Released: June 20, 1974
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Dylan & The Band
[Verse 1]
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you’ll see them shine
[Verse 2]
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay
Stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see ya' make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his, his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he’s ever seen
[Verse 3]
Stay, lady, stay
Stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you
[Verse 4]
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay
Stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay
Stay while the night is still ahead
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you’ll see them shine
[Verse 2]
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay
Stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see ya' make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his, his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he’s ever seen
[Verse 3]
Stay, lady, stay
Stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you
[Verse 4]
Lay, lady, lay
Lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay
Stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay
Stay while the night is still ahead
Before the Flood
- Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) [Before the Flood]
- Like a Rolling Stone [Before the Flood]
- Highway 61 Revisited [Before the Flood]
- All Along the Watchtower [Before the Flood]
- It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) [Before the Flood]
- Just Like a Woman [Before the Flood]
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right [Before the Flood]
- I Shall Be Released [Before the Flood]
- Ballad of a Thin Man [Before the Flood]
- It Ain’t Me, Babe [Before the Flood]
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door [Before the Flood]
- Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 [Before the Flood]
- Lay Lady Lay [Before the Flood]
- Blowin’ in the Wind [Before the Flood]
- Before the Flood (1974)
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- This Wheel’s on Fire
- Tears of Rage
- Katie’s Been Gone
- Yazoo Street Scandal
- Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)
- Bessie Smith
- Long Distance Operator
- Ruben Remus
- Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)
- Odds and Ends
- Million Dollar Bash
- Goin’ to Acapulco
- Lo and Behold!
- Clothes Line Saga
- Apple Suckling Tree
- Please, Mrs. Henry
- Too Much of Nothing
- Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
- Ain’t No More Cane
- Tiny Montgomery
- Don’t Ya Tell Henry
- Nothing Was Delivered
- Open the Door, Homer