BOB DYLAN: "Love and Theft"

The new Bob Dylan album, "Love and Theft" will be released on 11 September 2001.

Please visit Artur J.'s great website with special information to the songs.

http://www.republika.pl/bobdylan/lat/index.html

"The LYRICS presented here have been transcribed by ear, and are bound to include some mishearings.
If you can provide more lyrics, information, corrections, opinions, etc. 
please contact me at: bobdylan@poczta.onet.pl " (Artur J)

Thanks to Artur!


Lonesome Day Blues
(words and music by Bob Dylan. Copyright (c)2001 Special Rider Music)

Well, today has been a sad and lonesome day
Yeah, today has been a sad and lonesome day
I'm just sitting here thinking with my mind a million miles away.

Well, they're doing the double shuffle, they're throwing sand on the floor
They're doing the double shuffle, they're throwing sand on the floor
Well I left my longtime darling, she was standing in the door

Well my pa he died and left me, my brother got killed in the war
Well my pa he died and left me, my brother got killed in the war
My sister she ran off and got married, never was heard of anymore

Samantha Brown lived in my house for about four or five months
Samantha Brown lived in my house for about four or five months
Don't know how it looked to other people, I never slept with her even once

Well the road washed out, weather not fit for man or beast
Well the road washed out, weather not fit for man or beast
Funny the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you
need the least

Well I'm forty miles from the mill I'm dropping it into overdrive
I'm forty miles from the mill I'm dropping it into overdrive
Said my gal on the radio I wish my mother was still alive

I seen your lover-man coming, coming across the barren fields
I see your lover-man coming, coming across the barren fields
He not a gentleman at all, he's rotten to the core, he's a coward and he's
steel

Well my captain he's decorated, he's well-schooled and he's skilled
My captain he's decorated, he's well-schooled and he's skilled
He's not sentimental, don't bother him at all; how many of his pals have
been killed.

Last night the wind was whispering, I was trying to make out what it was
Last night the wind was whispering something, I was trying to make out what
it was
Yeh I tell myself something's coming, but it never does

I'm going to spare the defeated, I'm going to speak to the crowd
I'm going to spare the defeated, 'cause I'm going to speak to the crowd
I'm going to teach peace to the conquered, I'm going to tame the proud

Well, the leaves are rustling in the wood, things are falling off of the
shelf
Leaves are rustling in the wood, things are falling off the shelf
You're gonna need my help sweetheart, you can't make love all by yourself.