Lonesome Day Blues - Bob Dylan

Well today has been a sad and lonesome day

Yeah today has been a sad and lonesome day

I'm just sitting here thinking with my mind a million miles away

Well they're doing the double shuffle throwing sand on the floor

They're doing the double shuffle they're throwing sand on the floor

When I left my longtime darling she was standing in the door

Well my pa he died and left me my brother got killed

In the war

Well my pa he died and left me my brother got killed

In the war

My sister she ran off and got married never was heard

Of anymore

Samantha Brown lived in my house for 'bout four or five months

Samantha Brown lived in my house for 'bout four or five months

Don't know how it looked to other people I never slept with

Her even once

Well the road washed out weather not fit for man or beast

Well the road washed out weather not fit for man or beast

Funny the things you have the hardest time parting with

Are the things you need the least

Well I'm forty miles from the mill I'm dropping it into overdrive

I'm forty miles from the mill I'm dropping it into overdrive

Set my dial on the radio I wish my mother was

Still alive

I seen your lover-man coming coming across the barren fields

I see your lover-man coming coming across the barren fields

He not a gentleman at all he's rotten to the core

He's a coward and he's steel

Well my captain he's decorated he's well-schooled and he's skilled

My captain he's decorated he's well-schooled and he's skilled

He's not sentimental don't bother him at all how many of

His pals have been killed

Last night the wind was whispering I was trying to make out

What it was

Last night the wind was whispering something

I was trying to make out what it was

Yeah I tell myself something's coming but it never does

I'm going to spare the defeated I'm going to speak to

The crowd

I'm going to spare the defeated 'cause I'm going to speak to

The crowd

I'm going to teach peace to the conquered

I'm going to tame the proud

Well the leaves are rustling in the wood things are falling off

Of the shelf

Leaves are rustling in the wood things are falling off the shelf

You're gonna need my help sweetheart you can't make love

All by yourself