Positively Bob Dylan - The Annotated Recordings
Bob Dylan's Dream
 Track 9       5.02 minutes
THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN
LYRICS & MUSIC BY BOB DYLAN
Introduction
Dylan 1. While riding on a train goin' west
I feel asleep for take my a rest
I dreamed a dream that make me sad
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.
2. With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon
Where we together weathered many a storm
Laughin' and singing 'till the early hours of the morn'.
3. By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung
Our words were told, our songs were songs
Where we longed for nothin' and were satisfied
Joking and talking about the world outside.
4. With haunted hearts through the heat and cold
We never thought we could ever get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
Our chances really was a million to one.
Bridge  As easy it was to tell black from white
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
And our choices they were few and the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.
5. How many a year has passed and gone
Many a gamble has been lost and won
And many a road taken by many a first friend
And each one I've never seen again.
Close I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
That we could sit simply in that room again
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.

Official Sony Music Lyrics at
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ANNOTATION
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 It Ain’t Me, Babe
RECORDING DETAILS
Recorded: 44 April 1963
Release Date : 27 May 1963
Published :  
Studio:  Columbia Studio A, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Master Number: CO 78491
Take: 1
Producer: Tom Wilson
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Company: CBS
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CD Number:
Record: Side B  Track 2  (27 May 1963)
CD: Track 9   (Date)
Time:  5.02 minutes
Musicians:
Bob Dylan Vocals/Guitar/Harmonica

All Recording Data usually from Record /Compact Disc Cover, and
Clinton Heylin, Dylan : Behind Closed Doors - The Recording Sessions 1960-1994 Penguin Books 1996

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