Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People’d call, say, “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”
You thought they were all kiddin’ you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin’ out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Some facts:
- Dylan has played “Like A Rolling Stone” 2011times live
- First time was in Newport, RI – July 25, 1965
- Last performance: Indio, CA – October 14, 2016
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- Peak year: 1978 with 112 renditions
Odeon Theatre
Liverpool, England
14 May 1966
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Our conversation was short and sweet
It nearly swept me off-a my feet
And I’m back in the rain, oh, oh
And you are on dry land
You made it there somehow
You’re a big girl now
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You’re Big Girl Now” is startling in the originality of its musical structure as well as in the raw power of Dylan’s lyrics and the way he sings them. Each verse of this song is a separate monolog, as if Dylan were an actor stepping to the back of the stage and then coming forward again as he thinks of something else he wants to say to the lady.
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986
)
Another brilliant song from the album “Blood on the Tracks”.
- First performed @ Reid Green Coliseum, Hattiesburg, Mississippi – 1 May 1976
- It has been performed 218 times live – last performance: Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois – 29 October 2007
- Top year was 1978 with 41 performances
Not surprisingly, the song went unattempted live after he and Sara became ostensibly reconciled. Only on the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue, in the spring of 1976, did he remember why he wrote it, playing it long and hard enough to warrant inclusion on the Hard Rain album.
~Clinton Heylin (Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, . 1974-2008
)
The Warehouse
New Orleans, Louisiana
3 May 1976 – Evening
- Bob Dylan (guitar & vocal)
- Scarlet Rivera (violin)
- T-bone J. Henry Burnett (guitar & piano)
- Steven Soles (guitar)
- Mick Ronson (guitar)
- Bobby Neuwirth (guitar & vocal)
- Roger McGuinn (guitar & vocal)
- David Mansfield (steel guitar, mandolin, violin & dobro)
- Rob Stoner (bass)
- Howie Wyeth (drums)
- Gary Burke (percussion)
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