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Dylan song | Original tune | Notes and links |
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"Ballad in Plain D" | "My Last Farewell to Stirling" | [ Collected e.g. in "Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland", Ed. Ewan McColl (Oak Publications, New York 1965. Library of Congress Catalogue no. 65-2295). McColl notes that "the tune appears to have been adapted from a slow strathspey".] |
"Ballad of Hollis Brown"
|"Pretty Polly"
|[{{harvnb |Margotin|Guesdon |2015 |p=90}}] |
"Blind Willie McTell" | "St. James Infirmary Blues" | [{{cite web |last1=Attwood |first1=Tony |title=Blind Willie McTell: the meaning behind Bob Dylan's song |url=https://bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/14 |website=Untold Dylan |accessdate=15 May 2020 |date=November 12, 2008}}] |
"Blowin' in the Wind" | "No More Auction Block"[{{cite web |url=http://www.folkways.si.edu/TrackDetails.aspx?itemid=47281 |title=No More Auction Block for Me |publisher=Smithsonian Folkways |accessdate=February 7, 2014}}][Sung by Odetta on many albums including Odetta at Carnegie Hall] | [Quoted in John Bauldie's sleeve notes for The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991] |
"Bob Dylan's Dream" | "Lady Franklin's Lament" | [{{harvnb |Heylin |2000 |pp=106–107}}] |
"Boots of Spanish Leather" | "Scarborough Fair" | |
"Buckets of Rain" | "Bottle of Wine" | {{sfn|Margotin|Guesdon|2015|page=427}} |
| "Chimes of Freedom" | "Chimes of Trinity" | |
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" | "Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone)" | [{{harvnb |Spitz |1991 |p=200}}] |
"False Prophet" | "If Lovin' is Believing" | [{{cite web |last1=Moon |first1=Tom |title=Trickster Treat: Bob Dylan's New Song Sounds Awfully Old ... And Familiar |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/05/12/853992774/trickster-treat-bob-dylans-new-song-sounds-awfully-old-and-familiar |website=NPR.org |publisher=National Public Radio |accessdate=15 May 2020}}] |
"Farewell"
|"The Leaving of Liverpool"
|[{{harvnb |Margotin|Guesdon |2015 |p=138}}] |
"Farewell Angelina" | "Farewell to Tarwathie" | [{{harvnb |Margotin|Guesdon |2015 |p=177}}] |
"Girl from the North Country" | "Scarborough Fair" | |
"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" | "Lord Randall" | [{{harvnb |Ricks |2005 |p=340}}][{{harvnb |Williamson |2004 |p=257}}][{{cite book |first=Mick |last=Wall |title=When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin |publisher=St. Martins Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0312590390 |page=66}}][{{cite book |last=Epstein |first=Daniel Mark |title=The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait |year=2012 |publisher=Harper Perennial |edition=Reprint |isbn=978-0061807336}}] |
"Hard Times in New York Town" | "Down On Penny's Farm" | [{{cite web |url=http://www.americansongwriter.com/2011/02/behind-the-lyric-maggies-farm-bob-dylan/ |title='Maggie's Farm,' Bob Dylan |author=Davis Inman |date=February 14, 2011 |work=American Songwriter |accessdate=February 7, 2014}}] |
"I Shall Be Free" | "We Shall Be Free" | [{{harvnb |Harvey |2001 |p=50}}] |
"I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You"
|"Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (Barcarolle)
|[{{Cite web |title=I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You. And Offenbach and Johnny Cash. {{!}} Untold Dylan |date=2 July 2020 |url=https://bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/15508 |access-date=2023-07-18 |language=en-GB}}] |
"John Brown" | "Mrs. McGrath" | [{{harvnb |Heylin |2009 |p=100}}] |
"Lay Down Your Weary Tune"
|"The Water Is Wide" / "Oh Waly, Waly"
|[{{harvnb |Margotin|Guesdon |2015 |p=107}}] |
"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" | "Mary Hamilton", "Child Ballad 173" {{Clarify|reason=Words are totally different, and Child Ballads do not have tunes, so what is the relationship?|date=May 2017}} | [{{harvnb |Heylin |2009 |p=166}}][{{harvnb |Marqusee |2005 |p=86}}] |
"Masters of War" | "Nottamun Town" | |
"Obviously Five Believers" | "Me and My Chauffeur Blues" | [{{harvnb |Margotin|Guesdon |2015 |p=238}}] |
"Percy's Song" | "The Wind and the Rain" | [{{harvnb |Margotin|Guesdon |2015 |p=109}}] |
"Pledging My Time" | "It Hurts Me Too" | [{{harvnb |Margotin|Guesdon |2015 |p=220}}] |
"Restless Farewell" | "The Parting Glass" | [{{harvnb |Heylin |2009 |p=172}}] |
"Song to Woody"
|"1913 Massacre"
| {{sfn|Margotin|Guesdon|2015|page=35}} |
"Things Have Changed"
| "The Observations of a Crow"
| [{{cite web|url=https://americansongwriter.com/lyric-week-marty-stuart-observations-crow/|title=Lyric Of The Week: Marty Stuart, "Observations Of A Crow"|author=Jim Beviglia|date=8 September 2014 |publisher=American Songwriter|accessdate=21 December 2020}}] |
"The Times They Are a-Changin'"
|"Farewell to Sicily"
| [{{cite web |last1=Cramb |first1=Auslan |title=Dylan traces his political anthem to bagpipe tune |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1459065/Dylan-traces-his-political-anthem-to-bagpipe-tune.html |website=The Telegraph |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |accessdate=15 May 2020 |date=11 April 2004}}] |
"Troubled and I Don't Know Why" | "What Did the Deep Sea Say?" | [{{harvnb |Heylin |2009 |p=151}}] |
"Walls of Red Wing" | "The Road and the Miles to Dundee" | [{{harvnb |Margotin|Guesdon |2015 |p=78}}] |
"When the Deal Goes Down"
|"Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)"
|[{{Cite web|title=Modern Times (2006)|url=https://dylanchords.info/45_modern/index.htm|access-date=2022-01-23|website=dylanchords.info}}] |
"With God on Our Side" | "The Patriot Game" | {{sfn|Margotin|Guesdon|2015|page=92}} |