“Well, it's sugar for sugar
And salt for salt
If you go down in the flood
It's gonna be your own fault”

—  Bob Dylan

Compare: "I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt/ Well if you can't get along with me, then it's your own fault." Richard Brown, James Alley Blues.
Song lyrics, The Basement Tapes (1975), Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) (recorded 1967)

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