Released: March 22, 1965
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Tom Wilson (producer)
[Verse 1]
You must leave now
Take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
[Chorus]
Look out, the saints are coming through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue
[Verse 2]
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
The empty handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
[Chorus]
The sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue
[Verse 3]
All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
All your reindeer armies are all going home
Your lover who just walked out the door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
[Chorus]
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue
[Verse 4]
Leave your stepping stones behind
There's something that calls for you
Forget the dead you've left
They will not follow you
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
[Chorus]
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue
You must leave now
Take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
[Chorus]
Look out, the saints are coming through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue
[Verse 2]
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
The empty handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
[Chorus]
The sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue
[Verse 3]
All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
All your reindeer armies are all going home
Your lover who just walked out the door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
[Chorus]
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue
[Verse 4]
Leave your stepping stones behind
There's something that calls for you
Forget the dead you've left
They will not follow you
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
[Chorus]
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue
more tracks from the album
Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II
- She Belongs to Me
- Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You
- Watching the River Flow
- If Not for You
- Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
- Tomorrow Is a Long Time
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- I Shall Be Released
- Down in the Flood
- Lay Lady Lay
- I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
- My Back Pages
- Maggie’s Farm
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- All Along the Watchtower
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
- All I Really Want to Do
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
From the albums
Bob Dylan popular songs
- Murder Most Foul
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- All Along the Watchtower
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Make You Feel My Love
- Hurricane
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Desolation Row
- Tangled Up in Blue
- Masters of War
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
- Girl from the North Country
- Tempest
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- Visions of Johanna
- I Contain Multitudes
- To Fall in Love with You
- Shelter from the Storm