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16 Jun 07 - 01:23 PM (#2078715) Subject: Lay Down Your Weary Tune From: GUEST,ifor I have just heard a really good version of Dylan's Lay Down Your Weary Tune...the version is by Bill Whaley and Dave Fletcher on a CD called Less Sprightly which is excellent. Can anyone tell me more about the history of the songand other versions of itetc? ifor |
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16 Jun 07 - 01:48 PM (#2078727) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune From: Midchuck I know Dylan wrote it, but I'll always think of it in terms of Ian and Sylvia. Peter |
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16 Jun 07 - 01:50 PM (#2078728) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune From: Celtaddict I think this is possibly the best song to be sung by singers who don't sing Dylan. Danny Quinn's version on "Solo" is simple and beautiful. |
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16 Jun 07 - 02:04 PM (#2078738) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune From: Rasener Bill Whaley came to my club last night to see Mary Humphreys and Anahata. Both Bill & Dave are really smashing and genuine folkies. John Blanks does a very good version of that song. |
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16 Jun 07 - 02:26 PM (#2078751) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune From: lefthanded guitar Beautiful song. I heard Dylan do it concert about 15 years ago and gave me chills. |
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16 Jun 07 - 02:34 PM (#2078755) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune From: villandeleted A few facts Written on a trip to California with Joan Baez, Mimi Farrina ( Joan's Sister), and Richard Farrina, this song, along with "Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carrol," was the only other reported song on this trip. It's first live performance was with Joan Baez struggling to sing harmony. This song was recorded as a demo for "Times They Are A-Changin," Dylan's 1964 release, but was cut from the album. The song's melody closely resembles the Folk standard "The Water is Wide." Dylan performed this both nights at his famous Carnegie Hall concert in 1963. |
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16 Jun 07 - 04:37 PM (#2078835) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune From: Peace 'The sessions for The Times They Are a-Changin' produced a large surplus of songs, many of which were eventually issued on later compilations. According to Clinton Heylin, "perhaps the two best songs, "Percy's Song" and "Lay Down Your Weary Tune", would not make the final album, failing to fit within the narrow bounds Dylan had decided to impose on himself." "'Lay Down Your Weary Tune'... along with 'Eternal Circle'... marked a new phase in Dylan's songwriting", writes Heylin. "It is the all-important link between the clipped symbolism of 'A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall' and the more self-conscious efforts to come the following year. A celebration of song itself, 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune' was also an admission that there were certain songs 'no voice can hope to hum'." Riley describes "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" as "a hymn to music's instrumental spectrum... it's about the heightened awareness of nature and reality available to performer and listener in the course of a highly charged musical experience". The song is also rich in natural imagery, often in surreal, musical terms ("The cryin' rain like a trumpet sang/And asked for no applause"). Steven Goldberg writes that the song depicts nature "not as a manifestation of God but as containing God within its every aspect". The Byrds released their own celebrated version of "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" in 1965 on their critically acclaimed second album, Turn! Turn! Turn!.' Dylan's first release of the song was on "Biograph". The above is from Wikipedia. |
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16 Jun 07 - 05:35 PM (#2078875) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune From: GUEST,peregrina Tim O'Brien does a sort of old time string band version as the last track on his 1996 CD Red on Blonde. |
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17 May 21 - 05:07 PM (#4106407) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan) From: Joe Offer Were lyrics posted somewhere? What is the name of the melody? |
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17 May 21 - 05:52 PM (#4106414) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan) From: GUEST,Jerry The melody is a variant on Waly, Waly/The Water is Wide. |
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17 May 21 - 05:53 PM (#4106415) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan) From: GUEST,# Joe, hum The Water is Wide. That may be the melody you`re thinking of. |
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17 May 21 - 06:04 PM (#4106416) Subject: ADD: Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan) From: Joe Offer I was thinking of a hymn, but of course there are many hymns that use the melody to "The Water Is Wide" (called WALY WALY in hymnals). https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lay-down-your-weary-tune/ LAY DOWN YOUR WEARY TUNE (Bob Dylan) Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum Struck by the sounds before the sun I knew the night had gone The morning breeze like a bugle blew Against the drums of dawn Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum The ocean wild like an organ played The seaweed’s wove its strands The crashin’ waves like cymbals clashed Against the rocks and sands Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum I stood unwound beneath the skies And clouds unbound by laws The cryin’ rain like a trumpet sang And asked for no applause Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum The last of leaves fell from the trees And clung to a new love’s breast The branches bare like a banjo played To the winds that listened best I gazed down in the river’s mirror And watched its winding strum The water smooth ran like a hymn And like a harp did hum Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum Copyright © 1964, 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1992, 1993 by Special Rider Music |
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17 May 21 - 06:22 PM (#4106418) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan) From: Monique Ah! So I wasn't dreaming when I said at the singaround that it sounded like The Water is Wide. It did remind me of it. Dylan's song. |
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17 May 21 - 06:23 PM (#4106419) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan) From: MoorleyMan Yeah, the first line melody is almost that of The Water Is Wide, but it shifts away thereafter. I'll do a little more digging... got to gotobed now tho'! |
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17 May 21 - 07:04 PM (#4106426) Subject: RE: Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan) From: Joe Offer My favorite version was by the Byrds. I don't really remember a Dylan recording.The Byrds harmonies send me soaring. |