Dylan was working on this album when he wrote “Go Away You Bomb”

The lyrics to an unreleased Bob Dylan song will be auctioned by Christie’s on June 26. “Go Away you Bomb,” was written in 1963 for an unpublished book of anti-nuclear protest songs compiled by Izzy Young, who owned the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village. Young explains, “I was compiling a book of songs against the atom bomb and asked Dylan to contribute; he gave me this song the very next day. I have never sold anything important to me until now and the funds raised will help to keep the Folklore Center in Stockholm going. I have always had a passion for folk music and I have collected books and music since I was a kid. I produced my first catalogue of folk books in 1955, comprised of books that nobody had ever heard of – this was the beginning of the interest in American folk music. Bob Dylan used to hang around the store and would look through every single book and listen to every single record I had. Since opening the Folklore center I have organized over 700 concerts with some of the biggest names in this music world. I’m a fun-loving Jewish boy who loves folk music and never gave up – that’s why I’m still alive.” Young, who now lives in Sweden, will direct proceeds from the sale to his Folklore Center in Stockholm.