I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours, . . .

"Well, now time passed and now it seems
Everybody’s having them dreams.
Everybody sees themselves walkin’ around with no one else.
Half of the people can be part right all of the time,
Some of the people can be all right part of the time.
But all the people can’t be all right all the time
I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
'I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,'
I said that."

Version two:

In the English performance recorded in Don't Look Back (1967), Dylan adapts his own verse brilliantly:

"'Some of the people can be half-right part of the time,
All of the people can be part-right some of the time,
Half the people can be part -right all of the time,
But all of the people can't be all right all of the time.'
T.S. Eliot said that.
'I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in your dream,'
I said that."

. . . Bob Dylan . . . "Talkin' World War III Blues . . . Freewheelin' Bob Dylan . . .