I got a woman who works herself blind
- Works up to her britches, up to her neck
- Write me letters and sends me checks
- (She's a humdinger
- Folk singer).
- Late one day in the middle of the week
- Eyes were closed I was half asleep
- I chased me a woman up the hill
- Right in the middle of an air drill
- (I jumped a fallout shelter
- I jumped the string bean
- I jumped the TV dinner
- I jumped the shot gun).
- Now, the man on the stand he wants my vote
- He's a-runnin' for office on the ballot note
- He's out there preachin' in front of the steeple
- Tellin' me he loves all kinds-a people
- (He's eatin' bagels
- He's eatin' pizza
- He's eatin' chitlins).
- Oh, set me down on a television floor
- I'll flip the channel to number four
- Out of the shower comes a football man
- With a bottle of oil in his hand
- (Greasy kid stuff
- What I want to know, Mr. Football Man, is
- What do you do about Willy Mays
- Martin Luther King
- Olatunji).
- Well, the funniest woman I ever seen
- Was the great-granddaughter of Mr. Clean
- She takes about fifteen baths a day
- Wants me to grow a moustache on my face
- (She's insane).
- Well, ask me why I'm drunk alla time
- It levels my head and eases my mind
- I just walk along and stroll and sing
- I see better days and I do better things
- (I catch dinosaurs
- I make love to Elizabeth Taylor ...
- Catch hell from Richard Burton !).
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