Released: August 15, 1972
Featuring: Bob Dylan
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: The Band
Crash on the levee, mama, water's gonna overflow
Swamp's gonna rise, no boat's gonna row
Now, you can train on down to Williams Point
You can bust your feet, you can rock this joint
But oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow
Now, don't you try an' move me, you're just gonna lose
There's a crash on the levee and, mama, you've been refused
Well, it's sugar for sugar and salt for salt
If you go down in the flood, it's gonna be your fault
Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow
Well, that high tide's risin', mama, don't you let me down
Pack up your suitcase, mama, don't you make a sound
Now, it's king for king, queen for queen
It's gonna be the meanest flood that anybody's seen
Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
Yes, you're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow
Swamp's gonna rise, no boat's gonna row
Now, you can train on down to Williams Point
You can bust your feet, you can rock this joint
But oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow
Now, don't you try an' move me, you're just gonna lose
There's a crash on the levee and, mama, you've been refused
Well, it's sugar for sugar and salt for salt
If you go down in the flood, it's gonna be your fault
Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
You're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow
Well, that high tide's risin', mama, don't you let me down
Pack up your suitcase, mama, don't you make a sound
Now, it's king for king, queen for queen
It's gonna be the meanest flood that anybody's seen
Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?
Yes, you're gonna have to find yourself
Another best friend, somehow
Live at the Academy of Music 1971
- Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever [Live at the Academy of Music]
- When I Paint My Masterpiece [Live at the Academy of Music]
- Like a Rolling Stone [Live at the Academy of Music]
- Don’t Ya Tell Henry [Live at the Academy of Music]
- Down in the Flood [Live]
- I Shall Be Released [Live at the Academy of Music]
- This Wheel’s on Fire [Live at the Academy of Music]
- Atlantic City
- I Shall Be Released
- Tears of Rage
- Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever [Live at the Academy of Music]
- When I Paint My Masterpiece [Live at the Academy of Music]
- Like a Rolling Stone [Live at the Academy of Music]
- Tears of Rage (Alternate Take)
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Don’t Ya Tell Henry [Live at the Academy of Music]
- Down in the Flood [Live]
- Down in the Flood [Live at the Academy of Music]
- I Shall Be Released [Live at the Academy of Music]
- This Wheel’s on Fire [Live at the Academy of Music]
- Long Distance Operator
- This Wheel’s on Fire
- When I Paint My Masterpiece (Dylan 30th Anniversary)