Title: Bob Dylan's Dream (The Bear, Chicago, 4-25-63)
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: 50th Anniversary Collection: 1963 (Track #8)
Duration: 03:41
Label:
While ridin' on a train goin' west
I fell asleep for to take my rest.
I dreamed a dream that made me sad
Concernin' myself an' the first few friends i had.
With half damp eyes i stared to the room
Where my friends an' i spent many an afternoon.
Where we together weathered many a storm
Laughin' an' singin' till the early hours of the morn.
By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung
Our words was told, our songs was sung
Where we longed for nothin' an' were satisfied
Jokin' an' talkin' about the world outside.
With hungry hearts thru the heat an' cold
We never much thought we could get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
An' our chances really was a million to one.
As easy it was to tell black from white
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
An' our choices they was few so the thoughts never hit
That the one road we travelled would ever shatter or split.
How many a year has passed an' gone
Many a gamble has been lost an' won
An' many a road taken by many a first friend
An' each one i've never seen again.
I wish, i wish, i wish in vain
That we could sit simply in that room again
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.
The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963 is the second Bob Dylan collection released by Sony Music to prevent the recordings from legally entering the public domain in Europe. Released on vinyl only in November 2013 only 100 copies of the six-LP set were produced.
Track listing
LP 1 Side A
Eternal Circle (Take 4)
Percys Song (Take 1)
Thats All Right, Mama/Sally Free and Easy (Take 1)
Hero Blues (Take 3)
East Laredo Blues (Take 1)
Bob Dylans New Orleans Rag (Take 2)
tracks 1 & 4 recorded 12 August 1963, tracks 2, 3 & 5 recorded 23 October, track 6 recorded 24 October during The Times They Are a-Changin sessions
LP 1 Side B The Banjo Tape
Lonesome River Edge
Back Door Blues
Bob Dylans Dream
You Can Get Her
Farewell
All Over You
Instrumental in Gerdes Basement/Jam
Keep Your Hands Off Her (Leadbelly)
Honey Babe
Goin Back To Rome
Stealin'
all tracks recorded 2 August 1963 at the Basement of Gerdes Folk City. Tracks 7, 9, 12 with Happy Traum, track 12 with Gil Turner
LP 2 Side C
Ballad of Hollis Brown
recorded for the Folk Songs and More Folk Songs TV Special, 3 March 1963
Girl from the North Country
Only A Hobo
tracks 2 & 3 recorded for the Oscar Brand Show/World of Folk Music, March 1963
Ramblin Down Through the World
Bob Dylans Dream
Talkin New York
Hiding Too Long
LP 2 Side D
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Walls of Red Wing
All Over You
Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues
Boots of Spanish Leather
LP 3 Side E
Hero Blues
John Brown
A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall
Dusty Old Fairgrounds
Who Killed Davey Moore?
LP 3 Side F
Seven Curses
Highway 51?
Pretty Peggy-O
Bob Dylans New Orleans Rag
Dont Think Twice, Its All Right
With God On Our Side
tracks 47, side C and sides D-F recorded at the Town Hall, New York City, 12 April 1963
LP 4 Side G
James Alley Blues
Long Time Gone
Only a Hobo
Untitled Blues Jam
A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall
tracks 15 recorded at the home of Eve and Mac McKenzie, 18 April 1963
Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance
Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues
LP 4 Side H
Bob Dylans Dream
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Talkin World War III Blues
A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall
With God on Our Side
tracks 67, side G and side H recorded at The Bear folk club, Chicago, 25 April 1963
LP 5 Side I
Farewell
A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall
Bob Dylans Dream
Boots of Spanish Leather
John Brown
LP 5 Side J
Who Killed Davey Moore?
Blowin in the Wind
Tracks 1 & 2, side J recorded for the Studs Terkel Wax Museum radio show, Chicago, 26 April 1963
Blowin in the Wind
Only a Pawn in Their Game
tracks 3 & 4 recorded for the Songs of Freedom TV show, New York City, 30 July 1963
When the Ship Comes In
Only a Pawn in Their Game
tracks 5 & 6 recorded at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, 28 August 1963. Track 5 with Joan Baez
LP 6 Side K
Blowin in the Wind
Percys Song
Seven Curses
Walls of Red Wing
LP 6 Side L
Talkin World War III Blues
Dont Think Twice, Its All Right
Only a Pawn in Their Game
Masters of War
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
sides K & L recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York City, 26 October 1963