NEW YORK — Christie’s auction house says it has learned that an early Bob Dylan poem up for sale in New York City is based on the lyrics of an existing tune.

The auction house says the poem that Dylan wrote during summer camp in 1957 was “a revised version of lyrics of a Hank Snow song.”
Christie’s pop culture specialist Simeon (SIM’-ee-uhn) Lipman says Hank Snow fans “came out of the woodwork” to say they recognized the lyrics after The Associated Press wrote about the poem on Tuesday.
Lipman says the verse is still “among the earliest known handwritten lyrics of Bob Dylan” and expected to sell for $10,000 to $15,000.
Dylan was 16 when he submitted “Little Buddy” for a camp newspaper. An e-mail to Dylan’s spokesman was not immediately returned.