--- title: Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' Lyrics Sell for $2 Million description: Bob Dylan's hand-scrawled lyrics for "Like a Rolling Stone" sold at a Sotheby's auction on Tuesday for $2 million. canonical: https://time.com/2918151/bob-dylan-rolling-stone-lyrics/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-24T19:07:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:36:05.990Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' Lyrics Sell for $2 Million og:description: Bob Dylan's hand-scrawled lyrics for "Like a Rolling Stone" sold at a Sotheby's auction on Tuesday for $2 million. og:url: https://time.com/2918151/bob-dylan-rolling-stone-lyrics/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff9c5a5bc08e505f/69869914810bbb6710c9252f/450960782.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "A Rock & Roll History: Presley To Punk" Press Preview og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone' Lyrics Sell for $2 Million twitter:description: Bob Dylan's hand-scrawled lyrics for "Like a Rolling Stone" sold at a Sotheby's auction on Tuesday for $2 million. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltff9c5a5bc08e505f/69869914810bbb6710c9252f/450960782.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Somebody Just Bought Bob Dylan's Handwritten Lyrics for Record $2M > Sponsored content. 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On Bob Dylan's 70th birthday, TIME takes a tour of the haunts and venues where the singer-songwriter spent his early days in Greenwich Village_  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Jun 24, 2014 7:07 PM UTC  The most popular manuscript ever to apper at auction, Bob Dylan's original hand written lyrics for the 1965 epic "Like A Rolling Stones", shown at Sotheby's on June 20, 2014 in New York City. The most popular manuscript ever to apper at auction, Bob Dylan's original hand written lyrics for the 1965 epic "Like A Rolling Stones", shown at Sotheby's on June 20, 2014 in New York City.Slaven Vlasic—Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Jun 24, 2014 7:07 PM UTC Bob Dylan’s hand-scrawled lyrics for “Like a Rolling Stone” sold at a Sotheby’s [auction](http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/rock-roll-history-presley-to-punk-n09160/lot.146.html) on Tuesday for $2 million, breaking the previous record of $1.2 million for John Lennon’s lyrics to The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” The hand-written notes include a near-final draft of the lyrics, a few scattered doodles of animals in the margins, and most evocatively, several rhymes that never made the final cut. “Dry vermouth, you’ll tell the truth,” reads one discarded phrase, and one familiar phrase “like a complete unknown” is connected by a line to the name “Al Capone.” Dylan wrote the lyrics across four pages of hotel stationary in mid-June, 1965, during a stay at the Hotel Roger Smith Hotel in Washington D.C., according to Sotheby’s. He later recorded the song when he was 24 years old. 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