Bob Dylan Blues est une chanson que Syd Barrett aurait écrite après avoir assisté à un concert de Bob Dylan en 1963. Plausible, puisque Syd était un grand fan de Bob Dylan, mais impossible à vérifier. La chanson ne fut enregistrée qu’en 1970 et publiée en 2001 sur la compilation Wouldn't You Miss Me.

Détail amusant : Dylan a sorti une chanson portant le même titre sur son album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963) !

Got the Bob Dylan blues
And the Bob Dylan shoes
And my clothes and my hair’s in a mess
But you know I just couldn’t care less

Goin’ to write me a song
Bout what’s right and what’s wrong
Bout God and my god and all that
Quiet while I make like a cat

Cause I’m a poet
Don’t ya know it
And the wind, you can blow it
Cause I’m Mr. Dylan, the king
And I’m free as a bird on the wing

Roam from town to town
Guess I get people down
But I don’t care too much about that
Cause my gut and my wallet are fat

Make a whole lotta dough
But I deserve it though
I’ve got soul and a good heart of gold
So I’ll sing about war in the cold

Cause I’m a poet
Don’t ya know it
And the wind, you can blow it
Cause I’m Mr. Dylan, the king
And I’m free as a bird on the wing

Well I sings about dreams, and I rhymes it with seems
Cos it seems that my dream always means
That I can prophesy all kinds of things

Well the guy that digs me, should try hard to see
That he buys all my disks in a hat
And when I’m in town go see that

Cause I’m a poet
Don’t ya know it
And the wind, you can blow it
Cause I’m Mr. Dylan, the king
And I’m free as a bird on the wing

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