100 Songs
Bob Dylan
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100 Songs
Bob Dylan
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"Dylan remains the rare singer whose work is worth reading on the page. His words are consistently funny, alive to the sound of language, and of course appealingly cryptic." — The New York Times Book Review A new collection of Bob Dylan's most essential lyrics—one hundred songs that represent the Nobel Laureate's incredible range through the entirety of his career so far. Bob Dylan is one of the most important cultural figures of our time, and the first American musician in history to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. 100 Songs is an intimate and carefully curated collection of his most important lyrics that spans from the beginning of his career through the present day. Perfect for students who may be new to Dylan's work as well as longtime fans, this portable, abridged volume of these singular lyrics explores the depth, breadth, and magnitude of one of the world's most enduring bodies of work.
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SONG TO WOODY
I’m out here a thousand miles from my homeWalkin’ a road other men have gone downI’m seein’ your world of people and thingsYour paupers and peasants and princes and kingsHey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song’Bout a funny ol’ world that’s a-comin’ alongSeems sick an’ it’s hungry, it’s tired an’ it’s tornIt looks like it’s a-dyin’ an’ it’s hardly been bornHey, Woody Guthrie, but I know that you knowAll the things that I’m a-sayin’ an’ a-many times moreI’m a-singin’ you the song, but I can’t sing enough’Cause there’s not many men that done the things that you’ve doneHere’s to Cisco an’ Sonny an’ Leadbelly tooAn’ to all the good people that traveled with youHere’s to the hearts and the hands of the menThat come with the dust and are gone with the windI’m a-leavin’ tomorrow, but I could leave todaySomewhere down the road somedayThe very last thing that I’d want to doIs to say I’ve been hittin’ some hard travelin’ too
BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND
How many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a man?Yes, ’n’ how many seas must a white dove sailBefore she sleeps in the sand?Yes, ’n’ how many times must the cannonballs flyBefore they’re forever banned?The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the windThe answer is blowin’ in the windHow many years can a mountain existBefore it’s washed to the sea?Yes, ’n’ how many years can some people existBefore they’re allowed to be free?Yes, ’n’ how many times can a man turn his headPretending he just doesn’t see?The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the windThe answer is blowin’ in the windHow many times must a man look upBefore he can see the sky?Yes, ’n’ how many ears must one man haveBefore he can hear people cry?Yes, ’n’ how many deaths will it take till he knowsThat too many people have died?The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the windThe answer is blowin’ in the wind
GIRL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY
Well, if you’re travelin’ in the north country fairWhere the winds hit heavy on the borderlineRemember me to one who lives thereShe once was a true love of mineWell, if you go when the snowflakes stormWhen the rivers freeze and summer endsPlease see if she’s wearing a coat so warmTo keep her from the howlin’ windsPlease see for me if her hair hangs longIf it rolls and flows all down her breastPlease see for me if her hair hangs longThat’s the way I remember her bestI’m a-wonderin’ if she remembers me at allMany times I’ve often prayedIn the darkness of my nightIn the brightness of my daySo if you’re travelin’ in the north country fairWhere the winds hit heavy on the borderlineRemember me to one who lives thereShe once was a true love of mine
MASTERS OF WAR
Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your masksYou that never done nothin’But build to destroyYou play with my worldLike it’s your little toyYou put a gun in my handAnd you hide from my eyesAnd you turn and run fartherWhen the fast bullets flyLike Judas of oldYou lie and deceiveA world war can be wonYou want me to believeBut I see through your eyesAnd I see through your brainLike I see through the waterThat runs down my drainYou fasten the triggersFor the others to fireThen you set back and watchWhen the death count gets higherYou hide in your mansionAs young people’s bloodFlows out of their bodiesAnd is buried in the mudYou’ve thrown the worst fearThat can ever be hurledFear to bring childrenInto the worldFor threatening my babyUnborn and unnamedYou ain’t worth the bloodThat runs in your veinsHow much do I knowTo...