Railroad Bill Lyrics

Lyrics as performed by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Hughes Stadium, Colorado University, Fort Collins, co, 23 May 1976, Transcribed by Manfred Helfert. She went upstairs to make her b...Read Full Lyrics

(Written by Joan Baez, Wally Wilson, Kenny Greenberg & Karen O'Connor) You don't have to play me backwards To get the meaning of my verse You don't have to die and go to hell To f...Read Full Lyrics

I'm a Rake And a Ramblin' Boy Chorus: Well I'm a rake and ramblin' boy. There's many a city I did enjoy, And now I've married me a pretty little wife And I love her dearer than I l...Read Full Lyrics

(Words and Music by Joan Baez) Tell me when you see them Gathered at the shore Dancing on their broken chains Ah, the ladies are no more In their blue jeans and their necklaces Ag...Read Full Lyrics

Come all of you cowboys all over this land I'll sing you the law of the Ranger's command. To hold a six-shooter and never to run As long as there's bullets in both of your guns. ...Read Full Lyrics

(Words and Music by Joan Baez) Recently it all came back to me Somebody promised us roses We slid by for awhile on dreams But today I see what's only a memory Of a decade ago that...Read Full Lyrics

Coldest night of the winter Working up my farewell In the middle of everything Under no particular spell Dreaming of the mountains Where the children learn the stars Clouds roll i...Read Full Lyrics

(Music by Joan Baez, Lyrics by Nina Duscheck) Farewell my wistful Saigon bride I'm going out to stem the tide A tide that never saw the seas It flows through jungles, round the tr...Read Full Lyrics

"Sail Away Ladies" as performed in the album "Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square" (First verse is hummed.) Ain't no use sit 'n cry You'll be an angel by and by Chorus: Don't you ro...Read Full Lyrics

(Words and Music by Joan Baez) Don't worry about my politics They are what they are I work best when I get some rest Right now I'm in a bar Overlooking the whole wide world It's o...Read Full Lyrics