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    Rivers

    Go down to the river, babe,
    Honey, I will meet you there.
    Go down to the river, babe,
    Honey, I will pay your fare.
    "Baby, Please Stop Crying"

    There's a woman by the river,
    With some fine young handsome man.
    He's dressed up like a squire,
    Bootleg whiskey in his hand.
    "Blind Willie McTell"

    Please, please give me indication, Stop and talk to me.
    Like a river that is flowing, My love will never cease to be.
    "Coming from the Heart"

    Got no place to fade, got no coat,
    I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin' boat,
    Tryin' to read a note somebody wrote,
    About dignity.
    "Dignity"

    Crash on the levee, mama, water's gonna overflow, "Down in the Flood"

    Father, who build the mountain so high,
    Who shapeth the cloud up in the sky,
    Father of time, Father of dreams,
    Father, who turneth the rivers and streams.
    "Father of Night"

    Well, when the pipeline gets broken and I'm lost on the river bridge,
    I'm cracked up on the highway and on the water's edge,
    "From a Buick 6"

    Well, if you go in the snowflake storm,
    When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
    Please see she has a coat so warm,
    To keep her from the howlin' winds.
    "Girl from the North Country"

    God knows there's a river,
    God knows how to make it flow.
    God knows you ain't gonna be taking,
    Anything with you when you go.
    "God knows"

    Stripes on your shoulders,
    Stripes on your back and on your hands.
    Swords piercing your side,
    Blood and water flowing through the land.
    "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking"

    "Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice, "Hurricane"

    In another lifetime she must have owned the world,
    Or been faithfully wed,
    To some righteous king who wrote psalms,
    Beside moonlit streams.
    "I and I"

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    Royalty

    The treasure can't be found by men who search,
    Whose gods are dead and whose queens are in the church.
    "Abandoned Love"

    And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating,
    Between the King and the Queen of Swords.
    "Changing of the Guards"

    Now, it's king for king, queen for queen,
    It's gonna be the meanest flood that anybody's seen.
    "Down in the Flood"

    Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues,
    Said he'd give me information if his name wasn't used,
    He wanted money up front, said he was abused,
    By dignity.
    "Dignity"

    Relationships of ownership they whisper in the wings,
    To those condemned to act accordingly and wait for succeeding kings,
    And I try to harmonize with songs the lonesome sparrow sings,
    There are no kings inside the gates of Eden.
    "Gates of Eden"

    And the princess and the prince discuss what's real and what is not,
    It doesn't matter inside the gates of Eden.
    "Gates of Eden"

    Well Mack the finger said to Louie the king,
    "I got 40 red, white and blue shoestrings,
    "And a thousand telephone that don't ring.
    "Do you know where I can get rid of these things?"
    And Louie the king said, "Let me think for a minute son,"
    Then he said, "Yes I think it can be easily done,
    "Just take everything down to Highway 61."
    "Highway 61 Revisited"

    In another lifetime she must have owned the world,
    Or been faithfully wed,
    To some righteous king who wrote psalms,
    Beside moonlit streams.
    "I and I"

    "Come out, ye gifted kings and queens
    And hear my sad complaint."
    "I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine"

    I dreamed I saw St. Augustine, alive with fiery breath,
    And I dreamed I was amongst the ones
    That put him out to death.
    "I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine"

    Well I've been to the mountain and I've been in the wind,
    I've been in and out of happiness.
    I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings,
    An I've never been too impressed.
    "Is Your Love In Vain"

    Well, I return to the Queen of Spades,
    And talk with my chambermaid.
    She knows that I'm not afraid,
    To look at her.
    "I Want You"

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    Sailors

    "Haul on that bowline!" we sang that melody,
    Like all tough sailors do when they're far away at sea.
    "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"

    I ran right through the door like a hobo sailor does,
    But it was just a funeral parlor and the man asked me who I was.
    Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"

    The beauty parlor is filled with sailors,
    The circus is in town,
    "Desolation Row"

    See the cross-eyed pirates sitting perched in the sun,
    Shooting tin cans with a sawed-off shotgun,
    "Farewell Angelina"

    All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home,
    All your reindeer armies, are all going home,
    "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"

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