WORKS BY DYLAN HIMSELF
"The highest purpose of art is to inspire. I live in my dreams,
I don't live in the actual world."
-- Bob Dylan 1978 --
Artwork
"I had a teacher who was a conscious artist and he drilled it into me
to be a conscious artist, so I became a conscious artist."
-- Bob Dylan 1977 --
Lyrics & other writings
"Writing is such an isolated thing, you're in such an isolated frame of mind."
-- Bob Dylan 1988 --
- Dylan, Bob: Lyrics, 1962-1985
- Dylan, Bob: Tarantula, 1971
- Dylan, Bob: Tarantula: poems,1994
- Dylan, Bob: Writings and Drawings, 1973
- Dylan, Bob: Writings and Drawings, 1974
- Other website: The Book of Bob: by Jim Roemer, with lyrics to 394 Dylan songs:
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- Other website: Cowboy Angel Sings: for links to both Dylan's own songs and his cover songs.
- Other works that include Dylan writings
- Baez, Joan: And a Voice to Sing With
- Buchanan, Scott: Rock 'n' Roll: The Famous Lyrics
- Charters, Ann: The Portable Beat Reader
- Damsker, Matt: Rock Voices: The Best Lyrics of an Era
- Goldstein, Richard: The Poetry of Rock
- Heylin, Clinton: The Penguin Book of Rock & Roll Writing
- Heylin, Clinton: Saved, The Gospel Speeches of Bob Dylan
- Marsh, Keith Charles: DylanBase: A Comprehensive Discography Software Program
- Pichaske, David R: Beowolf to Beatles: Approaches to Poetry
- Tuttle, John: Bob Dylan: In His Own Write, Vol III
- Walker, Jerry L: Pop/Rock Lyrics 3
- Other website: Bob's Written Word: by Jim Roemer, with the following Dylan writings:
- Poems, Prose and Other Broken Thoughts
- Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous Birthday; Philharmonic Hall NYC concert program, Oct 31, 1964
- Alternatives to College; May 1965
- Blowin' in the Wind; Hootenanny Magazine, Issue #1, Dec 1963 & Occasionally 3
- For Dave Glover; Newport Folk Festival program, 1963
- Go Away You Bomb; For Izzy Young's book about the bomb, 1963
- Grammy Awards; Lifetime Achievement Speech, Feb 20, 1991
- The Kennedy Poems; Margolis & Moss manuscripts
- Last Thoughts on Woodie Guthrie, Town Hall NYC concert, Apr 12, 1963
- Lonesome Christmas; Margolis & Moss manuscripts (Prose Fragment)
- My Life in a Stolen Moment; Town Hall NYC concert program, Apr 12, 1963
- Off the Top of My Head; Newport Folk Festival program, 1965
- Six Poems; Margolis & Moss manuscripts
- Some Other Kinds of Songs... ; Another Side of Bob Dylan album, Summer 1964
- 11 Outlined Epitaphs; The Times They Are A'Changin' album, Nov/Dec 1963
- Album Liner Notes
- Blood on the Tracks, 1974
- Bringing It All Back Home, 1965
- Desire, 1975
- Highway 61 Revisited, 1965
- In the Wind; Peter, Paul and Mary, 1963
- Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2, 1963
- John Wesley Harding, 1968
- Planet Waves, 1974
- The New World Singers, 1963, reproduced in Telegraph #9
- Raps
- The Armageddon Rap; San Francisco, Nov 26, 1979
- The Devil Rap; Syracuse, May 4, 1980
- The Guru Rap; San Francisco, Nov 26, 1979
- The Jesus Trip Rap; Hartford, May 7, 1980
- The Leadbelly Rap; San Francisco, Nov 12, 1980
- The San Francisco Rap; Hartford, May 8, 1980
- The Tempe Recollection Rap; Toronto, Apr 20, 1980
- Letters
Songbooks
"Songs are just thoughts. For the moment they stop time.
Songs are supposed to be heroic enough to give the illusion of stopping time."
-- Bob Dylan 1985 --
Dylan has published songbooks for nearly every official album, with the same title as the album, as well as many compiled from several albums. The following list is by no means complete, nor necessarily completely accurate. Those with identical or very similar titles are probably later reprints of the same songbook. Particularly with early songbooks there is a copyright notice on each separate song, but the name of the publisher or publication date of the songbook itself is not always stated. No one has compiled an exhaustive bibliography of Dylan songbooks. Many songbooks are still in print and can be purchased from this website.
Official Songbooks
- The Bob Dylan Song Book - New York: Witmark & Sons. Inc., 1963
- The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - New York: Warner Bros. Inc., 1963
- The Times They Are A-Changin' - New York: Warner Bros. Inc., 1964
- Bob Dylan's Songs for Harmonica - New York: Witmark & Sons, 1964
- Bringing It All Back Home - New York: Warner Bros. Inc., 1965
- Highway 61 Revisited - New York: Warner Bros. Inc., 1965
- Bob Dylan Song Book - New York: Warner Bros. Publications Inc., 1965
- Bob Dylan Songbook - New York: Witmark & Sons, 1965
- 12 Bob Dylan Hits for Six and Twelve String Guitars - New York: Witmark & Sons, 1965
- Bob Dylan Himself: His Words/His Music - New York: MCA Music Publishing, 1965
- Blonde on Blonde - New York: Dwarf Music, 1966
Five editions: (1) Deluxe Edition, (2) Dylan Style Guitar Edition, (3) Ukulele--Baritone Uke & Tenor Guitar, (4) Easy Guitar & Harmonica Edition, and (5) 5 String Banjo--Tenor Banjo & Mandolin
- Blonde on Blonde - Berlin: Rolf Budde Musikverlag, circa 1966
- Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits - New York: Warner Bros. Publications Inc., 1967
- John Wesley Harding - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1967
- John Wesley Harding - Berlin: Rolf Budde Musikverlag, circa 1968
- Don't Look Back - New York: Witmark & Sons., circa 1967
- Bob Dylan and His Songs, Vol 1 - Berlin: Rolf Budde Musikverlag, ???
- Bob Dylan and His Songs, Vol 2 - Berlin: Rolf Budde Musikverlag, ???
- Bob Dylan: A Collection - New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1968
- Bob Dylan: A Retrospective - New York: Warner Bros. Publications, 1968
- Bob Dylan the Original- Songs Never Before Published - New York: Warner Bros. Inc., 1968
- Nashville Skyline - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1969
- Song Book - New York: Warner Bros. Inc., 1970
- Self Portrait - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1970
- New Morning - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1970
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid - Berlin: Rolf Budde Musikverlag, 1973
- Planet Waves - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1974
- Bob Dylan - Secaucus, N.J.: Warner Bros. Publications, 1974
- Blood on the Tracks - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1975
- The Basement Tapes - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1975
- Desire - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1976
- The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1966 through 1975 - New York: Knopf, 1976
- Street Legal - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1978
- Slow Train Coming - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1979
- Saved - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1980
- Shot of Love - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1981
- Infidels - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1983
- Empire Burlesque - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1985
- Knocked Out Loaded - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1985
- Down in the Groove - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1988
- Oh Mercy - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1989
- Bob Dylan: An Anthology - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1990
- Rock Score - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1990
- Under The Red Sky - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1990
- Classic Dylan - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1991
- Classic Dylan - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1992
- Good As I Been to You - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1992
- The Harp Styles of Bob Dylan - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1992
- Bob Dylan - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1993
- Bob Dylan Anthology 2 - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1996
- Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits: Songtab Edition - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1997
- Bob Dylan: Infidels - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1997
- Bob Dylan: Oh Mercy - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1997
- Bob Dylan: Rock Score - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1997
- Bob Dylan: The 6 Chord Songbook - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1997
- Bob Dylan: The Very Best - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1997
- Bob Dylan: Under the Red Sky - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1997
- Bob Dylan: Unplugged - New York: Omnibus Press, 1997
- Bob Dylan: World Gone Wrong - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1997
- The Bob Dylan Collection - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1997
- Good As I Been to You - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1992
- The Best of Bob Dylan - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1998
- The Concise Bob Dylan - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1998
- Time Out of Mind - New York: Amsco Publications, 1998
- Time Out of Mind - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1998
- Bob Dylan Greatest Hits: Songtab Edition - New York: Amsco Publications, 1999
Songbooks with other editors
- Dick, Arthur: The Complete Guitar Player: Bob Dylan Songbook - Beckman Pub Inc., 1992
- Dylan, Bob; Appleby, Amy: The Harp Styles of Bob Dylan - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1997
- Dylan, Bob; Barr, Leslie: Bob Dylan Anthology - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1991
- Dylan, Bob; Curtin, John: Bob Dylan: Made Easy for Easy Guitar - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1994
- Dylan, Bob; Lane, Cherry; Okun, M: The Songs of Bob Dylan from 1966 Through 1975 - New York: Random House, 1978
- Dylan, Bob; Robinson, Marcel; Willard, Jerry: Fingerpicking Dylan - New York: Music Sales Corp., 1997
Songbooks with incomplete information
- 12 Bob Dylan Hits for Harmonica and Guitar - circa 1960's
- 66 Count 'Em! 66 - circa 1970's, containing 5 Dylan songs and others.
- Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration Songbook
- Bob Dylan Greatest Hits Vol III - 1995
- Bob Dylan: Harmonica - circa 1970's
- Bob Dylan: Leatherette
- Bob Dylan: The Complete Guitar Player
- How to Play Guitar - 6 page Bob Dylan instruction on strumming & fingerpicking.
- It's Easy to Play Bob Dylan - for piano
- Rock Harp - by Tony Glover: tips on styles of Dylan and others.
- Singers & Songwriters: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, Judy Collins - including 6 Dylan songs.
- The Complete Guitar Player Songbook - Omnibus edition, containing 180 songs, including Dylan.
- The Music of Bob Dylan Made Easy for Guitar - Warner Brothers
- Traveling Wilburys Vol 3 Guitar Edition - transcriptions by Alex Houton & Danny Begelman
- U2: Rattle and Hum - including Dylan/Bono's Love Rescue Me and All Along the Watchtower.
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