Released: January 1, 1979

Featuring: Rob Stoner Anton Fig

Songwriter: Bob Dylan

Producer: Richard Gottehrer

You must leave now
Take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep
You better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out the saints are comin’ through
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
All your reindeer armies, are all going home
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you
Forget the dead you’ve left, they will not follow you
The vagabond who’s rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
Strike another match, go start anew
And it’s all over now, Baby Blue

Link Wray

Fred Lincoln (‘Link’) Wray, Jr. (2 May 1929 – 5 November 2005), was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and sometimes vocalist who recorded his first hit song, “Rumble”, in 1958. He was a master of the rockabilly style and he’s credited for creating the rock power chord and as the inspiration for punk rock.

Wray served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and contracted tuberculosis. He ultimately lost a lung to the discease, and doctors told him he’d never be able to sing again as a performer; the strain would be too great.

Wray released something close to two dozen albums from the late 50s until his death in 2005. He was never mainstream, but he’s been cited by many as a major influence. Pete Townshend said that if it hadn’t been for Wray, he wouldn’t have picked up the guitar.

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