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John Prine (born October 10, 1946) is an American country folk singer-songwriter. He has been active as a composer, recording artist, and live performer since the early 1970s, and is known for an often humorous style of country music that has elements of protest and social commentary.

Bob Dylan covered John Prine’s “People Puttin’ People Down” twice in 1991. The Rome video has been available on youtube for quite some time, but the Sao Paolo version has only surfaced recently.

People without love – sometimes build a fence around
The garden up above – that makes the whole world go ’round
But all the people who don’t fit
Get the only fun they get
From people puttin’ people down
People puttin’ people down

So cold, sometimes it gets so cold

Roma Palaeur
Rome, Italy
6 June 1991

• Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
• John Jackson (guitar)
• Tony Garnier (bass)
• Ian Wallace (drums)

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Palace Theatre
Sao Paolo, Brazil
17 August 1991

• Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
• John Jackson (guitar)
• Tony Garnier (bass)
• Ian Wallace (drums)

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Let’s also include Prine’s original version.

-Egil