THRU THE NEON NIGHT

Good times bad times hanging on the mainline
Small town big town anywhere I’m bound
I can tell you stories baby that would wet your appetite
I don’t know what’s wrong never knew what was right
Rolling down the highway thru the neon night

Everybody telling me hey slow down
I say live now drink one more round
Wild eyed crazy rambling fool wrapped up just a little too tight
I don’t know what’s wrong never knew what was right
Rolling down the highway thru the neon light

Let me roll let me roll let the daylight push
me baby
Till I’m clear out of sight
I don’t care what’s wrong never knew what was right
Rolling down the highway thru the neon night

I hold on to the twilight gleaming
Stay clear of the one deceiving
I give the past my sorrow baby cause my future
looks bright
I don’t care what’s wrong never knew what was
right
Rolling down the highway thru the neon night

And I’m walking on a tightrope swaying
Living every word worth saying
Bending every rule that cares to put up a
fight
I don’t know what’s wrong never knew what was right
Rolling down the highway thru the neon night

Let me roll let me roll let the daylight push
me baby
Till I’m clear out of sight
I don’t care what’s wrong never knew what was right
Rolling down the highway thru the neon night

GIRL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY

Well, if you’re travelin’ in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm,
When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
Please see if she’s wearing a coat so warm,
To keep her from the howlin’ winds.

Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
If it rolls and flows all down her breast.
Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
That’s the way I remember her best.

I’m a-wonderin’ if she remembers me at all.
Many times I’ve often prayed
In the darkness of my night,
In the brightness of my day.

So if you’re travelin’ in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Warner Bros. Inc. 1963 Bob Dylan

DESPERATE MEN DO DESPERATE THINGS

You can while away our hours you can talk in tongues
Throw you promises baby until kingdom come
Cast your bread upon the waters see what it may bring
Desperate men do desperate things

Come on talk to me baby talk big and be brave
It’s not your only reputation that your trying to save
I’ve had you under observation your into various pain
And desperate men do desperate things

(Bridge)
Come on out of your daydream go some other place
Wipe the tear from your eyes wipe the smile
from your face
before you lose another lover to the night and to
the rain
Cause desperate men do desperate things

Let it out baby stir it up and mix it in
Two parts religion three parts sin
It’s the truth or consequences because the new
king reigns
And desperate men do desperate things

Your can while away your hours you can talk in
tongues
Throw you promises baby into kingdom come
Cast your bread upon the waters see what it may
bring

WHEN IT STARTS TO RAIN

I think of you when it starts to rain
Shadow dancing across your yard
While your folks fall fast asleep you move
Beneath the moon and stars
I think of you across the highway miles
In places that you’ve never been
I think of you when I feel at peace
I think of you when I need a friend

I think of you in the morning light
Waking to your sunlit smile
I think of you when you go away
Even for a little while

I think of you like an angel's song
Plays so softly in my head keeps me safe deep inside
my dreams
As I lay upon my bed
I think of you almost all the time
I think of you in the night and day
I think of you in a million unsaid words
I think you in every way

I think of you and the lonely years
I think of you thru the passing days
I think of you your so wild and free
And I hope you always stay that way

And I think of you and your photograph
I keep beside me in the night
And sometimes when my darkness falls
I hold you close to feel your light
I think of you when it pours down rain
Shadow dancing across your yard
Hand in hand with your shadow little angel
You move beneath the moon and stars

I think of you in the morning light
Waking to your sunlit smile
I think of you when you go away
Even for a little while
I think of you when it starts to rain
I think of you when it starts to rain

DEEP SOUTH 61 DELTA HIGHWAY BLUES

Well everybody telling me they’re leaving
Tired of this town and all the deceiving
You know they’ve all got religion see visions
Everything that they do
Me I got the deep south 61 Delta highway blues

Lost my roadmap in Memphis but I know I’m headed south
I feel the Mississippi call me down to its mouth
To a town called New Orleans where they call a street a La Rue
Cajun ladies know about these deep south 61 Delta
highway blues

And its this way baby that way anyway you feel is right
The Bayous on fire in the southland tonight
I’ve been everywhere baby but I’ve never been nowhere with you
Shake these deep south 61 Delta highway blues

And I’m setting on the levee trying to stay high and dry
Setting on the levee watch my life passing by
Water gets much higher it will start flowing into my boots
No way to lose these deep south 61 Delta highway blues

WALK AWAY RENÉE

And when I see the sign that points one way
The lot we used to pass by everyday.
Just walk away Renee you won’t see me
Follow you back home.
The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same,
You’re not to blame

Your name and mine inside a heart up on a wall
Still finds away to haunt me though they’re so small.
Just walk away Renee you won’t see me
Follow you back home.
Now as the rain falls down upon my weary eyes,
I start to cry

From deep inside the tears that I forced to cry,
From deep inside the pain that I chose to hide.
Just walk away Renee you won’t see me
Follow you back home

The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same,
You’re not to blame
Just walk away Renee you won’t see me
Follow you back home.
Now as the rain falls down upon my weary eyes,
I start to cry

Twin-Tone Music Publishing Co. 1966
Brown, Sansone, Callille

MEASURING WORDS

It’s beyond all rhyme and reason
Between the truth and lies
A mental maze of madness
The endless diatribe

You never talk about it
All you do is yell and scream
Volume up so loud and hollow
The thoughts become obscene

You block out my comprehension
Everything you say is absurd
You’re not making conversation honey
You are only measuring words

Get up on your soapbox baby
Throw your book at me
Tell me that I’m always guilty
Guilty to the first degree

Tell me I love to hurt you
Tell me I like to lie
Tell me I’m not even human
‘Cause you never see me cry

But the din you throw at me baby
Only leaves my emotions unstirred
You’re not making conversation honey
You are only measuring words

Measuring words until they mean nothing
Measuring words that only cause pain
Measuring words tortured and twisted
Measuring words ‘till they are insane

Measuring words in the heat of the moment that
always play on our fears
Measuring words they fall on my deaf ears

We don’t talk about it baby
We just don’t communicate
It’s a one way ride to nowhere
Syllables have sealed the fate
We don’t hear each other
The signal’s lost, we both agree
Hopeless sense of isolation
So very clear to see
No compromise in the future
When everything we say goes unheard
You’re not making conversation honey
You are only measuring words

YOU’RE A BIG GIRL NOW

Our conversation was short and sweet
It nearly swept me off-a my feet.
And I’m back in the rain, oh, oh,
And you are on dry land.
You made it there somehow
You’re a big girl now.

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.

Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast
Oh, but what a shame if all we’ve shared can’t last.
I can change, I swear, oh, oh,
See what you can do.
I can make it through,
You can make it too.

Love is so simple, to quote a phrase,
You’ve known it all the time, I’m learnin’ it these days.
Oh, I know where I can find you, oh, oh,
In somebody’s room.
It’s a price I have to pay
You’re a big girl all the way.

A change in the weather is known to be extreme
But what’s the sense of changing horses in midstream?
I’m going out of my mind, oh, oh,
With a pain that stops and starts
Like a corkscrew to my heart
Ever since we’ve been apart.

Rams Horn Music 1974, 1975 Bob Dylan

LEOPARD-SKIN PILL BOX-HAT

Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Yes, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, you must tell me, baby
How your head feels under somethin’ like that
Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

Well, you look so pretty in it
Honey, can I jump on it sometime?
Yes, I just wanna see
If it’s really that expensive kind
You know it balances on your head
Just like a mattress balances
On a bottle of wine
Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

Well, if you wanna see the sun rise
Honey, I know where
We’ll go out and see it sometime
We’ll both just sit there and stare
Me with my belt
Wrapped around my head
And you just sittin’ there
In your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

Well, I asked the doctor if I could see you
It’s bad for your health, he said
Yes, I disobeyed his orders
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
Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

Well, I see you got a new boyfriend
You know, I never seen him before
Well, I saw him
Makin’ love to you
You forgot to close the garage door
You might think he loves you for your money
But I know what he really loves you for
It’s your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

By Dwarf Music 1966 Bob Dylan

ONLY ONE ANGEL

I could fly thru a midnight rain
And be safe and warm and dry baby
At the mention of your name
And always sing your special song and know deep
inside that spirit girl
That nothing could go wrong
If you want to know what pulls me thru
I have only one angel babe that one angel is you

And I could run thru the desert wind
Till the day would leave me breathless baby
Searching for words again
And hope that you could hear that sound
In streams of magic colors that are painted across the ground
If you gotta know what pulls me thru
I have only one angel babe that one angel is you

(Bridge)
And I’ll always take you with me like a charm
You keep me in the good light safe from harm
You chase the dark clouds far away
You keep my feet from turning into clay

If I could send out a melody
Do you suppose when the word got out that the circle could reach to me
And cross that line in some distant land
Where the silver strings that ring my friends are played by ancient hands
If you want to know what pulls me thru
I have only one angel babe that one angel is you

EVERYTIME

The last light on the prairie it shimmers and shakes
Its twilight time and all the stars they start to wake
I’m driving south beside the El Dorado fire
All I feel is passion and desire

(Chorus)
Yes you do it to me everytime
That you roll across my mind
And right into my heart

If beauty is skin deep well yours is a mountain high
If they clipped your wings I know you would find a way to fly
You’re the northern lights in my lonely southern rain
Your spirits the truth that always fans the flame

(Chorus)
Yes you do it to me everytime
That you roll across my mind
And right into my heart

I stop to call you baby just to hear your voice
When it comes to wanting you, you leave me with no choice
You’re such a mystery I’ll never understand
Water to wine the passing of your hand

(Chorus)
Yes you do it to me everytime
That you roll across my mind
And right into my heart

ROCKET IN MY POCKET

I got a rocket in my pocket and a roll in my walk
Baby don’t you bore me with your south forty charm
There ain’t nothing you can tell me I don’t already know
I got a rocket in my pocket and I’m raring to go
Let’s go someplace where we can rock a bit
I got a rocket in my pocket and the fuse is lit

Two in one's polish three in one is oil
A lot of lip service makes my bad blood boil
Didn’t come here to listen gonna split this scene
I got a rocket in my pocket and a hole in my jeans
Let’s go somewhere so we can rock a bit
I got a rocket in my pocket and the fuse is lit

You better get me down and get the signal right
Or there will be no rocking tomorrow night
There ain’t nothing you can tell me I don’t already know
I got a rocket in my pocket and I’m raring to go
Let’s go someplace so we can rock a bit
I got a rocket in my pocket and the fuse is lit

McAlpin & Logsdon Coaxial Music (BMI) Kohl Music (BMI)

DARKEST SIDE OF MIDNIGHT

The sadness in your eyes is fading far from view
The happiness inside your heart is starting to shine thru
And its no fault of your own its nothing that’s been said
Its a thin line we walk between the living and the dead

(Chorus)
On the darkest side of midnight dreams can still be found
On the darkest side of midnight there is the
hallowed ground
Love with me baby and walk on you’re gonna make it thru
On the darkest side of midnight I’ll be waiting there for you

Please now don’t you worry there is a guiding light
It will possess you like a saint girl and give you back your sight
O you sweet fallen angel you must not be afraid
To leave the blackened valley that will become your grave

(Chorus)
On the darkest side of midnight dreams can still be found
On the darkest side of midnight there is the
hallowed ground
Love with me baby and walk on you’re gonna make it thru
On the darkest side of midnight I’ll be waiting there for you

Yes the sadness in your eyes babe has faded far from view
The happiness inside your heart is starting to shine thru
And it’s nothing that’s been said
It’s no fault of your own
It’s a thin line we walk baby to find direction home

(Chorus)
On the darkest side of midnight dreams can still be found
On the darkest side of midnight there is the
hallowed ground
Love with me baby and walk on we’re gonna make it thru
On the darkest side of your midnight I’ll be waiting there
for you

RESTLESS SPIRITS

For reasons that don’t matter
I was walking down the alley
When I heard some music
Coming thru the screen

And without really thinking
I walked up to the window
To a scene reminds me of a dream

She was standing in the kitchen
With her face turned toward the ceiling
Her eyes were closed but still they showed the light
And from a battered guitar came a sound
like the angels weeping
For all the restless spirits in the night

I don’t know how long I stood there but it seemed
like many lifetimes
Then I felt my load just lift away
And walking down the alley I was feeling
so much better
I knew that I could take another day

She was standing in the kitchen with her face
turned toward the ceiling
Her eyes were closed but still they showed the light
And from a battered guitar came a
sound like the angels weeping
For all the restless spirits in the night

Golden Ladder Music (BMI) 1981,1987 Bob Childers

TROUBLE FREE

I’ve got a new car and it runs real good
I never even have to check under the hood
We go raging thru the night like a fire unleashed
The motor purrs like a kitten, that’s the beauty of the beast
I’ve drove that car from sea to sea
Best thing about it is it’s trouble free

(Chorus)
Trouble free, trouble free
Trouble free, trouble free
Has it occurred to you, it’s occurred to me
The best things in life are trouble free

I gotta new girl best I ever had
She never gets angry, she never gets mad
She’s just 18 and a working girl
Treats me like a king in this no win world
She never yells and throws things at me
That’s the best thing about her, she’s trouble free

(Chorus)
Trouble free, trouble free
Trouble free, trouble free
Has it occurred to you, it’s occurred to me
The best things in life are trouble free

I gotta band and they like to play
And anywhere I go they follow me that way
They can play anything that I want them to
From Dixieland jazz to the low down blues
Or we can jam all night in the key of E
That’s the best thing about ‘em ‘cause
Their trouble free

(Chorus)

SHELTER FROM THE STORM

‘Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.
"Come in," she said,
"I’ll give you shelter from the storm."

And if I pass this way again, you can rest assured
I’ll always do my best for her, on that I give my word
In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm.
"Come in," she said,
"I’ll give you shelter from the storm."

Not a word was spoke between us, there was little risk nvolved
Everything up to that point had been left unresolved.
Try imagining a place where it’s always safe and warm.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."


I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail,
Poisoned in the bushes an’ blown out on the trail,
Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn.
"Come in." she said,
"I’ll give you shelter from the storm."

Suddenly I turned around and she was standin’ there
With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair.
She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns.
"Come in," she said,
"I’ll give you shelter from the storm."

Now there’s a wall between us, somethin’ there’s been lost
I took too much for granted, got my signals crossed.
Just to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn.
"Come in," she said,
"I’ll give you shelter from the storm."

Well, the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount
But nothing really matters much, it’s doom alone that counts
And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn.
"Come in," she said,
"I’ll give you shelter from the storm."

I’ve heard newborn babies wailin’ like a mournin’ dove
And old men with broken teeth stranded without love.
Do I understand your question, man, is it hopeless and forlorn?
"Come in," she said,
"I’ll give you shelter from the storm."

In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes
I bargained for salvation an’ they gave me a lethal dose.
I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn.
"Come in," she said,
"I’ll give you shelter from the storm."

Well, I’m livin’ in a foreign country but I’m bound to cross the line
Beauty walks a razor’s edge, someday I’ll make it mine.
If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born.
"Come in," she said,
"I’ll give you shelter from the storm."

by Rams Horn Music 1974, 1975 Bob Dylan