Released: June 14, 1965
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Terry Melcher
I ain't lookin' to compete with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you, classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is, baby be friends with you
No, I ain't lookin' to fight with you
Frighten you or tighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
I don't want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you out
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me
I don't want to meet your kin
Make you spin or do you in
Or select you or dissect you
Or inspect you or reject you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
Baby, be friends with you
Baby, be friends with you
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
Simplify you, classify you
Deny, defy or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is, baby be friends with you
No, I ain't lookin' to fight with you
Frighten you or tighten you
Drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
I don't want to fake you out
Take or shake or forsake you out
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me
See like me or be like me
I don't want to meet your kin
Make you spin or do you in
Or select you or dissect you
Or inspect you or reject you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
Baby, be friends with you
Baby, be friends with you
- Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)
- The Byrds’ Greatest Hits (1967)
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- My Back Pages
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Ballad of Easy Rider
- Nothing Was Delivered
- My Back Pages (Alternate Version)
- Just Like a Woman
- The Times They Are a-Changin’
- Mr. Tambourine Man (Live)
- This Wheel’s on Fire
- Lay Down Your Weary Tune
- Positively 4th Street (Live)
- Medley: My Back Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me to Do
- Spanish Harlem Incident
- All I Really Want to Do
- Chimes of Freedom