"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!.

Dylan wrote the song at Joan Baez's house in Carmel, California in the autumn of 1963. During the same visit, he also wrote the song "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll". Dylan had originally wanted to sing "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" with Baez at her October 12, 1963 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, but Baez was not yet comfortable with the song. Dylan recorded the song in a single take on October 24, 1963, during the sessions for The Times They Are a-Changin. However, he decided to replace it on the album with the song "Restless Farewell", a song he wrote as an angry response to a Newsweek reporter who in late October 1963 published a story about Dylan that Dylan did not approve of. In the interim, Dylan played "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" at a concert at Carnegie Hall on October 26, a performance that was eventually released on the album Live at Carnegie Hall 1963.

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