Typed Lyrics to Unreleased Dylan Song Head to Auction

Izzy Young, who owned the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village during the height of the folk revival, is famous for having nurtured a young Bob Dylan when he first arrived in New York City. Mr. Dylan would hang around the back of Mr. Young’s store on Macdougal Street, listening to records and writing songs, and it was Mr. Young who organized Mr. Dylan’s first concert in the city in 1961.

That relationship soured after Dylan went electric in 1965 and folk purists accused him of selling out. Now Mr. Young, 85, is the one selling something: a manuscript of an unpublished song Mr. Dylan gave him in 1963 while he was working on the groundbreaking album “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.” Christie’s auction house said the manuscript will be sold in London on June 26, as part of the house’s Pop Culture Sale.

“This unreleased song, written against the background of the threat of nuclear warfare, is not only a beautiful example of Dylan’s songwriting, representing his political protest activities during that era but is also a potent symbol of the anxieties of the American public in the early 1960s,” wrote Nicolette Tomkinson, a director at Christie’s, in a description of the sale.

Mr. Young said in a statement that he had asked Mr. Dylan to contribute to a book of songs against the atomic bomb in 1963. The next day, the songwriter gave him a manuscript for “Go Away You Bomb.”

Christie’s The typewritten lyrics to “Go Away You Bomb.”

It was one of two Dylan manuscripts Mr. Young has held on to for five decades, even after he moved to Stockholm in the 1970s and opened another Folklore Center there. The other manuscript is for “Talking Folklore Center,” the 1962 Dylan song about Mr. Young’s Greenwich Village store.

“I have never sold anything important to me until now and the funds raised will help to keep the Folklore Center in Stockholm going,” Mr. Young said.

Composed at the height of Mr. Dylan’s protest-song period, the lyrics of “Go Away You Bomb” are full of his typical word play: “I hate you cause yer man-made and man-owned an’ man-handled/An’ you might be miss-made an’ miss-owned an’ miss- handled an’ miss-used/An’ I hate you cause you could drop on me by accident an’ kill me.”

According to Mr. Dylan’s autobiography, “Chronicles,” Mr. Young’s Folklore Center was also where Mr. Dylan first met Dave Van Ronk, the folk singer who gave him an important break by inviting him to join him onstage at the Gaslight.

Ms. Tomkinson estimated the sheet of typed lyrics would sell for between $38,000 and $54,000.