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The Basement Tapes · 1975

Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread

A nonsense song from the 1967 Woodstock sessions with the Band, first officially released on The Basement Tapes in 1975.

The words

A jumble of absurd images about packing up and setting off, sung with a straight face.

The song strings together odd, comic images of travel, food and getting ready to leave, without ever settling into a clear story. Its humour comes from how seriously it delivers pure nonsense, as if every detail mattered. The chorus repeats its strange title phrase like a slogan. The music lopes along at a lazy pace, loose and goofy, in the spirit of musicians amusing themselves.

Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗

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The words

A jumble of absurd images about packing up and setting off, sung with a straight face.

The song strings together odd, comic images of travel, food and getting ready to leave, without ever settling into a clear story. Its humour comes from how seriously it delivers pure nonsense, as if every detail mattered. The chorus repeats its strange title phrase like a slogan. The music lopes along at a lazy pace, loose and goofy, in the spirit of musicians amusing themselves.

Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗

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