Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..

Subject: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 07:40 PM

Well, seein' as I have been given a rather extensive Bob Dylan song book (325 songs) I have been lookin' over the titles and thinkin', "Oh, I used to do that one"...

So here's the my list:

*Ballad of Hollis Brown

*Chimes of Freedom

*Don't Think Twice, it's Allright

*Everything is Broken

*Girl of the North Country

*A Hard Rain is A-Gonna Fall

*I Shall be Free

*It Ain't Me, Babe

*Lay, Lady, Lay

*Like a Rolling Stone

*Masters Of War

*Mr. Tambourine Man

*Positively 4th Street

*She Belongs to Me (on my 1st CD)

*With God on Our Side

So what ya'll done over the years in terms of Dylan's songs???

B~

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 08:24 PM

With God on our Side
I shall be Released

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,MahoganyFolk
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 09:46 PM

I'm learning Don't Think Twice with my guitar teacher right now..

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 10:18 PM

Cool...

B~

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 10:19 PM

The first Dylan song I ever learned was "I Will Not Go Down Under the Ground" which he recorded on a Broadsides album under some name like Curly Boy Grunt.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: ollaimh
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 11:44 PM

i have played a few for years

visions of johanna is my fave, a great finger picking guitar song with great lyrics, followed closely by boots of spanish leather for the same reasons.

the "you gott a lot of nerve"(it's got anothet title, thats the first line, because it addresses a lot of folkies.

my back pages

there are lots of others i have played ocasionally but those are the ones i have kept playing.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 02:06 AM

I've done all those, and also:

I Want You

Country Pie

Tonight I'll Be Stayin Here With You

Just Like a Woman

Takes a Train to Cry

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Allan Conn
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 03:52 AM

You're A Big Girl Now.
Blowing In The Wind.
Sister.
The Mighty Quinn.
Don't Think Twice It's Alright. (in Scots dialect)

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Don Wise
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 08:46 AM

Times they are a changin'

Blowing in the wind

Don't think twice.........

It ain't me, babe

Mr. Tambourine Man

Ballad of Donald White (but with my tune- by the time I 'discovered' Blind Boy Grunt's version it was too late........)

Dusty Old Fairgrounds (my tune- Dylan's website doesn't have a tune for this one)

Hattie Carroll

Just like a Woman

I want you......

It takes a train to cry.....

Girl of the North Country

Eternal Circle

Positively 4th street

She belongs to me

Love - 0

All Along The Watchtower

Queen Jane

Tom Thumb's Blues

Tomorrow is a Long Time

Boots of Spanish Leather

When the Ship Comes in


I've probably missed some......all scattered over many, many years and mostly in the dim and distant past....

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 08:46 AM

One Too Many Mornings
Don't Think Twice It's Alright
Love Minus Zero / No Limit
Blind Willie McTell
You Ain't Going Nowhere
She Belongs To Me
Every Grain Of Sand
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
I Shall Be Released
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Blowin' In The Wind
Boots Of Spanish Leather
Mississippi
Sara
Mr. Tambourine Man

Probably have to re-learn the full lyrics to a couple of 'em.

I've got one of his song books, published in 1980: The Songs of Bob Dylan From 1966 Through 1975". The one you've just acquired sounds like the real deal, Bobs!

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 09:13 AM

Just checked. When Bob Dylan was recording on Broadsides, his alias was "Blind Boy Grunt."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Seaking at sea without a cookie
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 11:51 AM

'Buckets of rain'. I remember it was the first song I learned after discovering the world of dropped D tuning, long time ago now..

Chris

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Ghost of Gagnier
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 05:24 PM

Visions of Johanna

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: David C. Carter
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 05:35 AM

Desolation Row
Tom Thumb's Blues
All Along The Watchtower
It Ain't Me Babe
Simple Twist Of Fate
Memphis Blues Again
Love Minus Zero
Baby Blue
North Country Blues
Hollis Brown
I Shall Be Released
The Mighty Quin
Long Black Coat
She Belongs To Me

I don't do any of the now.Unless I'm asked,or somebody throws money(to me)not at me.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: matt milton
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 09:52 AM

I've sung

Outlaw Blues
Leopardskin Pillbox Hat

and I'd quite like to learn Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre.

I prefer much prefer the surreal/nonsensensical/sarcastic/flippant Bob Dylan. His writing's much stronger in that vein.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: matt milton
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 09:55 AM

come to think of it, I think all my favourite Dylan songs/lyrics follow blues form.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 10:08 AM

Dylan has gotten much bluesier as he ages... "Time Out 0f Mind" is almost all blues... Strange blues but, hey??? It is Dylan... That song where he is carrying on a conversation with a waitress is priceless..

B~

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 11:51 AM

'Dusty Old Fairgrounds' is a good rockin' song, but lacks a bridge or 'middle eight' to make it a classic Dylan song. It's hard to find - try the Blue Ash version from quite a few years ago.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: RichM
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 11:55 AM

I can't quite remember...I guess I took Bob's advice to heart, and didn't think twice about it...

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,bob Dylan
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 01:45 PM

Catch the wind
Sunshine superman
Mellow yellow
Hurry gurdy man

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Don Wise
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 11:05 AM

"Dusty Old Fairgrounds" is more like vintage Dylan ca. anno 1963- which is why it isn't built like a pop/rock song.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: PHJim
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 11:45 AM

Buckets Of Rain, Walkin' Down The Line and I still like to do Don't Think Twice.

In the early sixties there were frequent Hootenannies in school gyms and church basements. Before the shows all the performers would get together to be sure there were no duplications. I recall the biggest arguments were about who would get to do Don't Think Twice.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 02:54 PM

Geez, Bobert, I've done so many of them by now...

Hmmm.

Well, perhaps just list some of the favorites...

Visions of Johanna
Just Like a Woman
Don't Think Twice, It's Allright
Mr Tambourine Man
One More Cup of Coffee
Blind Willie McTell
Every Grain of Sand
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
She Belongs to Me
Blowin' in the Wind
You're a Big Girl Now
Simple Twist of Fate
All Along the Watchtower
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
I Shall Be Released
Gates of Eden
To Ramona
Lay Down Your Weary Tune

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: voyager
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 06:19 PM

Like a Stolen Roan
Watchtower
Hard Times Living in NY Town
Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Eric Von Schmidt)
Heard on the 1st Dylan vinyl

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Jul 12 - 07:46 PM

I used to do "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right." That was a long time ago. Haven't done it in years.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: alanabit
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 03:26 AM

I can't remember all of them, but here's a few:

Blowing in the Wind

It Ain't Me Babe

Hey Mr. Tambourine Man

Just Like a Woman

It Takes A Lot To Laugh/It Takes A Train To Cry

I Threw It All Away

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

Buckets Of Rain

If You See Her Say Hello

Mighty Quinn

You Ain't Going Nowhere

Knocking On Heaven's Door

All Along The Watchtower

Simple Twist Of Fate

Shelter From The Storm

Sarah

Mississippi

Just Like Tom Thumb Blues

When I Paint My Masterpiece

Girl From The North Country

One Too Many Mornings

Gates Of Eden

I Shall Be Released

The Times They Are A Changing

Tomorrow Is A Long Time

You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

I intend to learn "The Man In The Long Black Coat" and some of the more recent stuff soon - perhaps "Most Of The Time".

Just wait until Little Hawk sees this thread!

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 03:37 AM

If you delve the later Dylan Archives you will find that Dylan's middle name was Morris. It is not clear, and believe me I have looked, if it was a given name or one he adopted after his 1960's UK tours.

As is commonly known Dylan collected English Folk Tunes and used them for his own songs. Apparantley he was most taken by English Morris Dance tunes and maybe that's where the name came from.

He also used Morris tunes for some of his songs. I play "Black Joke" from Adderbury. A great tune - run through it and see if you can see how it was used for one of his songs.

Cheers

L in C#

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Don Wise
Date: 31 Jul 12 - 01:46 PM

I forgot one- "North Country Blues"

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: PHJim
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 10:03 AM

Make You Feel My Love

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: PHJim
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 10:18 AM

My brother, Dave, passed away a year ago last February. We found a recording of him playing Dylan's Make You Feel My Love and played it at his funeral. Here's a Youtube video that my brother Gary put together of Dave's version.

Dave does Dylan

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Charles Macfarlane
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 11:40 AM

> From: GUEST,Don Wise
>
> I forgot one- "North Country Blues"

I used to do "North Country Blues". IMO it's just about Dylan's best song. However, it is rather depressing. A 'friend' of mine once said he quite liked my material, "all except that one where a woman suffers every possible personal disaster, you know the one, she's walking down the street and her leg drops off!"

I though this so funny that I used it ever afterwards in my intro to the song!

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Musket
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 01:04 PM

I suppose like many, I leaned a few in the early days and banged them out in pubs and clubs.

Those that survive to be occasionally dusted off these days would be;

Don't think twice it's alright.
Percy's Song
Boots of Spanish Leather
Senor (Tales of Yankee power)

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 01:07 PM

Personally only ever done one of Dylans,,, here it is:- Don't Think Twice it's Alright!

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 01:11 PM

Back in the 60s I used to do a number of Dylan songs.
I shudder when I think about it now, but I used to do "Masters of War"
complete with Dylan accent and vocal mannerism ( I'm English - well, Manx, actually)
But even that must have please somebody because I recall a chap coming up to me, after I just performed the song, and he told that it was the best thing he'd heard that evening.
But, then again, we were all so very young back then.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years
From: Genie
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 07:18 PM

These are the Dylan songs I know I've done over the years.   The ones with asterisks I've just done in song circles and singalongs.   The others I've done as solos or in duets or trios.

Boots Of Spanish Leather
Blowin' In The Wind
Daddy, You've Been On My Mind
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

Fare The Well
Forever Young

Mr. Tambourine Man*

I Dreamed I Saw Saint Augustine
I Shall Be Released
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight*
It Ain't Me, Babe*

Love Is Just A four-letter Word
Love Minus Zero / No Limit
One Too Many Mornings

Tears Of Rage
The Times, They Are A-Changing (and my parody, "Like Bob Dylan, We Are All Aging")
Tomorrow Is A Long Time
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You*
Wagon Wheel*

When The Ship Comes In*
With God on Our Side

You Ain't Going Nowhere*



Seems like there are others, but I can't think of them offhand.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Aug 12 - 04:59 PM

I'll be your baby, tonight
Don't Think Twice
It ain't me, Babe
All along the Watchtower

Never included them as part of my performing sets as I was trying to cut my own swath as a songwriter. Didn't want to be pigeonholed. It was the hard way as learning other people's songs would've helped me make a better living at the time. Now, however the royalty checks quarterly tell me I made the right decision.

Same w/John Prine, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, etc. While I learned a bit of their material and copped a few licks my sets were almost all original and traditional Celtic/British Isles, Appalachian, Delta blues, ragtime covers and old country chestnuts like El Paso, Wolverton Mountain or Saginaw, Michigan. Sounds like a tour schedule. :-)

Also, I would cover songs by little known songwriters of the time. Tom Dundee, Al Day, Harry Waller, Kedall Kardt, Sally Fingerette, Jodi Alis, Mike Jordan, Mick Scott. All based out of Chicago.

A friend gave me a book of Dylan lyrics a few years ago and I read it over and over for about a week. Made me realize that like the Beatles he didn't merely write songs he shifted culture. To attach words like brilliant or genius is like danming him w/faint praise. He'll be part of literature like Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Whitman, etc. Completely transcendent.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Aug 12 - 05:33 PM

That's pretty much how I see it too, Guest.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 03 Aug 12 - 06:39 PM

As an unaccompanied floor singer at the local FC, I've done

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Mr Tambourine Man (the full version, natch)
Like A Rolling Stone
One More Cup of Coffee
No Time To Think

and, accompanied by my friend Mark,
Visions of Johanna

Hard Rain and No Time were both delivered more or less as poems. I did Hard Rain on a "Dylan Night"; I got through the verses, spoken, in three minutes flat, then let rip on the very last line, which is of course

...And I'll know my song well before I start singing

Then sang the last refrain, accompanied by the entire audience. Magical.

Near misses: I've worked up Girl from the North Country and Idiot Wind for performance, but never actually sung them out. I recorded Percy's Song for 52fs, but it didn't come out very well.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Aug 12 - 10:56 PM

Idiot Wind is a pretty intense song. I used to practice it at home for my own interest, but I don't think I've ever performed it in public.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Ove Ofteness - O.V. Michaelsen
Date: 08 Dec 12 - 03:36 PM

Some of my interpretations of Dylan and other songs:

Here's hoping that I didn't commit vandalism.
_

http://song-interpretations.webs.com/

[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Stringsinger
Date: 08 Dec 12 - 04:09 PM

The only Dylan song I really like that I have performed is "Tomorrow is a Long Time",
a love song. I can pass on the rest.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Don Firth
Date: 08 Dec 12 - 04:11 PM

"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right."

That's about it. About the time that song came out, everybody and his pet turkey was singing Dylan songs. He had become a fad. I was prevailed upon by a young woman friend to learn the song, and she even lent me the record so I could.

I sang it some, but I generally stuck to my traditional songs and ballads because, to me, that's what it was all about, and although I think Dylan wrote some good songs, I'm afraid I never became one of his horde of worshippers.

Don Firth

P. S.   I didn't like the way he used Joan Baez to advance his career (which he may never have had if she hadn't advocated him rather fiercely) and then unceremoniously dumped her.

P. P. S.   I know I'm probably offending some of the Faithful here, but them's my sediments.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Lowdenjim
Date: 09 Dec 12 - 04:59 AM

"Tomorrow is a Long Time" is a lovely song....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7_igArvVE

There are so many though... too many to mention; no-one has contributed more than Dylan.

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Beer
Date: 09 Dec 12 - 09:17 AM

Times ar a Changing
Gotta Serve Somebody
Song to Woody
Slow Train
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
John Wesley harding
Positively 4th St.
Every Grain of Sand
Desolation Row
Boots of Spanish Leather. To name a few.
Now I don't do any but I still hear the words in my head.
Adrien

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Tony
Date: 09 Dec 12 - 09:37 AM

Forever Young
North Country Blues
Tears Of Rage

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 09 Dec 12 - 12:08 PM

Used to do quite a few from his first album: got the words the laborious "scratch your record" way, by lifting off the needle then scribbling a line at a time in an old school exercise book!
At my retirement party, one of my colleagues did "Forever Young" - a very nice gesture!

Subject: RE: Dylan Songs You've Done Over the Years..
From: GUEST,Musket sans cookie
Date: 09 Dec 12 - 02:34 PM

One too many mornings
The Ballad of Hollis Brown
Percys Song
Don't think twice its alright
Senor (tales of Yankee power)
You ain't going nowhere

More than likely sung a few more of the usual suspects over the years too.

I would love to learn Tempest but asking an audience to sit still that long!