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BALLAD FOR A FRIEND
Word and Music by: Bob Dylan - 1962

Recorded in 1962 as a Leeds Music Demo

 

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Capo 7th Fret

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Sad I'm sittin' on the railroad track,
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Watchin' that old smokestack.
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Train is a-leavin' bit it won't be back.


Years ago we hung around,
Watchin' trains roll through the town.
Now that train is a-graveyard bound.

Where we go up in that North Country,
Lakes and streams and mines so free,
I had no better friend than he.

Something happened to him that day,
I thought I heard a stranger say,
I hung my head and stole away.

A diesel truck was rollin' slow,
Pullin' down a heavy load.
It left him on a Utah road.

They carried him back to his home town,
His mother cried, his sister moaned,
Listin' to them church bells tone.


Copyright © 1962; renewed 1990 MCA


 

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