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Bob Dylan - The Best of The Bootleg Series - The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar (live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA – November 13, 1979)
The Best of The Bootleg Series
01. Up to Me (take 1)
02. Blind Willie McTell (studio outtake – 1983)
03. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (live at Royal Albert Hall, London, UK – May 26, 1966)
04. Maggie’s Farm (live at Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI – July 1965)
05. The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar (live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA – November 13, 1979)
06. Dink’s Song
07. Pretty Saro (unreleased from “Self Portrait” sessions)
08. Mama, You Been on My Mind (studio outtake – 1964)
09. Mississippi (outtake from “Time Out of Mind” sessions)
10. Visions of Johanna (take 5, rehearsal)
11. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (take 3, rehearsal)
12. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You (live at Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec – December 1975)
13. Born in Time (outtake from ‘Oh Mercy’ sessions)
14. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (take 1)
15. All You Have to Do Is Dream (take 2)
16. Wanted Man (take 1)
17. Tell Me That It Isn’t True (take 2)
18. Wallflower (alternate version, 1971)
19. Most of the Time (alternate version from ‘Oh Mercy’ sessions)
20. A Hard Rain’s a‐Gonna Fall (live at Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec – December 1975)
21. Series of Dreams (outtake from ‘Oh Mercy’ sessions)
22. Slow Train (live at Earls Court, London, UK – June 29, 1981)
23. I Pity the Poor Immigrant (take 4)
24. Moonshiner (studio outtake – 1963)
25. Seven Days (live at the Curtis Hixon Convention Center, Tampa, FL – April 1976)
26. Tangled Up in Blue (take 3, remake 3)
27. Guess I’m Doing Fine (Witmark demo – 1964)
28. Every Grain of Sand (demo – 1980)
Prayed in the ghetto with my face in the cement,
Heard the last moan of a boxer, seen the massacre of the innocent
Felt around for the light switch, felt around for her face
Been treated like a farm animal on a wid goose chase.

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar,
I see the burning of the page, Curtain risin' on a new age,
See the groom still waitin' at the altar.

Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery,
Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your shyness for snobbery,
Got the message this morning, the one that was sent to me
About the madness of becomin' what one was never meant to be.

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar,
I see the burning of the stage,
Curtain risin' on a new age,
See the groom still waitin' at the altar.

Don't know what I can say about
Claudette wouldn't come back to haunt me,
Finally had to give her up 'bout the time she began to want me.
But I know God has mercy on them who are slandered and humiliated.
I'd a-done anything for that woman if
she didn't make me feel so obligated.

West of the Jordan, west of the Rock of Gibraltar,
I see the burning of the cage,
Curtain risin' on a new stage,
See the groom still waitin' at the altar.

Put your hand on my head, baby, do I have a temperature?
I see people who are supposed to know
better standin' around like furniture.
There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it,
Tonight you got the power to take
it, tomorrow you won't have the power to
keep it.

West of the Jordan, east of the Rock of Gibraltar,
I see the turnin' of the page, Curtain risin' on a new age,
See the groom still waitin' at the altar.

Cities on fire, phones out of order,
They're killing nuns and soldiers, there's fighting on the border.
What can I say about Claudette?
Ain't seen her since January,
She could be respectably married or
running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires.

West of the Jordan, west of the Rock of Gibraltar,
I see the turnin' of the page,
Curtain risin' on a new age,
See the groom still waitin' at the altar.