| CANADEE-I-O | no live performance |
| CANDY MAN | unknown, perhaps fall 1961 | |
| While no live performances of this song have been recorded or reported, Dylan played it for Tony Glover's Minnesota Hotel Tape recording. It appears likely that this song, common among 1960's folksingers, turned up in Dylan's early New York club performances. | ||
| CAR CAR | probably spring 1960 | perhaps Ten O'Clock Scholar (St. Paul) |
| Reported as a regular feature of Dylan's St. Paul club sets. Earliest recorded live performance found on the first Gaslight Tape (September 6, 1961). | ||
| CARRYING A TORCH | October 19, 2002 | San Diego State University (San Diego) |
| CASSIDY | February 12, 1989 | Forum (Inglewood) |
| Song performed by the Grateful Dead, with Dylan joining on guitar. | ||
| A CHANGE IS GONNA COME | March 28, 2004 | Apollo Theater (NYC) |
| Several sources incorrectly list Carolyn Dennis' July 1, 1978 (Nuremberg) rendition of this song as a Dylan performance. | ||
| COCAINE BLUES | unknown, perhaps fall 1961 | |
| Dylan played this song for Tony Glover's December 1961 Minnesota Hotel Tape recording. Although the first documented live version of the song is from the October 1962 Gaslight tape, it was probably featured in Dylan's club sets by the fall of 1961. | ||
| COLUMBUS STOCKADE BLUES | probably spring 1960 | |
| This song appears on the Karen Wallace Tape, which apparently consists of songs from Dylan's earliest repertoire. A year later, Dylan refurbished the song as "California Brown-Eyed Baby,"; there is no evidence of any public performance of the later version. | ||
| CONFIDENTIAL TO ME | May 30, 1989 | Jaahalli (Helsinki) |
| COUPLE MORE YEARS | November 17, 1980 | Fox Warfield (San Francisco) |
| CRAZY LOVE | June 28, 1989 | Panathanaika Stadium (Athens) |
| Performed as a duet with Van Morrison. | ||
| CROSSCUT SAW | February 19, 1987 | Palomino Club (Los Angeles) |
| Song performed by the Grafitti Band, with Dylan, John Fogerty, and George Harrison informally joining on guitar. | ||
| CROSSROADS [CROSS ROAD BLUES] | June 30, 1999 | Crossroads Benefit (New York City) |
| Song performed by Eric Clapton, joined by Dylan. | ||
| THE CUCKOO IS A PRETTY BIRD | perhaps summer 1961 | |
| This title is listed on a 1961 manuscript which Heylin has described as planned setlists and, more recently, a tentative proposal for Dylan's debut album. The earliest documented live performance is found on the October 1962 Gaslight tape. | ||