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Bob Dylan poem to go on sale
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 21 May 2009
A handwritten version of a poem previously thought to have been penned by a sixteen year old Bob Dylan is to go on sale at Christie’s in New York.
The auction house initially marketed the item as Dylan’s own original work, but it’s since transpired that the poem, although written down by the young Robert Zimmerman, as he was then known, was actually the work of late Canadian country singer Hank Snow. The track bearing the lyrics, which are about a small dog who meets a tragic end, was apparently released in November 1948.
Christie’s said in a statement: “Additional information has come to our attention about the handwritten poem submitted by Bob Dylan to his camp newspaper, written when he was 16, entitled ‘Little Buddy’. The words are in fact a revised version of lyrics of a Hank Snow song. This still remains among the earliest known handwritten lyrics of Bob Dylan and Christie’s is pleased to offer them in our Pop Culture auction on June 23”.
The item was originally expected to fetch from $10k – $15k. It’s not clear how much it’s expected to raise now.
