I Shall Be Free
Dylan Bob

Dylan Bob
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
I Shall Be Free
by Bob Dylan

Well, I took me a woman late last night,
I's three-fourths drunk, she looked uptight.
She took off her wheel, took off her bell,
Took off her wig, said, How do I smell?
I hot-footed it . . . bare-naked . . .
Out the window!

Well, sometimes I might get drunk,
Walk like a duck and stomp like a skunk.
Don't hurt me none, don't hurt my pride
'Cause I got my little lady right by my side.
(Right there
Proud as can be)

I's out there paintin' on the old woodshed
When a can a black paint it fell on my head.
I went down to scrub and rub
But I had to sit in back of the tub.
(Cost a quarter
And I had to get out quick . . .
Someone wanted to come in and take a sauna)

Well, my telephone rang it would not stop,
It's President Kennedy callin' me up.
He said, My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?
I said, My friend, John, Brigitte Bardot,
Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren.
(Put 'em all in the same room with Ernest Borgnine!)

Well, I got a woman sleeps on a cot,
She yells and hollers and squeals a lot.
Licks my face and tickles my ear,
Bends me over and buys me beer.
(She's a honeymooner
A June crooner
A spoon feeder
And a natural leader)

Oh, there ain't no use in me workin' so heavy,
I got a woman who works on the levee.
Pumping that water up to her neck,
Every week she sends me a monthly check.
(She's a humdinger
Folk singer
Dead ringer
For a thing-a-muh jigger)

Late one day in the middle of the week,
Eyes were closed I was half asleep.
I chased me a woman up the hill,
Right in the middle of an air raid drill.
It was Little Bo Peep!
(I jumped a fallout shelter
I jumped a bean stalk
I jumped a ferris wheel)

Now, the man on the stand he wants my vote,
He's a-runnin' for office on the ballot note.
He's out there preachin' in front of the steeple,
Tellin' me he loves all kinds-a people.
(He's eatin' bagels
He's eatin' pizza
He's eatin' chitlins
He's eatin' bullshit!)

Oh, set me down on a television floor,
I'll flip the channel to number four.
Out of the shower comes a grown-up man
With a bottle of hair oil in his hand.
(It's that greasy kid stuff.
What I want to know, Mr. Football Man, is
What do you do about Willy Mays and Yul Brynner,
Charles de Gaulle
And Robert Louis Stevenson?)

Well, the funniest woman I ever seen
Was the great-granddaughter of Mr. Clean.
She takes about fifteen baths a day,
Wants me to grow a cigar on my face.
(She's a little bit heavy!)

Well, ask me why I'm drunk alla time,
It levels my head and eases my mind.
I just walk along and stroll and sing,
I see better days and I do better things.
(I catch dinosaurs
I make love to Elizabeth Taylor . . .
Catch hell from Richard Burton!)


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  10,000 Men   2 x 2   4th Time Around   A Fool Such as I   A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall   A Satisfied Mind   Abandoned Love   Absolutely Sweet Marie   Ain't A-Gonna Grieve   Ain't No Man Righteous (No Not One)   Ain't No More Cane   Alberta #1   Alberta #2   All Along the Watchtower   All I Really Want to Do   All Over You   All the Tired Horses   Angelina   Apple Suckling Tree   Are You Ready?   Arthur McBride   As I Went Out One Morning   Baby, I'm in the Mood for You   Baby, Let Me Follow You Down   Baby, Stop Crying   Ballad For A Friend   Ballad in Plain D   Ballad of a Thin Man   Ballad Of Donald White   Ballad of Hollis Brown   Belle Isle   Bessie Smith   Big Yellow Taxi   Billy (Main Title Theme)   Billy 1   Billy 4   Billy 7   Black Crow Blues   Black Diamond Bay   Blackjack Davey   Blind Willie McTell   Blood in My Eyes   Blowin' in the Wind   Blue Moon   Bob Dylan's 115th Dream   Bob Dylan's Blues   Bob Dylan's Dream   Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag   Boots of Spanish Leather   Born in Time   Broke Down Engine   Brownsville Girl   Buckets of Rain   Bunkhouse Theme   Bye and Bye   California   Call Letter Blues   Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?   Can't Help Falling in Love   Can't Wait   Canadee-i-o   Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law)   Caribbean Wind   Caribbean Wind   Caribbean Wind   Cat's in the Well   Catfish   Changing of the Guards   Chimes of Freedom   Clean-Cut Kid   Clothes Line   Cold Irons Bound   Coming From The Heart (The Road Is Long)   Copper Kettle   Corrina, Corrina   Country Pie   Covenant Woman   Cry A While   Dark Eyes   Day of the Locusts   Days of 49   Dead Man, Dead Man   Dear Landlord   Death is Not the End   Delia   Denise   Desolation Row   Diamond Joe   Dignity   Dirge   Dirt Road Blues   Disease of Conceit   Do Right to Me Baby   Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight   Don't Think Twice, It's All Right   Don't Ya Tell Henry   Down Along the Cove   Down in the Flood   Down the Highway   Drifter's Escape   Driftin' Too Far from Shore   Dusty Old Fairgrounds   Early Mornin' Rain   Emotionally Yours   Endless Highway   Eternal Circle   Every Grain of Sand   Everything is Broken   Farewell   Farewell Angelina   Father of Night   Final Theme   Fixin' to Die   Floater (Too Much To Ask)   Foot of Pride   Forever Young   Frankie & Albert   Freight Train Blues   Froggie Went a Courtin'   From a Buick 6   Gates of Eden   George Jackson   Get Your Rocks Off!   Girl of the North Country   Go 'Way Little Boy   God Knows   Goin' to Acapulco   Going, Going, Gone   Golden Loom   Gonna Change My Way of Thinking   Gospel Plow   Got My Mind Made Up   Gotta Serve Somebody   Gotta Travel On   Guess I'm Doin' Fine   Gypsy Lou   Had a Dream About You, Baby   Handy Dandy   Hard Times   Hard Times in New York Town   Hazel   He Was a Friend of Mine   Heart of Mine   Heartland   Hero Blues   High Water (For Charlie Patton)   Highlands   Highway 51 Blues   Highway 61 Revisited   Honest With Me   Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance   House Carpenter   House of the Rising Sun   Hurricane   I Am a Lonesome Hobo   I and I   I Believe in You   I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have M   I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine   I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know   I Pity the Poor Immigrant   I Shall Be Free No.10   I Shall Be Released   I Threw It All Away   I Wanna Be Your Lover   I Want You   I Was Young When I Left Home   I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day   I'd Have You Any Time   I'll Be Your Baby Tonight   I'll Keep It with Mine   I'll Remember You   Idiot Wind   If Dogs Run Free   If I Don't Be There By Morning   If Not for You   If You Gotta Go, Go Now   If You See Her, Say Hello   In My Time of Dyin'   In Search of Little Sadie   In the Garden   In the Summertime   Is Your Love in Vain?   Isis   It Ain't Me, Babe   It Hurts Me Too   It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry   It's All Over Now, Baby Blue   It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)   Jack-A-Roe   Jet Pilot   Jim Jones   Joey   John Brown   John Wesley Harding   Jokerman   Just Like a Woman   Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues   Katie's Been Gone   Kingsport Town   Knockin' on Heaven's Door   Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie   Lay Down Your Weary Tune   Lay, Lady, Lay   Legionnaire's Disease   Lenny Bruce   Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat   Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat   Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat   Let It Be Me   Let Me Die in My Footsteps   Let's Keep It Between Us   Let's Stick Together   License to Kill   Like a Rolling Stone   Lily of the West   Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts   Little Maggie   Little Sadie   Living the Blues   Lo and Behold!   Lone Pilgrim   Lonesome Day Blues   Long Ago, Far Away   Long Time Gone   Long-Distance Operator   Lord Protect My Child   Love Henry   Love Is Just A Four-letter Word   Love Minus Zero / No Limit   Love Sick   Maggie's Farm   Make You Feel My Love   Mama, You Been on My Mind   Man Gave Names to All the Animals   Man in the Long Black Coat   Man of Constant Sorrow   Man of Peace   Man on the Street   Mary Ann   Masters of War   Maybe Someday   Meet Me in the Morning   Million Dollar Bash   Million Miles   Minstrel Boy   Mississippi   Mixed Up Confusion   Money Blues   Moonlight   Moonshiner   Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine   Most of the Time   Motorpsycho Nightmare   Mozambique   Mr. Bojangles   Mr. Tambourine Man   My Back Pages   Nashville Skyline Rag   Need a Woman   Neighborhood Bully   Never Gonna Be the Same Again   Never Say Goodbye   New Morning   New Pony   Night After Night   Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)   No More Auction Block   No Time to Think   Nobody 'Cept You   North Country Blues   Not Dark Yet   Nothing was Delivered   Obviously Five Believers   Odds and Ends   Oh, Sister   On a Night Like This   On the Road Again   One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)   One More Night   One More Weekend   One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)   One Too Many Mornings   Only a Hobo   Only a Pawn in Their Game   Open the Door, Homer   Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)   Outlaw Blues   Oxford Town   Paths of Victory   Peggy Day   Percy's Song   Playboys and Playgirls   Please, Mrs. Henry   Pledging My Time   Po' Boy   Political World   Poor Boy Blues   Positively 4th Street   Precious Angel   Precious Memories   Pressing On   Pretty Peggy-O   Property of Jesus   Queen Jane Approximately   Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)   Quit Your Low Down Ways   Ragged & Dirty   Rainy Day Women #12 & 35   Rambling, Gambling Willie   Rank Strangers to Me   Restless Farewell   Ring Them Bells   Rita May   River Theme   Romance in Durango   Ruben Remus   Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands   Sally Sue Brown   Santa Fe   Sara   Sarah Jane   Saved   Saving Grace   See That My Grave is Kept Clean   Seeing the Real You at Last   Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)   Series of Dreams   Seven Curses   Seven Days   She Belongs to Me   She's Your Lover Now   Shelter from the Storm   Shenandoah   Shooting Star   Shot of Love   Sign Language   Sign On The Cross   Sign on the Window   Silent Weekend   Silvio   Simple Twist of Fate   Sittin' on Top of the World   Sitting on a Barbed-Wire Fence   Slow Train   Solid Rock   Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart   Something There is About You   Something's Burning, Baby   Song to Woody   Spanish Harlem Incident   Spanish is the Loving Tongue   Stack A Lee   Stage Fright   Standing In The Doorway   Standing On The Highway   Steel Bars   Step It Up And Go   Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Agai   Subterranean Homesick Blues   Sugar Baby   Summer Days   Suze (The Cough Song)   Sweetheart Like You   T.V. Talkin' Song   Take a Message to Mary   Take Me as I Am   Talkin Hava Negeilah Blues   Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues   Talkin' World War III Blues   Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues   Talking New York   Tangled Up in Blue   Tears of Rage   Tell Me   Tell Me That It Isn't True   Tell Me, Momma   Temporary Like Achilles   The Ballad of Ira Hayes   The Boxer   The Death Of Emmett Till   The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar   The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll   The Man in Me   The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down   The Shape I'm In   The Times They Are A-Changin'   The Wandering Kind   The Weight   The Wicked Messenger   They Killed Him   Things Have Changed   This Wheel's on Fire   Three Angels   Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My   Til I Fell In Love With You   Time Passes Slowly   Tiny Montgomery   To Be Alone with You   To Ramona   Tombstone Blues   Tomorrow is a Long Time   Tomorrow Night   Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You   Too Much of Nothing   Tough Mama   Train A-Travelin'   Trouble   Trouble In Mind   True Love Tends to Forget   Trust Yourself   Tryin' To Get To Heaven   Turkey Chase   Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum   Two Soldiers   Ugliest Girl in the World   Unbelievable   Under the Red Sky   Under Your Spell   Union Sundown   Up on Cripple Creek   Up to Me   Visions of Johanna   Walk Out In The Rain   Walkin' Down the Line   Wallflower   Walls of Red Wing   Wanted Man   Watching the River Flow   Watered Down Love   We Better Talk This Over   Wedding Song   Went to See the Gypsy   What Can I Do For You?   What Good Am I?   What Was It You Wanted?   Whatcha Gonna Do   When Did You Leave Heaven?   When He Returns   When He Returns   When He Returns   When I Paint My Masterpiece   When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky   When the Ship Comes In   When You Awake   When You Gonna Wake Up?   Where Are You Tonight?   Where Teardrops Fall   Who Killed Davey Moore?   Wiggle Wiggle   Wigwam   Winterlude   With God on Our Side   Woogie Boogie   World Gone Wrong   Worried Blues   Yazoo Street Scandal   Ye Shall Be Changed   Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread   You Ain't Goin' Nowhere   You Angel You   You Changed My Life   You Wanna Ramble   You're a Big Girl Now   You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go   You're Gonna Quit Me   You're No Good

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