The original typed lyrics for Bob Dylan’s song Mr Tambourine Man have sold for more than £418,000.

The two pages show how Dylan changed the words of one of his most famous songs.

In the 1964 draft he cut out lines with a row of x’s.

The replacement lines were typed above or hand-written.

The three drafts reveal that Dylan substituted words such as “feet” for “bootheels” and “priceless” for “magic”.

The verse: “Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship / My senses have been stripped / my hands can’t feel to grip / My toes too numb to step / Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin’,” started life as: “ Take me for a trip please on your magic soundin ship / my senses have been stripped / my hands can’t feel t grip / Tho my mind’s toonum t rip-waits only for my bootheels t be wanderin”.

In another draft he changed the ending of the second last verse from “he’s just chasing around his shadow” to “it’s just a shadow you’re seeing that he’s chasin’”.

The family of rock-journalist Al Aronowitz sold the lyrics.

Dylan and Aronowitz were close friends in the early.

Dylan was staying with him in New York.

Aronowitz saved the lyrics from obscurity after fishing them out of a rubbish bin.

His son Myles said:

“Seeing the words crossed out and inserted on the manuscript was like being able to watch over the master songsmith’s shoulders.

“It gives you a feeling for what was going on in Bob Dylan’s head.”

Mr Tambourine Man was included on Dylan’s 1965 album “Bringing It All Back Home”.

Al Aronowitz remembered how Dylan sat at kitchen bench typing that night.

He recounted: “There was a swirl of chain-lit Camels’ cigarette smoke, as his bony long-nailed fingers tapped out the words while listening to Marvin Gaye’s ‘Can I Get a Witness’ on his hi-fi system.”