The Byrds' electric version reached number one in 1965 before many listeners had heard Dylan's own.
The words
A sleepless singer asks a street musician to carry him off into music and forgetting.
Tired but unable to sleep, the singer speaks to a street musician and begs him to play a song so that he can follow. He asks to be carried away from his own mind and worries for a while, out into a night of motion, music and forgetting. The verses drift through images of dancing, wandering and escape, always returning to the request in the refrain. Dylan's own version is gentle and mostly acoustic, with harmonica.
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The words
A sleepless singer asks a street musician to carry him off into music and forgetting.
Tired but unable to sleep, the singer speaks to a street musician and begs him to play a song so that he can follow. He asks to be carried away from his own mind and worries for a while, out into a night of motion, music and forgetting. The verses drift through images of dancing, wandering and escape, always returning to the request in the refrain. Dylan's own version is gentle and mostly acoustic, with harmonica.
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