{"id":806573,"date":"2020-04-20T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=986753"},"modified":"2020-04-20T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T14:18:00","slug":"bob-dylans-handwritten-the-times-they-are-a-changin-lyrics-are-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bob-dylans-handwritten-the-times-they-are-a-changin-lyrics-are-up-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan\u2019s Handwritten \u2018The Times They Are-a Changin\u201d Lyrics Are Up for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bob-dylan-times-changin-lyrics.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A handwritten lyric manuscript of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-dylan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-dylan\" data-tag=\"bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan<\/a>\u2019s 1964 protest classic \u201cThe Times They Are a-Changin&#8217;\u201d is headed to the auction block. The asking price is $2.2 million, which would be a record high for song lyrics. The previous record was reached in 2014 when the lyrics for Dylan\u2019s \u201cLike a Rolling Stone\u201d were auctioned for $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics are written on a <a href=\"https:\/\/momentsintime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/moments4-13-761x1024.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">single sheet of lined paper in Dylan\u2019s handwriting<\/a> and reveal numerous discarded lyric fragments and intriguing notes like \u201cCarter Family Tune,\u201d \u201c42nd Street Photo Booth,\u201d \u201cPeter-Banjo\u201d and \u201cTommy Blake Sweetie Pie,\u201d a reference to a 1958 tune by a somewhat obscure rockabilly singer signed to Sun Records.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/90WD_ats6eE?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An entire versed is crossed out on the right side of the sheet that includes the lines, \u201cCome all magicians of illusion and deceit\/With 100 16 weights tied to your feet\/Get up, get up stand on your feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The manuscript is owned by an anonymous private collector but was originally owned by Dylan\u2019s manager Jeff Rosen. It is being sold via Moments in Time in Los Angeles. They are also offering the lyrics for \u201cSubterranean Homesick Blues\u201d for $1.2 million and \u201cLady Lady Lay\u201d for $650,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not quite as important, as iconic,\u201d Moments in Time owner Gary Zimet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-music-bob-dylan-lyrics\/dylans-times-they-are-a-changin-lyrics-for-sale-for-2-2-million-idUSKBN2210TI?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=entertainmentNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">told <em>Reuters.<\/em><\/a> \u201c\u2018Subterranean Homesick Blues\u2019 is certainly a major, major song but not in the same league as \u2018The Times They Are a-Changin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dylan was supposed to spend the entire month of April touring Japan, but the coronavirus forced the cancellation of the tour. He is supposed to kick off an extensive summer tour in Bend, Oregon, on June 4th, but it seems extremely likely those dates will have to be postponed. If he\u2019s unable to perform anywhere this year, it will be his first extended break from the road since the start of the Never Ending Tour in 1988.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bob-dylans-handwritten-the-times-they-are-a-changin-lyrics-headed-auction-986753\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handwritten lyric manuscript of Bob Dylan\u2019s 1964 protest classic \u201cThe Times They Are a-Changin&#8217;\u201d is headed to the auction block. The asking price is $2.2 million, which would be a record high for song lyrics. The previous record was reached in 2014 when the lyrics for Dylan\u2019s \u201cLike a Rolling Stone\u201d were auctioned for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 13:56:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}