May answer to you is entirely taken care of by Catspaw49's post of 13 May 06 - 10:22 AM . I agree with his take on it. I'm not much impressed by the Paul Clayton lyric. I am impressed by what Dylan did with his version. He came up with some very memorable lines. You wonldn't care about the resemblance if his version had never become famous, would you? His very success is the indication, first, of his talent...and secondly, it's the only real reason why people pick on stuff like this endlessly and get worked up about it.

To be famous is to be everybody's football and get kicked all over the place because they're got their eye on you. It's a drag. I bet most people who are famous reach a point when they wish to God it had never happened.