Title: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: The 1966 Live Recordings (Disc 13 - Birmingham, May 12, 1966) (Track #5)
Duration: 03:51
Label: Columbia
Well, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Yes, I see you got your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, you must tell me, baby
How your head feels under somethin' like that
Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, you look so pretty in it
Honey, can I jump on it sometime?
Yes, I just wanna see
If it's really that expensive kind
You know it balances on your head
Just like a mattress balances
On a bottle of wine
Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, if you wanna see the sun rise
Honey, I know where
We'll go out and see it sometime
We'll both just sit there and stare
Me with my belt
Wrapped around my head
And you just sittin' there
In your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, I asked the doctor if I could see you
It's bad for your health, he said
Yes, I disobeyed his orders
I came to see you
But I found him there instead
You know, I don't mind him cheatin' on me
But I sure wish he'd take that off his head
Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
Well, I see you got a new boyfriend
You know, I never seen him before
Well, I saw him
Makin' love to you
You forgot to close the garage door
You might think he loves you for your money
But I know what he really loves you for
It's your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat
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.