1961 columbia records çıkışlı, ilk bob dylan albümünün, dylan imzalı tek şarkısıdır. yıllar, yıllar sonra*no direction home'da, dylan'dan öğreniriz ki, zat-ı alileri* bu şarkıyı bir vefa borcu, ustasına saygı babında yazmaya mecbur hissetmişler kendilerini... leadbelly'e kadar uzanan bir saygı duruşunun sebebi de bu olsa gerek. hasta, aç, yorgun, yıpranmış, ölmekte olan ve yeniden doğması çok zor görünen bir dünyanın kral çıplak'çısı 20 yaşındaki bir bob dylan'a kulak verilmesi elzemdir.
I'm out here a thousand miles from my home,
Walkin' a road other men have gone down.
I'm seein' your world of people and things,
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings.
Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
'Bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along.
Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn,
It looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.
Hey, Woody Guthrie, but I know that you know
All the things that I'm a-sayin' an' a-many times more.
I'm a-singin' you the song, but I can't sing enough,
'Cause there's not many men that done the things that you've done.
Here's to Cisco an' Sonny an' Leadbelly too,
An' to all the good people that traveled with you.
Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind.
I'm a-leaving' tomorrow, but I could leave today,
Somewhere down the road someday.
The very last thing that I'd want to do
Is to say I've been hittin' some hard travelin' too.
