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The Cambridge Bob Dylan Society : June 2026

  1. Changing Of The Guards
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  2. Is Your Love In Vain?
  3. Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)

  4. Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
  5. The Man In Me
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  6. Because The Night

Changing Of The Guards [Bob Dylan]

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Sixteen years
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Sixteen banners united over the fields
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Where the good shepherd grieves
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Desperate men, desperate women divided
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Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves Fortune calls I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born On midsummer's eve, near the tower |
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| The cold-blooded moon The captain waits above the celebration Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid Whose ebony face is beyond communication The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid They shaved her head She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo A messenger arrived with a black nightingale I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil
Instrumental break
I stumbled to my feet I rode past destruction in the ditches With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo Renegade priests and treacherous young witches Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you The palace of mirrors Where dog soldiers are reflected The endless road and the wailing of chimes The empty rooms where her memory is protected Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times
Instrumental break
She wakes him up Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks Gentlemen, he said I don't need your organisation, I've shined your shoes I've moved your mountains and marked your cards But Eden is burning, either get ready for elimination Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
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Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating Between the King and the Queen of Swords |
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Instrumental break to fade

Is Your Love In Vain? [Bob Dylan]

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Do you love me
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Or are you just extending good will?
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Do you need me half as bad as you say
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Or are you just feeling guilt?
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I've been burned before and I know the score
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So you won't hear me complain
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Will I be able to count on you
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Or is your love in vain? Are you so fast that you cannot see That I must have solitude? When I am in the darkness Why do you intrude? Do you know my world, do you know my kind Or must I explain? Will you let me be myself Or is your love in vain?
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Well I've been to the mountain and I've been in the wind
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I've been in and out of happiness
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I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings
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And I've never been too impressed All right, I'll take a chance I will fall in love with you If I'm a fool you can have the night You can have the morning too Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all Or is your love in vain?

Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat) [Bob Dylan]

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| ... There's a long-distance train rolling through the rain Tears on the letter I write There's a woman I long to touch and I'm missing her so much But she's drifting like a satellite There's a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze Laughter down on Elizabeth Street And a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone Where she bathed in a stream of pure heat Her father would emphasize you got to be more than street-wise But he practiced what he preached from the heart A full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted to me The time and the place that we'd part
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There's a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage
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And a long-time golden-haired stripper onstage
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And she winds back the clock and she turns back the page
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Of a book that nobody can write
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Oh, where are you tonight? The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure To live it you have to explode In that last hour of need, we entirely agreed Sacrifice was the code of the road I left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. John Strong men belittled by doubt I couldn't tell her what my private thoughts were But she had some way of finding them out He took dead-center aim but he missed just the same She was waiting, putting flowers on the shelf She could feel my despair as I climbed up her hair And discovered her invisible self There's a lion in the road, there's a demon escaped There's a million dreams gone, there's a landscape being raped As her beauty fades and I watch her undrape I won't, but then again, maybe I might Oh, if I could just find you tonight I fought with my twin, that enemy within 'Til both of us fell by the way Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees While the law looks the other way Your partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimes The guy you were lovin' couldn't stay clean It felt outta place, my foot in his face But he shoulda stayed where his money was green I bit into the root of forbidden fruit With the juice running down my leg Then I dealt with your boss, who'd never known about loss And who always was too proud to beg There's a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room And a pathway that leads up to the stars If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise Remind me to show you the scars There's a new day at dawn and I've finally arrived If I'm there in the morning, baby, you'll know I've survived I can't believe it, I can't believe I'm alive But without you it just doesn't seem right Oh, where are you tonight?

Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) [Bob Dylan]

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Senor, senor, can you tell me where we're headin'?
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Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?
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Seems like I been down this way before
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Is there any truth in that, senor? Senor, senor, do you know where she is hidin'? How long are we gonna be ridin'? How long must I keep my eyes glued to the door? Will there be any comfort there, senor?
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There's a wicked wind still blowin' on that upper deck
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There's an iron cross still hanging down from around her neck
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There's a marchin' band still playin' in that vacant lot
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Where she held me in her arms one time and said, "Forget me not" Senor, senor, I can see that painted wagon Smell the tail of the dragon Can't stand the suspense anymore Can you tell me who to contact here, senor? Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field A gypsy with a broken flag and a flashing ring He said: "Son, this ain't a dream no more, it's the real thing" Senor, senor, you know their hearts are as hard as leather Well, give me a minute, let me get it together I just gotta pick myself up off the floor I'm ready when you are, senor Senor, senor, let's overturn these tables Disconnect these cables This place don't make sense to me no more Can you tell me what we're waiting for, senor?

The Man In Me [Bob Dylan]

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The man in me will do nearly anything
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And as for conversation, whatever you wanna bring
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Take a woman like you to get through to the man in me Lost on the river of no return I tried to make it up to you, but I'm afraid my heart would burn Take a woman like your kind to find the man in me
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But oh, what a wonderful feeling
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Just to know that you're really there
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It sets my, sets my heart a-reeling
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Right from my feet to the top of the stairs I don't wanna believe it, but I know it's true I'm lying next to her, but I'm thinkin' of you Take a woman like you to get through to the man in me
Saxophone solo over verse chords
Oh, what a wonderful feeling Just to know that you really exist It makes my, makes my head go reeling Honey, when you look my way, how can I resist? I know you got a husband, husband of your own But I can't turn you loose and you can't leave me alone Take a woman like you to get through to the man in me Take a woman like you to get through to the man in me Take a woman like you to get through
*** Alternate lines from Paris ***
Storms on the river of no return I'd try to teach you how, but I know that you never learn I go down to the border beneath the sun Calling out her name, but baby, you're the one Take a woman like you to get through to the man in me

Because The Night [Patti Smith]

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Take me now, baby, here as I am Pull me close try and understand Desire is hunger, is the fire I breathe Love is a banquet on which we feed
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Come on now, try and understand
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The way I feel when I'm in your hand
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Take my hand, come under cover
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They can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now
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Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us
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Have I doubt when I'm alone? Love is a ring on the telephone Love is an angel disguised as lust Here in our bed until the morning comes
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Come on now, try and understand
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The way I feel under your command
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Take my hand as the sun descends
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They can't touch you now, can't touch you now, can't touch you now
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Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us |
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With love we sleep, with doubt the vicious circle turn and turns
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Without you I cannot live, forgive the yearning, burning
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I believe in time, too real to feel
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So touch me now, touch me now, touch me now...
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Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to lust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to us Because tonight there are two lovers If we believe in the light we trust Because the night belongs to lovers Because the night belongs to love