Lyrics

• Words and music by bob dylan

• Down over the window

• From the dazzling sunlit place

• Through the back alleys, through the blinds

• Another one of the memphis days

• Honey bees are buzzing

• Leaves begin to stir

• I'm in love with my second cousin

• I tell myself i could be happy forever with her

• I keep listening for footsteps

• But i ain't never hearing any

• From the boat, i fish for bullheads

• I catch a lot, sometimes too many

• A summer breeze is blowin'

• A squall is setting in

• Sometimes it's just plain stupid

• To get into any kind of wind

• Well the old men 'round here

• Sometimes they get on bad terms

• With the younger men,

• Old, young, age don't carry weight

• It doesn't matter in the end

• One of the boss' hangers-on

• Sometimes comes to call

• At times you least expect

• Tryin' to bully you, strongarm you,

• Inspire you with fear

• It has the opposite effect

• There's a new grove of trees on the outskirts of town

• The other one is long gone

• 10 foot, 2 foot, 6 across

• Burns with the bark still on

• They say times are hard

• If you don't believe it you can follow your nose

• It don't bother me, times are hard anywhere

• We'll just have to see how it goes

• My old man, he's like some feudal lord

• He's got more lives than a cat

• I've never seen him quarrel with my mother even once

• Things come alive or they fall flat

• You can smell the pine wood burnin'

• You can hear the school bell ring

• Got to get up near the teacher, if you can

• If you wanna learn anything

• Romeo, he said to juliet, you got a poor complexion

• That don't give your appearance a very youthful touch

• Juliet said back to romeo,

• Why don't you just shove off,

• If it bothers you so much

• They all got outta here any way they could

• Cold rain can give you the shivers

• They went down the ohio, the cumberland, the tennessee,

• All the rest of them rebel rivers

• If you ever try to interfere with me

• Or cross my path again,

• You do so at the peril of your life

• I'm not quite as cool, or forgiving as i sound

• I've seen enough heartache and strife

• My grandfather was a duck trapper,

• He could do it with just dragnets and ropes

• My grandmother could sew new dresses out of old cloth,

• I don't know if they had any dreams or hopes

• I had 'em once, though i suppose

• To go along with all the ring dancing,

• Christmas carols and all the christmas eves

• I left all my dreams and hopes

• Buried under tobacco leaves

• Not always easy kicking someone out

• Got to wait awhile, it can be an unpleasant task

• Sometimes somebody wants you to give something up

• And tears or not, it's too much to ask

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