A Gem within Outlaw Blues

Outlaw Blues is a Dylan song that never got any attention. I don't ever remember hearing it on the radio in 43 years. People who complain about his voice have a good case when they hear this song. But within this nondescript song there is a gem of a line that really hit me.

Outlaw Blues

Ain't it hard to stumble

And land in some funny lagoon?

Ain't it hard to stumble

And land in some muddy lagoon?

Especially when it's nine below zeroAnd three o'clock in the afternoon.

Ain't gonna hang no picture,

Ain't gonna hang no picture frame.

Ain't gonna hang no picture,

Ain't gonna hang no picture frame.

Well, I might look like Robert Ford

But I feel just like a Jesse James.

Well, I wish I was on someAustralian mountain range.

Oh, I wish I was on someAustralian mountain range.

I got no reason to be there,

But IImagine it would be some kind of change.

I got my dark sunglasses,

I got for good luck my black tooth.

I got my dark sunglasses,

I'm carryin' for good luck my black tooth.

Don't ask me nothin' about nothin',

I just might tell you the truth.

I got a woman in Jackson,

I ain't gonna say her name.

I got a woman in Jackson,

I ain't gonna say her name.

She's a brown-skin woman,

but I Love her just the same.