(c)1964 Words & Music Bob Dylan
Track 1 on album "Another Side Of Bob Dylan"
also on "Greatest Hits II" (1971). Live Versions on "At Budokan" (1978) and "Live 1964" (2004)
Arr. stagwolf
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I ain´t looking to compete with you, beat or cheat or mistreat you.. simplify you, classify you, deny, defy or crucify you..
All I really wanna do is, baby, be friends with you
No and I ain´t lookin´ to fight with you, frighten you or uptighten you.. drag you down or drain you down, chain u down or bring u down..
All I really wanna do is, baby, be friends with you
I ain´t lookin´ to block you up, shock or knock or lock you up.. analyze you, categorize you, finalize you or advertise you..
All I really wanna do is, baby, be friends with you
I don´t wanna straight-face you, race or chase u, track or trace you.. or disgrace you or displace you, or define you or confine you..
All I really wanna do is, baby, be friends with you
I don´t wanna meet your kin, make you spin or do you in.. or select you or dissect you, or inspect your or reject you..
All I really wanna do is, baby, be friends with you
I don´t wanna fake you out, take or shake or forsake you out.. I ain´t lookin´ for u to feel like me, see like me or be like me..
All I really wanna do is, baby, be friends with you
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Bluesharp key of A
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Copyright music and lyrics reproduced by kind permission of Special Rider - for original, exclusive performances by Bob Dylan, check-out the official channel at www.youtube.com/bobdylan.
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Dylan wrote the song in 1964 and recorded it in one take on June 9, 1964.
Like other songs on Another Side of Bob Dylan, "All I Really Want to Do" was inspired by Dylan's breakup with Suze Rotolo.
"All I Really Want to Do" opens the album on a with a different attitude than Dylan's previous album, The Times They Are a-Changin'; a playful song about a relationship rather than a finger-pointing political song. Musically simple, though playful, "All I Really Want to Do" is essentially a list of things, physical and psychological, that Dylan does not want to do or be to the listener (perhaps a woman, but just as likely his audience as a whole). Dylan laughs at some of his own jokes in the song, as he parodies typical "boy meets girl" love songs.
One interpretation of the song is that it is a parody of male responses to early feminist conversations. Along with another Another Side of Bob Dylan song, "It Ain't Me, Babe," "All I Really Want to Do" questioned the usual assumptions of relationships between men and women, rejecting possessiveness and machismo.
The song's chorus features Dylan singing in a high, keening yodel, likely inspired by Hank Williams or Ramblin' Jack Elliott, while disingenuously claiming that all he wants to do is to be friends.
"All I Really Want to Do" sees Dylan experimenting with the conventions of the romantic pop song by constructing rhymes within lines and also rhyming the end of every line with the end of the following line. The first known live concert performance of "All I Really Want to Do" was at the Newport Folk Festival on July 26, 1964.
It remained part of Dylan's concert set list for his all acoustic shows in 1965.
It returned to Dylan's concert sets in 1978, when Dylan sang it at the end of most shows to the melody of Simon and Garfunkel's "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)".
For those shows, he often revised the lyrics, incorporating mischievous verses such as:
I ain't lookin' to make you fry, see you fly or watch you die and I don't want to drag you down, chain you down or be your clown
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