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Dignity was originally recorded for “Oh Mercy” in 1989, but Dylan wasn’t satisfied with it… and left it.

Officially there are 5 different versions available:

#	released	Album
1	1994	Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Volume 3 Brendan O’Brien remixed version
2	1995	MTV Unplugged Live version
3	2000	The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 2 Touched By An Angel version* BEST RELEASED VERSION
4	2008	The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 Piano demo version
5	2008	The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 Tell Tale Signs version2

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Bob Dylan has performed Dignity 53 times live. First performance was at Sony Music Studios, New York City – 17 November 1994. Last live performance was at Verizon Theatre At Grand Prairie, Grand Prairie, Texas – 1 November 2012.
Top year: 2003 – 18 performances.

Here are 5 Great live versions:

Rodahal
Kerkrade, Holland
19 March 1995

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Somebody got murdered on New Year’s Eve
Somebody said dignity was the first to leave
I went into the city, went into the town
Went into the land of the midnight sun

Searchin’ high, searchin’ low
Searchin’ everywhere I know
Askin’ the cops wherever I go
Have you seen dignity?

Brighton Centre
Brighton, England
26 March 1995

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Brixton Academy
London, England
29 March 1995

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Blind man breakin’ out of a trance
Puts both his hands in the pockets of chance
Hopin’ to find one circumstance
Of dignity

I went to the wedding of Mary Lou
She said, “I don’t want nobody see me talkin’ to you”
Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew
About dignity

I went down where the vultures feed
I would’ve gone deeper, but there wasn’t any need
Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men
Wasn’t any difference to me

Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade
House on fire, debts unpaid
Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid
Have you seen dignity?

Sun Theatre
Anaheim, California
10 March 2000
Early show

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Halle Münsterland
Münster, Germany
1 October 2000

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Drinkin’ man listens to the voice he hears
In a crowded room full of covered-up mirrors
Lookin’ into the lost forgotten years
For dignity

Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
Said he’d give me information if his name wasn’t used
He wanted money up front, said he was abused
By dignity

Footprints runnin’ ’cross the silver sand
Steps goin’ down into tattoo land
I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light
In the bordertowns of despair

Got no place to fade, got no coat
I’m on the rollin’ river in a jerkin’ boat
Tryin’ to read a note somebody wrote
About dignity

Sick man lookin’ for the doctor’s cure
Lookin’ at his hands for the lines that were
And into every masterpiece of literature
For dignity

Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind
Combin’ his hair back, his future looks thin
Bites the bullet and he looks within
For dignity

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed
Dignity never been photographed
I went into the red, went into the black
Into the valley of dry bone dreams

So many roads, so much at stake
So many dead ends, I’m at the edge of the lake
Sometimes I wonder what it’s gonna take
To find dignity

Oakes Garden Theatre
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
23 August 2003

-Egil