You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast Yonder stands your orphan with his gun He's crying like a fire in the sun Look out, all the saints are coming through And it's all over now, Baby Blue
The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence The empty-handed painter from your streets Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets The sky, too, is folding over you (note 1) And it's all over now, Baby Blue
All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home Your empty-handed army is all going home The lover who just walked out your door Has taken all his blankets from the floor The carpet, too, is moving under you (note 1) And it's all over now, Baby Blue
Leave your stepping stones behind, there's something calls for you Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you The vagabond who's rapping at your door Is standing in the clothes that you once wore Strike another match, go start anew And it's all over now, Baby Blue
It's all over now, Baby Blue It's all over now, Baby Blue It's all over now, Baby Blue
The Grateful Dead played this (sung by Garcia) all the way through from 1966 to 1995 - though with long gaps in the 1970s. He also played it once with the Jerry Garcia Band in 1981. Bob Weir began playing it with Ratdog during the 1997 Furthur Festival.
Garcia's version is very close to the Dylan original.
(1) Garcia frequently muddled up these lines, either singing "The carpet too ..." in the second verse and "The sky too ..." in the third verse, or sometimes merging them as "The sky, too, is moving over you" as on Postcards Of The Hanging. (thanks to Olav Asrkog for pointing this out).