Bob Dylan’s papers, including unpublished lyrics, sell for $ 495K at auction

Dylan, 79, was close to Glover, who died last year. The two men broke into music in the same Minneapolis cafe scene. Glover’s widow, Cynthia Nadler, has auctioned the documents online.

Recluse Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 after giving the world “Blowin ‘in the Wind”, “Like a Rolling Stone”, “The Times They Are a-Changin” “and other hymns of the turbulent years 1960.

The items up for auction included lyrics written by Dylan after visiting folk legend Woody Guthrie in May 1962. The lines, never made public until last month, read:

“My eyes are cracked, I think I’ve been framed / I can’t remember the sound of my name / What did he teach you?” reveal, respect and repent of the blues / No Jack he taught me to sleep in my shoes.

In a conversation with Glover in 1971, Dylan explained why he had changed his name, saying, “A lot of people feel that Jews are just moneylenders and merchants.”