Favorite song Dylan covered

[fNord]

not the other way around


Pancho and Lefty, w/ Willie Nelson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPMxJROHInM

[mix]

1. this performance is a classic, one of my favorites

[fNord]

2. sorry to rip off yor thread, but when I went to post this one..........

I remembered that it wasn't truly a DYLAN song.

so now I post it any way

[hibbing]

3. Arthur McBride

Hi,
I guess I read this one wrong, thought you were asking songs Bob covered not Dylan songs covered by others.

Peace

[Swede]

4. Jimi Hendrix -All Along the Watchtower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14qTXRkAKr8


"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

[Ptah]

6. jinx

[Swede]

7. Great minds think alike!

[fNord]

8. no, no you two got it backward

[Ptah]

5. Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwCBh0z3Hs

[kwassa]

9. Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds

[Dystopian]

10. Johnny Winter - Highway 61

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8siLZ4zNbY&feature=fvw
peace~

[rug]

11. The House of the Rising Sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49IzD9IE5Vc

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Jimi Hendrix - Like A Rollin' Stone - Monterey Pop Festival

He did a great version of that song. Hendrix idolized Dylan.

[fNord]

13. what I Ment was, well, what The OP said:

songs Other people wrote that Dylan covered

(edited for clarity)

[johnnie]

14. I liked his version of Mr Bojangles

I thought that was a great album even though it was look at as crap.

[abq e streeter]

15. Rick Nelson's Lonesome Town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udz2n-4TU2o

[Amerigo Vespucci]

17. I was going to post that one too...

...I remember reading in Rolling Stone that Bob was on tour when Nelson died and he dedicated that song to him on stage one night.

:toast:

[abq e streeter]

19. A beautiful song ...

I always thought Rick Nelson was terribly underrated because of his "teen idol" status. He was very serious about making quality music, and this may be my favorite one of em all... I was in a hotel room in Taos, New Mexico, getting dressed for our New Year's gig when we heard about the plane crash on the radio. Didn't say anything to the audience about it, but just tried to rock ( 7 piece R&B band) as hard as I knew how...... back at ya, Amerigo::toast: ( and to you too Rick; we'll never forget you)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

16. Return To Me ("Ritorna-Me"), a hit for Dean Martin, and Bob's version was in "The Sopranos"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4na2elEKVo

Posted Feb 05, 2001

THE MOB IT IS A-CHANGIN' Dylan covers Dino for ''The Sopranos''

FAMILY MAN When you think of Bob Dylan, you don't necessarily think of martinis and meatballs -- but that could change if his latest studio recording sees the light of day. The rock bard recently cut a very traditional sounding cover of the Dean Martin oldie ''Return to Me'' expressly for ''The Sopranos,'' complete with accordion and verses sung in Italian. Columbia has been reticent to announce the track because series creator David Chase hasn't yet confirmed he'll be using Dylan's song in the third season (beginning in March), or on the second ''Sopranos'' soundtrack album, which should come out before the season is up. Maybe Bob needs to make Chase an offer he can't refuse...like threatening to give it to Martin Scorsese's upcoming gangland picture instead.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,97910,00.html

[mia]

18. Aaron Neville - with God on our side

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSxkuMkYH4w

"With God On Our Side"

Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And the land that I live in
Has God on its side.

Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.

The Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns on their hands
And God on their side.

The First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.

I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.

But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

[fishwax]

20. I know I'm usually in the minority on this, but I like his version of "The Boxer"

I think it's brilliant and, like the album it's on (Self Portait) vastly underrated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzRmlYvVXSg

[fNord]

21. this is great!.....

who is he dueting with....... or is that him too?

[fishwax]

22. yep -- it's Bob dueting with Bob

:)

I'm glad you like it :toast:

[fNord]

23. I'd never heard this one before......

thank you

[fishwax]

26. Here's another that you might like

A cover of Gordon Lightfoot's Early Morning Rain (from the same much-maligned album as The Boxer cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkb6LzcJuNQ

Your suggestion of Pancho and Lefty was also great--As luck would have it, I listened to that earlier today (there was a thread this morning about best duets that sent me in search of it :))

[Tikki]

24. Richie Havens ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWfRh1x3Zfo
"Just Like a Woman"....Richie Havens


Tikki

[fNord]

25. I give up.......

at least this misunderstanding has brought me a few songs I never heard

[abq e streeter]

27. I'm surprised; seemed like a clear enough OP

maybe it's just late and many of the people were just tired and didn't read the OP carefully. Seemed pretty obvious as to what you were looking for...:shrug:

[fNord]

28. if Eris teaches us any thing (and, of course, she dosent).......

it is to to except misunderstandings as twisted opportunities.

or not.