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Notes from a website (see link below) :
"One of the true wonders of the Basement Tapes sessions, and the very best song on this CD*. After years of hearing this song only in low quality sound, we finally have a brilliantly clear version to listen to. The lyrics are still mostly indecipherable, but at least we can clearly hear the mumbles for a change! Although it's available in stereo on other bootlegs, it's in mono here. There's also a slight glitch at the beginning which sounds almost like a skip, but I suppose it could have been deliberate on the bootlegger's part. Truly one of the best unreleased Dylan songs ever recorded. I'd still like to know where the '1956' in the title comes from."
* I don't know which available CD he refers to. Let me know below if you do.
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All right, all right
And then she's all the time in my neighborhood
She cries both day and night
I know it because it was there
It's a milestone but she's down on her luck
And the day makes her lonely
And it's so hard to buck, I was there
I believe that she'd stop him if she would start (wants time) to care
I believe that she'd look upon this side
And t' care and I'd go by the (Lord)
When she's on my way, but I don't belong there
No I don't belong to her
I don't belong to anybody
She's my prize (Christ) forsaken angel
But she don't care she cries (She don’t hear me cry)
She's a lone-hearted mystic and she can carry on
When I'm there, she's all right
But she's not when I'm gone
Heaven knows that the answer she's don't call in no one
She's a wave, a thing, beautiful she's mine for the one
(She’s the way the sailing beauty falls, she’s mine for the one)
And I'm also hesitating by temptation lest it runs
Which it don't follow me (But she don’t follow me)
But I'm not there, I'm gone
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
So long, Jesus, savior, blind faith worth to tell
It don't have consolation (she smiles fare thee well)
(unintelligible) I was born to love her
But she knows that the kingdom waits so high above her
And I run but I race
But it's not too fast a (pace)
Of course I'll not deceive her
I'm not there, I'm gone
It's all about confusion and I cry for her (unintelligible)
I don't need anybody now beside me to tell.
And it's all (admiration) I receive, but it's not
She's a lone (unintelligible) beauty but she don't like the spot
And she won't.
Yes, she's gone like the rainbow that shined yesterday
But now she's home beside me and I'd like her here to stay
She's a (unintelligible) forsaken beauty and it's "Don't trust anyone"
I wish I was beside her but I'm not there, I'm gone.
Well, it's too hard to (unintelligible) and I don't bother leave
It’s so bad (unintelligible) but she’s hard, too hard to leave
It’s a (load), it’s a crime the way she moulds me around
But she told (unintelligible) but just as her own forsaken clown
Yes, I believe that it’s rightful, oh I believe it in my mind
I been told like I said when I before carry on the (unintelligible)
And (unintelligible) told her, like I said “carry on”
I wish I was there to help her but I'm not there, I’m gone.
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Genuine Basement Tapes Volume 2
Personnel:
Bob Dylan - guitar, piano, harmonica, vocals
Robbie Robertson - guitar, drums, vocals
Rick Danko - bass, fiddle, vocals
Richard Manuel - piano, drums, vocals
Garth Hudson - organ, piano
(Levon Helm also appears on some tracks)
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