I'm not sure that Bob Dylan himself ever tried to hoodwink anyone about his use of traditional melodies (a lesson he learned from the likes of Guthrie, Seeger, and many others).

I just pulled out my copy of THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, his second album, from 1963.

In the liner notes discussion about Bob Dylan's Dream, Nat Hentoff talks about Dylan getting the idea for the lyrics after an all-night discussion with Oscar Brown, Jr. and goes on to say: "The song slumbered, however, until Dylan went to England in the winter of 1962. There he heard a singer, whose name he recalls as Martin Carthy, perform Lord Franklin, and that old melody found a new adapted home in Bob Dylan's Dream."

Mike Regenstreif