# Best Bob Dylan Song Not Written by Bob Dylan
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 14, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924 "2007-03-14T19:02:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/1 "2007-03-14T19:02:21Z")
“Who Are You,” by World Party on the [Dumbing Up](http://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Up-World-Party/dp/B000EWBKF8/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5625761-1946464?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1173898598&sr=8-1) album, finally released in the U.S. Note perfect.
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### Author:  [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/2 "2007-03-14T19:03:33Z")
Blinded by the Light.
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### Author:  [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/3 "2007-03-14T19:09:25Z")
[Bob](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg)
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/4 "2007-03-14T19:11:09Z")
“Polka Dot Undies” by Bowser & Blue.
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### Author:  [@waits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waits)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2007, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/5 "2007-03-14T19:12:34Z")
“A Public Execution” by Mouse and the Traps
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/6 "2007-03-14T19:33:03Z")
“17 Miles from Waukeegan My Cantelope Died” by the Harvard Lampoon.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/7 "2007-03-14T19:36:48Z")
If you guys want to play that game, I’ll raise with Paul Simon’s “A Simple Desultory Philippic.”
I was serious in the OP, BTW. It’s really good.
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/8 "2007-03-14T19:45:12Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn]
Blinded by the Light.
[/QUOTE]
What I came in to say.
OTOH, “Tweeter and the Monkeyman” is the best Bruce song written by Dylan.
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### Author:  [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/9 "2007-03-14T23:48:42Z")
_Catch the Wind_ by Donovan.
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### Author:  [@2pelo\_honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2pelo_honey)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/10 "2007-03-14T23:59:32Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager]
What I came in to say.
OTOH, “Tweeter and the Monkeyman” is the best Bruce song written by Dylan.
[/QUOTE]
Bruce? 😕
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### Author:  [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/11 "2007-03-15T02:24:38Z")
“Episode of Blonde,” Elvis Costello
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/12 "2007-03-15T02:46:31Z")
Another vote for “Bob”
now I see bees I won!
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/13 "2007-03-15T02:50:11Z")
Will check out the song in the OP.
Surprised noone has chimed in with Hide Your Love Away by John Lennon. What Dylan would sound like if he wanted to chart.
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### Author:  [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/14 "2007-03-15T03:39:41Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan]
Surprised noone has chimed in with Hide Your Love Away by John Lennon. What Dylan would sound like if he wanted to chart.
[/QUOTE]
Lennon, like the young Paul Simon, often mistook self-pity for honesty. “Hide Your Love Away” may have a folky quality on the surface, but there’s very little that’s Dylanesque about it.
I may be loopy, but I think the Beatles’ most Dylanesque song, at least thematically/lyrically, is “Eleanor Rigby.”
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### Author:  [@malkabat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkabat)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/15 "2007-03-15T04:14:28Z")
Patty Griffin’s [Cold As It Gets](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pattygriffin/coldasitgets.html).
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### Author:  [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2007, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/16 "2007-03-15T11:32:57Z")
“My Bucket’s Got A Hole in It” by Hank Williams
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2007, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/17 "2007-03-15T12:26:28Z")
“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” by Lennon & McCartney.
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### Author:  [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/18 "2007-03-15T13:12:19Z")
“Redemption Song” by Bob Marley
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/19 "2007-03-15T16:34:17Z")
[QUOTE=2pelo honey]
Bruce? 😕
[/QUOTE]
Nobody has taken pity on our poor guest?
“Blinded By the Light” was a song on Bruce Springsteen’s first album. It may be better known in the cover version done by Manfred Mann.
In either one it doesn’t sound to me the tiniest bit like a Dylan song any more than the Beatles songs mentioned do.
“Bob” is pretty funny, though. It was new to me. Thanks for linking to it.
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### Author:  [@2pelo\_honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2pelo_honey)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-bob-dylan-song-not-written-by-bob-dylan/395924/20 "2007-03-15T19:08:27Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase]
Nobody has taken pity on our poor guest?
“Blinded By the Light” was a song on Bruce Springsteen’s first album. It may be better known in the cover version done by Manfred Mann.
In either one it doesn’t sound to me the tiniest bit like a Dylan song any more than the Beatles songs mentioned do.
“Bob” is pretty funny, though. It was new to me. Thanks for linking to it.
[/QUOTE]
Originally Posted by Voyager
What I came in to say.
```auto
Many thanks, but my Bruce ? was about "Tweeter and the Monkeyman", not "Blinded..." - And, my ? is cuz I've never heard of it associated w/ Bruce, only the Wilburys. (see below)
```
OTOH, “Tweeter and the Monkeyman” is the best Bruce song written by Dylan.
Bruce?