Santa-Fe

Santa Fe¹, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear Santa Fe,

My woman needs it every day,

She promised this a-lad she'd stay,

She rolling up a lots of bread to toss away.

She's in Santa Fe, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear Santa Fe,

Now she's opened up a lefty home,

She's proud, but she needs to roam,

She's opened up a happy home,

She [incomprehensible]

And the Santa Fe.

Santa Fe, dear, dear, dear, dear Santa Fe,

Since I'm'a never cease to roam,

I'm never, never far from home,

I'm'a ever, ever, ever long to sail away.

Please don't feel bad, no, no, no, no, don't, don't, don't feel bad,

She's the worst you could ever have,

Since the madman, a-he's so glad,

She's over 'bove the [incomprehensible] pad,

She's never, never feeled so bad I went away.

Santa Fe, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear Santa Fe,

My own heart's in the [incomprehensible],

I won't have my nature way,

And I'm leaving every day to run away

From Santa Fe, dear, dear, dear, dear, dear Santa Fe.

My woman's never sitting at home,

She's packing up a lease unknown,

She's crying like an evil stone,

She leave by the other and roam,

But she ain't gonna find the road

And that's gonna set her on her own every day.

¹ This recording is extremely difficult to transcribe due to the poor quality and the seemingly improvised lyrics. Therefore, my transcription, while based off of previous transcriptions, is little more than guesswork in a lot of places. As for many of the "Basement Tapes"-era songs, large portions of the lyrics are so-called "dummy" lyrics, lyrics that are partially improvised by Dylan as the song proceeds, only intended to keep up the rhythm and often nonsensical and ungrammatical. For some portions, I cannot even hazard a guess and have used the "[incomprehensible]" marker.