Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Alternate Take Lyrics

Lyrics Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Alternate Take - Bob Dylan



When you're lost in the rain in Juarez, when it's Easter time too
And your gravity falls and negativity don't pull you through
Don't you put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there and they'll really make a mess outta you
Now if you see Saint Annie, please tell her thanks a lot
I cannot move, my fingers are all in a knot
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
Sweet Melinda, the peasants call her the goddess of gloom
She speaks good English and she invites you up into her room
And you're so kind and careful not to go to her too soon
And she takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon
Up on Housing Project Hill it's either fortune or fame
You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim
If you're lookin' to get silly, you better go back to from where you came
Because the cops don't need you and man, they expect the same
Now all the authorities, they just stand around and boast
How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms into leaving his post
And picking up Angel, who just arrived here from the coast
Who looked so fine at first, but left looking just like a ghost
I started out on burgundy, but soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough
But the joke was on me, there was nobody even there to bluff
I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough



Writer(s): Bob Dylan


Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (A Martin Scorsese Picture)

1 Blowin' In the Wind (Live)
2 When I Got Troubles
3 Rambler, Gambler
4 This Land Is Your Land (Live)
5 Song to Woody
6 Dink's Song
7 I Was Young When I Left Home
8 Sally Gal - Alternate Take
9 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Demo
10 Man of Constant Sorrow (Live)
11 Masters of War (Live)
12 A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall (Live at Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec - December 1975)
13 When the Ship Comes In (Live)
14 Mr. Tambourine Man - Alternate Take
15 Chimes of Freedom (Live)
16 It's All over Now, Baby Blue - Alternate Take
17 She Belongs to Me - Alternate Take
18 Maggie's Farm - Live at Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI - July 1965
19 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Alternate Take
20 Tombstone Blues - Alternate Take
21 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Alternate Take
22 Desolation Row - Alternate Take
23 Highway 61 Revisited - Alternate Take
24 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat - Alternate Take
25 Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Alternate Take
26 Visions of Johanna - Alternate Take
27 Ballad of a Thin Man (Live)
28 Like a Rolling Stone - Live at Sony Music Studios, New York, NY - November 1994




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