Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
 I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
 Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
 In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you
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Song: “Mr. Tambourine Man”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1964-05-17
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/mr-tambourine-man/
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 Sing of Sherman - Montgomery and Scott
 Sing of Zhukov and Patton and the battles they fought
 Who cleared the path for Presley to sing
 Who carved out the path for Martin Luther King
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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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 From now on I’ll be busy
 Ain’t goin’ nowhere fast
 I’m just glad it’s over
 And I’m seeing the real you at last
--
Song: “Seeing the Real You at Last”
Album: Empire Burlesque
First played: 1986-02-06
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/seeing-real-you-last/
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 Set ‘em up Joe, play Walking The Floor
 Play it for my flat chested junky whore
 I’m staying up late and I’m making amends
 While the smile of heaven descends
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Song: “Scarlet Town”
Album: Tempest
First played: 2012-10-05
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/scarlet-town/
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 Now at midnight all the agents
 And the superhuman crew
 Come out and round up everyone
 That knows more than they do
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Song: “Desolation Row”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
First played: 1965-08-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/desolation-row/
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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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 I’m forty miles from the mill—I’m droppin’ it into overdrive
 I’m forty miles from the mill—I’m droppin’ it into overdrive
 Got my dial set on the radio
 I’m telling myself I’m still alive
--
Song: “Lonesome Day Blues”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2001-10-24
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lonesome-day-blues/
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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 came to see you
 But I found him there instead
 You know, I don’t mind him cheatin’ on me
 But I sure wish he’d take that off his head
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Song: “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”
Album: Blonde on Blonde
First played: 1966-02-26
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/leopard-skin-pill-box-hat/
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 Well, God is in His heaven
 And we all want what’s His
 But power and greed and corruptible seed
 Seem to be all that there is
--
Song: “Blind Willie McTell”
Album: The Bootleg Series, Vol 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991
First played: 1997-08-05
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/blind-willie-mctell/
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 I been walkin’ the road
 I been livin’ on the edge
 Now, I’ve just got to go
 Before I get to the ledge
 So I’m going
 I’m just going
 I’m gone
--
Song: “Going, Going, Gone”
Album: The Complete Budokan 1978
First played: 1976-04-18
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/going-going-gone/
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 Nicodemus came at night so he wouldn’t be seen by men
 Saying, “Master, tell me why a man must be born again”
 When He spoke to them in the city, did they hear?
 When He spoke to them in the city, did they hear?
--
Song: “In the Garden”
Album: Saved
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/garden/
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 God knows it’s fragile
 God knows everything
 God knows it could snap apart right now
 Just like putting scissors to a string
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Song: “God Knows”
Album: Under the Red Sky
First played: 1991-01-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/god-knows/
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 Oh, but if I had the stars from the darkest night
 And the diamonds from the deepest ocean
 I’d forsake them all for your sweet kiss
 For that’s all I’m wishin’ to be ownin’
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Song: “Boots of Spanish Leather”
Album: The Times They Are A-Changin’
First played: 1963-04-12
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/boots-spanish-leather/
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 Your daddy he’s an outlaw
 And a wanderer by trade
 He’ll teach you how to pick and choose
 And how to throw the blade
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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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 I and I
 In creation where one’s nature neither honors nor forgives
 I and I
 One says to the other, no man sees my face and lives
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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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Invisible Republic by Greil Marcus https://hokkaidomarket.net/books-info.php?item=1585 #MUSIC #BOOKS #BOOKSHOP #DYLAN #FOLK #BIOGRAPHY #bookstodon

 Mama’s in the fact’ry
 She ain’t got no shoes
 Daddy’s in the alley
 He’s lookin’ for the fuse
 I’m in the streets
 With the tombstone blues
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Song: “Tombstone Blues”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
First played: 1965-08-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tombstone-blues/
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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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 “We’ll meet on edges, soon,” said I
 Proud ’neath heated brow
 Ah, but I was so much older then
 I’m younger than that now
--
Song: “My Back Pages”
Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan
First played: 1978-07-04
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-back-pages/
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