Buy me a flute
 And a gun that shoots
 Tailgates and substitutes
 Strap yourself
 To the tree with roots
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Song: “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”
Album: Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume II’
First played: 1976-01-22
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/you-aint-goin-nowhere/
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 I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love
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Song: “Shot of Love”
Album: Shot of Love
First played: 1981-07-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/shot-love/
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 Oh, you know it costs more to store the food than it do to give it
 They say lose your inhibitions
 Follow your own ambitions
 They talk about a life of brotherly love show me someone who knows how to live it
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Song: “Slow Train”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/slow-train/
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 High water risin’—risin’ night and day
 All the gold and silver are being stolen away
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Song: “High Water (For Charley Patton)”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2001-10-19
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/high-water-charley-patton/
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 While paupers change possessions
 Each one wishing for what the other has got
 And the princess and the prince
 Discuss what’s real and what is not
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Song: “Gates of Eden”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1964-10-24
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gates-eden/
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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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 The hostages were tremblin’ when they heard a man exclaim
 “Let’s blow this place to kingdom come, let Con Edison take the blame”
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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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Sourced from and linking to his official website, lyrics from his 150 most-played songs.

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 You’ve gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
 But you know you only used to get juiced in it
 And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
 And now you find out you’re gonna have to get used to it
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Song: “Like a Rolling Stone”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
First played: 1965-07-25
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/rolling-stone/
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 I’m rollin’ slow—I’m doing all I know
 I’m tellin’ myself I found true happiness
 That I’ve still got a dream that hasn’t been repossessed
 I’m rollin’ slow, goin’ where the wild red roses grow
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Song: “Bye and Bye”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2002-10-17
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/bye-and-bye/
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 Bird on the horizon, sittin’ on a fence
 He’s singin’ his song for me at his own expense
 And I’m just like that bird, oh, oh
 Singin’ just for you
 I hope that you can hear
 Hear me singin’ through these tears
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Song: “You’re a Big Girl Now”
Album: The Complete Budokan 1978
First played: 1976-05-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/youre-big-girl-now/
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 She wears an Egyptian ring
 That sparkles before she speaks
 She wears an Egyptian ring
 That sparkles before she speaks
 She’s a hypnotist collector
 You are a walking antique
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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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 Go melt back into the night, babe
 Everything inside is made of stone
 There’s nothing in here moving
 An’ anyway I’m not alone
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Song: “It Ain’t Me, Babe”
Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan
First played: 1964-05-17
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/it-aint-me-babe/
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 Well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose
 Welfare Department they wouldn’t give him no clothes
 He asked poor Howard where can I go
 Howard said there’s only one place I know
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Song: “Highway 61 Revisited”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
First played: 1969-08-31
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/highway-61-revisited/
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 Last night I heard you talking in your sleep
 Saying things you shouldn’t say
 Oh, baby
 You just might have to go to jail some day
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Song: “Long and Wasted Years”
Album: Tempest
First played: 2013-10-10
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/long-and-wasted-years/
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 We pointed out the way to go
 And scratched your name in sand
 Though you just thought it was nothing more
 Than a place for you to stand
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Song: “Tears of Rage”
Album: The Basement Tapes
First played: 1989-06-26
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tears-rage/
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 I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin’
 Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
 Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin’
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Song: “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”
Album: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
First played: 1962-09-20
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hard-rains-gonna-fall/
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 “Don’t reach out for me,” she said
 “Can’t you see I’m drownin’ too?”
 It’s rough out there
 High water everywhere
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Song: “High Water (For Charley Patton)”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2001-10-19
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/high-water-charley-patton/
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 All these people that you mention
 Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame
 I had to rearrange their faces
 And give them all another name
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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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 My pathway led by confusion boats
 Mutiny from stern to bow
 Ah, but I was so much older then
 I’m younger than that now
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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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