Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

I was riding on the Mayflower

When I thought I spied some land

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I was riding on the Mayflower

When I thought I spied some land

I yelled for Captain Arab, I have you understand

Who came a-running to the deck

Said, "Boys, forget the whale

Where goin' over yonder, cut the engines, change the sails"

"Haul on the bowline", we sang that melody

Like all tough sailors do

When they are far away at sea

"I think I'll call it America"

I said as we hit land

I took a deep breath

I fell down, I could not stand

Captain Arab, he started writing up some deeds

He said, "Let's set up a fort

And start buyin' the place with beads"

Just then this cop comes down the street

Crazy as a loon

He throws us all in jail, for carryin' harpoons

Ah, me I busted out, don't even ask me how

I went to get some help

I walked by a Guernsey cow

Who directed me down, to the Bowery slums

Where people carried signs around, sayin', "Ban the bums"

I jumped right into line, sayin'

"I hope that I'm not late"

When I realized I hadn't eaten for five days straight

I went into a restaurant lookin' for the cook

I told them I was the editor

Of a famous etiquette book

The waitress, he was handsome

he wore a powder-blue cape

I ordered some suzette

I said, "Could you please make that crepe"

Just then the whole kitchen, exploded from boilin' fat

Food was flyin' everywhere, I left without my hat

Now, I didn't mean to be nosy

but I went into a bank

To get some bail for Arab

and all the boys back in the tank

They asked me for some collateral

and I pulled down my pants

They threw me in the alley

when up comes this girl from France

Who invited me to her house

I went, but she had a friend

Who knocked me out and robbed my boots

and I was on the street again

Well, I rapped upon a house

with the U.S. flag upon display

I said, "Could you help me out?

I got some friends down the way"

The man says, "Get out of here

I'll tear you limb from limb"

I said, "You know, they refused Jesus, too"

he said, "You're not Him"

"Get out of here before I break your bones

I ain't your pop"

I decided to have him arrested

And I went looking for a cop

I ran right outside, I hopped inside a cab

I went out the other door, this Englishman said, "Fab"

As he saw me leap a hot dog stand

and a chariot that stood

Parked across from a building advertising brotherhood

I ran right through the front door

like a hobo sailor does

But it was just a funeral parlor

and the man asked me who I was

I repeated that my friends were all in jail

with a sigh

He gave me his card, he said

"Call me if they die"

I shook his hand and said, "Goodbye"

ran out to the street

When a bowling ball came down the road

and knocked me off my feet

A pay phone was ringing

and it just about blew my mind

When I picked it up and said, "Hello"

this foot came through the line

Well, by this time I was fed up

at tryin' to make a stab

At bringin' back any help

for my friends and Captain Arab

I decided to flip a coin

like either heads or tails

Would let me know, if I should go

Back to ship or back to jail

So I, hocked my sailor suit

and I got a coin to flip

It came up tails, it rhymed with sails

so I made it back to the ship

Well, I got back

and took the parkin' ticket off the mast

I was ripping it to shreds

when this Coast Guard boat went past

They asked me my name, and I said, "Captain Kidd"

They believed, me but they wanted to know

what exactly that I did

I said, for the Pope, of Eruke I was employed

They let me go right away, they were very paranoid

Well, the last I heard of Arab

He was, stuck on a whale

That was married to the deputy, sheriff of the jail

But the funniest thing was

when I was leavin' the bay

I saw three ships a-sailin'

they were all heading my way

I asked the captain what his name was

And how come he didn't drive a truck

He said his name was Columbus

I just said, "Good luck"