Released: April 9, 1969
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Steve Berkowitz Bob Johnston
[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
[Bridge]
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
[Outro]
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
[Bridge]
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
[Outro]
Stay, lady, stay
Stay while the night is still ahead
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
- Country Ballads: The Greatest Country Love Songs In The World
- Nashville Skyline (1969)
- Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II (1971)
- Biograph (1985)
- The Rolling Stone Collection - 25 Years Of Essential Rock (1993)
- The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)
- North Country: Music From the Motion Picture (2005)
- The Country Album (2015)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 15: Travelin’ Thru, 1967–1969 (2019)
- 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