Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Performer
Jimi Hendrix
Guitar
Noel Redding
Bass
Mitch Mitchell
Drums
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Bob Dylan
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Lou Adler
Producer
John Phillips
Producer
Janie Hendrix
Producer
Eddie Kramer
Producer
John McDermott
Producer
WALLY HEIDER
Engineer
Dayton Burr Howe
Engineer
Lyrics
[Intro]
Yeah, I dig, brother, um
It's really hard to say here
Didn't even rain, no buttons to push
Right now, I wanna dedicate this song to everybody here
With hearts, any kind of hearts and ears
Goes something like this here
Yeah
Yeah, what I say now
Hey
[Intro]
Yes, as I said before it's really groovy
I'd like to bore you for about six or seven minutes
We'll do a little thing, you know
Yeah
Will you excuse me for a minute
Just let me play my guitar, alright?
[Intro]
Right now, we're going to do a little thing called
By Bob Dylan
And that's his grandma over there
It's a little thing called 'Like a Rolling Stone'
[Verse 1]
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime
Oh, didn't you?
People call, say "Beware doll
You're bound to fall"
You thought they all, huh
Were kiddin' you
[Verse 2]
You used to laugh about
Oh, everybody that was a hangin' out
Look at you, now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't, baby, seem so proud
About having to be scrounging, yeah
For your next meal
[Chorus]
Yeah, how does it feel?
Oh, how does it feel, baby?
To be on your own
No direction at all
Look at you
A complete unknown
Yeah, like a rolling stone?
[Verse 3]
You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
Nobody ever taught you how to live on the streets
And now you just gonna have to get
Used to it
[Verse 4]
You said you'd never
You never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you
You got to realize
He's not selling an a, any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And he says, "Hey baby, would you like to, uh
Make a deal?"
[Chorus]
How does it feel, baby?
How does it feel?
To be on your own
No direction home
A complete unknown
Look at you
Like a rolling stone?
[Verse 5]
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They all laugh and drink and think that they got it made, yeah
Exchanging all precious gifts and things, but-
But you'd better take your diamond ring
I think you'd better, you'd better pawn it babe
Yes, I know I missed a verse, don't worry
[Verse 6]
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the sweet talk that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal
[Chorus]
How does it feel?
Oh, how does it feel, baby?
To be on your own
No direction home
A complete unknown
Look at you
Like a rolling stone?
[Outro]
Thank you very much
Yeah, dig this baby
They got a little tune called "Rock Me, Baby", you know
No, this kinda
Yeah, ah-ah
We got our own little "Rock Me, Baby"
It goes something like this, here
The words will be wrong
But a-, hey
That's alright, you dig this anyway
Written by: Bob Dylan