The man in the coon-skin cap
By the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten
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Song: “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1988-06-07
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/subterranean-homesick-blues/
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If I ever saw you coming I don’t know what I would do
I’d like to think I could control myself, but it isn’t true
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Song: “Can’t Wait”
Album: Time out of Mind
First played: 1997-10-24
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/cant-wait/
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Been so long since a strange woman has slept in my bed
Look how sweet she sleeps, how free must be her dreams
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Song: “I and I”
Album: Infidels
First played: 1984-05-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-and-i/
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Your sister sees the future
Like your mama and yourself
You’ve never learned to read or write
There’s no books upon your shelf
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Song: “One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)”
Album: The Complete Budokan 1978
First played: 1975-10-30
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/one-more-cup-coffee-valley-below/
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Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman
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Song: “Jokerman”
Album: Infidels
First played: 1984-05-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/jokerman/
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Don’t put on any airs
When you’re down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outta you
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Song: “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
First played: 1965-08-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/just-tom-thumbs-blues/
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No, and I ain’t lookin’ to fight with you
Frighten you or tighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
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Song: “All I Really Want to Do”
Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan
First played: 1964-07-26
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-i-really-want-do/
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When they let him out in ’71 he’d lost a little weight
But he dressed like Jimmy Cagney and I swear he did look great
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Song: “Joey”
Album: Desire
First played: 1987-07-04
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/joey/
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You won’t find any happiness here - no happiness or joy
Go back to the gutter and try your luck - find you some nice young pretty boy
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Song: “Crossing the Rubicon”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2022-03-03
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/crossing-the-rubicon/
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Broken cutters, broken saws
Broken buckles, broken laws
Broken bodies, broken bones
Broken voices on broken phones
Take a deep breath, feel like you’re chokin'
Everything is broken
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Song: “Everything Is Broken”
Album: Oh Mercy
First played: 1989-10-10
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/everything-broken/
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I got my back to the sun ’cause the light is too intense
I can see what everybody in the world is up against
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Song: “Sugar Baby”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2001-10-05
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/sugar-baby/
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She says, "Look out daddy, don't want you to tear your pants.
You can get wrecked in this dance."
They say whiskey will kill ya, but I don't think it will
I'm riding with you to the top of the hill
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Song: “Nettie Moore”
Album: Modern Times
First played: 2006-10-18
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/nettie-moore/
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And that the strings in the books ain’t pulled and persuaded
And that even the nobles get properly handled
Once that the cops have chased after and caught ’em
And that the ladder of law has no top and no bottom
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Song: “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”
Album: The Times They Are A-Changin’
First played: 1963-10-26
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lonesome-death-hattie-carroll/
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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
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Song: “Ballad of a Thin Man”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
First played: 1965-08-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ballad-thin-man/
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I’ll remember you
When the wind blows through the piney wood
It was you who came right through
It was you who understood
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Song: “I’ll Remember You”
Album: Empire Burlesque
First played: 1985-09-22
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/ill-remember-you/
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Mother of Muses sing for my heart
Sing for a love too soon to depart
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Song: “Mother of Muses”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2021-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mother-of-muses/
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Seem like every time you stop and turn around
Something else just hit the ground
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Song: “Everything Is Broken”
Album: Oh Mercy
First played: 1989-10-10
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/everything-broken/
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When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
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Song: “When You Gonna Wake Up?”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/when-you-gonna-wake/
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The world could come to an end tonight, but that’s all right
She should still be there sleepin’ when I get back
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Song: “I and I”
Album: Infidels
First played: 1984-05-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/i-and-i/
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You may be a preacher with your spiritual pride
You may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side
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Song: “Gotta Serve Somebody”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gotta-serve-somebody/
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