The original hand-written lyrics for Bob Dylan's classic 'The Times They Are A-Changin' song have sold at auction for $429,000.
Auction house Sotheby's had an estimate of $2-300,000 but American Adam Sender just had to have them, paying $429,000 to secure the historic document capturing the birth of one of Dylan's best known works.
The two pages certainly look like they come from a different age, with tears and smudges and of course the 'By Bob Dylan' credit. The text of the auction read:
"Autograph manuscript signed ("by Bob Dylan") of his lyrics for "The Times They Are A-Changin'," written in pencil on a sheet of unruled three-hole notebook paper (8 1/2 x 11 in.; 217 x 280 mm), text written in four numbered verses of 10, 10, 9, and 8 lines, including the single-line refrain, titled at the conclusion within a rough-lined frame, verso with an autograph fragment of the first five lines of the first verse of Dylan's "North Country Blues"; some light discoloration, graphite smudging and offsetting, creased and nearly separated at central verical fold, edges chipped with loss, some internal tears and small losses not costing any text apart from the "Th" of "They" in the title."