Goin' To Acapulco

Words from the performance on the album "The Basement Tapes"

I'm goin' down to Rose Marie's
she never does me wrong
she puts it to me plain as day
and gives it to me for a song
it's a wicked life but what the hell
uh, ev'rybody's got to eat
and I'm just the same as anyone else
when it comes to scratching for my meat

goin' to Acapulco
goin' on the run
goin' down to see soccer
goin' to have some fun
yeah
goin' to have some fun

now whenever I get up
and can't find what I need
I just make it down to Rose Marie's
and get something quick to eat
it's not a bad way to make a living
and I ain't complainin' none
oh I can blow my plum and drink my rum
and then go on home and have my fun

goin' to Acapulco
goin' on the run
goin' down to see soccer
goin' to have some fun
yeah
goin' to have some fun

now if someone offers me a joke
I just say no thanks
I try to tell it like it is
and keep away from pranks
now ev'ry time you know when the well breaks down
I just go pump on it some
Rose Marie she likes to go to big places
and just set there waitin' for me to come

goin' to Acapulco
goin' on the run
goin' down to see soccer
goin' down some fun
yeah
goin' to have some fun

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I'm Not There
(1956)

Words from the performance on the unofficial CD "The Genuine Basement Tapes Vol. 2"

ev'rything all right sh... and then she's all the time in my neighborhood
she cried both day and night I know it because it was there
it's a milestone but she down on her luck
and sh... the day makes here lonely but to make hard to buck
I been there

I believe that she'd stop him if she would start to care
I believe that she'd look upon the side and to care
and I'd go by the Lord and when she's on my way
but I don't belong there

no I don't belong to her I don't belong to ev'rybody
she's my price-forsaken angel but she don't hear me cry
she's a lone-hearted mystic and she can carry on
when I'm there she's all right but she's not when I'm gone

heaven knows that the answer she's don't call in no one
she's the way the sailing beauty for she's mine for the one
and I lost the heavy changing by temptation as it runs
but she don't holler me but I'm not there I'm gone

now I'll cry tonight like I cried the night before
and I'll knees on the heights but I dream about the door
so long Jesus savior blind faith worth to tell
it don't have consolation she's my own fare thee well

and I went out she used to live here I was born to love her
but she knows that the kingdom waits so high above her
and I run but I race but it's not too fast to slump
but I don't deceive her I'm not there I'm gone

well it's all about confusion as I cry for her fill
I don't need anybody now beside me to tell
and it's all conformation I receive but it's not
she's a lone-hearted beauty but she don't block the spot
and she's gone

yes she's gone like the rainbow that's shining yesterday
but now she's home beside me and I'd like to hear she stay
she's a bone-forsaken beauty and it don't trust anyone
and I wish I was beside her but I'm not there I'm gone

well it's too hard to speaking and I don't quite believe
it's so bad 'cause she using that she's hard too hard to leave
it's unknown it's a crime the way she moves me around
but she told for to hate me just as a bone-forsaken clown

yes I believe that it's rightful oh I believe it in my mind
I been told like I was said when I before carry on the crime
and she's all that you told her like I said carry on
I wish I was there to help her but I'm not there I'm gone


This is the transcript I have posted to rec.music.dylan. Since there have been no reactions to it, I haven't been able to improve it.

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I'm Your Teenage Prayer

Words from the performance on the unofficial CD "The Genuine Basement Tapes Vol. 4"

...prayer
take a look at me baby
I am a teenage prayer
when it's cloudy all the time
all you gotta do is...

take a look at me babe
(good go 'head)
I'm your teenage prayer
take a look at me baby
just take a look at me baby
I am your teenage prayer
yes I'm your teenage prayer
take a look at me baby
just take a look over here at me baby
I am your teenage prayer
I'm your teenage prayer
take a look and when it's cloudy all the time
all you gotta do is say you're mine
I come runnin' anywhere
take a look at me baby
just take a look at me baby
I'm your teenage prayer

take a look at me baby
I'm your teenage dream
take a look at me baby
I'm your teenage dream
yes and I'm a dream
when it's rainy in your heart
just come to me and start
tell me how I do and cheer
oh just come and take a look at me baby
I'm your teenage prayer

well oh let it rain
for any dime just come and see my face
any time you just got to read my lines
I won't give you any respect
oh no

take a look at me baby
just take a look over here at me baby
I'm your teenage prayer
take a look at me baby I'm a teenage prayer
come and take a look at me baby
yes take a look over here baby
I'm your teenage prayer
'cause I'm your teenage prayer
when it's cloudy all the time
all you gotta do is say you're mine
I come runnin' anywhere
take a look at me baby
take a look at me baby
I'm your teenage prayer
prayer hair where

yes I'm your teenage prayer
you might think I'm not
somebody might think I'm nowhere
but I'm here to tell you I'm your teenage prayer
I know what you need
I can feel it in my bones and I feel it on my throne
you're my teenage prayer
any day any night
you just come to me when you're in fright
and I'm your teenage prayer
take a look at me baby
just take a look at me baby
I'm your teenage prayer
you know I'm your teenage prayer baby
take a look at me baby
take a look at my hair baby
I'm your teenage prayer
I'm the teenage pair
when it's cloudy all the time
all you gotta do is say you're mine
'cause I come runnin' to you anywhere
oh yeah
ohho you're so real
take a look at me baby
I'm your teenage prayer