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Bob Dylan - The Singer and the Song - The Girl Left Behind (Folk Song Festival, 29th October, 1961)
The Singer and the Song
Disc 1
01. Blowin' in the Wind (Broadside Show, May 1962)
02. Delia's Gone
03. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
04. In the Jailhouse Now
05. Fixin' to Die
06. Five Feet High & Rising
07. Standing on the Highway (Folksinger's Choice, 11th March, 1961)
08. Busted
09. Talkin' New York
10. Transfusion Blues
11. In the Pines (Carnegie Chapter Hall, NYC, 4th Nov, 1961)
12. The Rebel - Johnny Yuma
13. House of the Rising Sun
14. The Smiling Bill McCall
15. Mixed-Up Confusion
16. I Still Miss Someone
17. Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues (Carnegie Chapter Hall, NYC, 4th Nov, 1961)
18. The Big Battle
19. In My Time of Dyin'
20. Bonanza
21. Song to Woody
22. Remember the Alamo
23. The Girl Left Behind (Folk Song Festival, 29th October, 1961)
24. I'm Free From the Chain Gang Now
25. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Disc 2
01. Highway 51
02. Don't Take Your Guns to Town
03. Man of Constant Sorrow
04. In Them Old Cottonfields Back Home
05. The Death of Emmett Till (Broadside Show, May 1962)
06. Tennessee Flat-Top Box
07. Freight Train Blues
08. I Walk the Line
09. Sally Gal (Wnyc radio studio NYC 29 Oct 61)
10. Girl in Saskatoon
11. You're No Good
12. What Do I Care
13. Poor Lazarus (Saturday of Folk Music, 29th July, 1961)
14. Lost on the Desert
15. Gospel Plow
16. Hank and Joe and Me
17. (Naomi Wise) Omie Wise (Riverside Church NYC, July 1961)
18. Accidentally on Purpose
19. Corrinna, Corrinna
20. Big River
21. Pretty Peggy-O
22. So Doggone Lonesome
23. 1913 Massacre (Carnegie Chapter Hall, NYC, 4th Nov, 1961)
24. Frankie's Man, Johnny
25. He Was a Friend of Mine (Riverside Church NYC, July 1961)
There was a wealthy old farmer
That lived in a county nearby.
He had a lovin' daughter,
On her my [sic] cast my eye.
She was pretty fair an' handsome
And did so very fine.
There wasn't a girl in the county
With her that could compare.
I asked her if she'd be willing
To let me cross over the plains.
She said it would be alright with her
Just so I'd return again.
She said that she'd be true to me
Till death would be unkind.
We kissed, shook hands, and parted.
I left my girl behind.
Out in a western city, boys,
A town you all know well,
Where everyone was friendly,
They'd show me all around.
The work an' money was plentyful,
And the girls to me were kind.
But the only girl I thought about
Was the girl I'd left behind.
One day when I was ramblin' 'round
Down by the public square,
The mail coach it came in,
And I met the mail bearer [PRONOUNCED 'bar'] there.
He handed me a letter, gave me to understand
That the girl I left in old Texas
She married another man.
I turned myself all around and around
Not knowing what else to do.
I rid down a little pace further,
Just to see if these words were true.
It's drinkin' I throw over,
Card playin' I'll resign,
For the only girl I ever did love
Was the girl I left behind.
Come around, you ramblin' gamblin' men,
And listen while I tell.
If it does to you no good, kind friends,
I'm a-sure it will do you no harm.
If you ever find you a fair young maid,
Just marry her while you can.
For if you ever cross over the plain,
she'll marry another man.