Released: March 26, 1991
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Dylan
[Verse 1]
Well, I walked all night long
Hearin' them church bells tone
Yes, I walked all night long
Listen to them church bells tone
Either someone needing mercy
Or might be somethin' I've done wrong
[Verse 2]
Well, your friends come by for you
I don't know what to say
Well, your friends come by for you
I don't know what to say
I just can't face to tell 'em
Honey, you just went away
[Verse 3]
The children cry for mother
I tell 'em, "Mother took a trip"
Well, the children cry for mother
I tell 'em, "Mother took a trip"
Well, I walk on pins and needles
I hope my tongue don't slip
[Verse 4]
Well, I gaze at passing strangers
In case I might see you
Yes, I gaze at passing strangers
In case I might see you
But the sun goes around the heavens
And another day just drives on through
[Verse 5]
Way out in the distance
I know you're with some other man
Way out in the distance
I know you're with some other man
But that's alright, baby
You know I always understand
[Verse 6]
Call girls in the doorway
All givin' me the eye
Call girls in the doorway
All givin' me the eye
But my heart's just not in it
I might as well pass right on by
[Verse 7]
My ears are ringin'
Ringin' like empty shells
My ears are ringin'
Ringin' like empty shells
Well, it can't be no guitar player
It must be combat bells
Well, I walked all night long
Hearin' them church bells tone
Yes, I walked all night long
Listen to them church bells tone
Either someone needing mercy
Or might be somethin' I've done wrong
[Verse 2]
Well, your friends come by for you
I don't know what to say
Well, your friends come by for you
I don't know what to say
I just can't face to tell 'em
Honey, you just went away
[Verse 3]
The children cry for mother
I tell 'em, "Mother took a trip"
Well, the children cry for mother
I tell 'em, "Mother took a trip"
Well, I walk on pins and needles
I hope my tongue don't slip
[Verse 4]
Well, I gaze at passing strangers
In case I might see you
Yes, I gaze at passing strangers
In case I might see you
But the sun goes around the heavens
And another day just drives on through
[Verse 5]
Way out in the distance
I know you're with some other man
Way out in the distance
I know you're with some other man
But that's alright, baby
You know I always understand
[Verse 6]
Call girls in the doorway
All givin' me the eye
Call girls in the doorway
All givin' me the eye
But my heart's just not in it
I might as well pass right on by
[Verse 7]
My ears are ringin'
Ringin' like empty shells
My ears are ringin'
Ringin' like empty shells
Well, it can't be no guitar player
It must be combat bells
more tracks from the album
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991
- Tangled Up in Blue (Alternate take)
- Nobody ’Cept You
- Wallflower
- Santa Fé
- She’s Your Lover Now
- Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence
- If You Gotta Go, Go Now
- Suze (The Cough Song)
- Eternal Circle
- Seven Curses
- Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
- Moonshiner
- Only a Hobo
- Call Letter Blues
- Golden Loom
- Catfish
- Worried Blues
- Man on the Street
- Series of Dreams
- Foot of Pride
- Lord Protect My Child
- Tell Me
- Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart
- Angelina
- Need a Woman
- You Changed My Life
- Ye Shall Be Changed
- Seven Days
- Who Killed Davey Moore?
- Paths of Victory
- Idiot Wind
- When the Ship Comes In
- Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues
- Rambling Gambling Willie
- Let Me Die in My Footsteps
- Every Grain of Sand
- He Was a Friend of Mine
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
- Blind Willie McTell
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
- Mama, You Been on My Mind
- Farewell, Angelina
- If Not for You
- Walls of Red Wing
- Walkin’ Down the Line
- Kingsport Town
- Quit Your Low Down Ways
- Talkin’ Hava Negeilah Blues
- House Carpenter
- No More Auction Block
- Hard Times in New York Town (Demo)
- I’ll Keep It with Mine
- When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky
- If You See Her, Say Hello
- I Shall Be Released
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
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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