Bob Dylan - Motorpsycho Nightmare Lyrics

Lyrics Motorpsycho Nightmare - Bob Dylan




I pounded on a farmhouse, lookin' for a place to stay
I was mighty, mighty tired, I had come a long, long way
I said, "Hey, hey, in there, is there anybody home?"
I was standin' on the steps, feelin' most alone
When out comes a farmer, he must have thought that I was nuts
He immediately looked at me and stuck a gun into my guts
I fell down to my bended knees
Sayin', "I dig farmers, don't shoot me, please"
He cocked his rifle and began to shout
"Are you that travelin' salesman that I have heard about?"
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"
Then in comes his daughter whose name was Rita
She looked like she stepped out of La Dolce Vita
I immediately tried to cool it with her dad
And told him what a nice, pretty farm he had
He said, "What do doctors know about farms, pray tell?"
I said, "I's born at the bottom of a wishing well"
Well, by the dirt 'neath my nails I guess he knew I wouldn't lie
He said, "I guess you're tired," he said it kinda sly
I said, "Yes, ten thousand miles today I drove"
He said, "I got a bed for you underneath the stove
Just one condition an' you can go to sleep right now
That you don't touch my daughter
And in the morning, milk the cows"
I was sleepin' like a rat when I heard something jerkin'
There stood Rita, lookin' just like Tony Perkins
She said, "Would you like to take a shower?
I'll show you up to the door"
I said, "Oh, no, no, I've been through this before"
I knew I had to split, but I did not know how
When she said, "Would you like to take that shower now?"
Well, I couldn't leave unless the old man chased me out
'Cause I'd already promised that I'd milk his cows
I had to say something to strike him very weird
So I yelled, "I like Fidel Castro and his beard"
Rita looked offended, but she got out of the way
As he came chargin' down the stairs
Sayin', "What's that I heard you say?"
I said, "I like Fidel Castro, I think you heard me right"
And I ducked as he swung at me with all his might
Rita mumbled somethin' 'bout her mother on the hill
As his fist had hit the icebox, he said he's gonna kill me
If I don't get out the door in two seconds flat
"You unpatriotic, rotten doctor, commie rat"
Well, he threw a Reader's Digest at my head and I did run
I did a somersault as I seen him get his gun
And crashed through the window at a hundred miles an hour
And landed fully blast in his garden flowers
Rita said, "Come back" and he started to load
The sun was comin' up and I was runnin' down the road
Well, I don't figure I'll be back there for a spell
Even though Rita moved away and got a job at a motel
He still waits for me, constant, on the sly
He wants to turn me in to the F.B.I.
Me, I romp and stomp, thankful as I romp
Without freedom of speech I might be in the swamp



Writer(s): BOB DYLAN


Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan: The Collection
Album Bob Dylan: The Collection
date of release
25-08-2006

1 When the Ship Comes In
2 Love Minus Zero
3 Motorpsycho Nightmare
4 Boots of Spanish Leather
5 Nashville Skyline Rag
6 Wigwam
7 River Theme
8 Woogie Boogie
9 The Wicked Messenger
10 I Pity the Poor Immigrant
11 I Am a Lonesome Hobo
12 Dear Landlord
13 Drifter's Escape
14 The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
15 All Along the Watchtower
16 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
17 As I Went Out One Morning
18 John Wesley Harding
19 Chimes of Freedom
20 All Along the Watchtower (Live)
21 Obviously Five Believers
22 Fourth Time Around
23 Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
24 Meet Me in the Morning
25 Idiot Wind
26 Never Say Goodbye
27 Spanish is the Loving Tongue
28 Big Yellow Taxi
29 Lily of the West
30 Billy 4
31 Minstrel Boy
32 Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)
33 Take a Message to Mary
34 Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
35 Girl from the North Country
36 Like a Rolling Stone
37 Knockin' On Heaven's Door
38 Lay, Lady, Lay
39 Mr. Tambourine Man
40 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
41 Song to Woody
42 Restless Farewell
43 Went to See the Gypsy
44 House of the Risin' Sun
45 If You See Her, Say Hello
46 Forever Young
47 To Be Alone With You
48 Tangled Up In Blue
49 Blowin' in the Wind
50 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
51 The Times They Are A-Changin’
52 Just Like a Woman
53 You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
54 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
55 On the Road Again
56 If Dogs Run Free
57 In Search Of Little Sadie
58 Corrina, Corrina
59 Tomorrow Is a Long Time
60 You're a Big Girl Now
61 It Ain't Me, Babe
62 Subterranean Homesick Blues
63 Belle Isle
64 Days of '49
65 All the Tired Horses
66 Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Live at Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA - November 1975)
67 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (Live)
68 Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
69 Visions of Johanna
70 Desolation Row
71 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
72 From a Buick 6
73 Gates of Eden
74 Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
75 Outlaw Blues
76 Ballad In Plain D
77 I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
78 My Back Pages
79 I Shall Be Free No. 10
80 Spanish Harlem Incident
81 Black Crow Blues
82 All I Really Want to Do
83 I Shall Be Free
84 Talkin' World War III Blues
85 Oxford Town
86 Bob Dylan's Dream
87 Bob Dylan's Blues
88 Down the Highway
89 Freight Train Blues
90 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
91 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
92 Maggie's Farm
93 Watching the River Flow
94 See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
95 Highway 51 Blues
96 Pretty Peggy-O
97 Man of Constant Sorrow
98 In My Time of Dyin'
99 Talkin' New York
100 Only a Pawn in Their Game
101 North Country Blues
102 One Too Many Mornings
103 With God on Our Side
104 Ballad of Hollis Brown
105 Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
106 Gospel Plow
107 You're No Good
108 Blue Moon
109 To Ramona (Live)
110 Mr. Bojangles
111 Positively 4th Street
112 Fixin' to Die
113 Billy 1
114 Bunkhouse Theme
115 Absolutely Sweet Marie
116 Pledging My Time
117 Highway 61 Revisited
118 Queen Jane Approximately
119 Ballad of a Thin Man
120 Tombstone Blues
121 Masters of War
122 Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law)
123 Main Title Theme (Billy)
124 Father of Night
125 Three Angels
126 The Man in Me
127 One More Weekend
128 Sign on the Window
129 New Morning
130 Winterlude
131 Time Passes Slowly
132 If Not for You
133 Day of the Locusts
134 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
135 Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
136 Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
137 I Want You
138 One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
139 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
140 Temporary Like Achilles
141 I Shall Be Released
142 She Belongs to Me
143 Simple Twist of Fate
144 The Weight - Live
145 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Live
146 Up On Cripple Creek - Live
147 Stage Fright - Live
148 The Shape I'm In - Live
149 When You Awake - Live
150 Endless Highway - Live
151 The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
152 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
153 Cold Irons Bound - Live
154 Born In Time - Live
155 Things Have Changed - Live
156 George Jackson - Acoustic Version
157 Highway 61 Revisted - Live
158 Masters If War - Live
159 Girl Of The North Country - Live
160 Wade In The Water
161 Handsome Molly - Live
162 Never Gonna The Same Again
163 Tell Ol' Bill
164 Dixie - Live
165 Diamond Joe - Live
166 Waitin' For You
167 Copper Kettle (The Pale Moonlight)
168 Blowin' In the Wind (Live)
169 The Mighty Quinn (Quinn, The Eskimo)
170 Can't Help Falling In Love
171 I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
172 It Ain't Me, Babe (Live)
173 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Live
174 Sarah Jane
175 The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
176 Mary Ann
177 Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) - Live
178 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
179 Girl from the North Country (with Johnny Cash)




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