Cue cards used in Subterranean Homesick Blues Video

The cue cards used in Subterranean Homesick Blues Video form the most easily recognised and most copied feature of the music video. "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan contains a number of lyrics displayed on the cards, which are shown to the camera by the dead-pan Dylan as the song plays. The cards also contain a number of variations from the lyrics of the song. These cards have been highlighted with an asterisk (*).

; Verse 1 :

*Basement
*Medicine
*Pavement
*Government
*Trench Coat
*Laid Off
*Bad Cough
*Paid Off
*Kid
*Did
*When
*Again
*Alley Way
*New Friend
*Coonskin Cap
*Pig Pen
*20 Dollar Bills* (Actual line: "11 Dollar Bills")
*Ten

; Verse 2 :

*Fleet Foot
*Black Soot
*Heat Put
*Bed, But
*Anyway
*Many Say
*Must Bust
*District Attorney* (Actual line: "D.A.")
*Look Out!
*It Don’t Matter
*Tip Toes
*No Dose* (Actual line: "No Bows")
*Those
*Fire Hose
*Clean Nose
*Plain Clothes
*Wind Blows

; Verse 3 :

*Get Well
*It’s Hard
*Write Braille
*Get Jailed
*Fail
*Watch It!* (Actual line: "Look out")
*Here They Come!* (Actual line: "You're gonna get hit")
*Users
*Cheaters
*Theaters
*Whirlpool
*New Fool
*Leaders???
*Pawking Metaws* (A spelling reflecting his dialect; Actual line: "Parking Meters")

; Verse 4 :

*Get Born
*Short Pants-Romance
*Get Blessed
*Suckcess* (A deliberate misspelling of the sung word; "success")
*Please Her, Please Him
*Don’t Lift
*Dayshift
*Dig Yourself* (Actual line: "Look out kid")
*Hid
*Man Whole
*Scandals
*Bum
*Chew Gum, No* (Actual line: "You'd better chew gum")
*The Vandals Took All The Handles* (Actual line does not feature the word "all")
*What??* (Isn't featured in the song, but does reflect a line in the album cover)

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