Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
Album - 3 febbraio 1969 - Debaser id 34231

Words by Bob Dylan
Music by Rick Danko

If your memory serves you well
We were going to meet again and wait
So I'm going to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late
No man alive will comfort you
With another tale to tell
But you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well
This wheel's on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode

If your memory serves you well
I was going to confiscate your lace
and wrap it up in a sailor's knot
And hide it in your case
If I knew for sure that it was yours
But it was oh so hard to tell
But you knew that we would meet again
If your memory serves you well
This wheel's on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode

If your memory serves you well
You'll remember you're the one
That called on them to call on him
To get your favors done
And after every plan had failed
And there was nothing more to tell
You knew that we would meet again
If your memory serves you well
This wheel's on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode

It's the humming of the engines
On the Greyhound bus and trains
That keeps your memory on my mind
And here with me
Many miles have come between us
Cold nights on some roadside
Bringing back
Your gentle ways of loving me

It's the thought of how you love me
How you treat me, how you thrill me
That clears my fogged-up mind
To where I see
Some little girl, as I walk by
Just looking at me sadly
Bringing back
Your gentle ways of loving me


It's just your gentle ways of loving me
It's just your gentle ways of loving me

It's the happiness I've never found
With other loves that bothers
And a mother saying
How her child loves me
And times you never talked about
Those late evening hours
Bringing back
Your gentle ways of loving me

It's just your gentle ways of loving me
It's just your gentle ways of loving me
It's just your gentle ways of loving me
It's just your gentle ways of loving me

Written by Dave Gruisin and Roger McGuinn

Love for anyone who needs her
Innocence is all that feeds her
Rolling through the mist
Floating in a sea of madness
Reaching for the heights of gladness
Or did she exist?

Swirling ions from the stars
Streaming down onto the earth
From a galaxy like ours
Manifested in her birth
Child of the Universe
Giving freely of herself
Purity of truth rehearse
Leaving man her cosmic well

Love for anyone who needs her
Innocence is all that feeds her
Rolling through the mist
Floating in a sea of madness
Reaching for the heights of gladness
Or did she exist?

Vision of an untouched grace
Walking gaily through the sun
No one else could take her place
Nor the work that she'd begun

Love for anyone who needs her
Innocence is all that feeds her
Rolling through the mist
Knowing what is understanding
Patience that is undemanding
Or did she exist?
Or did she exist?
Or did she exist?

Instrumental

(R. Mc Guinn)
Freaks collecting stained­glass rubies
Till a gently on a strand
Bearing looks of frenzied blankness
Slowing down their B.B. King
Middle class suburban children
Wearing costumes that reveal
Blindly follow recent pipers
With their mystical appeal for now
So I'm leavin' for the country
To try and rest my head
'Cause if I hang around this scene too long
You know babe I'll be dead
Instrumental (Electric Guitar)
All the changes superficial
Apathy still a king
Liberal reactionaries
Never doing anything for now
So I'm leavin' for the country
To try and rest my head
'Cause if I hang around this scene too long
You know babe I'll be dead
© BMI

Written by Roger McGuinn and John York

Drifted in school, Daddy's a fool
We know someone's on your mind
Women whose phase??(face?), velvet and lace
Curling couplets into time and space
Meet the man who needs you now
Can you give your love away like Candy?
Down on your knees, trimming the trees
Can you imagine what it's like
Lovers lament, general dissent
Doctor's orders are unkind, and bent
Meet the man who needs you now
Can you give your love away like Candy?
Very profound, merry-go-round
Spinning innocence and dreams
Can you believe, all you perceive
Love is never what it seemed to be
Meet the man who needs you now
Can you give your love away like Candy?

Pushed me off the street today
The lamp light gets in the way
On the darkness you pushed me in
You say that it's a sin we're hangin' around

You told me not to sing today
You say my music gets in the way
Cause he walks on in just as you begin
Bringin' my soul brothers down

And although you're smiling
Your hate will not cease
So just face yourself babe
And leave my soul in peace

Well I'll stay out of your way
If you keep out of mine
Find the good lookin' people go
Oh you know we'll both go down in time