Haiku 61 Revisited: The official song line-up

This is the list of songs that appear on commercially released Bob Dylan albums and singles. It includes his studio albums, his live albums, excerpts from greatest hits albums, the bootleg series and, perhaps questionably, the two copyright extension collections that were released in 2012 and 2013. Sources are included for each song in most cases except for the bottom. I lost part of this file without a backup and had to build it again. I think it's complete, but if you spot omissions or songs that should not be there (such as incomplete fragments), please tell me. One omission that you will see: I did not include instrumentals from albums such as Nashville Skyline and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

Abandoned Love (Biograph)

Absolutely Sweet Marie (Blonde on Blonde)

A Fool Such as I (Dylan)

A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Ain't Gonna Grieve (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964)

Ain't No More Cane (The 50th Anniversary Collection, Vol. 1)

Ain't Talkin' (Modern Times)

Alberta (#1, 2, 3) (Self-Portrait)

All Along the Watchtower (John Wesley Harding)

All I Really Want to Do (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

All-American Boy (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

All Over You (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

All the Tired Horses (Self-Portrait)

All You Have to Do Is Dream (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground (Single)

Angelina (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Annie's Going to Sing Her Song (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self-Portrait)

Any Time (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Apple Suckling Tree (The Basement Tapes)

Are You Ready? (Saved)

Arthur McBride (Good As I Been to You)

A Satisfied Mind (Saved)

A Satisfied Mind (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete) (CUT IF THE SAME SONG AS ON SAVED)

As I Went Out One Morning (John Wesley Harding)

Baby Ain't That Fine (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Baby I'm in the Mood for You (Biograph)

Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Bob Dylan)

Baby Please Don't Go (The 50th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1)

Baby, Stop Crying (Street Legal)

Baby Won't You Be My Baby (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Back Door Blues (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Ballad for a Friend (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964)

Ballad in Plain D (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

Ballad of a Thin Man (Highway 61 Revisited)

Ballad of Donald White (The 50th Anniversary Collection, Vol. 1)

Ballad of Hollis Brown (The Times They Are A-Changin')

Barbara Allen (Live at the Gaslight 1962)

Be Careful of Stones That You Throw (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Belle Isle (Self-Portrait)

Bells of Rhymney (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Belshazzar (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (Together Through Life)

Beyond the Horizon (Modern Times)

Big Dog (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Big River (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Big Yellow Taxi (Dylan)

Billy (1, 4, 7) (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid)

Black Cross (The 50th Anniversary Collection, Vol. 1)

Black Crow Blues (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

Black Diamond Bay (Desire)

Blackjack Davey (Good As I Been to You)

Blind Willie McTell (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1: 1961-1991)

Blood in My Eyes (World Gone Wrong)

Blowin' in the Wind (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Blue Moon (Self-Portrait)

Bob Dylan's Blues (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan's Dream (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream (Bringing It All Back Home)

Bonnie Ship the Diamond (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Boots of Spanish Leather (The Times They Are a-Changin')

Born in Time (Under the Red Sky)

Bound to Lose, Bound to Win (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964)

Bourbon Street (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Bring It on Home (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Bring Me a Little Water (The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self-Portrait)

Broke-Down Engine (World Gone Wrong)

Brownsville Girl (Knocked Out Loaded)

Buckets of Rain (Blood on the Tracks)

Bye and Bye (Love and Theft)

By the Banks of the Royal Canal (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Call Letter Blues (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Canadee-i-o (Good As I Been to You)

Can't Help Falling in Love (Dylan)

Can't Wait (Time Out of Mind)

Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (Biograph)

Caribbean Wind (Biograph)

Catfish (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Cat's in the Well (Under the Red Sky)

Changing of the Guard (Street-Legal)

Chimes of Freedom (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

Christmas Island (Christmas in the Heart)

Clean-Cut Kid (Empire Burlesque)

Clothesline Saga (The Basement Tapes)

Cocaine Blues (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell-Tale Signs 1988-2008)

Cold Irons Bound (Time Out of Mind)

Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Confidential (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Congratulations (Travelin Wilburys Vol. 1)

Cool Water (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Copper Kettle (Self-Portrait)

Corrina, Corrina (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Country Pie (Nashville Skyline)

Covenant Woman (Saved)

Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) (The Basement Tapes)

'Cross the Green Mountain (The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell-Tale Signs 1988-2008)

Cry a While (Love and Theft)

Dark Eyes (Empire Burlesque)

Days of '49 (Self-Portrait)

Day of the Locusts (New Morning)

Dead Man, Dead Man (Shot of Love)

Dear Landlord (John Wesley Harding)

Death Is Not the End (Down in the Groove)

Deep Ellum Blues (The 50th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1)

Delia (World Gone Wrong)

Desolation Row (Highway 61 Revisited)

Diamond Joe (Good As I Been to You)

Dignity (MTV Unplugged)

Dirge (Planet Waves)

Dirt Road Blues (Time Out of Mind)

Dirty World (Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1)

Disease of Conceit (Oh Mercy)

Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight (Infidels)

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Don't Ya Tell Henry (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete. The Band: Rock of Ages)

Don't You Try Me Now (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others) (Slow Train Coming)

Down Along the Cove (John Wesley Harding)

Down by the Station (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Down on Me (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Down the Highway (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Do You Hear What I Hear (Christmas in the Heart)

Dreamin' of You (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell-Tale Signs 1988-2008)

Dress It Up/Better Have It All (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Drifter's Escape (John Wesley Harding)

Drifting Too Far From Shore (Knocked Out Loaded)

Duncan and Brady (The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell-Tale Signs 1988-2008)

Duquesne Whistle (Tempest)

Dusty Old Fairgrounds (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Early Mornin' Rain (Self-Portrait)

Early Roman Kings (Tempest)

East Laredo Blues (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Edge of the Ocean (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Emotionally Yours (Empire Burlesque)

Eternal Circle (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Every Grain of Sand (Shot of Love)

Everything Is Broken (Oh Mercy)

Farewell (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home) (AKA Dink's Song)

Farewell Angelina (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Father of Night (New Morning)

Fixin' to Die (Bob Dylan)

Floater (Too Much to Ask) (Love and Theft)

Folsom Prison Blues (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Foot of Pride (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Forever Young (Slow and fast) (Planet Waves)

Forgetful Heart (Together Through Life)

Four Strong Winds (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

4th Time Around (Blonde on Blonde)

Frankie and Albert (Good As I Been to You)

Freight Train Blues (Bob Dylan)

Froggie Went a-Courtin' (Good As I Been to You)

From a Buick 6 (Highway 61 Revisited)

Full Moon and Empty Arms (single)

Gates of Eden (Bringing It All Back Home)

George Jackson (single)

Get Your Rocks Off (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Girl From the North Country (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

God Knows (Under the Red Sky)

Goin' Back to Rome (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Goin' Down to New Orleans (The 50th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1)

Going Going Gone (Planet Waves)

Goin' to Acapulco (The Basement Tapes)

Golden Loom (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Gonna Change My Way of Thinking (Slow Train Coming)

Gonna Get You Now (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Gospel Plow (Bob Dylan)

Got My Mind Made Up (Knocked Out Loaded)

Gotta Serve Somebody (Slow Train Coming)

Gotta Travel On (Self-Portrait)

Guess I'm Doing Fine (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964)

Gypsy Lou (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964)

Had a Dream About You Baby (Down in the Groove)

Hallelujah I've Just Been Moved (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Handle With Care (Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1)

Handy Dandy (Under the Red Sky)

Handsome Molly (Live at the Gaslight Cafe 1962)

Hard Times (Good As I Been to You)

Hard Times in New York Town (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Christmas in the Heart)

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Christmas in the Heart)

Hazel (Planet Waves)

Heart of Mine (Shot of Love)

Here Comes Santa Claus (Christmas in the Heart)

Hero Blues (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964)

He's Young But Daily Growing (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

He Was a Friend of Mine (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Hiding Too Long (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Highlands (Modern Times)

High Water (For Charley Patton) (Love and Theft)

Highway 51 (Bob Dylan)

Highway 61 Revisited (Highway 61 Revisited)

Hills of Mexico (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Hiram Hubbard (The 50th Anniversary Collection, Vol. 1)

Honest With Me (Love and Theft)

Honey Babe (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

House Carpenter (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

House of the Risin' Sun (Bob Dylan)

Huck's Tune (The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell-Tale Signs 1988-2008)

Hurricane (Desire)

I Am a Lonesome Hobo (John Wesley Harding)

I and I (Infidels)

I Believe in You (Slow Train Coming)

I Can't Come in With a Broken Heart (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

I Can't Make It Alone (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

I'd Hate to Be You on That Dreadful Day (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964)

Idiot Wind (Blood on the Tracks)

I Don't Believe You (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

I Don't Hurt Anymore (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (John Wesley Harding)

If Dogs Run Free (New Morning)

I Feel a Change Comin' On (Together Through Life)

If I Were a Carpenter (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

If Not for You (New Morning)

I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know About Her (Self-Portrait)

I Forgot to Remember to Forget (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

If You Belonged to Me (Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3)

If You Ever Go to Houston (Together Through Life)

If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Gotta Stay All Night) (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

If You See Her Say Hello (Blood on the Tracks)

I Heard That Lonesome Whiste (The 50th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1)

I'll Be Home for Christmas (Christmas in the Heart)

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (John Wesley Harding)

I'll Keep It With Mine (Biograph)

I'll Remember You (Empire Burlesque)

I'm a Fool for You (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

I'm Alright (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

I'm Guilty of Loving You (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

I'm in the Mood (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

I'm Not There (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

I'm Your Teenage Prayer (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

In My Time of Dyin' (Bob Dylan)

In Search of Little Sadie (Self-Portrait)

Inside Out (Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3)

In the Garden (Saved)

In the Summertime (Shot of Love)

I Pity the Poor Immigrant (John Wesley Harding)

I Rode Out One Morning (The 50th Anniversary Collection, Vol. 1)

I Shall Be Free (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

I Shall Be Free No. 10 (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II)

Isis (Desire)

Is Your Love in Vain? (Street-Legal)

It Ain't Me, Babe (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

I Threw It All Away (Nashville Skyline)

It Hurts Me Too (Self-Portrait)

It's All Good (Together Through Life)

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bringing It All Back Home)

It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (Bringing It All Back Home)

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Highway 61 Revisited)

I Wanna Be Your Lover (Biograph)

I Want You (Blonde on Blonde)

I Was Young When I Left Home (Love and Theft limited edition, also The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home)

Jack-a-Roe (World Gone Wrong)

James Alley Blues (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Jelly Bean (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Jet Pilot (Biograph)

Jim Jones (Good As I Been to You)

Joey (Desire)

John Brown (MTV Unplugged)

Johnny Todd (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

John Wesley Harding (John Wesley Harding)

Jokerman (Infidels)

Jolene (Together Through Life)

Joshua Gone Barbados (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Journey Through Dark Heat (Where Are You Tonight?) (Street-Legal)

Just Like a Woman (Blonde on Blonde)

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Highway 61 Revisited)

Keep Your Hands off Her (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Kind-Hearted Woman Blues (The 50th Anniversary Collection)

King of France (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Kingsport Town (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid)

Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1: 1961-1991)

Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Biograph)

Lay Lady Lay (Nashville Skyline)

Lenny Bruce (Shot of Love)

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Blonde on Blonde)

Let It Be Me (Self-Portrait)

Let Me Die in My Footsteps (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Let's Stick Together (Down in the Groove)

License to Kill (Infidels)

Life Is Hard (Together Through Life)

Like a Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisited)

Like a Ship (Traveling Wilburys)

Lily of the West (Dylan)

Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts (Blood on the Tracks)

Little Drummer Boy (Christmas in the Heart)

Little Maggie (Good As I Been to You)

Living the Blues (Self-Portrait)

Lo and Behold (The Basement Tapes)

Lock Your Door (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Lone Pilgrim (World Gone Wrong)

Lonesome Day Blues (Love and Theft)

Lonesome River Edge (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Long Ago, Far Away (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964)

Long and Wasted Years (Tempest)

Long-Distance Operator (The Band: The Basement Tapes)

Long Time Ago (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Long Time Gone (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964)

Lord Protect My Child (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1: 1961-1991)

Love Henry (World Gone Wrong)

Love Is Only Mine (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Bringing It All Back Home)

Love Sick (Time Out of Mind)

Maggie's Farm (Bringing It All Back Home)

Make You Feel My Love (Time Out of Mind)

Mama You Been on My Mind (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Man Gave Names to All the Animals (Slow Train Coming)

Man in the Long Black Coat (Oh Mercy)

Man of Constant Sorrow (Bob Dylan)

Man of Peace (Infidels)

Man on the Street (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Marchin' to the City (The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell-Tale Signs 1988-2008)

Mary and the Soldier (The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell-Tale Signs 1988-2008)

Mary Ann (Dylan)

Mary Lou, I Love You Too (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Masters of War (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Maybe Someday (Knocked Out Loaded)

Meet Me in the Morning (Blood on the Tracks)

Milk Cow's Calf Blues (The 50th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1)

Million Dollar Bash (The Basement Tapes)

Million Miles (Time Out of Mind)

Minstrel Boy (Self-Portrait)

Mississippi (Love and Theft)

Miss the Mississippi (The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell-Tale Signs, 1988-2008)

Mr. Blue (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Mr. Bojangles (Dylan)

Mr. Tambourine Man (Bringing It All Back Home)

Mixed-Up Confusion (Biograph)

Moonlight (Love and Theft)

Moonshiner (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine (Blonde on Blonde)

Most of the Time (Oh Mercy)

Motherless Children (The 50th Anniversary Collection)

Motorpsycho Nitemare (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

Mozambique (Desire)

Muleskinner Blues (The 50th Anniversary Collection, Vol. 1)

Must Be Santa (Christmas in the Heart)

My Back Pages (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

My Wife's Home Town (Together Through Life)

My Woman She's a-Leavin' (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Narrow Way (Tempest)

Need a Woman (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1: 1961-1991)

Neighborhood Bully (Infidels)

Nettie Moore (Modern Times)

Never Gonna Be the Same Again (Empire Burlesque)

Never Say Goodbye (Planet Waves)

New Blue Moon (Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3)

New Morning (New Morning)

New Pony (Street-Legal)

Next Time on the Highway (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

900 Miles From My Home (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead-End Street) (Down in the Groove)

Nobody 'Cept You (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

No More Auction Block (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

North Country Blues (The Times They Are a-Changin')

Northern Claim (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Not Dark Yet (Time Out of Mind)

Nothing Was Delivered (The Basement Tapes)

No Time to Think (Street-Legal)

Obviously 5 Believers (Blonde on Blonde)

O Come All Ye Faithful (Christmas in the Heart)

Odds and Ends (The Basement Tapes)

Oh, Sister (Desire)

O Little Town of Bethlehem (Christmas in the Heart)

On a Night Like This (Planet Waves)

On a Rainy Afternoon (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

One for My Baby (One for the Road) (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

One Kind Favor (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete) (CUT IF SAME AS SEE IF MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN)

One Man's Loss (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

One More Cup of Coffee (Desire)

One More Night (Nashville Skyline)

One More Weekend (New Morning)

One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) (Blonde on Blonde)

One Too Many Mornings (The Times They Are a-Changin')

Only a Hobo (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Only a Pawn in Their Game (The Times They Are a-Changin')

On the Road Again (Bringing It All Back Home)

Open the Door Homer (The Basement Tapes)

Outlaw Blues (Bringing It All Back Home)

Oxford Town (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Paths of Victory (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Pay in Blood (Tempest)

Peggy Day (Nashville Skyline)

People Get Ready (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Percy's Song (Biograph)

Please Mrs. Henry (The Basement Tapes)

Pledging My Time (Blonde on Blonde)

Po' Boy (Love and Theft)

Political World (Oh Mercy)

Poor Boy Blues (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964)

Poor Lazarus (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Positively 4th Street (Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits)

Precious Angel (Slow Train Coming)

Precious Memories (Knocked Out Loaded)

Pressing On (Saved)

Pretty Mary (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Pretty Peggy-O (Bob Dylan)

Pretty Saro (The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self-Portrait)

Property of Jesus (Shot of Love)

Queen Jane Approximately (Highway 61 Revisited)

Quit Kickin' My Dog Around (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Quit Your Low Down Ways (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Ragged and Dirty (World Gone Wrong)

Railroad Bill (The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self-Portrait)

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (Blonde on Blonde)

Rambler, Gambler (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home)

Ramblin' Down Through the World (The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963)

Rambling, Gambling Willie (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Ramblin' on My Mind (The 50th Anniversary Collection, Vol. 1)

Rank Strangers to Me (Down in the Groove)

Red River Shore (The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell-Tale Signs 1988-2008)

Restless Farewell (The Times They Are a-Changin')

Ring Them Bells (Oh Mercy)

Rita May (Single)

Rocks, Salt and Nails (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Rocks and Gravel (Solid Road) (The 50th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1)

Roisin the Beau (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Rollin' and Tumblin' (Modern Times)

Roll on John (Tempest)

Roll on Train (The Basement Tapes Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Romance in Durango (Desire)

Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (Blonde on Blonde)

Sally Gal (The 50th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1)

Sally Sue Brown (Down in the Groove)

Santa Fe (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Sara (Desire)

Sarah Jane (Dylan)

Saved (Saved)

Saving Grace (Saved)

Scarlet Town (Tempest)

Seeing the Real You at Last (Empire Burlesque)

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Dylan)

See You Later Allen Ginsberg (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) (Street-Legal)

Series of Dreams (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Seven Curses (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Seven Days (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

7 Deadly Sins (Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3)

Shake Shake Mama (Together Through Life)

She Belongs to Me (Bringing It All Back Home)

She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Shelter From the Storm (Blood on the Tracks)

Shenandoah (Down in the Groove)

She's My Baby (Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3)

She's on My Mind Again (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

She's Your Lover Now (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Shooting Star (Oh Mercy)

Shot of Love (Shot of Love)

Sign on the Cross (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Sign on the Window (New Morning)

Silent Weekend (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Silhouettes (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Silver Bells (Christmas in the Heart)

Silvio (Down in the Groove)

Simple Twist of Fate (Blood on the Tracks)

Sitting on a Barbed-Wire Fence (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Sittin' on Top of the World (Good As I Been to You)

Slow Train (Slow Train Coming)

Solid Rock (Saved)

Somebody Touched Me (1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Performances)

Someday Baby (Modern Times)

Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Something's Burning, Baby (Empire Burlesque)

Something There Is About You (Planet Waves)

Song to Canada (One Single River) (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Song to Woody (Bob Dylan)

Soon After Midnight (Tempest)

Spanish Harlem Incident (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

Spanish Is the Loving Tongue (Dylan)

Spirit on the Water (Modern Times)

Stack-a-Lee (World Gone Wrong)

Standing in the Doorway (Time Out of Mind)

Standing on the Highway (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964)

Stealin' (The 50th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1)

Step It up and Go (Good As I Been to You)

Still in Town (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again (Blonde on Blonde)

Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bringing It All Back Home)

Sugar Baby (Love and Theft)

Summer Days (Love and Theft)

Sweetheart Like You (Infidels)

Take a Message to Mary (Self-Portrait)

Take Me As I Am (Self-Portrait)

Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Talkin' Hava Negilah Blues (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Talkin' New York (Bob Dylan)

Talkin' World War III Blues (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)

Tangled up in Blue (Blood on the Tracks)

Tears of Rage (The Basement Tapes)

Tell Me (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Tell Me Momma (The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert)

Tell Me That It Isn't True (Nashville Skyline)

Tell Ol' Bill (The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell-Tale Signs 1988-2008)

Tempest (Tempest)

Temporary Like Achilles (Blonde on Blonde)

10,000 Men (Under the Red Sky)

That's All Right, Mama

That's the Breaks

The Ballad of Frankie Lee & Judas Priest (John Wesley Harding)

The Ballad of Ira Hayes (Dylan)

The Boxer (Self-Portrait)

The Christmas Blues (Christmas in the Heart)

The Christmas Song (Christmas in the Heart)

The Cuckoo Is a Pretty Bird (Live at the Gaslight Cafe)

The Death of Emmett Till

The Devil's Been Busy (Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3)

The First Noel (Christmas in the Heart)

The French Girl (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore (The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs)

The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar (Shot of Love)

The Levee's Gonna Break (Modern Times)

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (The Times They Are a-Changin')

The Love That Faded

The Man in Me (New Morning)

The Mighty Quinn (Quinn, the Eskimo) (Self-Portrait)

These Hands (The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self-Portrait)

The Times They Are A-Changin' (They Times They Are a-Changin')

The Wanderin' Kind

The Water Is Wide (The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975)

The Wicked Messenger (John Wesley Harding)

They Killed Him (Knocked Out Loaded)

Things Have Changed (The Golden Boys soundtrack and various greatest hits albums)

Thirsty Boots (The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self-Portrait)

32-20 Blues (The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs)

This Dream of You

This Evening So Soon (The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self-Portrait)

This Land Is Your Land (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home)

This Wheel's on Fire (The Basement Tapes)

Three Angels (New Morning)

Thunder on the Mountain (Modern Times)

Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love?) (Empire Burlesque)

Till I Fell in Love With You (Time Out of Mind)

Time Passes Slowly (New Morning)

Tin Angel (Tempest)

Tiny Montgomery (The Basement Tapes)

To Be Alone With You (Nashville Skyline)

Tombstone Blues (Highway 61 Revisited)

Tomorrow Is a Long Time (Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II)

Tomorrow Night (Good As I Been to You)

Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Nashville Skyline)

Too Much of Nothing (The Basement Tapes)

To Ramona (Another Side of Bob Dylan)

Tough Mama (Planet Waves)

Train of Love

Trouble (Shot of Love)

Troubled and I Don't Know Why

Trouble in Mind (Single)

True Love Tends to Forget (Street-Legal)

Trust Yourself (Empire Burlesque)

Tryin' to Get to Heaven (Time Out of Mine)

Try Me, Little Girl (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Tupelo

T.V. Talkin' Song (Under the Red Sky)

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (Love and Theft)

Tweeter and the Monkey Man (Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1)

2 x 2 (Under the Red Sky)

2 Dollars and 99 Cents (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Two Soldiers (World Gone Wrong)

Two Trains Runnin'

Ugliest Girl in the World (Down in the Groove)

Unbelievable (Under the Red Sky)

Under Control (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Under the Red Sky (Under the Red Sky)

Under Your Spell (Knocked Out Loaded)

Union Sundown (Infidels)

Up to Me (

Visions of Johanna (Blonde on Blonde)

Waitin' for You (The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)

Walkin' Down the Line (

Wallflower (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Walls of Red Wing (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Waltzing With Sin (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Watching the River Flow (Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II)

Watered-Down Love (Shot of Love)

We Better Talk This Over (Street-Legal)

Wedding Song (Planet Waves)

Went to See the Gypsy (New Morning)

What Can I Do for You? (Saved)

What Good Am I? (Oh Mercy)

What Kind of Friend Is This?

What's It Gonna Be When It Comes Up? (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

What Was It You Wanted? (Oh Mercy)

When Death Comes Creepin' (Whatcha Gonna Do?)

When Did You Leave Heaven? (Down in the Groove)

When He Returns (Slow Train Coming)

When I Got Troubles

When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II)

When the Deal Goes Down (Modern Times)

When the Night Comes Falling From the Sky (Empire Burlesque)

When the Ship Comes In (The Times They Are a-Changin')

When You Gonna Wake Up (Slow Train Coming)

Where Teardrops Fall (Oh Mercy)

Where Were You Last Night?

Who Killed Davey Moore? (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

Wichita Blues (Goin' to Louisiana)

Wiggle Wiggle (Under the Red Sky)

Wilbury Twist (Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3)

Wild Mountain Thyme

Wild Wolf (The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete)

Wildwood Flower

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Winterlude (New Morning)

Winter Wonderland (Christmas in the Heart)

With God on Our Side (The Times They Are a-Changin')

Woogie Boogie (Self-Portrait)

Workingman's Blues #2 (Modern Times)

World Gone Wrong (World Gone Wrong)

Worried Blues

Ye Playboys and Playgirls

Ye Shall Be Changed (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II)

You Angel You (Planet Waves)

You Can Get Her (

You Changed My Life (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3: 1961-1991)

You're a Big Girl Now (Blood on the Tracks)

You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Blood on the Tracks)

You're No Good (Bob Dylan)

You Wanna Ramble (Knocked Out Loaded)

You Win Again

Bob Dylan: Bootlegs of Spanish leather

This is a list of songs that Bob Dylan has performed at one time or another, but has not released commercially. I intended this list to include: a) Live songs, b) studio or live rehearsal songs that are reasonably finished rather than fragmentary, c) songs that, even if there is another artist involved, are ones that Dylan "leads," rather than ones to which he contributes a guitar, a piano, a harmonica, backing vocals and so on. There might be gross omissions and incorrect information here. I would be happy if anyone would like to correct me. There also will be inevitable omissions here for studio outtakes, particularly from sessions in the 1980s or the late 1960s, which remain a mystery to me because I have heard so little of them.

A-11 (Live 2005)
Abner Young (Karen Wallace apartment, 1960)
Abraham Martin and John (Live 1981)
Accidentally Like a Martyr (Live 2002)
A Couple More Years (Shel Silverstein. Hearts of Fire)
Adelita (Planet Waves, Chabad)
Across the Borderline (Live 1986, Farm Aid concert)
A Hazy Shade of Winter (Live 1992. Simon and Garfunkel)
A House of Gold (Live 1989, Hank Williams)
Ain't Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody (Dylan, 1980)
Alabama Getaway (Live 1995-2003)
Alligator Man (Jimmy Newman/Floyd Chance. New Morning, 1970)
All I Have to Do Is Dream (Everly Brothers, New Morning, 1970)
All My Tomorrows Belong to You (Sammy Cahn/Jimmy van Heusen, Live 1986)
Almost Done/Angel of Rain (Live 1984 rehearsals)
Amazing Grace (From Masked and Anonymous film)
And It Stoned Me (Live 1989)
Annie's Song (Acme sessions. Unclear if John Denver or Tom Rush)
An Old Rock n' Roller (Live 1990-1991. Charlie Daniels: Simple Man)
Answer Me, My Love (Live 1991. Nat King Cole)
Any Way You Want It (That's How I Will Be) (1994 for unreleased Elvis Presley tribute.)
A Pirate Looks at 40 (1982 Rose Bowl, Pasadena. Peace Sunday. Jimmy Buffett)
Around and Around (Live 1992. Chuck Berry)
As Time Passes By (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985)
A Voice From on High (Live 2002. Bill Monroe)
Baby What Do You Want Me to Do? (1985 Farm-Aid rehearsal. Jimmy Reed)
Backdoor Blues (Grasshoppers on My Pillow) (Karen Wallace tape)
Ball and Biscuit (Live 2004. White Stripes)
Barefootin' (Down in the Groove rehearsals 1987. Robert Parker)
Belltower Blues (Blood on the Tracks)
Big Boss Man (Live, Grateful Dead, 2003. Jimmy Reed)
The Big Flood (Tupelo/Backwater Blues) (Live, 1961)
Black Muddy River (Live 1992. Grateful Dead)
Blessed Is the Name (Live 1979-1982. Possibly original)
Blue Bonnet Girl (Live 2000. The Pioneers/Roy Rogers)
Blue Monday (Live 2005, Brixton. Fats Domino)
Blue Moon of Kentucky (Live 1999 with Paul Simon. Bill Monroe)
Blue Suede Shoes (Live 1998 with Van Morrison. Carl Perkins)
Blues Yodel 1: T Is for Texas (1969, Johnny Cash. Jimmie Rodgers)
Blues Yodel 5 (1969, Johnny Cash. Jimmie Rodgers)
Blues Yodel 9 (1960, Karen Wallace apartment.)
Boom Boom Mancini (Live 2002. Warren Zevon)
Boppin' the Blues (1956 teenager tape)
Branded Man (1987 Down in the Groove rehearsals. Merle Haggard)
Brown Sugar (Live 2002, Rolling Stones)
But I Forgive You (Soundchecks, Live 1978)
Buzz Buzz Buzz (Teenage tape. 1957, The Hollywood Flames."
California Brown-Eyed Baby (Manuscript only.)
Candy Man (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Reverend Gary Davis)
Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had (Acme sessions)
Car Car (Various tapes, 1960-1961. Woody Guthrie)
Careless Love (1969 Johnny Cash sessions. Buddy Bolden Band)
Carrying a Torch (Live 2002. Van Morrison)
Casey Jones (Acme sessions)
Chain Gang (Down in the Groove sessions, 1987. Sam Cooke)
A Change Is Gonna Come (Apollo Theater Foundation 70th Celebration, A Hot Night in Harlem, 2004)
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie (Infidels outtake, 1983)
Cold, Cold Heart (Infidels outtake, 1983)
Colorado Blues (Manuscript only)
Columbus Stockade Blues (Karen Wallace tape)
Come a Little Bit Closer (Self-Portrait sessions, 1970. Jay and the Americans)
Come Back Baby (One More Time) (Knocked Our Loaded sessions 1986. Unclear which song) (See lower down)
Come See (Bonnie Beecher 1961. Woody Guthrie)
A Couple More Years (Live 1980, also Hearts of Fire film. Shel Silverstein)
Cover Down Breakthrough (Live 1980, Bob Dylan)
Crazy Love (Live 1989-1991. Van Morrison)
Cuban Missile Crisis (Broadside?)
Cupid (New Morning sessions, 1970)
Da Doo Run Run (New Morning sessions, 1970)
Dancing in the Dark (Live 1990)
Dark as a Dungeon (Live 1975)
Death Don't Have No Mercy (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961)
Death Letter Blues (David Whitaker, Minneapolis, 1963)
Denise (Outtake, Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964)
Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) (Live 1974-1976. Woody Guthrie)
Detroit City (Live 1990. Danny Dill and Mel Tillis)
Devilish Mary (Bonnie Beecher tape. Traditional)
Dolly Dagger (Live 1992. Jimi Hendrix)
Doney Gal (Karen Wallace tape)
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down (Live 1992)
Don't Pity Me (Live 1989)
Don't Start Me to Talkin' (David Letterman show, 1984)
Don't You Push Me Down (Bonnie Beecher tape. Woody Guthrie)
Dope Fiend Robber (Manuscript only)
Dust My Broom (Live 1991)
Earth Angel (1956 tape. The Penguins)
Easy Loving (Live 2003. Freddie Hart)
Easy Rider (Don't Deny My Name) (Ardent Studios, Memphis, 1994)
Eileen Aroon (Live 1988-1989)
El Paso (Live 1989. Marty Robbins)
End of the Innocence (Live 2002. Don Henley)
Enough Is Enough (Live 1984. Bob Dylan)
Everybody's Crying Mercy (Acme sessions. Mose Allison)
Everybody's Movin' (Live 1988-1990. Glen Glenn)
Every Night When the Sun Goes Down (Karen Wallace tape)
Farewell to the Gold (Live 1992. Nic Jones/Paul Metsers)
Fear, Hate, Envy, Jealousy (Hearts of Fire movie soundtrack. Neville Brothers)
Female Rambling Sailor (Live 1992)
Fever (Live 1980. Peggy Lee)
Firebird (Empire Burlesque, 1985)
Fishin' Blues (New Morning rehearsals, 1970. Henry Thomas)
Five Feet High and Rising (Nashville Skyline rehearsals, 1969. Johnny Cash)
Freedom for the Stallion (Empire Burlesque rehearsals, 1985. Allen Toussaint)
Get out of Denver (Live 2004. Bob Seger)
Ghost Riders in the Sky (New Morning rehearsals, 1970. Stan Jones)
Give My Love to Rose (Live 1988-1989. Johnny Cash)
Go Bring Me Back My Blue-Eyed Boy (Bob and Sid Gleason tape, 1961. Traditional)
Go Down, Moses (Live 1987. Traditional)
Go Down, You Murderers (Karen Wallace tape, 1961)
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Live 2003. Grateful Dead/Woody Guthrie)
Golden Vanity (Live 1991-1992. Traditional)
Goodbye Holly (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid rehearsals. Bob Dylan)
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (Live 2003. Sonny Boy Williamson)
Good Night, My Love (World Gone Wrong sessions, 1993)
Good Old Mountain Dew (Johnny Cash sessions, 1969. Bascom Lamar Lunsford)
Good Rockin' Mama (Live 1986. John Lee Hooker)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Karen Wallace tape, 1961)
Got Love If You Want It (Down in the Groove sessions and initial pressings, 1987. Slim Harpo)
Gotta Do My Time (Acme sessions. Unknown)
Gravity Song (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985)
Great Historical Bum (Karen Wallace tape, 1961. Woody Guthrie)
Guess Things Happen That Way (Johnny Cash session, 1969. Johnny Cash)
Gypsy Davey (Bob and Sid Gleason tape, 1961)
Hallelujah (Live 1988. Leonard Cohen)
Hallelujah I'm Ready to Go (Live 1999. Traditional)
Hangknot Slipknot (1961 Indian Neck Folk Festival)
Hard Travelin' (WBAI Cynthia Gooding radio show, 1962)
Heartbreak Hotel (Live 2009. Elvis Presley)
Hello Stranger (World Gone Wrong sessions, 1993. Carter Family)
Help Me Make It Through the Night (Live 1990. Kris Kristofferson)
Here Comes the Sun (Live 1981. George Harrison)
Hey Good Lookin' (Live 1990. Hank Williams)
Hey Joe (Acme sessions, Live 1992. William Roberts. Jimi Hendrix)
Hey La La (Live 1989. Ernest Tubb. Ray Price)
Homeward Bound (Live 1991. Simon and Garfunkel)
Honey Wait (Al Green 1984 session?)
Honky Tonk Blues (Live 1999. Hank Williams)
Hoochie Coochie Man (Live 1999. Willie Dixon)
House of Gold (Live 1989-1990, Hank Williams)
Howdidoo (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Woody Guthrie)
Hummingbird (Live 2001-2002. Johnnie and Jack)
I Am the Man, Thomas (Live 1999-2002. Ralph Stanley)
I Can't Be Satisfied (Live 1992. Muddy Waters)
I Can't Leave Her Behind (Eat the Document)
If You Need Me (Down in the Groove sessions, 1987. Wilson Pickett)
I Guess Things Happen That Way (Johnny Cash sessions, 1969. Johnny Cash)
I'll Not Be a Stranger (Live 1997. Traditional)
I'm a Steady Rollin' Man (Live 1978. Robert Johnson)
I'm Glad I Got to See You Once Again (Live 1988. Don Gibson)
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right out of My Hair (Infidels outtake, 1983)
I'm in the Mood for Love (Live 1988-1989. Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields)
I'm Moving On (Live 1986-1993. Hank Snow)
I'm Not Supposed to Care (Live 1998. Gordon Lightfoot)
Important Words (Down in the Groove sessions, 1987. Gene Vincent)
I'm Ready (Live 1978. Willie Dixon)
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Rehearsed with Grateful Dead, 1987. Hank Williams)
In the Evening (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Leroy Carr)
In the Pines (Live 1961, 1989-1990. Leadbelly)
In the Still of the Night (1956 tape. The Five Satins)
In the Summertime (Empire Burlesque rehearsals, 1985. Mungo Jerry)
I Once Knew a Man (David Letterman 1984 rehearsal)
I See Fire in Your Eyes (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985)
I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash sessions, 1969. Johnny Cash)
It's All in the Game (Live 1981. Tommy Edwards.)
It's Hard to Be Blind (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Reverend Gary Davis)
It's Too Late (Live 1991-1997. Chuck Willis)
I've Been All Around This World (Hang Me)  (Live 1990. Traditional)
I Walk the Line (Johnny Cash sessions, 1969. Johnny Cash)
I Want My Milk (And I Want It Now) (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Woody Guthrie)
I Will Love Him (Live 1980. Bob Dylan)
I Will Sing (Live 1980. Max Dyer)
Jamaica Farewell (New Morning sessions, 1970. Lord Burgess)
Jenny Jenny (Live 1957. Little Richard)
Jesse James (Bob and Sid Gleason, 1961. Billy Gashade)
Jesus Christ (Hugh Brown tape, 1960. Woody Guthrie)
Jesus Is the One (Live 1981. Dylan?)
Jesus Met the Woman at the Well (Bob and Sid Gleason, 1961. Reverend Gary Davis)
Johnny B. Goode (With the Grateful Dead, 2003. Chuck Berry)
Johnny We Hardly Knew You (Hugh Brown tape, 1960. Traditional)
Jugband Song (Acme sessions. David Bromberg)
Julius and Ethel (Infidels outtakes, 1983)
Just a Closer Walk With Thee (Johnny Cash sessions, 1969. Traditional)
Just a Little Bit (Live 1981. Roscoe Gordon)
Just Because (Acme sessions. Shelton Brothers)
Justine (Live 1986. Don & Dewey)
Just When I Needed You Most (Down in the Groove sessions, 1987. Randy VanWarmer)
K.C. Moan (Hugh Brown tape, 1960. Will Shade)
Kaatskill Serenade (Acme sessions. David Bromberg)
Kansas City (Live 1986. Leiber/Stoller, Wilbert Harrison)
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize (March on Washington, 1963. Alice Wine)
Key to the Highway (Live 1990-1995. Big Bill Broonzy)
L'Air de la Louisiane (Live 1989. Jesse Winchester)
Lakes of Ponchartrain (Live 1988-1991. Traditional)
Lawyers, Guns and Money (Live 2002. Warren Zevon)
Legend in My Time (Live 1989. Don Gibson)
Let the Good Times Roll (1956 tape. Live 1986. Leonard Lee)
Let's Begin (Live 1981. Jimmy Webb)
Let's Learn to Live and Love Again (Live 1990. Jack Scott)
Let the Light Shine on Me (Live 2014. Blind Willie Johnson)
Listen to Me (Down in the Groove sessions, 1987. Buddy Holly)
Little Moses (Self-Portrait sessions, 1970. Live 1992-1993. Traditional)
Little Queen of Spades (Concert rehearsals, 1989. Robert Johnson)
London Calling (Live 2005. The Clash)
Lonely Avenue (Knocked Out Loaded sessions, 1986. Doc Pomus)
Lonesome Bedroom Blues (Live 1978. Curtis Jones)
Lonesome Town (Live 1986-1989. Ricky Nelson)
Long Black Veil (New Morning sessions, 1970. Live 1997. Dill/Wilkin)
Long John (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Traditional)
Long Johnny Coo-Coo (Eric von Schmidt tape, 1964. Traditional)
Long Time Man Feel Bad (Mackenzie tape. Cynthia Gooding radio show, 1961. Traditional)
Look on Yonder Wall (Knocked Out Loaded sessions, 1986. James Clark)
Look Yonder (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985)
Lost Highway (Don't Look Back, 1965)
Louie Louie (Farm Aid rehearsal, 1985. Richard Berry)
Love Her With a Feeling (Live 1978. Tampa Red)
Main Street Moan (Acme sessions. David Bromberg)
Make Me a Palette on Your Floor (Billy Faier show 1962)
Making Believe (Down in the Groove sessions, 1987. Live 1989. Jimmy Work)
Marine's Hymn (Live 1990. Traditional)
Mary From the Wild Moor (Live 1980-1981. Traditional)
Matchbox (Johnny Cash sessions, 1969. Carl Perkins)
Milk Cow Blues (1962 sessions, Live 2004. Kokomo Arnold)
Money Blues (Desire. Bob Dylan/Jacques Levy)
Money Honey (Live 1999. Jesse Stone, Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters)
Moondance (Live 1991. Van Morrison)
Moon River (Live 1990. Johnny Mercer/Henry Mancini)
More and More (Live 1989, 1998. Webb Pierce, Merle Kilgore)
More Than Flesh and Blood (Rehearsed 1978, Helena Springs.)
Morning Blues (Acme sessions. Unknown)
Mountain of Love (Al Green 1984 session?)
Mountains of Mourn (Live 1991. Percy French)
My Head's in Mississippi (Live 1990. ZZ Top)
My Prayer (Down in the Groove sessions, 1987. Georges Boulanger, The Platters)
Mystery Train (Johnny Cash sessions, 1969. Herman Parker Jr.)
Nadine (Live 1988. Chuck Berry)
Naomi Wise (Riverside Church, Bonnie Beecher, 1961. Traditional)
Never Let Me Go (Live 1975. Johnny Ace? Joseph C. Scott?)
New Danville Girl (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985. Dylan, Sam Shepard)
New Lee Highway Blues (Acme sessions. David Bromberg)
New Minglewood Blues (Live 1996. Traditional)
1913 Massacre (Live 1961. Woody Guthrie)
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Karen Wallace tape, 1960. Jimmie Cox)
Nobody's Fault But Mine (Acme sessions. Blind Willie Johnson)
No Money Down (Live 1981. Chuck Berry)
No More One More Time (Live 1990. Jo-El Sonnier)
Northeast Texas Women (Acme sessions. Willis Alan Ramsey, David Bromberg)
Not Fade Away (Live 1998-2002. Buddy Holly)
Nothin' But You (Live 1989. Steve Earle)
Nowhere Man (Live 1990. The Beatles)
Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie (Live 1990, 1997-2001. Elizabeth Cotten)
Oh Lonesome Me (New Morning sessions, 1970. Don Gibson)
Old Five and Dimers Like Me (During Hearts of Fire. 1986)
Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Live 1990. Traditional)
Old Man (Live 2002. Neil Young)
Old Rock n' Roller (Live 1991. Charlie Daniels)
One-Eyed Jacks (Live 1960. Bob Dylan)
One Night of Sin (Ardent Studios, Memphis, 1994.)
Paid the Price (Live 1990. Moon Martin)
Pancho and Lefty (Live 1989-1993. Townes Van Zandt)
Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior (Live 1999-2000. Frances J. Crosby/William H. Doane)
Patty's Gone to Laredo (Renaldo and Clara)
Pastures of Plenty (Karen Wallace tape, 1960. Woody Guthrie)
Payday at Coal Creek (Karen Wallace tape, 1960. Traditional)
Peace in the Valley (Live 1989. Thomas A. Dorsey)
People Putting People Down (Live 1991. John Prine)
Polly Vaughan (Acme sessions. Traditional)
Pretty Polly (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Traditional)
Prince of Plunder (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985)
Queen of Rock n' Roll (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985)
Ragtime Annie (Live 1997. Traditional)
Railroad Boy (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Live 1976. Traditional)
Railroading on the Great Divide (Live 1961. Sara Carter Bayes)
Ramblin' Around (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Woody Guthrie)
Ramblin' Man (Live 1995. Allman Brothers)
Rangers Command (Cynthia Gooding, 1962. Woody Guthrie)
Ready Teddy (1956 tape. Little Richard)
Real Real Gone (Live 1995. Van Morrison)
Red Hot (Live 1992. Billy Emerson)
Red Rosey Bush (Hugh Brown tape, 1960. Traditional)
Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming. Scott Wiseman)
Repossession Blues (Rehearsals 1978. Roland James)'
Rise Again (Live 1980, Acme sessions. Dallas Holm)
Rising Sun (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985)
Rock 'Em Dead (AKA Uranium Rock) (Live 1986)
Rock Me, Baby (Acme sessions. B.B. King)
Rock Me, Mama (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid sessions)
Rock n' Roll Ruby (Down in the Groove Sessions, 1987. Johnny Cash)
Rock of Ages (Live 1999-2000. Traditional)
Rock With Me Baby (Live 1986. Billy Lee Riley)
Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Eve and Mac McKenzie tape, 1961)
Rollin' and Tumblin' (Knocked Out Loaded sessions, 1986)
Roll on John (Cynthia Gooding radio show, WBAI)
Roving Blade (Live 1992, 1998, 2000. Traditional)
Roving Gambler (Karen Wallace tape, 1961. Live 1991-2002. Traditional)
Rumble (Live 2005, Link Wray)
Sail On (Acme sessions. Unknown)
Samson and Delilah (Live 2004. Traditional)
San Francisco Bay Blues (Bob and Sid Gleason tape, 1961. Live 1988. Jesse Fuller)
Satisfaction (Live 1986. The Rolling Stones)
Searching for a Soldier's Grave (Live 2000-2002. Kitty Wells)
Send Me to the 'lectric Chair (Acme sessions. George Brooks)
Shake a Hand (Live 1986. Joe Morris)
Shake, Rattle and Roll (Live 1991. Charles E. Calhoun)
Shake Sugaree (Live 1996-1997. Elizabeth Cotten)
Shake Your Moneymaker (Down in the Groove sessions, 1987. Elmore James)
She's About a Mover (Live 1988, 2000. Doug Sahm)
She's Love Crazy (Live 1978. Tampa Red)
Sidewalks, Fences and Walls (Down in the Groove sessions, 1987. Solomon Burke)
Sing Me Back Home (Live 2004-2005. Merle Haggard)
Sinner Man (Karen Wallace tape, 1960. Traditional)
Sitting on the Dock of the Bay (Self-Portrait sessions, 1970. Otis Redding, Steve Cropper)
Sloppy Drunk (Acme sessions. David Bromberg)
Smoke Stack Lightnin' (Cynthia Gooding show, 1962. Chester Burnette)
So Long, Good Luck and Goodbye (Live 1986. Weldon Rogers)
Some Enchanted Evening (With NRBQ?)
Something (Live 2002. George Harrison)
Soon (Live 1987. George Gershwin concert)
Sounds of Silence (Live 1999. Simon and Garfunkel)
Southern Cannonball (Bob and Sid Gleason tape, 1961. Jimmie Rodgers)
Stand by Me (Live 1990. Charles Albert Tindley)
Stone Walls and Steel Bars (Live 1997-2002. Ray Marcum/Ray Pennington)
Straight A's in Love (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985. Johnny Cash)
Streets of Glory (Hugh Brown tape, 1960. Traditional)
Sukiyaki (Live 1986. Rokusuke Ei/Hachidai Nakamura)
Summer Wages (Acme sessions. Ian Tyson)
Su Su's Got a Mohawk (Acme sessions. Unknown)
Take Me out to the Ball Game (Theme Time Radio Hour)
Take This Hammer (Karen Wallace tape, 1960. Traditional)
Talking Columbia Blues (Hugh Brown tape, 1960. Woody Guthrie)
Talking Fishing Blues (Indian Neck Folk Festival 1961. Bonnie Beecher. Woody Guthrie)
Talking Folklore Center (1962. Dylan)
Talking Hugh Brown (1962? Dylan)
Talking Inflation Blues (Hugh Brown tape, 1960. Tom Glazer)
Talking Merchant Marine (Hugh Brown tape. Woody Guthrie. AKA Talking Sailor)
Telephone Line (New Morning sessions, 1969. ?)
Tennessee Blues (Acme sessions. Charles)
Thank God (1986 Chabad telethon. Hank Williams)
That'll Be the Day (Live 1999. Buddy Holly)
That Lucky Old Sun (Live 1985-1986, 1991. Haven Gillespie/Beasley Smith)
The Girl I Left Behind (Live 1961. Oscar Brand Folk Song Festival. Traditional. Available on 3-CD set American Folk Legends)
The Green Green Grass of Home (Infidels sessions, 1983. Tom Jones)
The Harder They Come (Live 1989. Jimmy Cliff)
The Heart That You Own (Live 1999. Dwight Yoakam)
The Lady Came From Baltimore (Acme sessions. Tim Hardin)
The Lady of Carlisle (Live 1992. Traditional)
The Mobile Line (Acme sessions. Papa Harvey Hull and Long Cleve Reed)
Then He Kissed Me (Rehearsal, 1985. Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector)
There Ain't Gonna Be a Next Time (Blood on the Tracks)
The Times We've Known (Live 1998. Charles Aznavour)
The Wagoner's Lad (Live 1988-1990. Traditional)
The Wanderer (Live 1999. Ernie Maresca)
The Wayfaring Stranger (Eve and Mac McKenzie tape, 1961. Traditional)
Thief on the Cross (Live 1981. Bob Dylan)
This Train Is Bound for Glory (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Traditional)
This Was My Love (Infidels sessions, 1983. Jim Harbert, Frank Sinatra)
This World Can't Stand Long (Live 1999-2002. Jim Anglin)
To Fall in Love With You (Hearts of Fire, 1986)
Too Hot to Drive By (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985)
Too Late, She's Gone (Knocked Out Loaded sessions, 1986. Chuck Willis)
Train a-Travelin' (Dylan)
Train of Love (Live 1999. Johnny Cash)
Train of Pain (Live 1986. ?)
Treat Her Right (Late Show David Letterman rehearsal, 1984. Roy Head)
Troubled and I Don't Know Why (Live 1963. Traditional)
Trouble Me No More (?, Muddy Waters)
Trouble No More (Worried Life Blues) (Live 1990. Muddy Waters)
Tupelo Honey (Live 1984, 1991. Van Morrison)
20/20 Vision (Live 1991. Joe Allison, Milton Estes)
Twenty-One Years (Live 1963. Bob Miller)
Twist and Shout (Down in the Groove sessions, 1987. Phil Medley and Bert Russell)
Two Sisters (Karen Wallace tape, 1961)
Unchain My Heart (Knocked Out Loaded sessions, 1986. Freddy James/Agnes Jones)
Universal Soldier (Self-Portrait sessions, 1970. Buffy Sainte-Marie)
VD Blues (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Woody Guthrie)
VD City (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Woody Guthrie)
VD Gunner (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Woody Guthrie)
VD Seaman's Last Letter (McKenzie manuscripts. Woody Guthrie)
VD Waltz (Bonnie Beecher tape, 1961. Woody Guthrie)
Vincent Van Gogh (Live 1976. Robert Freimark)
Viola Lee Blues (Live 1997. Noah Lewis)
Wait for the Light to Shine (Live 2001-2002. Fred Rose)
Waiting to Get Beat (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985) (Also: The Very Thought of You)
Walk a Mile in My Shoes (Live 1990. Joe South)
Weary Blues From Waitin' (Live 1976. Hank Williams)
We Belong Together (1958 tape. Robert & Johnny)
Weeping Willow (Live 1993. Blind Boy Fuller)
We Had It All (Live 1986. Fritts/Seals)
We Just Disagree (Live 1980-1981. Jim Krueger)
West LA Fadeaway (Live 1992-2003. Grateful Dead)
West Memphis (David Whitaker tape, 1963. Traditional)
West Texas (Live 1962. Traditional)
We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) (Live 1986-1988. Robertson/Mysels/Cogan)
What Did the Deep Sea Say? (David Whitaker tape, 1963. Traditional)
What'd I Say? (Rehearsals 1985, 1988. Ray Charles)
When First Unto This Country (Live 1989, 1991. Traditional)
When the Line Forms (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985)
White Dove (Live 1997-2000. Carter Stanley)
Who Loves You More? (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985. Dylan?)
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (Karen Wallace tape, 1960. Traditional)
Why Do I Have to Choose? (Live 1984. Willie Nelson)
Wild and Wicked World (Knocked Out Loaded sessions, 1986. Unknown)
Willin' (Live 1990-1995. Lowell George)
Without Love (There Is Nothing) (Knocked Out Loaded sessions, 1986. Clyde McPhatter)
Wolf (Empire Burlesque sessions, 1985)
Wop De Alano (Karen Wallace tape, 1960. Traditional)
World of Fools (Acme sessions. David Bromberg)
Would You Lay With Me in a Field of Stone?  (Acme sessions. David Allan Coe)
Yesterday (New Morning sessions, 1970. The Beatles)
Yonder Comes Sin
You Are My Sunshine (Johnny Cash sessions, 1969. Jimmie Davis/Charles Mitchell)
You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover (Down in the Groove sessions, 1987. Bo Diddley)
You Don't Know Me (Live 1989-1991. Cindy Walker/Eddy Arnold)
You'll Never Walk Alone (Knocked Out Loaded sessions, 1986. Rodgers/Hammerstein)
You're Too Late (Live 1999. Lefty Frizzell/Herman P. Willis)
Your True Love (New Morning sessions, 1970. Carl Perkins)

Dylan wrote it for someone else

This is a list that I made of songs that Bob Dylan wrote, but that he didn't perform on any commercial release of his own. Happy to take additions, subtractions, corrections, emendations and so on.

Ain't No Man Righteous (Jah Malla: Jah Malla)
Ballad of Easy Rider (Easy Rider soundtrack)
Champaign, Illinois (Carl Perkins: On Top)
City of Gold (The Dixie Hummingbirds: Masked and Anonymous)
Coming From the Heart (The Road Is Long) (The Searchers: The Searchers)
Dirty Lie (The Secret Sisters: Put Your Needle Down)
Fur Slippers (B.B. King/various artists: Shake, Rattle & Roll soundtrack)
Go Away, Little Boy (Lone Justice: Live at the Paradise Theatre)
Gypsy Blood (Live 1981. Steve Ripley)
Heartland (Willie Nelson: Across the Borderline)
I Can't Leave Her Behind (Stephen Malkmus: I'm Not There)
I'd Have You Anytime (George Harrison: All Things Must Pass)
I Don't Want to Do It (George Harrison: Porky's Revenge soundtrack)
If I Don't Be There By Morning (Eric Clapton: Backless)

I Must Love You Too Much (The Band: High on the Hog)
Jack O' Diamonds (Fairport Convention: Fairport Convention)
Jammin' Me (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Let Me Up (I've Had Enough))
Legionnaire's Disease (Delta Cross Band: Up Front)
Let's Keep It Between Us (Bonnie Raitt: Green Light)
Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word (Joan Baez: Any Day Now)
Love Rescue Me (U2: Rattle and Hum)
Masquerade (Gerry Goffin: Back Room Blood)
Shirley Temple Don't Live Here Anymore (Mr. Alice)
Sign Language (Eric Clapton: No Reason to Cry)
Steel Bars (Michael Bolton: Time, Love and Tenderness)
Stepchild (Solomon Burke: Don't Give Up on Me)
The Wanderin' Kind (The Legendary Paul Butterfield Rides Again)
Walk Out in the Rain (Eric Clapton)
Wanted Man (Johnny Cash)

Bob Dylan on soundtracks, tributes and compilations

 This is a list of Bob Dylan songs that appear in soundtracks, on soundtrack albums, on tribute/compilation CDs and so on. This is not a comprehensive list of every Dylan appearance on such an album. Instead, I wanted to make a list of songs that saw commercial release, but did not appear in commercial form elsewhere on a Dylan album. I think that I have covered most of them here, but am happy to take corrections, additions and other suggestions.

A Change Is Gonna Come (Apollo at 70. Unsure if CD or video only)
Back Alley (My Own Love Song)
Band of the Hand (Soundtrack)
Billie #30 (My Own Love Song)
Blues Club (My Own Love Song)
California (NCIS)
Click Clack (My Own Love Song)
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt (Woody Guthrie tribute album)
Diamond Joe (Masked and Anonymous)
Dixie (Masked and Anonymous)
Don't Ever Take Yourself Away (Hawaii Five-O soundtrack. Song from "Shot of Love" sessions)
Do-Re-Mi (The People Speak. Documentary soundtrack)
Drivin' South (My Own Love Song)
East Texas (My Own Love Song)
East Virginia Blues (Earl Scruggs NBC documentary)

Friend of the Devil (Stolen Roses: Songs of the Grateful Dead)
Grand Coulee Dam (Woody Guthrie tribute album)
I Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie tribute album)
I Can't Get You Off of My Mind (Timeless: Hank Williams tribute.)
Jane's Lament (My Own Love Song)
Janet's Step (My Own Love Song)
Joey's Theme (My Own Love Song)
Mutineer (Enjoy Every Sandwich: A Tribute to Warren Zevon)
My Blue-Eyed Jane (Doc Pomus tribute)
New Orleans Drums (My Own Love Song)
Night After Night (Hearts of Fire tribute)
Nobody's Child (Nobody's Child. Traveling Wilburys)
Pretty Boy Floyd
Red Cadillac and a Black Mustache (Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records)
Return to Me (The Sopranos: Peppers and Eggs. Music From the HBO Series)
Ring of Fire (Feeling Minnesota soundtrack)
Road Weary (My Own Love Song)
Robbie Robert's Lament (My Own Love Song)
Snow Falling (My Own Love Song)
Swingin' (My Own Love Song)
Talkin' Devil (Broadside Ballads)
The Usual (Hearts of Fire soundtrack)
Things We Said Today (Paul McCartney tribute: The Art of McCartney)
This Old Man (For Our Children)
Waitin' for You (The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood soundtrack)
You Belong to Me (Natural Born Killers soundtrack)

Haiku 61 Re-Revisited

Two years have passed since I added the last Bob Dylan haiku to this blog. In 2012, I ended my search for a publisher who would print the book, "Bob Dylan: Haiku 61 Revisited," an attempt to interpret every song that Dylan ever touched in a haiku format. My former agent pitched the collection to many publishers, but none bought. The primary criticism was that the book was too astringent for Dylan fans, too many of the poems too sarcastic or harsh on Dylan. I agree with that criticism. Two years later, two years of working on other projects and concentrating on my day job, I concluded that there were other problems in many of the poems. Now I am rewriting large portions of them and preparing the book again. Here is a list of changes, thoughts and what to expect from the upcoming, revised "Bob Dylan: Haiku 61 Revisited."

- In 2008 or 2009, when I first developed this idea with my colleague Derek Caney, I confidently asserted that you could interpret any Bob Dylan song as haiku or senryu. That proved much harder for many songs than I was prepared to handle. As a result, too many of my haiku rest on infirm foundations: commentary on the songs themselves, rather than their words; meta-commentary on the authors or the music or the musicians; profanity as a comedy tool; the overuse of some words as syllable fillers; and an incomplete understanding of some of the basic intent that Dylan had or seemed to have in some of his songs. In every case where I can find such weaknesses, I am eliminating them and starting over.

- I favored my attempt to be a completist and let that override my original intent. The idea was to interpret the songs of Bob Dylan. Defining what are his songs, however, is difficult. Not all songs on his albums are ones that he wrote. Not all songs that he wrote appear on his albums. What about bootlegged sessions, rehearsals and performances? Many songs that he has performed in a variety of venues are not his own. Which songs make the cut? At the time, I determined that if he performed or wrote the song, and if there was some indication that the song was complete, rather than a fragment captured somewhere on tape, I would write a haiku about it and include it in the collection. I think that I collected about 1,300 haiku, and still there was evidence that there was more out there to be done, but to what end? Interpreting some of the songs in the dustier corners of his repertory at times seemed like it would make this project appeal to the narrowest section of readers: those who breathe Dylan, day in and out. I have changed this while trying to preserve some aspect of that arcana.

- Here is the new idea: "Bob Dylan: Haiku 61 Revisited" will contain every song that Bob Dylan has released commercially on a Bob Dylan album or single. If you count the rumored upcoming studio album as well as the Basement Tapes addition to the Bootleg Series, that's probably 500 or 600 haiku. The rest of the haiku I will include in a deluxe edition. By "the rest," I mean: songs that he performed and that were released officially, but on soundtrack albums, compilations, tribute albums and so on ("The Basement Haiku," if you will); songs that he wrote, but that other people performed ("Love Is Just a Four-Letter Haiku"); songs that he performed in the studio or on stage, written by him or others, but that are part of no commercial release ("Haiku Minus Zero/No Limit"). What I likely will not include in any edition will be haiku based on instrumentals from albums such as the "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" soundtrack or "My Own Love Song." I should have known five years ago that poems made from words about songs with no words was a misstep. I also will omit any songs from studio or stage rehearsals that seem too raggedy, fragmented or ephemeral to count as songs. If you consider tracks like "Sally Free and Easy" or "You Can Get Her," there's simply not enough there to make a song, therefore there isn't enough there to make a haiku.

- The deluxe edition likely will contain annotations as well. Some songs are worth discussing at length. Some evoke feelings or memories that I find worth sharing. Others are so inscrutable or open to interpretation that my haiku interpretations are almost surely wrong and possibly subject to the abuse of fans who know their Dylan better than I do. I might as well be open about that. (I'm thinking of "Angelina," in particular. Not the easiest song to handle.)

- The deluxe edition will not contain songs performed by other people on which Dylan plays as a sideman unless it's something that Dylan wrote. That means that you will see "Love Rescue Me" by U2, but not "Desire" and "Hawkmoon 269." You can imagine similar scenarios for musicians from Van Morrison to Doug Sahm to Barry Goldberg to Carolyn Hester. Please forgive me in advance if I miss a song here and there or include one here and there that should not be included. I was unprepared for the amount of research that would go into deciding whether something involving Dylan could qualify as being haiku worthy, but I think I know much more now than I did in 2009.

- It probably will take another month or more to do my rewrites, and I have not determined whether I will publish them all here. I still want to publish these two books, with or without a commercial publisher, but I suspect that publishing the haiku here will not stop me from being able to do that. We shall see.

I know that I'm probably forgetting one or two points that I wanted to make, but it was important for me to update this blog with a (renewed) statement of (renewed) purpose. The project is alive as long as Dylan keeps working.