Draft of Bob Dylan song
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Draft of Bob Dylan song I'm Not There found in Allen Ginsberg's book

Almost 60 years after it was written, a draft of the lyrics to Bob Dylan's song "I'm Not There" has been discovered - tucked into a paperback belonging to poet Allen Ginsberg, The Guardian reports.

During the summer of 1967, Bob Dylan wrote and recorded more than 100 songs with his then-backing group “The Band” just outside Woodstock, New York. “I'm Not There” was first released in 2007 as part of the soundtrack to Todd Haynes' Dylan film of the same name.

A typewritten draft of the lyrics was recently discovered in a first edition of Allen Ginsberg's "Angkor Wat," once owned by Sally Grossman, wife of Dylan's first manager, Albert Grossman, and a close friend of the singer.

The text will be sold at auction in April and is estimated to fetch between 20,000 and 40,000 pounds.

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