Released: October 19, 1970
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Johnston
[Verse 1]
If not for you
Babe, I couldn’t find the door
Couldn’t even see the floor
I’d be sad and blue
If not for you
[Verse 2]
If not for you
Babe, I’d lay awake all night
Wait for the morning light
To shine in through
But it would not be new
If not for you
[Chorus]
If not for you, my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all
I’d be lost if not for you
And you know it’s true
[Chorus]
If not for you, my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all
Oh, what would I do
If not for you
[Verse 3]
If not for you
Winter would have no spring
Couldn’t hear the robin sing
I just wouldn’t have a clue
Anyway it wouldn’t ring true
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
Babe, I couldn’t find the door
Couldn’t even see the floor
I’d be sad and blue
If not for you
[Verse 2]
If not for you
Babe, I’d lay awake all night
Wait for the morning light
To shine in through
But it would not be new
If not for you
[Chorus]
If not for you, my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all
I’d be lost if not for you
And you know it’s true
[Chorus]
If not for you, my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all
Oh, what would I do
If not for you
[Verse 3]
If not for you
Winter would have no spring
Couldn’t hear the robin sing
I just wouldn’t have a clue
Anyway it wouldn’t ring true
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969–1971)
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Working on a Guru
- Railroad Bill
- Copper Kettle
- In Search of Little Sadie
- Thirsty Boots
- Pretty Saro
- Tattle O’Day
- Annie’s Going to Sing Her Song
- Bring Me a Little Water
- This Evening So Soon
- Alberta #3
- Time Passes Slowly #1
- These Hands
- Went to See the Gypsy (Demo)
- Time Passes Slowly #2
- Wallflower
- Only a Hobo
- House Carpenter
- I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
- I Threw It All Away
- Country Pie
- All the Tired Horses
- Little Sadie
- Belle Isle
- If Not for You
- Days of 49
- Minstrel Boy
- Wigwam
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- If Dogs Run Free
- New Morning
- Sign on the Window
- Spanish Is the Loving Tongue
- Went to See the Gypsy (Alternate Version) [New Morning]
- 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