Title: Fourth Time Around
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: The 1966 Live Recordings (Disc 5 - Dublin, May 5, 1966) (Track #2)
Duration: 04:40
Label: Columbia
When she said,
"Don't waste your words, they're just lies,"
I cried she was deaf.
And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes,
Then said, "What else you got left?"
It was then that I got up to leave
But she said, "Don't forget,
Everybody must give something back
For something they get."
I stood there and hummed,
I tapped on her drum and asked her how come.
And she buttoned her boot,
And straightened her suit,
Then she said, "Don't get cute."
So I forced my hands in my pockets
And felt with my thumbs,
And gallantly handed her
My very last piece of gum.
She threw me outside,
I stood in the dirt where ev'ryone walked.
And after finding I'd
Forgotten my shirt,
I went back and knocked.
I waited in the hallway, she went to get it,
And I tried to make sense
Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair
That leaned up against . . .
Her Jamaican rum
And when she did come, I asked her for some.
She said, "No, dear."
I said, "Your words aren't clear,
You'd better spit out your gum."
She screamed till her face got so red,
Then she fell on the floor,
And I covered her up and then
Thought I'd go look through her drawer.
And when I was through,
I filled up my shoe, and brought it to you.
And you, you took me in,
You loved me then,
You never wasted time.
And I, I never took much,
I never asked for your crutch,
Now don't ask for mine.
PRODUCERS' NOTE
About the audio: The producers have collected every known recording made during Bob Dylan's 1966 tour. The tour began on February 4th, 1966 in the U.S. and continued in North America until the beginning of April. Thereafter, the show moved to Australia, the Nordic countries and the British Isles.
None of the shows were professionally recorded during the early months of the tour. What survives and what is represented here are roughly made audience recordings. Starting on May 1st, Dylan's sound engineer, Richard Alderson, recorded large parts of every show on a carefully adjusted, portable tape recorder. Although the quality is quite good, these recordings are taken directly from the mixing board - the same audio mix that would be played over the PA system in the local venues. Consequently, those tapes will have louder vocals and sound drier, with less hall ambiance than a live recording made for record release.
Columbia Records recorded 4 shows: Sheffield, Manchester and London (2 shows) for the purpose of a live album. Recording rock 'n' roll live was brand new for the Columbia engineers and the resulting recordings vary greatly in sound quality. The vocals on the lectric set of the Sheffield recordings are so distorted that the producers of this release decided to use the audio from the mixing board instead.
About the sequencing: The shows here are presented in chronological order, with the exception of those recordings in which the audio quality is so degraded that the sound detracts from the overall listening experience. These five shows (White Plains, Pittsburgh, Hempstead, Melbourne, Stockholm) are presented at the very end of this collection.