Dylan’s ‘Hard Rain’ lyrics going up for auction at Sotheby’s

The draft lyrics for one of Bob Dylan’s most influential early songs is going up for auction next month.

Sotheby’s said on Tuesday it expects the manuscript of A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall to fetch £150,000 to £200,000 (Dh867,522-Dh1.1 million) at a September 29 London sale.

The auction house says Dylan typed out the lyrics, and made amendments in ink, in a room above the Gaslight Folk Club in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1962. It says the revisions show the creative process behind the landmark song, which portends a revolutionary or cataclysmic change.