Released: March 26, 1991
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Tom Wilson (producer)
[Verse 1]
Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat
And covering the crossroads I'm standing at
Or maybe it's the weather or something like that
But mama you been on my mind
[Verse 2]
I don't mean trouble please don't put me down or get upset
I am not pleading, or saying I can't forget you
I do not pace the floor bowed down and bent, but yet
Mama you been on my mind
[Verse 3]
Even though my eyes are hazy
And my thoughts they might be narrow
Where you been don't bother me
Or bring me down with sorrow
I don't even mind who you'll be waking with tomorrow
Mama you're just on my mind
[Verse 4]
I'm not asking you to say words like yes or no
Please, understand me, I have no place I'm calling you to go
I'm just whispering to myself so I can't pretend that I don't know
Mama you are on my mind
[Verse 5]
When you wake up in the morning, baby look inside your mirror
You know I won't be next to you, you know I won't be near
I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
As someone who has had you on his mind
Perhaps it's the color of the sun cut flat
And covering the crossroads I'm standing at
Or maybe it's the weather or something like that
But mama you been on my mind
[Verse 2]
I don't mean trouble please don't put me down or get upset
I am not pleading, or saying I can't forget you
I do not pace the floor bowed down and bent, but yet
Mama you been on my mind
[Verse 3]
Even though my eyes are hazy
And my thoughts they might be narrow
Where you been don't bother me
Or bring me down with sorrow
I don't even mind who you'll be waking with tomorrow
Mama you're just on my mind
[Verse 4]
I'm not asking you to say words like yes or no
Please, understand me, I have no place I'm calling you to go
I'm just whispering to myself so I can't pretend that I don't know
Mama you are on my mind
[Verse 5]
When you wake up in the morning, baby look inside your mirror
You know I won't be next to you, you know I won't be near
I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
As someone who has had you on his mind
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
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