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'Til I Fell in Love with You
1
10,000 Men
1913 Massacre
2
2 x 2
20/20 Vision
3
32-20 Blues
A
A Change Is Gonna Come
A Couple More Years
A Fool Such As I
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
A Satisfied Mind
Abandoned Love
Abraham, Martin and John
Absolutely Sweet Marie
Accidentally Like A Martyr
Acne
Across the Borderline
Adieu False Heart
Ain't A-Gonna Grieve
Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody
Ain't No More Cane
Ain't Talkin'
Alberta
All Along the Watchtower
All I Really Want to Do
All My Tomorrows
All Or Nothing At All
All Over You
All The Tired Horses
All the Way
All You Have To Do Is Dream
Almost Done
Am I Your Stepchild?
And It Stoned Me
Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
Angelina
Annie's Going To Sing Her Song
Answer Me
Answerphone Message
Any Way You Want Me
Apple Suckling Tree
Are You Ready?
Arthur McBride
As I Went Out One Morning
Autumn Leaves
B
Baby Please Don't Go
Baby What You Want Me To Do
Baby, I'm in the Mood for You
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
Baby, Stop Crying
Baby, Won't You Be My Baby?
Back Door Blues
Ballad For A Friend
Ballad in Plain D
Ballad of a Thin Man
Ballad Of Donald White
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Band Of The Hand (It's Hell Time, Man)
Bandit
Barbara Allen
Be Careful of Stones That You Throw
Belle Isle
Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Beyond the Horizon
Big Yellow Taxi
Billy
Billy (Main Title Theme)
Black Cross (Hezekiah Jones)
Black Crow Blues
Black Diamond Bay
Black Jack Davey
Black Muddy River
Black Rider
Blessed is the Name
Blind Willie McTell
Blood in My Eyes
Blowin' in the Wind
Blue Bonnet Girl
Blue Moon
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Bob Dylan's Blues
Bob Dylan's Dream
Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag
Bonnie Ship the Diamond
Boom Boom Mancini
Boots of Spanish Leather
Born in Time
Bound to Lose, Bound to Win
Bring Me A Little Water
Broke Down Engine
Brokedown Palace
Buckets of Rain
Bye And Bye
C
California
Call Letter Blues
Calling You
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
Can't Help Falling in Love
Can't Wait
Canadee-i-o
Can’t Escape From You
Caribbean Wind
Carrying a Torch
Cat's in the Well
Catfish
Changing of the Guards
Chimes of Freedom
Christmas Blues
Christmas Island
City of Gold
City Of Models
Clean-Cut Kid
Climax Tobacco
Clothes Line Saga
Cocaine Blues
Cold Irons Bound
Coming From The Heart (The Road Is Long)
Confidential To Me
Congratulations
Copper Kettle
Corrina, Corrina
Country Pie
Covenant Woman
Cover Down, Break Through
Crazy
Crazy Love
Cross The Green Mountain
Crossing the Rubicon
Cry Awhile
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird
D
Dan Bern: Like most american men
Dark As A Dungeon
Dark Eyes
Day of the Locusts
Days of '49
Dead Man, Dead Man
Dear Landlord
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
Death Is Not The End
Deep Ellem Blues
Delia
Denise Denise
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
Desolation Row
Desolation Row (w/guitar solos)
Devil's Sidewalk
Diamond Joe
Diamond Joe (M&A)
Diamond Meadows
Dignity
Dink's Song
Dirge
Dirt Road Blues
Dirty Lies
Dirty World
Disease of Conceit
Dixie
Do Right to Me Baby
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Don't Ever Take Yourself Away
Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight
Don't Pity Me
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Don't Ya Tell Henry
Double E
Down Along the Cove
Down in the Flood (Crash on the Levee)
Down On The Banks Of The Ohio
Down the Highway
Dreamin' of You
Drifter's Escape
Driftin' Too Far from Shore
Duncan And Brady
Duquesne Whistle
Dusty Old Fairgrounds
E
Early Mornin' Rain
Early Roman Kings
East Virginia Blues
Easy and Slow
Easy Lovin'
Eileen Aroon
Emotionally Yours
Enough is Enough
Eternal Circle
Every Grain of Sand
Everything is Broken
F
False Prophet
Farewell
Farewell Angelina
Farewell To The Gold
Father of Night
Female Rambling Sailor
Fever
First Noel
Fixin' to Die
Floater (Too Much To Ask)
Foot Of Pride
Forever Young
Forgetful Heart
Four Strong Winds
Fourth Time Around
Frankie & Albert
Freedom for the Stallion
Freight Train Blues
Friend of the Devil
Froggie Went A-Courtin'
From a Buick 6
Full Moon and Empty Arms
Fur Slippers
G
Gates of Eden
George Jackson
Girl from the North Country
Girl on the Green Briar Shore
Go 'way Little Boy
God Knows
Goin' to Acapulco
Going Down To New Orleans
Going, Going, Gone
Golden Loom
Golden Vanity
Gonna Change My Way of Thinking
Goodbye, Holly
Goodbye, Jimmy Reed
Gospel Plow
Got My Mind Made Up
Gotta Serve Somebody
Gotta Travel On
Guess I'm Doing Fine
Guess Things Happen That Way
Gypsy Lou
H
Had A Dream About You, Baby
Hakuna Matata Elton John
Hallelujah
Hallelujah, I'm Ready To Go
Handsome Molly
Handy Dandy
Happy Birthday To You
Hard Times
Hard Times in New York Town
Hard Travelin'
Hark The Herald Angels Sing
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Hazel
He Was a Friend of Mine
Heart of Mine
Heartland
Hejira
Help Me Make It Through The Night
Here comes Santa Claus
Here Today
Hero Blues
Hey La La
Hiding Too Long
High Water (For Charlie Patton)
Highlands
Highway 51
Highway 61 Revisited
Hiram Hubbard
Honest With Me
Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance
House Carpenter
House of the Risin' Sun
Huck's Tune
Humming Bird
Hurricane
I
I Ain't Got No Home
I Am A Lonesome Hobo
I Am The Man, Thomas
I and I
I Believe in You
I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind
I Contain Multitudes
I Could Have Told You
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
I Don't Hurt Anymore
I Don't Need You
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
I Feel a Change Coming On
I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
I Pity the Poor Immigrant
I Rode Out One Morning
I see monsters
I Shall Be Free
I Shall Be Free No. 10
I Shall Be Released
I Still Miss Someone
I Threw It All Away
I Wanna Be Your Lover
I Want You
I Was Young When I Left Home
I Will Love Him
I Will Sing
I Wish It Would Rain
I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day
I'll Be Around
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
I'll Keep It with Mine
I'll Not Be A Stranger
I'll Remember You
I'm A Fool For You
I'm a Fool to Want You
I'm a Fool to Want You
I'm A Fool To Want You
I'm In The Mood For Love
I'm Movin' On
I'm Not Supposed To Care
I'm Not There (1956)
I'm Your Teenage Prayer
I've Been All Around This World
I've Made up My Mind to Give Myself to You
Idiot Wind
If Dogs Run Free
If I Don't Be There By Morning
If I Was a King
If Not for You
If You Belonged to Me
If You Ever Go To Houston
If You Gotta Go, Go Now
If You See Her, Say Hello
Ill Be Home For Christmas
Important Words
In My Time of Dyin'
In Search of Little Sadie
In The Evening
In the Garden
In The Pines
In the Summertime
Is Your Love in Vain?
Isis
It Ain't Me, Babe
It Had To Be You
It Hurts Me Too
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
It's All Good
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
It's Hard To Be Blind
J
Jack-A-Roe
James Alley Blues
Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
Jet Pilot
Jewel
Jim Jones
Joey
John Brown
John Wesley Harding
Johnny Cash: If You Could Read My Mind
Johnny Cash: Love’s Been Good to Me
Jokerman
Jolene
Julia
Julius and Ethel
Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Just Like a Woman
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Just When I Needed You Most
j
johey
K
Kaatskill Serenade
Kajsas Sang
Karl Nilsson
Key to the Highway
Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
Kindhearted Woman Blues
Kingsport Town
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
L
La Cienaga Just Smiled
Lady of Carlisle
Laissez Faire
Lakes of Pontchartrain
Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
Lawyers, Guns and Money
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Lay, Lady, Lay
Legionnaire's Disease
Lenny Bruce
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Let It Be Me
Let Me Die in My Footsteps
Let's Begin
Let's Keep It Between Us
Let's Stick Together
License to Kill
Life is Good
Life is Good
Life Is Hard
Like a Rolling Stone
Like a Ship
Lily of the West
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Lithuania
Little Maggie
Little Moses
Little Sadie
Little Susie Shallow Throat
Liverpool Gal
Living the Blues
Lo and Behold
Lone Pilgrim
Lonesome Day Blues
Lonesome River Edge
Lonesome Town
Lonesome Whistle Blues
Long Ago, Far Away
Long and Wasted Years
Long Black Veil
Long Time Gone
Long Time Man
Lord, Protect My Child
Lost Highway
Love Henry
Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Love Sick
Lunatic Princess
M
Maggie's Farm
Make You Feel My Love
Mama, You Been on My Mind
Man Gave Names to All the Animals
Man In The Long Black Coat
Man of Constant Sorrow
Man Of Peace
Man on the Street
Marchin to the City
Mary and the Soldier
Mary Ann
Mary Ann
Mary Gauthier: Our lady of the shooting star
Mary Of The Wild Moor
Masters of War
Matchbox
Maybe Someday
Maybe You'll Be There
Meet Me in the Morning
Melancholy Mood
Memphis in June
Milk Cow Blues
Million Dollar Bash
Million Miles
Minstrel Boy
Miss the Mississippi and You
Mississippi
Mississippi John Hurt: Spike Driving Blues
Mixed Up Confusion
Moon River
Moonlight
Moonshiner
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)
Most of the Time
Mother of Muses
Motherless Children
Motorpsycho Nightmare
Mountain Dew
Mozambique
Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Tambourine Man
Murder Most Foul
Must Be Santa
Mutineer
My Back Pages
My Blue Eyed Jane
My Own Version of You
My Wife's Home Town
Mystery Train
N
Naomi Wise
Narrow Way
Nashville Skyline Rag
Need A Woman
Neighborhood Bully
Nettie Moore
Never Gonna Be the Same Again
Never Let Me Go
Never Say Goodbye
Nevertheless
New American Language
New Danville Girl/Brownsville Girl
New Minglewood Blues
New Morning
New Pony
Nic Jones: Canadee-i-o
Night After Night
Ninety Miles An Hour (Down A Dead End Street)
No More Auction Block
No More One More Time
No Time to Think
Nobody 'Cept You
North Country Blues
Not Dark Yet
Not Fade Away
Nothing was Delivered
O
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Obviously Five Believers
Odds and Ends
Oh, Babe, It Ain't No Lie
Oh, Sister
Old Five And Dimer
Old Man
Old Rock 'n' Roller
Ole Paus: Ruben Bærer lyset
On a Night Like This
On A Rainy Afternoon/Does She Need Me?/I Can't Leave Her Behind
On the Road Again
One Irish Rover
One Man's Loss
One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
One More Light
One More Night
One More Weekend
One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
One Single River (Song For Canada)
One Too Many Mornings
Only a Hobo
Only a Pawn in Their Game
Open the Door, Homer
Other Artists
Outlaw Blues
Oxford Town
P
Pancho and Lefty
Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior
Paths of Victory
Patricia the stripper
Pay in Blood
Peace in the Valley
Peggy Day
People Get Ready
People Putting People Down
Percy's Song
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Please, Mrs. Henry
Pledging My Time
Po' Boy
Political World
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Polly Vaughn
Poor Boy Blues
Poor Lazarus
Positively 4th Street
Positively van Gogh
Precious Angel
Precious Memories
Pressing On
Pretenders
Pretty Boy Floyd
Pretty Peggy-O
Pretty Saro
Property of Jesus
Q
Queen Jane Approximately
Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Quit Your Low Down Ways
R
Ragged & Dirty
Railroad Bill
Railroad Boy
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Rambler, Gambler
Ramblin' Down Through the World
Rambling, Gambling Willie
Rank Strangers To Me
RAWHIDE
Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache
Red River Shore
Red Rosey Bush
Remember me (When the Candle Lights are Gleaming)
Repossession Blues
Restless Farewell
Return To Me
Rick Danko: When You Awake
Ring Them Bells
Rise Again
Rita May
Rock Me Mama
Rock of Ages
Rock Salt and Nails
Rocks And Gravel
Roll On John
Roll On John
Rollin' and Tumblin'
Romance in Durango
Roving Blade (Newry Highwayman)
Roving Gambler
Ryan Adams: Rescue Blues
S
Sad Songs and Waltzes
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Sally Gal
Sally Sue Brown
San Francisco Bay Blues
Santa Fe
Sara
Sarah Jane
Saved
Saving Grace
Scarlet Town
Searching For A Soldier's Grave
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
See You Later Allen Ginsberg
Seeing the Real You at Last
Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
September of my Years
Series of Dreams
Seven Curses
Seven Days
Seven Deadly Sins
Shadows
Shake Shake Mama
Shake Sugaree
Shaved!
She
She Belongs to Me
She's Love Crazy
She's Your Lover Now
Shelter from the Storm
Shenandoah
Shooting Star
Shot of Love
Sidewalks, Fences and Walls
Sign Language
Sign on the Cross
Sign on the Window
Silent Weekend
Silver Bells
Silver Dagger
Silvio
Simple Twist of Fate
Sittin' on a Barbed-Wire Fence
Sittin' on Top of the World
Skylark
Skylark
Sloppy Drunk
Slow Train
Smokestack Lightning
Smuk og Dejlig
Solid Rock
Some Enchanted Evening
Somebody Touched Me
Someday Baby
Something There Is About You
Something's Burning, Baby
Song to Woody
Soon
Soon After Midnight
Spanish Harlem Incident
Spanish is the Loving Tongue
Spirit on the Water
Stack A Lee
Stand By Me
Standing In The Doorway
Standing In The Doorway (textual commentaries)
Standing On The Highway
Stardust
Stay With Me
Stealin'
Steel Bars
Step It Up And Go
Still in Town
Stilleste Gutt på Sovesal En
Stone Walls and Steel Bars
Stop Now
Straight A's In Love
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Sugar Baby
Summer Days
Sundstrm: Bltgods
Suze (The Cough Song)
Sweet Caroline
Sweetheart Like You
T
T.V. Talkin' Song
Take a Message to Mary
Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)
Talkin' Devil
Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
Talkin' New York
Talkin' World War III Blues
Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
Tallest Man on Earth: Drying of the Lawns
Tallest Man on Earth: King of Spain
Tallest Man On Earth: Lion's Heart
Tallest Man on Earth: Trouble Will Be Gone
Tallest Man on Earth: Wild Hunt
Tangled Up in Blue
Tattle O'Day
Tears of Rage
Telephone Wire
Tell Me
Tell Me That It Isn't True
Tell Me, Momma
Tell Ol' Bill
Tempest
Temporary Like Achilles
Textual sources to the "Love and Theft" songs
Thank God
That Lucky Old Sun
That Old Black Magic
That's Alright Mama
The Ballad of Delia Green and Moses "Cooney" Houston
The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
The Ballad of Ira Hayes
The Ballad of the Gliding Swan
The Banks of the Royal Canal
The Boxer
The Christmas Song
The Death of Emmett Till
The End Of The Innocence
The folk song army
The French Girl
The Girl I Left Behind
The Grand Coulee Dam
The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar
The Harder They Come
The Henry Timrod Connection
The Lady Came From Baltimore
The Levee's Gonna Break
The Little Drummer Boy
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
The Lonesome River
The Man in Me
The Night We Called It a Day
The Rain And The Wind
The Time Of Love Is Now
The Times They Are A-Changin'
The Times We've Known
The Two Sisters
The Usual
The Visit
The Water Is Wide
The Wicked Messenger
These Hands
They Killed Him
Thief On The Cross
Things Have Changed
Thirsty Boots
This Dream of You
This Evening So Soon
This land is your land
This Night Won't Last Forever
This Was My Love
This Wheel's on Fire
This World Can't Stand Long
Thousand Ways
Three Angels
Thunder on the Mountain
Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love) / Someone Got A Hold of My Heart
Till I Get It Right
Time Passes Slowly
Tin Angel
Tiny Montgomery
To Be Alone with You
To Fall In Love With You
To Ramona
Tombstone Blues
Tomorrow is a Long Time
Tomorrow Night
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Too Late
Too Much of Nothing
Tough Mama
Trail of the Buffalo
Train A-Travelin’
Train of Love
Trouble
Trouble In Mind
Troubled and I don't Know Why
Truckin'
True Love Tends to Forget
Trust Yourself
Try Me
Tryin' To Get To Heaven
Trying To Get To Heaven ;-)
Tweedle Dee And Tweedle Dum
Tweeter and the Monkeyman
Two Soldiers
Two Trains Runnin'
U
Ugliest Girl In The World
Unbelievable
Under the Red Sky
Under Your Spell
Union Sundown
Up to Me
V
Vatican Rag
Vincent Van Gogh
Viola Lee Blues
Visions of Johanna
Voice From On High/I Hear A Voice Calling
Vomit Express
W
Wagoner's Lad
Wait For The Light To Shine
Waitin' For You
Waiting To Get Beat
Walk Around Heaven All Day
Walk out in the rain
Walkin' Down the Line
Wallflower
Walls of Red Wing
Waltzing With Sin
Wanted Man
Watching the River Flow
Watered-Down Love
We Better Talk This Over
We Had It All
We Just Disagree
We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)
Wedding Song
Weeping Willow
Weeping Willow Blues (Blind Boy Fuller's version)
Went to See the Gypsy
West Texas
What Can I Do For You?
What Can I Do For You? Harp solo
What Good Am I?
What Kind of Friend Is This?
What Was It You Wanted?
What'll I Do
Whatcha Gonna Do?
When Did You Leave Heaven?
When First Unto This Country
When He Returns
When I Got Troubles
When I Paint My Masterpiece
When the Deal Goes Down
When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
When the Ship Comes In
When You Gonna Wake Up?
Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)
Where Are You?
Where Do My Bluebird Fly?
Where Teardrops Fall
White Dove
Who Killed Davey Moore?
Why Do I Have To Choose?
Why Try to Change Me Now?
Wichita Blues
Wieviele Straen
Wiggle Wiggle
Wigwam
Wild Flowers
Wild Mountain Thyme
Willin'
Winter Wonderland
Winterlude
With God on Our Side
Working on a Guru
Workingman's Blues #2
World Gone Wrong
Worried Blues
Y
Ye Shall Be Changed
Yea, Heavy and a bottle of bread
Yonder Comes Sin
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
You Angel You
You Belong To Me
You Can't Get Her Out Of Your Heart
You Changed My Life
You Don't Have To Do That
You Don't Know Me
You Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog Around
You Wanna Ramble
You're a Big Girl Now
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
You're Gonna Quit Me, Baby
You're No Good
You're Too Late
Young But Daily Growin'
Your breath is rank Your eyes are crossed and there
