"Lay Down Your Weary Tune" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1963. It was originally recorded for his album The Times They Are a-Changin', but it was ultimately excluded from that record. Dylan's studio recording of the song was eventually released on his 1985 box set Biograph. In the liner notes to Biograph, Dylan claims that in the song he was trying to capture the feeling of a Scottish ballad he had just heard on a 78 rpm record. The specific ballad Dylan was referring to has not been identified, but speculation includes "The Water is Wide", "O Waly, Waly" and "I Wish, I Wish". "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" was covered by The Byrds on their 1965 album Turn! Turn! Turn!.