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Listen: Bob Dylan – 5 Great Live Versions of “Like A Rolling Stone”





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
  • Peak year: 1978 with 112 renditions

Odeon Theatre
Liverpool, England
14 May 1966

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Bob Dylan “Spanish is The Loving Tongue” – Three Great and One Awesome Version

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“Spanish is the Loving Tongue” is a song based on the poem “A Border Affair” written by Charles Badger Clark in 1907. Clark was a cowboy poet who lived throughout the American West, and was named the Poet Laureate of South Dakota in 1937. The poem was set to music in 1925 by Billy Simon. Over the years, the song was recorded by many top recording artists, including Bob Dylan, Ian and Sylvia, Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, Marianne Faithfull, Emmylou Harris, Michael Martin Murphey, and The Chad Mitchell Trio (under the name “Adios, mi Corazon”).

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