You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

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Name =You Ain't Goin' Nowhere


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Artist =Bob Dylan and The Band
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Album =Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II
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Released =November 17, 1971
track_no =20
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Writer =Bob Dylan
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prev ="I Shall Be Released"
prev_no =19
next ="Down in the Flood"
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"You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" is a song by Bob Dylan and The Band, officially released in 1975 on the album The Basement Tapes.

Starting in late 1967, Bob Dylan's legendary "Basement Tapes" were the underground source of many new songs for hungry fans and fellow artists alike. Columbia Records, owning all of Dylan's recordings, sent labelmates The Byrds some demos from the sessions, including this song and "Nothing Was Delivered". They recorded both in Nashville in March 1968 for their seminal "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" LP, released late-August.

Dylan rerecorded it in 1971, as included on his album "Greatest Hits Vol. II", with lyrics that differed significantly from the "Basement Tapes" version, and also played upon a mistaken lyric in the Byrds' cover. Dylan's original Basement Tapes demo had the lyric "Pick up your money, pack up your tent", which was mistakenly altered by the Byrds to "pack up your money / pick up your tent". Dylan further modifies the error on the 1971 version, singing "Pack up your money, put up your tent, McGuinn," referring to Byrds singer/guitarist Roger McGuinn, who was presumably responsible for the accidental lyric change. McGuinn replied on the 1989 release of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's , playfully adding "Dylan" after the same "pack up your money / pick up your tent" lyric.

Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová recorded the song for the soundtrack album to Todd Haynes' impressionistic Dylan biopic, "I'm Not There" (2007), using the lyrics from Dylan's 1971 version, including the reference to Roger McGuinn.