Index:

  • Hats
  • Highway
  • Hill/Climbing
  • Horse

    Hats

    Pull your hat down, baby, pull the wool down over your eyes,
    Keep a-talking, baby, 'til you run right out of alibis.
    "Ain't No Man Righteous"

    Up on the white veranda,
    She wears a necktie and a panama hat,
    "Black Diamond Bay"

    "Pardon, monsieur," the desk clerk says,
    Carefully removes his fez,
    "Am I hearin' you right?"
    "Black Diamond Bay"

    Just then the whole kitchen exploded from boiling fat
    Food was flyin everywhere - I left without my hat.
    "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"

    Well, they were lookin' for somebody, with a pompadour.
    I was crossin' the street when shots rang out.
    "Brownsville Girl"

    I had my white shorts rolled up past my waist,
    And my wig-hat was falling in my face.
    But they wouldn't let me on the tennis court.
    "I Shall Be Free No 10"

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    Highway

    I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
    I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
    "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"

    And sometimes I'm in the mood, I wanna hit the highway road,
    But then again, but then again, I said oh, I said oh, I said,
    Oh baby, I'm in the mood for you.
    "Baby, I'm in the Mood for You"

    There's a whole lot of people struggling tonight with the disease of conceit.
    Comes right down the highway, straight down the line,
    Rips into your senses, through your body and your mind.
    Nothing about it that's sweet, The disease of conceit.
    "Disease of Conceit"

    Well, I'm walkin' down the highway,
    With my suitcase in my hand.
    "Down the Highway"

    Right now I'm havin' trouble,
    Please don't take away my highway shoes.
    "Down the Highway"

    Well, when the pipeline gets broken and I'm lost on the river bridge,
    I'm cracked up on the highway and on the water's edge,
    "From a Buick 6"

    Highwaymen and hitmen, pushin', hellraisin', and robbery,
    Mistakin' your shyness for aloofness, your silence for snobbery.
    "Groom's Still Waiting at the Alter - Warfield Version"

    I see the highway, baby, flag me down,
    Say take me daddy to the nearest town,
    "Had a Dream About You, Baby"

    Sam said, "Tell me quick man I got to run."
    Ol' Howard just pointed with his gun,
    and said "That way down on Highway 61."
    "Highway 61 Revisited"

    Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
    I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory,
    And all your ragin' glory.
    "Idiot Wind"

    The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense,
    Take what you have gathered from coincidence,
    "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"

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    Hill/Climbing

    The spanish moon is rising on the hill,
    But my heart is telling me, I love you still.
    "Abandoned Love"

    Sometimes I'm in the mood, Lord, I had my overflowin' fill,
    Sometimes I'm in the mood, I'm gonna make out my final will.
    Sometimes I'm in the mood, I'm gonna head for the walkin' hill,
    "Baby, I'm in the Mood for You"

    Sometimes I'm in the mood, I wanna lay right down and die,
    Sometimes I'm in the mood, I wanna climb up to the sky.
    "Baby, I'm in the Mood for You"

    Campin' out all night on the berenda,
    Dealin' cards 'til dawn in the hacienda,
    Up to Boot Hill they'd like to send ya,
    Billy, don't you turn your back on me.
    "Billy"

    In the hills of mystery,
    In the foggy web of destiny,
    You can have what's left of me,
    Where we were born in time.
    "Born in Time"

    Atlantic City, by the coal grey sea,
    I hear a voice crying, "Daddy," I always think it's for me,
    But it's only the silence in the buttermilk hills that call.
    "Caribbean Wind"

    'Cause the road is long, it's a long hard climb,
    I been on that road too long of a time.
    "Coming from the Heart"

    I seen you leave your letter, Over your harder hill,
    I hope you're feelin better, Roll down your window sill.
    "Driftin' Too Far From Shore"

    I put down my robe, picked up my diploma,
    Took hold of my sweetheart and away we did drive,
    Straight for the hills, the black hills of Dakota,
    Sure was glad to get out of there alive.
    "Day of the Locusts"

    He reached too high and was thrown back to the ground.
    You know what they say about being nice to the right people on the way up.
    Sooner or later you're gonna meet them coming down.
    "Foot of Pride"

    Yes, I guess I loved him to, I can still see him in my mind climbing that hill.
    Did he make it to the top? Well he probably did and dropped.
    Struck down by the strength of the will.
    "Foot of Pride"

    May you build a ladder to the stars,
    And climb on every rung,
    And may you stay forever young,
    "Forever Young"

    What's good is bad, what's bad is good,
    You'll find out when you reach the top,
    You're on the bottom.
    "Idiot Wind"

    I chased me a woman up the hill,
    Right in the middle of an air raid drill.
    "I Shall Be Free"

    Well if I die on top of the hill,
    And if I don't make it, you know my baby will.
    "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"

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    Horse

    I met a young child beside a dead pony,
    I met a white man who walked a black dog,
    "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"

    All the tired horses in the sun
    How'm I supposed to get any ridin done? Hmm.
    "All the Tired Horses"

    Sometimes I'm in the mood, I'm gonna sleep in my pony's stall,
    Sometimes I'm in the mood, I ain't gonna do nothin' at all.
    "Baby, I'm in the Mood for You"

    Visions of your chestnut mare,
    Shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.
    "Idiot Wind"

    Hoofbeats poundin' in my head at breakneck speed,
    And makin' me see stars.
    "Idiot Wind - original version"

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