The sale of the drafted lyrics at a Jan. 18 auction accounted for one-third of the collection's total sale of $1.5 million

Julien's Auctions racked up $1.5 million with a collection of items once owned by Bob Dylan, including song drafts and signed handwritten lyrics.

Two pages of lyrics, written in the kitchen of a pioneering rock ‘n’ roll journalist, offer glimpses into the Nobel Prize-winning musician’s writing process.

Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ is one of the most iconic tracks, and a gift that keeps giving. Two pages of Bob’s drafted lyrics to ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ have been auctioned for over half a million dollars.

Bob Dylan’s legendary “Mr. Tambourine Man,” one of the defining folk-rock tracks of the 1960s, has once again captured the spotlight—but this time, it’s not through a song recording. The original drafts of the song’s lyrics,

Bob Dylan's draft lyrics for his 1965 song Mr Tambourine Man have sold at auction for $508,000 (£417,471) in the US. The lyrics on two yellow sheets of paper are three typewritten drafts of the song - but not the final version. The work in progress also features the folk-rock legend's notes by hand in the margin.

The draft lyrics to Bob Dylan’s song “Mr. Tambourine Man” went for over a half-million dollars at a weekend auction for dozens of items related to the iconic American singer-songwriter

Draft lyrics to Bob Dylan's song "Mr. Tambourine Man" sold for $508K at an auction in Nashville over the weekend.