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2nd. Session. Burbank Studios, California. February 1973.

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The following track is dated to the previous session by Clinton Heylin, no other source agrees:

Track 1. Billy 4. (With False Starts). 05.10.

Guitar strumming.

Dylan: “OK, ready?”

False start, Dylan & Terry sing different words.

There’s guns across the river..  (vocal slip up)

Laughter.

Another false start.

Dylan: “1, 2, 3, 4.”

Guitars, then take begins, sung as a duet.

 
Quote:

There’s guns across the river about to found you 
Lawman on your trail, like to surround you
Bounty hunters, too, dancin' all around you
Billy, they don’t like you to be so free

Campin’ out all night on the veranda
walkin' the streets 'till dawn in the hacienda
Up to Boot Hill they’d like to send you
Billy, don’t you turn your back on me

There’s mirrors inside the eyes of crazy faces
Bullet holes and rifles between the spaces
There’s always one more notch and four more aces
Billy, and you’re playing all alone.

Playin’ around with some sweet senorita
Into her dark chamber she will greet ya
In the shadows of the mesa, she will lead ya
Billy, and you're walking all alone

They say that Pat Garrett’s got your number
So sleep with one eye open, when you wonder
If every little sound just might be thunder
Thunder from the barrel of his gun.

The businessmen from Taos want you to go down
So they’ve hired Mister Garrett, to force you to slow down 
Billy, don’t it make you feel so low down
To be hunted by the man who was your friend.

Hang on to your woman if you got one
Remember in El Paso, once, you shot one
Up in Santa Fe you bought one
Billy, there were days when you were better known 

Gypsy queens will play your grand finale
Way down in some Tularosa alley
Maybe in the Rio Pecos valley
Billy, you’ve been so far from home
Billy, you’re so far away from home
Billy, you’re so far away from home

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Track 2. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door. (Take 3) 04.44.

Guitars, Organ, Drums, 2nd. Vocal on the chorus.


Quote:

It's gettin' dark, too dark to see
I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Mama, put my guns in the ground
I don’t need them anymore
Long black train is coming around
I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Mama take this badge offa me
I don’t need them anymore
It’s getting dark, too dark to see
Feel I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can’t shoot 'em anymore
That long black train is coming around
I’m knockin’ up on heaven’s door

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door


Donna Weiss? : “That’s nice” 
[Heylin also lists Brenda Patterson and Priscilla Jones on backing vocals] 

Guitar doodles.

Guitar strumming & hand clapping.

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Track 3. Sweet Amarillo. 01.20.

[the main backup vocals here will be Donna Weiss, who wrote the song, but the other backup singers are there as well]

Quote:

...You stole my heart
You stole my pillow and you ruined my life
Sweet Amarillo, not the wind in the willow
You don’t know just how much you lied (Weiss quip:who cares?)
In brown California the sky's so dirty it makes people cry
But on a clear day just like a good song
But I see without you hurts to much to describe
Sweet Amarillo, you stole my pillow
You stole my pillow and ruined my life
Sweet Amarillo, not the wind in the willow
Sweet Amarillo, how much you lied


Donna Weiss: That harmony is like gospel harmony”
Another backup singer: Like "sweet...(sings)" . Beautiful

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Track 4. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (Take 3) 03.52.

Dylan: “Alright, let’s do it without the vocal”

Guitar strumming.

Dylan: “This is the last time I work for anybody though in a movie... the music”
Dylan: “I’ll stick to acting”
Unknown voice: “Bobby!”
Dylan: “What?”
Unknown Voice: “If you wanted to start singing, just..uh…uh..when the line starts you could, you don’t have to wait till the dissolve is clear in and I think it’s actually better if you do, the dialogue” 

[this suggests that that this is some post production phase and they are adding music as they watching the film]

Tape cuts at this point, then:

Guitar strumming.

Unknown voice. “Yes, rollin’

Guitars, Organ & drums?

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Track 5. Final Theme (Instrumental with Oh-oh’s) (Take 1) 07.50.


Unknown voice: “6M, 2X take 5”

Guitar / flute doodles (Gary Foster).

Dylan: “I wish we could get closer together…. 
Dylan: “OK, I’ll give the signal to Terry, and Terry, you give it anybody who's that way”

Guitar strumming.

Dylan: “That’s good, what was that (rhyme?)”
Dylan: “Yeah, do it again”

Guitar and flute doodles.

Take begins with Guitars, Flute, Drums, Harmonica & some Ooo-Ooo’s.

Unknown voice: “Put some more on it”

Some unintelligible chat at the end of track.

Unknown voice: “11M, 3X take 5. M Slate. We have it... synch 'em up and we'll put it out"
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Track 06. Rock Me Mama (Take 1) 03.46.

Vocal, Guitars & Drums.


Quote:

(Don't go looking at the moon?) tonight,
Don't go looking at the moon tonight,
Don't go looking at the moon tonight, no way

Hey my molly won't you say goodbye
All that thinkin' and you're wondring why
I know it's alright but I don't cry, no way

Rock me mama to the wind and the rain,
Rock me mama like a south bound train
Hey, mama, rock me.

Rock me mama, like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama any way you feel
Hey, mama, rock me.

Rock me mama to the wind and the rain,
Rock me mama like a south bound train
Hey, mama, rock me.



Song breaks down.
Dylan: “Do that part again”


Quote:

Rock me mama to the wind and the rain,
Rock me mama like a south bound train
Hey, mama, rock me.

Rock me mama, like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama any way you feel
Hey, mama, rock me.

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain,
Rock me mama like a south bound train
Hey, mama, rock me.

Rock me mama, like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama any way you feel
Hey, mama, rock me.

Old child running on the rail-way
Dark clouds running on the farm today
It's all they're talkin' when the sun goes away, nowhere

When I lookin' on the road tonight
Rail is shinin' on a pool of light
Know that feeling but it must be right, goin' down

Rock me mama like the wind and the rain,
Rock me mama like a south bound train
Hey, mama, rock me.

Rock me mama, like a wagon wheel
Rock me mama any way you feel
Hey, mama, rock me


Song ends.

Unknown Voice: “that's lovely”

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Track 7. Billy 7. (Take 1) 01.33.

Guitars & Drums.


Quote:

They say that Pat Garrett’s got your number
So sleep with one eye open when you slumber
Every little sound just might be thunder
Thunder from the barrel of his gun 

Maybe you will find yourself tomorrow
Drinkin’ in some bar to hide your sorrow
Spendin’ the time that you borrow
Figuring a way to get back home


Unknown Voice: “Come forward to the mic ...another guitar”

Unintelligible studio chat.
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Track 08. Billy 7. (Take 3) 01.00

Guitars.


Quote:

Playin’ around with some sweet senorita
Into her dark hallway she will lead ya (Vocal slip)
Some lonesome shadows, she will greet ya
Billy, you’re so far away from wha (Vocal Slip)
Bill you’re so dog gone far away from home.


Unintelligible studio chat.
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Track 09. Instrumental (Take 1) 02.13.

Guitars & Drums.
Dylan: “It’s a complicated thing”
Unintelligible studio chat.
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Track 10. Instumental (with Da da da da da da’s) (Take 2) 02.02.

Guitars, 

Female Voice: “Which part do you want me to do?”
Dylan: “I want you to do this part, Da, da, da, da, da”

Female voice laughs.

Unintelligible studio chat.

Guitars & Drums.

Female Voice: “Yeah, that works real well”
Dylan: “Hey Jim (Keltner), do you have some maracas?”
Female Voice: “I got some”
Dylan: “Let’s play those too”
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Track 11. Final Theme (Instrumental with Ah-Ah’s) (Take 2) 06.56.

Guitars, Flute, Drums.

Unintelligible studio chat.

Dylan: “OK, you know what else we want on it? Uh, we want that organ and the, uh, recorder”

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Track 12. Ride, Billy Ride. 04.17.

Girl:"Ketchup?"
Dylan:"huh? Yeah, and a muffin and a salad roll"

Spinette, Maracas, Guitars.


Quote:

Ride, Billy ride, ride, ride
Ride, Billy ride, ride, ride
Ride, until you can’t ride
No more
Ride, Billy ride, ride, ride
Ride, Billy ride, ride, ride
Ride, until you can’t ride
No more


Unintelligible studio chat.


Quote:

Ride, ride, ride, ride
Dylan: “The first time was really good”
Ride, Billy ride, ride, ride
Ride, Billy ride, ride, ride
Dylan: “Yeah, aw yeah man”
Ride, Billy ride, ride, ride
Ride, Billy ride, ride, ride
Ride, until you can’t ride
No more
Ride, Billy ride, ride, ride
Ride, Billy ride, ride, ride
No more
Ride, ride, ride
Ride, Billy ride, ride, ride
Ride, until you can’t ride
Anymore


Female Voice: “No more, no more?”
Dylan: “OK, Anymore, he can’t ride, anymore”

Dylan: “You hit the G-minor at a certain time”

Guitar strumming.

Dylan: “Now, let’s just figure out a way, yeah were gonna do this for, it’s gonna seem for a long time but then at a certain point we're gonna do it in G minor

flute (which may indicate "Final Theme" is going to be played).

Dylan:"We're gonna stand up and do it see if we can make it."

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Track 13. Billy 

Sam Peckinpah's House, Durango, Mexico. December 1972 to January 1973;

This is an interesting one, according to all sources Dylan & Peckinpah retired to a little alcove where Sam sat in his old rocking chair & listened to Dylan sing & play. But there is a definite second vocal here (sounds very much like Kristofferson) It’s also stated that Sam had it made into a tape so that he could listen to it again whenever he wanted to. What does that mean? Did he tape it during that performance or did he have Dylan record it later the same evening or at a later date? Judging by the accounts, it seems as if more than one song was performed.

Dylan, Vocals, Guitar & Harmonica.
Unknown back-up vocalist, Kristofferson maybe?


Quote:

The businessmen from Taos want you to go down
They’ve hired Pat Garrett to force a showdown
Billy, don’t it make ya feel so low-down
To be shot down by the man who was your friend?


My belief is that this is all there is. The additional bits are unverified as genuine.