Bob Dylan

Songwriter: Bob Dylan

Producer: Tom Wilson (producer)

[Chorus]
Trails of troubles
Roads of battles
Paths of victory
I shall walk

[Verse 1]
The trail is dusty
And my road it might be rough
But the better roads are waiting
And boys it ain’t far off

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
I walked down by the river
I turned my head up high
I saw that silver linin’
That was hanging in the sky

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
The evening dusk was rolling
I was walking down the track
There was a one-way wind a-blowin’
And it was blowin’ at my back

[Chorus]

[Verse 4]
The gravel road is bumpy
It’s a hard road to ride
But there’s a clearer road a-waitin’
With the cinders on the side

[Chorus]

[Verse 5]
That evening train was rolling
The humming of its wheels
My eyes they saw a better day
As I looked across the fields

[Chorus]

[Verse 6]
The trail is dusty
The road it might be rough
But the good road is a-waiting
And boys it ain’t far off

[Chorus]

Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman May 24, 1941), is an American singer-songwriter, writer, and artist who has influenced popular music and culture for more than five decades. Dylan has especially played a critical role in the American folk music revival.

Dylan’s songs are built from myriad political, social, philosophical and literary influences. Many of his anti-war and civil-rights-influenced songs set social unrest, as journalists widely named him the “spokesman for his generation” in the 1960s.

The musician has a signature change in voice and style in many different albums of his throughout the decades. He has notably explored and experimented with the genres of folk, rap, blues, and rock.

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The Bootleg Series, Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964