"Obviously Five Believers" is a song by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 which appears on his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde

Blonde on Blonde

Blonde on Blonde is American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's seventh studio album, released in May or June 1966 on Columbia Records and produced by Bob Johnston. Recording sessions commenced in New York in October 1965, with a plethora of backing musicians, including members of Dylan's live backing...

. As with many other Dylan tracks of the 1965-1966 period ("From a Buick 6", "Outlaw Blues"), it is based around a slightly surreal lyric set to a blues-rock accompaniment.

The song borrows from American

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 blues

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 tradition liberally: the recurring riff resembles that of Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie

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's "Me and My Chauffer Blues", Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry

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's "I Want to Be Your Driver" and the standard "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

Good Morning, School Girl

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". In addition, the turnaround is also similar to Muddy Waters

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' "Trouble No More

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." Furthermore, the opening mentions "Early in the morning" which is suggestive of Ray Charles

Ray Charles

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' "I Got a Woman

I Got a Woman

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." The last verse repeats the line "feel so all alone" which is also found in the Blonde On Blonde opener "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35".

"Obviously 5 Believers" was not played in concert during Dylan's 1966 tour, and indeed was not played live at all until 1995 when it suddenly became a fairly frequent occurrence in Dylan's setlists for approximately 18 months.