The lyric sheets of two unrecorded Bob Dylan songs, typed out with handwritten annotations by Dylan himself, will hit the auction block at Christie’s on December 4th. The folk legend’s original four-page manuscript for “Talkin Folklore Center,” published by Dylan in March 1962, is projected to sell for between $40,000 and $60,000, while the two-page “Go Away You Bomb” from 1963 expects to draw bids of $30,000 to $50,000, the auction house estimates.
According to the New York Times, Dylan gifted both sets of lyrics to Izzy Young, the founder of the Folklore Center on Macdougal Street and an influential presence as Dylan climbed the ranks in the Greenwich Village folk scene; it was Young that secured Dylan’s first “important concert uptown” at New York’s Carnegie Chapter Hall on November 4th, 1961.
