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"Let Me Die In My Footsteps" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan. It was originally recorded for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's second studio album, released in May 1963 by Columbia Records.Dylan's debut album, Bob Dylan , had featured just two original songs....
, but was dropped and later released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991

The Bootleg Series Volumes 1?3 1961?1991 is a compilation box set by Bob Dylan. Released in 1991 to satisfy enormous demand for Dylan's much-bootleg recording unissued material, it contains rarities and unreleased works from the sessions for 1962's eponymous debut Bob Dylan to 1989's Oh Mercy....
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The song is based on an old ballad written by Roy Acuff and Dylan states (Chronicles, volume 1) that it was inspired on the obsession (during the 1950s) of constructing shelters against radioactive dust, a common thought in Minnesota in the times of the Cold War.








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"Let Me Die In My Footsteps" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan. It was originally recorded for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's second studio album, released in May 1963 by Columbia Records.Dylan's debut album, Bob Dylan , had featured just two original songs....
, but was dropped and later released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991

The Bootleg Series Volumes 1?3 1961?1991 is a compilation box set by Bob Dylan. Released in 1991 to satisfy enormous demand for Dylan's much-bootleg recording unissued material, it contains rarities and unreleased works from the sessions for 1962's eponymous debut Bob Dylan to 1989's Oh Mercy....
.

The song is based on an old ballad written by Roy Acuff and Dylan states (Chronicles, volume 1) that it was inspired on the obsession (during the 1950s) of constructing shelters against radioactive dust, a common thought in Minnesota in the times of the Cold War.

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