Nate writes:
 
Well, my temperature rises and my feet can't walk so hot
Yes, my temperature rises and my feet can't walk so hot
Well, this Arabian doctor comes in, gives me a shot
But wouldn't tell what it was that I got
                    "Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence"
 
......appears to have preceded/foreshadowed/evolved into
 
I don't have the strength
To get up and take another shot
And my best friend, my doctor
Won't even say what it is I've got
                    "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"
 
this second appearance has now been polished and placed in much
more favourable light in my opinion.
                    - Nate

More Doctors

You been hurt so many times
And I know what you're thinking of.
Well, I don't have to be no doctor, babe,
To see that you're madly in love.
                    "Baby Please Stop Crying"
 
If I had some education
To give me a decent start,
I might have been a doctor or
A master in the arts.
                    "Ballad of Donald White"
 
And we slept near the Alamo, your skin was so tender and soft.
Way down in Mexico, you went out to find a doctor and you never
came back,
I would have gone on after you but I didn't feel like lettin' my
head get blown off.
                    "Brownsville Girl"
 
There is a city of hope,
Don't need no doctor.
Don't need no dope,           
                    "City of Gold"
 
Dr. Filth, he keeps his world,
Inside of a leather cup,
But all his sexless patients,
They're trying to blow it up,
Now his nurse, some local loser,
She's in charge of the cyanide hole,
And she also keeps the cards that read,
"Have Mercy on His Soul."
                    "Desolation Row"
 
Sick man lookin' for the doctor's cure,
Lookin' at his hands for the lines that were,
And into every masterpiece of literature,
For dignity.                            
                    "Dignity"
 
Conceit is a disease but the doctors got no cure.
They done a lot of research on it but what it is they're still
not sure. 
                    "Disease of Conceit"
 
Every time he touches you his hair stands up on end
His legs begin to quiver and his mind begins to bend
Oh baby, you're such a tasty treat
But I'm under doctor's orders, I'm afraid to overeat
                    "Dirty World" (Traveling Wilburies)
 
I wish that I'd been a doctor,
Maybe I'd have saved some life that been lost,
Maybe I'd have done some good in the world,
Instead of burning every bridge I crossed.
                    "Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight"
 
They may call you doctor, or they may call you chief,
But you're gonna have to serve somebody,
                    "Gotta Serve Somebody"
 
I don't have the strength to get up and take another shot,
And my best friend my doctor won't even say what it is I've got.
                    "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"
 
Well, I asked the doctor if I could see you
It's bad for your health, he said
Yes, I disobeyed his orders
I came to see you
But I found him there instead
                    "Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat"
 
The bridge at midnight trembles,
The country doctor rambles,
Bankers' nieces seek perfection,
Expecting all the gifts that wise men bring.
                    "Love Minus Zero/No Limit"
 
I said, "No! No! No!
I'm a doctor and it's true,
I'm a clean-cut kid
And I been to college, too."       
                    "Motorpsycho Nitemare"
 
He said, "What do doctors
Know about farms, pray tell?"
I said, "I was born
At the bottom of a wishing well."  
                    "Motorpsycho Nitemare"
 
He said he's going to kill me
If I don't get out the door
In two seconds flat,
"You unpatriotic,
Rotten doctor Commie rat."         
                    "Motorpsycho Nitemare"
 
These be seven curses on a judge so cruel:
That one doctor will not save him,           
                    "Seven Curses"
 
Doctor, can you hear me? I need some Medicaid.
I seen the kingdoms of the world and it's makin' me feel afraid.
                    "Shot of Love"
 
I need a shot of love, I need a shot of love.
If you're a doctor, I need a shot of love.   
                    "Shot of Love"
                             
Well, this Arabian doctor came in, gave me a shot,
But wouldn't tell me if what I had would last.
                    "Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence"
 
Some time ago a crazy dream came to me,
I dreamt I was walkin' in World War Three,
I went to the doctor the very next day,
To see what kinda words he could say.
He said it was a bad dream.        
                    "Talkin' World War III"
 
I said, "Hold it, Doc, a World War passed through my brain."
He said, "Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane,"
He grabbed my arm, I said "Ouch!"
As I landed on the psychiatric couch,
He said, "Tell me about it."       
                    "Talkin' World War III"
 
Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then,
Sayin, "Hey I've been havin' the same old dreams,
                    "Talkin' World War III"
 
Some are mathematicians
Some are doctor's wives
Don't know how it all got started
Don't know what they're doin' with their lives
                    "Tangled Up in Blue (Original Version)"
 
The hysterical bride in the penny arcade,
Screaming she moans "I've just been made,"
Then sends out for the doctor who pulls down the shade,
And says, "My advice is to not let the boys in."
                    "Tombstone Blues"
 
You got innocent men in jail, your insane asylums are filled,
You got unrighteous doctors dealing drugs that'll never cure
your ills.               
                    "When You Gonna Wake Up?"

After all my liquor's been drunk,
After my dreams are dreamed out,
After all my thoughts have been thunk,  
                    "All Over You"
  
The could-be dream-lover of my lifetime.  
                    "Ballad in Plain D"
 
And so it did happen like it could have been foreseen, 
The timeless explosion of fantasy's dream. 
At the peak of the night, the king and the queen 
Tumbled all down into pieces.           
                    "Ballad in Plain D"
 
While riding on a train goin' west,
I fell asleep for to take my rest.
I dreamed a dream that made me sad,
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.
                    "Bob Dylan's Dream"
 
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream      
                    Title only
 
In the lonely night,
In the blinking stardust of a pale blue light,
You're coming through to me in black and white,
When we were made of dreams.       
                    "Born in Time"
 
Did you ever have a dream that you couldn't explain?
Ever meet your accusers face to face in the rain?
                    "Caribbean Wind"
 
There is a city of love, far from this world.
And the stuff dreams are made of,
Beyond the sunset, stars high above,
There is a city of love.           
                    "City of Gold"
 
Everybody's asking why he couldn't adjust,
Adjust to what? a dream that bust?      
                    "Clean Cut Kid"
 
Dear landlord,
Please don't put a price on my soul.
My burden is heavy, my dreams are beyond control. 
                    "Dear Landlord"
 
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed,
Dignity never been photographed,
I went into the red, went into the black,
Into the valley of dry bone dreams.          
                    "Dignity"
 
Dearest, I can't help knowing that you're the best,
I don't have to feel you to know that you're real,
You're more than a dream to me.
                    "Don't Ever Take Yourself Away"
 
I could be dreaming but I keep believing, 
You're the one I'm living for,
And I will always be emotionally yours. 
                    "Emotionally Yours"
 
I know this dream, it might be crazy,
But it's the only one I've got.         "
                    Emotionally Yours"
 
I have gone from rags to riches 
In the sorrow of the night,
In the violence of a summer's dream, 
In the chill of a wintry light,
                    "Every Grain of Sand"
 
Father, who build the mountain so high,'
Who shapeth the cloud up in the sky,
Father of time, Father of dreams,
Father, who turneth the rivers and streams.  
                    "Father of Night"
 
At dawn my lover comes to me 
And tells me of her dreams,
With no attempts to shovel the glimpse 
Into the ditch of what each one means,
                    "Gates of Eden"
 
I had a dream about you baby, a dream about you, Baby,
Late last night you come rolling across my mind.
                    "Had a Dream About You Baby"
 
Look how sweet she sleeps.
How free must be her dreams.       
                    "I and I"
 
You're gonna start to sweat
And you ain't gonna stop.
You're gonna have a nightmare
And never wake up.  
                    "I'd Hate to be You on that Dreadful Day"
 
From darkness, dreams're deserted,
Am I still dreamin' yet? 
                    "I Don't Believe You"
 
I dreamed I saw St. Augustine, alive as you or me,
Tearing through these quarters in the utmost misery,
                    "I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine"
 
You know I'd have nightmares and a guilty conscience, too,
If I kept you from anything that you really wanted to do.
                    "If You Gotta Go, Go Now"
 
Now I'll cry tonight, like I cried the night before
And I'll feast on her eyes
But I'll dream about the door      
                    "I'm Not There"
 
And if my thought dreams could be seen,
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine,
                    "It's All Right Ma, I'm Only Bleeding"
 
You're a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds,
Manipulator of crowds, you're a dream twister.
                    "Jokerman"
 
And you fear that they might catch you a-sleeping
And you jump from yer bed, from yer last chapter of dreamin'
And you can't remember for the best of yer thinking
If that was you in the dream that was screaming
                    "Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie"
 
I have no one to meet,
And my ancient empty street's too dead for dreamin'.
Hey  mister tambourine man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to,
                    "Mr Tambourine Man"
 
Lately I been having evil dreams,
I wake up in a cold blue glare.         
                    "Need a Woman"
 
Now you're here beside me, baby,
You're a living dream.        
                    "Never Gonna Be the Same Again"
 
My dreams are made of iron and steel
With a big bouquet
Of roses hanging down
From the heavens to the ground.         
                    "Never Say Goodbye"
 
And tell me about your dreams, 
Just before the time you passed out. Oh, yeah!
                    "New Danville Girl"
 
Ground hog runnin' by the country stream,
This must be the day that all of my dreams come true,
                    "New Morning"
 
In death, you face life with a child and a wife
Who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls.
                    "No Time to Think"
 
A gypsy, with a broken flag and a flashing ring,
Said, "Son, this ain't a dream no more, it's the real thing."
                    "Senor"
 
I was thinkin' of a series of dreams,
Where nothing comes up to the top,
Everything stays down where it's rooted,
And comes to a permanent stop.          
                    "Series of Dreams"
 
Wasn't thinking of anything specific,
Like in a dream where someone wakes up and screams.
Nothing too very scientific.
Just thinkin' of a series of dreams.    
                    "Series of Dreams"
 
Dreams where the umbrella is open,
And into the path you are hurled.       
                    "Series of Dreams"
 
I was looking up and dreaming, like I sometimes do,
I seen a shooting star tonight, and I thought of you.
                    "Shooting Star" (Outtake)
 
I know everything about this place, or so it seems,
Am I know longer a part of your plans or your dreams?
                    "Something's Burning, Baby"
 
Some time ago a crazy dream came to me,
I dreamt I was walkin' into World War Three,
I went to the doctor the very next day,
To see what kinda words he could say.
He said it was a bad dream.
I wouldn't worry 'bout it none, though,
They were my own dreams and they're only in my head.
                    "Talkin' World War III Blues"
 
Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then,
Sayin, "Hey I've been havin' the same old dreams,
But mine was a little different you see.
                    "Talkin' World War III Blues"
 
Time passes slowly up here in the mountains,
We sit beside bridges and walk beside fountains,
Catch the wild fishes that float through the stream,
Time passes slowly when you're lost in a dream.
                    "Time Passes Slowly"
 
Ev'rybody's doin' somethin',
I heard it in a dream,
But when there's too much of nothing,
It just makes a fella mean.             
                    "Too Much of Nothing"
 
It's all just a dream, babe, a vacuum, a scheme, babe,
That sucks you into feelin' like this.       
                    "To Ramona"
 
I was knocked out and loaded in the naked night,
When my last dream exploded I noticed your light,
                    "Under Your Spell"
 
Walk out in the rain,
Walk out with your dreams,
Walk out of my life
If it doesn't feel right
And catch the next train.
Oh, darling, walk out in the rain.      
                    "Walk Out in the Rain"
 
When I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give,
Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from the hole,
Quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.
                    "Wedding Song"
 
Oh the foes will rise with the sleep still in their eyes,
And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin',
But they'll pinch themselves and squeal,
And they'll know that it's for real,
The hour that the ship comes in.   
                    "When the Ship Comes In"
 
God don't make no promises that He don't keep.
You got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta
still be asleep.         
                    "When You Gonna Wake Up?"
 
There's a lion in the road, 
There's a demon escaped,
There's a million dreams gone, 
There's a landscape being raped.
                    "Where Are You Tonight?"
 
But your fifty-dollar smile confirms,
That you're still trying to buy your way into the dreams,
Of them whose body will be food for worms,
                    "Yonder Comes Sin"