But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked
--
Song: “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1964-09-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding/
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Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, in the beginning
Man gave names to all the animals
In the beginning, long time ago
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Song: “Man Gave Names to All the Animals”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/man-gave-names-all-animals/
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“Don’t you remember, Ma, when I went off to war
You thought it was the best thing I could do?
I was on the battleground, you were home . . . acting proud
You wasn’t there standing in my shoes”
--
Song: “John Brown”
Album: MTV Unplugged
First played: 1962-10-15
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/john-brown/
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But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
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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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It’s a restless hungry feeling
That don’t mean no one no good
When ev’rything I’m a-sayin’
You can say it just as good.
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Song: “One Too Many Mornings”
Album: The Times They Are A-Changin’
First played: 1966-02-26
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/one-too-many-mornings/
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Black Rider Black Rider tell me when - tell me how
If there ever was a time then let it be now
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Song: “Black Rider”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2021-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/black-rider/
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Sooner or later you`ll make a mistake
I`ll put you in a chain that you never can break
Legs and arms and body and bone
I pay in blood, but not my own
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Song: “Pay in Blood”
Album: Tempest
First played: 2012-11-13
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/pay-blood/
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One strike of lightning is all that I need
And a blast of ‘lectricity that runs at top speed
Show me your ribs - I’ll stick in the knife
I’m gonna jump start my creation to life
--
Song: “My Own Version of You”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2021-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-own-version-of-you/
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You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole
Down upon your knees
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Song: “She Belongs to Me”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1965-03-27
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/she-belongs-me/
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I don’t want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you out
I ain’t lookin’ for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
--
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 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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I’m gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell
Like Liberace - like St. John the Apostle
Play every number that I can play
I’ll see you baby on Judgement Day
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Song: “My Own Version of You”
Album: Rough and Rowdy Ways
First played: 2021-11-02
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-own-version-of-you/
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Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring
The wind howls like a hammer
The night blows cold and rainy
My love she’s like some raven
At my window with a broken wing
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Song: “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1965-02-12
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/love-minus-zero-no-limit/
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And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only
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Song: “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1964-09-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding/
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Yet he walked right into the clubhouse of his lifelong deadly foe
Emptied out the register, said, “Tell ’em it was Crazy Joe”
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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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Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of me
If I was still the same
If I ever became what you wanted me to be
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Song: “Shooting Star”
Album: Oh Mercy
First played: 1990-06-09
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shooting-star/
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Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowin’
Blowin’ like she never blowed before
Blue light blinkin’, red light glowin’
Blowin’ like she’s at my chamber door
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Song: “Duquesne Whistle”
Album: Tempest
First played: 2013-06-26
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/duquesne-whistle/
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You can’t take it with you and you know that it’s too worthless to be sold
They tell you, “Time is money,” as if your life was worth its weight in gold
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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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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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