Released: August 27, 2013
Songwriter: Traditional
Producer: Bob Johnston
Went out last night just to take a little round
I met my little Sadie and I brought her down
I ran right home and I went to bed
With a .44 smokeless under my head
I began to think what a deed I done
I grabbed my head and I began to run
I made a good run but I run too slow
They overtook me down in Jericho
Standin’ on the corner as he's ringin' my bell
Up stepped the sheriff of Thomasville
He says, "Young man is your name Brown?
Remember you blowed little Sadie down?"
"Oh, yes sir my name is Lee
I murdered little Sadie in first degree"
"First degree and second degree
If you got any papers, will you serve them to me."
Well they took me downtown and they dressed me in black
They put me on a train and they sent me back
I had no one for to go my bail
They crammed me back into the county jail
Oh yes they did
Now the judge and the jury they took their stand
The judge had the papers in his right hand
Forty-one days, forty-one nights
Forty-one years with the ball and stripes, oh no
Went out last night to take a little round
I met my little Sadie and I blowed her down
I run right home and I went to bed
A .44 smokeless under my head
I met my little Sadie and I brought her down
I ran right home and I went to bed
With a .44 smokeless under my head
I began to think what a deed I done
I grabbed my head and I began to run
I made a good run but I run too slow
They overtook me down in Jericho
Standin’ on the corner as he's ringin' my bell
Up stepped the sheriff of Thomasville
He says, "Young man is your name Brown?
Remember you blowed little Sadie down?"
"Oh, yes sir my name is Lee
I murdered little Sadie in first degree"
"First degree and second degree
If you got any papers, will you serve them to me."
Well they took me downtown and they dressed me in black
They put me on a train and they sent me back
I had no one for to go my bail
They crammed me back into the county jail
Oh yes they did
Now the judge and the jury they took their stand
The judge had the papers in his right hand
Forty-one days, forty-one nights
Forty-one years with the ball and stripes, oh no
Went out last night to take a little round
I met my little Sadie and I blowed her down
I run right home and I went to bed
A .44 smokeless under my head
more tracks from the album
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]
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