RICHARD F. THOMAS is the George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, a Bob Dylan expert, and the creator of a freshman seminar at Harvard on Bob Dylan. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
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A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall. © Special Rider Music 1991. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Abandoned Love. © Ram’s Horn Music 2003. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Ain’t Talkin’. © Special Rider Music 2006. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’. © Special Rider Music and Ice Nine 2009. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Beyond the Horizon. © Special Rider Music 2006. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Blowin’ in the Wind. © Special Rider Music 1990. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Bob Dylan’s Dream. © Special Rider Music 1992. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Boots of Spanish Leather. © Special Rider Music 1992. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Brownsville Girl. © Special Rider Music 1986. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Bye and Bye. © Special Rider Music 2001. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Changing of the Guards. © Special Rider Music 1978. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Chimes of Freedom. © Special Rider Music 1992. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Cold Irons Bound. © Special Rider Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Day of the Locusts. © Big Sky Music 1998. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Desolation Row. © Special Rider Music 1993. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Dirt Road Blues. © Special Rider Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right. © Special Rider Music 1991. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Duquesne Whistle. © Special Rider Music and Ice Nine Publishing 2012. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Early Roman Kings. © Special Rider Music 2012. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Floater (Too Much to Ask). © Special Rider Music 2001. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Forgetful Heart. © Special Rider Music and Ice Nine Publishing 2009. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Fourth Time Around. © Dwarf Music 1994. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Girl from the North Country. © Special Rider Music 1991. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Gonna Change My Way of Thinking. © Special Rider Music 1979. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
High Water (For Charley Patton). © Special Rider Music 2001. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Highlands. © Special Rider Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Honest with Me. © Special Rider Music 2001. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Huck’s Tune. © Special Rider Music 2007. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
I Shall Be Free No. 10. © Special Rider Music 1999. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
I’ll Remember You. © Special Rider Music 1985. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Idiot Wind. © Ram’s Horn Music 2002. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Is Your Love in Vain? © Special Rider Music 1978. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Isis. © Special Rider Music 2003. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
It Ain’t Me Babe. © Special Rider Music 1992. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues. © Special Rider Music 1993. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Kingsport Town. © Special Rider Music 1991. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Lonesome Day Blues. © Special Rider Music 2001. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Long Ago, Far Away. © Special Rider Music 1996. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Love Sick. © Special Rider Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Make You Feel My Love. © Special Rider Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Million Miles. © Special Rider Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Mississippi. © Special Rider Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Most of the Time. © Special Rider Music 1989. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Mr. Tambourine Man. © Special Rider Music 1993. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
My Wife’s Home Town. © Special Rider Music, Ice Nine Publishing and Hoochie Coochie Music 2012. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Narrow Way. © Special Rider Music 2012. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Nettie Moore. © Special Rider Music 2008. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Never Say Goodbye. © Ram’s Horn Music 2001. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Not Dark Yet. © Special Rider Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Pay in Blood. © Special Rider Music 2012. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Po’ Boy. © Special Rider Music 2001. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Positively 4th Street. © Special Rider Music 1993. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Rollin’ and Tumblin’. © Special Rider Music 2006. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Sara. © Ram’s Horn Music 2004. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Scarlet Town. © Special Rider Music 2012. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Someday Baby. © Special Rider Music 2006. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Spirit on the Water. © Special Rider Music 2006. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Standing in the Doorway. © Special Rider Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Tangled Up in Blue.
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Tell Me That It Isn’t True. © Big Sky Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Tempest. © Special Rider Music 2012. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Temporary Like Achilles. © Dwarf Music 1994. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar. © Special Rider Music 1981. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
The Levee’s Gonna Break. © Special Rider Music 2006. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Things Have Changed. © Special Rider Music 1999. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
This Dream of You. © Special Rider Music 2009. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Thunder on the Mountain. © Special Rider Music 2006. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
’Til I Fell in Love with You. © Special Rider Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Tin Angel. © Special Rider Music 2012. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Tryin’ to Get to Heaven. © Special Rider Music 1997. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
When I Paint My Masterpiece. © Big Sky Music 1999. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
When the Deal Goes Down. © Special Rider Music 2006. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Why Try to Change Me Now. © Notable 2015. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Workingman’s Blues #2. © Special Rider Music 2006. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
You’re a Big Girl Now. © Ram’s Horn Music 2002. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go. © Ram’s Horn Music 2002. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
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