Lyr Req: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather

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Lyr Req: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather

10 Aug 00 - 01:41 PM (#275144)
Subject: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
From: SINSULL

This is an early Dylan song. Anybody have the lyrics?

10 Aug 00 - 01:44 PM (#275147)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
From: MMario

Howdy sinsull. they are here

url=http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/spanish.html

10 Aug 00 - 01:51 PM (#275153)
Subject: Lyr Add: BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER (Bob Dylan)
From: SINSULL

MMario,
Came back quick after finding them in the obvious place. Sorry. Here they are for anyone interested.

Oh, I'm sailin' away my own true love,
I'm sailin' away in the morning.
Is there something I can send you from across the sea,
From the place that I'll be landing?

No, there's nothin' you can send me, my own true love,
There's nothin' I wish to be ownin'.
Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled,
From across that lonesome ocean.

Oh, but I just thought you might want something fine
Made of silver or of golden,
Either from the mountains of Madrid
Or from the coast of Barcelona.

Oh, but if I had the stars from the darkest night
And the diamonds from the deepest ocean,
I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss,
For that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

That I might be gone a long time
And it's only that I'm askin',
Is there something I can send you to remember me by,
To make your time more easy passin'.

Oh, how can, how can you ask me again,
It only brings me sorrow.
The same thing I want from you today,
I would want again tomorrow.

I got a letter on a lonesome day,
It was from her ship a-sailin',
Saying I don't know when I'll be comin' back again,
It depends on how I'm a-feelin'.

Well, if you, my love, must think that-a-way,
I'm sure your mind is roamin'.
I'm sure your heart is not with me,
But with the country to where you're goin'.

So take heed, take heed of the western wind,
Take heed of the stormy weather.
And yes, there's something you can send back to me,
Spanish boots of Spanish leather.

10 Aug 00 - 02:13 PM (#275172)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
From: catspaw49

BTW Sins.......HERE is an excellent Dylan site that I like for Lyrics as well.

Spaw

10 Aug 00 - 05:36 PM (#275338)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
From: Murray MacLeod

Has anyone else heard Martin Simpson's version of this? Phenomenal ....

Murray

10 Aug 00 - 07:34 PM (#275400)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
From: Tim Salt

Murray

I saw Martin Simpson perform this in Sidmouth on Wednesday ...... and it was awesome.

Tim

10 Aug 00 - 07:56 PM (#275404)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
From: SINSULL

Thanks for the link, Spaw. Who is Martin Simpson?

10 Aug 00 - 10:15 PM (#275509)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
From: Mrrzy

This is one of my very favorite ballads from way back when, before I'd even heard of Dylan, one of my sisters (the one who was trying to be Joan Baez) used to sing this... it still gets me right *thunk* here...and yeah, who is this Simpson guy?

10 Aug 00 - 11:11 PM (#275556)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
From: Little Hawk

Thanks for the Dylan page, Spaw! One more on my list of favorites.

10 Aug 00 - 11:28 PM (#275572)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
From: catspaw49

Happy to do it Hawk.....No translation required either huh? (:<)) Joe collected some lyrics sites from us for people we can't list in the DT and its in the teal thread at the top, the FAQ. Here's a good one for The Grateful Dead

And Sins and Mrzz....Check out Martin Simpsom HERE.....Really a fine performer.

Spaw

11 Aug 00 - 07:28 AM (#275718)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
From: GUEST,Fedele (now in Germany)

Just to remind that also Dubliners performed it in a wonderful version (actually the only one I heard... I discovered that it was Dylan´s much later...), with some girl I can´t remember now, sorry. But try to find it, believe me. I have it in one of the 5,678,895 Best Albums by Dubliners.