I'm 64 years old now. For decades I have followed your career. Now I have painful joints. I battle depression. And yet, when I close my eyes and listen to your words and that voice of a lark, they wash away all that pain. I thank you for who you are. The world is a better place having you in it.
I'm 63. Same damn thing. God, I love this song and all the memories it evokes. Just saw you on with Colbert after you saw and sang with one of the Tennessee lawmakers. Thanks for all you do.
Tears just come flooding down... this song is just so tender, honest, and comes from a place of love and true pain. The world is better with Joan in it.
My husband proposed to me 35 years ago and played this song. It brings tears to my eyes because he passed away 6 years ago and 6 beautiful kids later it still sounds magical to me.
That is a beautiful song to propose to the love of your life. Hope you have had a wonderful marriage. Married for 32 years and blessed with 3 kids, and I hope it will last forever...
@@michaelspencer3369 Yes, Michael, either way it's harsh when you realize the truth and it feels harsh to see what was always there. The humility can be brutal to your self esteem for awhile. Years later I still feel it in my gut how I debased myself trying to convince someone my motives were genuine when his were nothing of the sort all along. Removing the curtain from a false relationship and seeing it clearly is the best favor you can do for yourself.
It’s hard to watch them singing together years and years later and so close, sharing a microphone- must have been so hard for her.. looking at him so tenderly-
19 years old currently; sad very few, if any, from my generation will ever learn to appreciate this and similar masterpieces. Joan Baez, Gordon Lightfoot, and Jim Croce are who inspired me to play guitar
Asa 78 year old man I need the bittersweet reminders of what I once had and lost, to truly appreciate and cherish, the sweetness of what I will never have again. An incomparable talent on record and stage.
This woman is a legend in her own right. She is, without a doubt, the best female guitarist, song-writer and singer of all time. She has it all. The voice of an angel. Multi-talented and well..... what can you say. I love you Joan! XxX
Well I'd say Joni, but I appreciate Joan's talent and voice. And Joan would probably agree, not just because she's a lovely person. ua-cam.com/video/T95l3_eai88/v-deo.html
@@freespyrit This song is utterly spellbinding, songwriting, singing and guitar playing just superb, but Joni is above everyone for me, l just wish she and Van Morrison had some babies x
Oh so true my friend I’m going through a break up right now that hurts so much and the song is helping me deal with it by the way my pet name for my beloved was diamond
@@markpettis2896 I hear you, been there. 🥺 Us tender hearted folk take it in the gut. Feel the love songs when you need to grieve, but you may also need the music of unresolved anger as I call it, heavy metal, and definitely some that makes you wanna dance. 🤷♀️
I learned to play guitar because of this song. It took me three years to get it. The finger picking has made me into a decent player. I've just come back again to make sure I have the timing right. She is such an inspiration. Thanks for posting this.
I met Joan Baez in San Francisco at the Teatro Zinzanni Dinner Theatre around 2008. She sang in the show but she sang akin to opera, her role in the show. During the show, I was chosen to dance with Baez at her request, 'Sir, Would You Like To Dance'? And of course I accepted. Amazing to see Joan Baez in my waltzing arms, her speaking to me, eye to eye. And later after the show, met her again at an empty venue with her performer friends and my family. , played music with her with my brother Mark Stock. Joan was wonderful, we all played a few songs when she gave us all the great gift of some of her greatest songs...Diamonds and Rust, 4 Letter Word, and a few others. That was the most memorable night of this local yokel musicians life.
This song reminds me of my wife. It was her favorite song before she lost battling cancer, I wish I could change the hands of time, I never missed a moment with her, life could be so unfair most times but sometimes I wonder why bad things always happen to good people,
This a phenomenally powerful song. People are calling it a love song on here, but for me it's about bitterness caused by disappointment in love. Because the person who disappointed the singer is calling out of the blue, she seizes the moment to say that, while she cherishes a memory of what they shared, she's moved on and isn't going to let herself be hurt again.
Surely one of the most staggering opening lines in a song lyric! And the quality doesn't let up...We move on, we change, our perceptions of what was once alter as time passes. But there are always instances where something, apparently long gone, returns with disarming vividness!
Thats the power and fascination that Bob can cause on someone. But his true love was Sara,their divorce really broke him. The tragedy in Bob's romantic life is that he connected with Joan on a musical,artistic level but didnt love her. With Sara it was the opposite,he was in love with her but didnt connect,bond with her on an artistic level.Sara wasnt an artist. Bob said that when he started taking painting classes in NY he couldnt share it wih her,it didn't interest her,its not like they talked about it for hours,she wasnt nourishing him on his artistic life. He always felt incomplete in relationships,i believe he is a deeply lonely man,a hermit soul deep down
This is hands down the most bad ass woman singer songwriter rock and folk music legend I have ever seen in my life. She is and always will be amazing. Wow.
Joan has such power, sensitivity, intelligence and honesty with this song. It is a masterpiece and I haven't heard very many in 44 years since Diamonds and Rust was released.
A masterpiece from Joan Baez. It's so good that Judas Priest did a terrific metal version. Folk and Joan fans, please, try to listen to it. Rob Halford's voice make absolute justice to this gem.
The images brought in this song are hauntingly beautiful...the leaves blowing during a cold winter night in front of a runned down building, snow in the hair, so cold you could see it as he breathed. Poetry at its finest.
I heard an interview where he said or she said that BOB DYLAN wrote it. I don’t believe it. She wrote this definitely. Why did he take credit? Not everything he copyrighted in his catalog was written by him personally. He probably had great intellectual property attorneys from day 1 no doubt
I wonder, what kind of people dare to dislike songs like this? But then she starts to sing and i forget on how this world is so fucked up! This is one of my top ten, for sure!
After hearing Priest do this since I was a teenager and never thinking to go to the original, I must say this is haunting and beautiful. It is very interesting to compare the arrangements of the two.
I saw Joan perform at a small venue in Columbia, MO many years ago. One of the best shows I have ever seen in my 68 years. Thank you, Joan for so many good songs and memories.
listening to this with tears streaming down my cheeks as Joan's voice has touched the very essence of my heart and soul and just makes everything in life alright again ❤ I'm 69 in September so my main love of music was the 70s but I'm now having a true love for all things Joan Baez with her voice that is just so heartfelt and angelic and healing. It's so good to know you are still with us #JoanBaez You take away the pain of just everything and give life such meaning with beautiful reflection. Blessings to you Lady 🙏💖
I don't see it as vengeance, it's still a love song to me . Instilled with sadness, painful honesty, loss and the tragedy of passing time, but still a love song nonetheless.
"By far the most talented crazy person I've ever worked with" ...Great introduction by Joan of Diamonds and Rust...and Bob was for sure hearing this backstage!
I am from Brazil . I don´t know english very well . I liked this music very , very much . Her voice is sweet and wonderful . It seems like a song to sleep children . I know that is impossible , cause I never heard her voice when I was a child , but is what I feel . My language is portuguese and I know spanish too . It is my first opinion in you tube in my life . .
+César W. K. Alcântara Your English is very good -- please don't judge yourself harshly. Few people know more than one language and you're able to speak three. Joan Baez has a voice that is as pure as a spring rain and as strong and perfect as the finest silk. This song was the perfect song for the time, back in the mid 1970's - It spoke to her former relationship with Bob Dylan and yet was so true, it spoke to the hearts of so many who understood that loving can sometimes be both wonderful and heart breaking. Be happy, find the joy in your world and life. I've heard Brazil is a very beautiful country.
There has never been and probably never will be a more apt ode to Bob Dylan who turns 75 today, May 24, 2016 CE. Thanks, Joan. Good health and happiness for the most talented and crazy person you ever wrote for. Love from Bangladesh.
My husband proposed to me playing this song! A very special and poignant song I will never forget! He passed away 5 1/2 years ago and it stilll sounds wonderful to me!
Makes me cry too. Of course I love both Joan and Bob. I love to play this song but I can't come anywhere close to the magic and emotion of the woman who had the experience. 💖🎼
There are so many songs of Joan that speak to me. She is truly THE singer-songwriter of her generation and she shows a huge heart for humanity in every song.
OK, I'm old, but I'm amazed anyone could have covered this song, much less Judas Priest (in all fairness I haven't heard it) but this is the most personal song ever, just Joan singing to Bob! And the best thing she ever wrote.
I encourage you to give it a chance. Age is not really a factor, since JP recorded it in the 70s, not long after Joan released it. She has said she loved their cover. I am much more a fan of Joan and folk music than metal, but Rob Halford (lead singer of JP) has a powerful voice that does credit to the song. They do change the lyrics, to make them less personal, but it is a good and interesting cover that takes a great song in a new direction. Does not top Joan of course, but I prefer it to folk covers I have heard that are just light imitations.
STUNNINGLY moving this song still gives me goosesbumps in 2022. I remember I first heard it in the movie 'Silent Running'. I need to learn this on my guitar - beautiful words.
Best song about unrequited love ever. Her poetry’s evocative; not “lousy” at all. Still remember the first time I heard this song in 1975. She’s got great genes. Her father invented the x-ray microscope and won the Nobel prize for Physics.
I first heard Joan Baez age 12 and last saw her in person on her farewell tour 2019. The world will never forget her talents, her strive for peace and freedom and her amazing paintings. The most talented artist of her generation.
I caught Joan Baez sing this song at the Felt Forum in NYC , I guess it was 1976. Her voice was just so powerful to hear live, it was very impressive. Orlando Letelier was the guest of honor that night, and he foretold to the assembled audience that was there that night he would be assassinated within a week or so, and he wasn't kidding. I think they got him about 10 days later.
I've cried so many times listening to this beautiful song. And I don't think nothing can ever make me feel so calm and serene. Joan, I'm so grateful for your existence. Love you.
I wonder who Joan thinks of when singing this beautiful poetic ballad? Lovely lady, magical voice, ageless and timeless as is the song. Loved the guitar too, hauntingly beautiful.
America and the world have been so blessed to have such a brilliant and beautiful artist in our lives. For decades Joan has kept the humanitarian ideals of peace and justice alive in the hearts of millions who believe that a better and kinder world is possible.
She is indeed one of the greatest American female singer songwriters, but being Scottish myself, I believe her talent came from her Scottish mother. The beauty of how America once was
Joan is one of a kind and still going strong at 75 and her voice is still incredible. This song touches on Dylan's arrogant personality and if you don't think he isn't watch any documentary on him. She adored him ("I loved you dearly") and during the British tour he just brushed her off and refused to let her sing on stage with him.
“the girl on the half-shell” Joan Baez was so gifted as a songwriter. That lyric alone should propel her into some kind of pantheon of greatness, but then there is a full universe of stellar lyrics…in this one song alone.
I am, first and foremost, an appreciator of all kinds of good music -- from Zeppelin to the Eagles and Judas Priest, to Streisand and Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford, but I must say that Joan Baez' version of this song is the most amazing concert of music, lyrics, and voice that I've ever heard. This just floors me to my core.
One of God"s gifted treasures, to feel such closeness to your woman, to know the pain of too much tenderness, so that all time could stop in that moment for all is complete, but time tarries not, yet that moment will last forever somewhere in the universe. I believe that's what Joan meant when she sang, " speaking strictly for me, we both could have died then and there."
I'm 64 years old now. For decades I have followed your career. Now I have painful joints. I battle depression. And yet, when I close my eyes and listen to your words and that voice of a lark, they wash away all that pain. I thank you for who you are. The world is a better place having you in it.
Amen.
Oh que oui
❤❤❤
Sooo you are 65. 33 1/3 was slo.
45?
But 78!!
(Like me)
I'm 63. Same damn thing. God, I love this song and all the memories it evokes. Just saw you on with Colbert after you saw and sang with one of the Tennessee lawmakers. Thanks for all you do.
Tears just come flooding down... this song is just so tender, honest, and comes from a place of love and true pain. The world is better with Joan in it.
Well said 💜
Judas Priest did a better job but both are beautiful
❤🙏🙏
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Possibly Joan's best song of all.
No auto tune or voice editing. Pure RAW talent. 👏
It is a sad state of affairs when Taylor Swift is considered the best artist of the decade.
and then came judas priest and made the song theirs !
don`t get me wrong.. this lady can sing !
another misinformed autotune comment of course...
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I like both of their voices,
Rob and Joan's are completely different, Rob is in a higher pitch than Joan.
You again? 😂
My husband proposed to me 35 years ago and played this song. It brings tears to my eyes because he passed away 6 years ago and 6 beautiful kids later it still sounds magical to me.
💕💚💜💕💕🙏🙏🙏
I hope his memory...and spirit...live with you still
That is a beautiful song to propose to the love of your life. Hope you have had a wonderful marriage.
Married for 32 years and blessed with 3 kids, and I hope it will last forever...
🙏🙏
10 years down the road, I hope you found another companion.💐
Best advice I’ve ever received: “Don’t ever make a man tell you twice he doesn’t want you”.
G-Girl
Hindsight is a marvellous thing...
A song for someone who no longer remembers me..
Australia
...or a woman....I had to painfully learn this truth many times.
@@michaelspencer3369 Yes, Michael, either way it's harsh when you realize the truth and it feels harsh to see what was always there. The humility can be brutal to your self esteem for awhile. Years later I still feel it in my gut how I debased myself trying to convince someone my motives were genuine when his were nothing of the sort all along. Removing the curtain from a false relationship and seeing it clearly is the best favor you can do for yourself.
@@avengernemesis7990 hello Australia hope you are living your best life in gratitude and health.
Three times a charm.
Maybe the greatest love song ever written and sung. Could not stop the tears.
James Levison someone had to say it. Now that read it, I have to agree.
@@lynnhenson3042 Joan is a Quaker, not Catholic
@@green8718 is, not was, she's still alive. 🙂
So much emotion in one song!
@@teresaclark5593 Yes, you are correct. I wasn't sure if she was still a practicing Quaker, though.
Bobby broke Joanie's heart, such is life, from such heartbreak comes such great art
It’s hard to watch them singing together years and years later and so close, sharing a microphone- must have been so hard for her.. looking at him so tenderly-
19 years old currently; sad very few, if any, from my generation will ever learn to appreciate this and similar masterpieces. Joan Baez, Gordon Lightfoot, and Jim Croce are who inspired me to play guitar
I'm 58. I would make everyone on my bus shut up so I could listen
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Check out Judas priest ver
Think of your soul after death . Look up islam.
I’m 18!
For all of us who have loved and lost -- which is everyone.
Joan has one of the most haunting and beutiful voices ever. She is also a phenominal guitarist.
Asa 78 year old man I need the bittersweet reminders of what I once had and lost, to truly appreciate and cherish, the sweetness of what I will never have again. An incomparable talent on record and stage.
well put
John Knox Not quite made that (80 now?). Only 69, but know what you mean. Via con Dios
I see what you did there 😉
Thank you, couldn't have said it better
I hope you’re doing well.
This woman is a legend in her own right. She is, without a doubt, the best female guitarist, song-writer and singer of all time. She has it all. The voice of an angel. Multi-talented and well..... what can you say. I love you Joan! XxX
Well I'd say Joni, but I appreciate Joan's talent and voice. And Joan would probably agree, not just because she's a lovely person. ua-cam.com/video/T95l3_eai88/v-deo.html
@@freespyrit This song is utterly spellbinding, songwriting, singing and guitar playing just superb, but Joni is above everyone for me, l just wish she and Van Morrison had some babies x
Ever heard of Joni Mitchell? She is a goddess of poetry and guitar playing.
Joni Mitchell is the greatest,then comes Joan,Mama Cass and others
For me it's a tie, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.
Painful yet healing. This song is felt just as much as it is heard 🤷♀️
Oh so true my friend I’m going through a break up right now that hurts so much and the song is helping me deal with it by the way my pet name for my beloved was diamond
@@markpettis2896 I hear you, been there. 🥺 Us tender hearted folk take it in the gut. Feel the love songs when you need to grieve, but you may also need the music of unresolved anger as I call it, heavy metal, and definitely some that makes you wanna dance. 🤷♀️
@@markpettis2896 You have actually got me worrying about you, although I don’t know you 🤷♀️
No matter how many times I hear this song it will always bring tears to my eyes. What a gift.
Today the world knows.
But she knew it all along.
"you who are so good with words, and at keeping things vague..."
:)
Still loving this song and the beautiful lady who sings it❤❤❤
Sometimes we need the bittersweet reminders of what we once had and lost, to truly appreciate and cherish, the sweetness of what we have now.
Perfectly stated and so beautiful in your comment. Such a clean heart. I love the way you said that.
Nia the Gulf Gypsy omoilljjuyugff cchjghghhn .o
This vid is my inspiring reflective therapy today, appreciate the upload thank you very much
Nia, thank you for so eloquently describing the agony and ecstasy of true love and life itself. Ira Lee, Ph.D.
For me its a bittersweet reminder of what i had and lost and the agony of what i have now.
her superb voice almost overpowers and hides the fact how smoothly she plays beautiful guitar along with her song....beautiful beautiful
she is a great
She has the most beautiful voice of a female singer. Her singing is just outstanding.
I learned to play guitar because of this song. It took me three years to get it. The finger picking has made me into a decent player. I've just come back again to make sure I have the timing right. She is such an inspiration. Thanks for posting this.
the writing and the voice are expected. But its great guitar work
She is phenomenal.
The years a Joan, Arlo, Dylan, Rondstadt, Simon and Garfunkel, and others of that generation-long gone, never to be replaced.
I met Joan Baez in San Francisco at the Teatro Zinzanni Dinner Theatre around 2008. She sang in the show but she sang akin to opera, her role in the show. During the show, I was chosen to dance with Baez at her request, 'Sir, Would You Like To Dance'? And of course I accepted.
Amazing to see Joan Baez in my waltzing arms, her speaking to me, eye to eye. And later after the show, met her again at an empty venue with her performer friends and my family. , played music with her with my brother Mark Stock. Joan was wonderful, we all played a few songs when she gave us all the great gift of some of her greatest songs...Diamonds and Rust, 4 Letter Word, and a few others. That was the most memorable night of this local yokel musicians life.
WOW !!!
Quelle chance!! Un souvenir sans prix
:O impresionant, she is humble and so great. What fortunate you are!!
observer17 farout...she is absolutely a legend. Her voice caries me away. I love her talent...
observer17 Those are your artistic life's defining&rewarding moments of "Moksha"&"Nirvana". Consider yourself Blessed!
I am 76 years old but her sentiment is as wonderful now as it was 60 odd years ago. She is still breathtakingly gorgeous!!😅😅
This song reminds me of my wife. It was her favorite song before she lost battling cancer, I wish I could change the hands of time, I never missed a moment with her, life could be so unfair most times but sometimes I wonder why bad things always happen to good people,
This a phenomenally powerful song. People are calling it a love song on here, but for me it's about bitterness caused by disappointment in love. Because the person who disappointed the singer is calling out of the blue, she seizes the moment to say that, while she cherishes a memory of what they shared, she's moved on and isn't going to let herself be hurt again.
I suspect that the "stranger" was Bob Dylan, who she once dated.
@@festeradams3972Good guess! 😉
One of the few benefits of being Old is I'd heard the story some years ago :-).@@davidvergari6715
Surely one of the most staggering opening lines in a song lyric! And the quality doesn't let up...We move on, we change, our perceptions of what was once alter as time passes. But there are always instances where something, apparently long gone, returns with disarming vividness!
Amen
So true!
Well said!! : ))
Thats the power and fascination that Bob can cause on someone. But his true love was Sara,their divorce really broke him. The tragedy in Bob's romantic life is that he connected with Joan on a musical,artistic level but didnt love her. With Sara it was the opposite,he was in love with her but didnt connect,bond with her on an artistic level.Sara wasnt an artist. Bob said that when he started taking painting classes in NY he couldnt share it wih her,it didn't interest her,its not like they talked about it for hours,she wasnt nourishing him on his artistic life. He always felt incomplete in relationships,i believe he is a deeply lonely man,a hermit soul deep down
Sarah who?
Has got to be one of the loveliest songs I've ever heard and sung by a woman with such a wonderful voice.
Ms. Baez' voice is so remarkable, but her guitar composition is so ethereal and appropriate for the song. Joan's a world treasure.
One of the greatest songs ever..She is wonderful..
it went #1
Incredible Song.
This song and the memories it personally brings to my own life.. sigh..
Wonderful performance. Her voice is ethereal. You can hear her heart singing.
This is hands down the most bad ass woman singer songwriter rock and folk music legend I have ever seen in my life. She is and always will be amazing. Wow.
What can be said.......the soul, the voice, the talent, the looks of a GODDESS!!!!!
Joan has such power, sensitivity, intelligence and honesty with this song. It is a masterpiece and I haven't heard very many in 44 years since Diamonds and Rust was released.
A masterpiece from Joan Baez. It's so good that Judas Priest did a terrific metal version. Folk and Joan fans, please, try to listen to it. Rob Halford's voice make absolute justice to this gem.
ua-cam.com/video/eHyl8a394-M/v-deo.html Fantastic version
Actually I find the poetry here quite incredible, Joan. Thanks a lot.
Many folk artists start off as, and still are, poets. She has such a sweet voice, doesn't she?
I think Dylan was probably just teasing her when he said that.
Yes, NOT lousy.
Dylan finally admitted he wrote it.
@@KaiserBlade Nope. He didn't. Write it, or say he did.
The images brought in this song are hauntingly beautiful...the leaves blowing during a cold winter night in front of a runned down building, snow in the hair, so cold you could see it as he breathed. Poetry at its finest.
I heard an interview where he said or she said that BOB DYLAN wrote it. I don’t believe it. She wrote this definitely. Why did he take credit? Not everything he copyrighted in his catalog was written by him personally. He probably had great intellectual property attorneys from day 1 no doubt
This lady is the Alpa and Omega of Love and Life.
James Unsworth
Alpha not Alpa!
I wonder, what kind of people dare to dislike songs like this? But then she starts to sing and i forget on how this world is so fucked up! This is one of my top ten, for sure!
This 191 people came on this page by mistake i guess. Looked for shakira or justin bieber... As for me - one of greatest songs ever!
MultiVal67 I'm sorry to disagree with you, but for me this people don't even know that songs like this actually exist. Cheers!
Well said Guga!
How many of us women have lived this, not just once but to be repeated in our hearts and kept in secret. 💔
After hearing Priest do this since I was a teenager and never thinking to go to the original, I must say this is haunting and beautiful. It is very interesting to compare the arrangements of the two.
I saw Joan perform at a small venue in Columbia, MO many years ago. One of the best shows I have ever seen in my 68 years. Thank you, Joan for so many good songs and memories.
listening to this with tears streaming down my cheeks as Joan's voice has touched the very essence of my heart and soul and just makes everything in life alright again ❤ I'm 69 in September so my main love of music was the 70s but I'm now having a true love for all things Joan Baez with her voice that is just so heartfelt and angelic and healing. It's so good to know you are still with us #JoanBaez You take away the pain of just everything and give life such meaning with beautiful reflection. Blessings to you Lady 🙏💖
love that haunting song and what a voice
As intense as it gets lyrically. The music is haunting. Like those shattered relationships. I love her voice. Musically and socially speaking.
I was born in the 70s, but it was better to live 70s. I love you Joan Baez in 2024.
Revenge so eloquently sung.
I don't see it as vengeance, it's still a love song to me . Instilled with sadness, painful honesty, loss and the tragedy of passing time, but still a love song nonetheless.
"By far the most talented crazy person I've ever worked with" ...Great introduction by Joan of Diamonds and Rust...and Bob was for sure hearing this backstage!
"We both know what memories can bring. They bring diamonds & rust."
A voice from heaven. Such tone with vibrato most singers could only envy. What a talent! Love it. X
💐
I am from Brazil . I don´t know english very well . I liked this music very , very much . Her voice is sweet and wonderful . It seems like a song to sleep children . I know that is impossible , cause I never heard her voice when I was a child , but is what I feel . My language is portuguese and I know spanish too . It is my first opinion in you tube in my life .
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+César W. K. Alcântara Your English is very good -- please don't judge yourself harshly. Few people know more than one language and you're able to speak three.
Joan Baez has a voice that is as pure as a spring rain and as strong and perfect as the finest silk.
This song was the perfect song for the time, back in the mid 1970's - It spoke to her former relationship with Bob Dylan and yet was so true, it spoke to the hearts of so many who understood that loving can sometimes be both wonderful and heart breaking.
Be happy, find the joy in your world and life. I've heard Brazil is a very beautiful country.
+César W. K. Alcântara Vc sabia que essa musica ela fez para Bob Dilan?
Obrigado, from an American embarrassed about our political situation.
don't be!
César W. K. Alcântara man of a
There has never been and probably never will be a more apt ode to Bob Dylan who turns 75 today, May 24, 2016 CE. Thanks, Joan. Good health and happiness for the most talented and crazy person you ever wrote for. Love from Bangladesh.
yes I agree
interesting...
She really nailed Dylan
dylan wrote the song.
sorry joan wrote the song!
The Last Chapter of Kermanshah Diary (Raamtin Residence) ...now you're telling me you're not nostalgic - then give me another word for it...
Diggin This
Harold Flood
A GREAT SINGER ...
Indeed.........
Bojan Boskovicさん。素晴らしい歌を有り難うございます。
My dad showed me this song when I was a little kid and it still gives me chills:)
My husband proposed to me playing this song! A very special and poignant song I will never forget! He passed away 5 1/2 years ago and it stilll sounds wonderful to me!
I am in Japan, listening to Joan Baez's song, being comforted and saved. Thank you for delivering a wonderful song
Makes me cry too. Of course I love both Joan and Bob. I love to play this song but I can't come anywhere close to the magic and emotion of the woman who had the experience. 💖🎼
This song still gives me the chills.. this is a perfectly written song
I am 70 years old and I cannot believe I had never heard this before. This is beyond outstanding!!!!!
Check out the Judas Priest version
Mike Lane it’s terrible compared to this
neutral nick hotel sorry you feel that way Joan herself said it was her favorite cover. But at least you checked it out
Larry, you were probably listening to hard rock during your younger days. As we mellow with age, so do many of our tastes. At least it did for me.
"As I remember your eyes
Were bluer than robin's eggs '
Well, Joan was Tangled Up In Blue
I sang her songs in my voice class at college in the 80’s! Love Joan Baez and this song is awesome!
Hangs in the air, gets me every time. That is beautiful and soulfully sang. Great performance.
Such an emotive voice, brings me to tears. Thank you Joan Baez.
There are so many songs of Joan that speak to me. She is truly THE singer-songwriter of her generation and she shows a huge heart for humanity in every song.
OK, I'm old, but I'm amazed anyone could have covered this song, much less Judas Priest (in all fairness I haven't heard it) but this is the most personal song ever, just Joan singing to Bob! And the best thing she ever wrote.
I encourage you to give it a chance. Age is not really a factor, since JP recorded it in the 70s, not long after Joan released it. She has said she loved their cover. I am much more a fan of Joan and folk music than metal, but Rob Halford (lead singer of JP) has a powerful voice that does credit to the song. They do change the lyrics, to make them less personal, but it is a good and interesting cover that takes a great song in a new direction. Does not top Joan of course, but I prefer it to folk covers I have heard that are just light imitations.
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Judas priest did a great cover of this song
The Only Voice that ever made me Just plain cry.
STUNNINGLY moving this song still gives me goosesbumps in 2022. I remember I first heard it in the movie 'Silent Running'. I need to learn this on my guitar - beautiful words.
Beautiful voice Listen to the Judas Priest cover version ..
The last verse absolutely kills me.
Must be one of the most beautiful songs
Haunting; not to mention the voice is unparelled and beautiful!
loved her then love her now
I'm from Brazil too. I use to heard this song every day. It's amazing!
You bring tears to me and I'm 67 years old
Best song about unrequited love ever. Her poetry’s evocative; not “lousy” at all. Still remember the first time I heard this song in 1975. She’s got great genes. Her father invented the x-ray microscope and won the Nobel prize for Physics.
As long as human beings have ears--this song will be treasured!
"Speaking strictly for me we both could have died then and there" the most hippy pang of love lyric ever.
I was 23 when this gem came out, i'm still listening to it. One such artist per generation ❤
Very beautiful Song of Joan Baez! I like so much !
I could never listen to Joan, and then everything came together in this song. I love this. I bring it up about once a year, and listen to it 20 times.
I first heard Joan Baez age 12 and last saw her in person on her farewell tour 2019. The world will never forget her talents, her strive for peace and freedom and her amazing paintings. The most talented artist of her generation.
Back when talent was raw and not manufactured.
I caught Joan Baez sing this song at the Felt Forum in NYC , I guess it was 1976. Her voice was just so powerful to hear live, it was very impressive. Orlando Letelier was the guest of honor that night, and he foretold to the assembled audience that was there that night he would be assassinated within a week or so, and he wasn't kidding. I think they got him about 10 days later.
Gorgeous song depicting a beautiful love for Bob Dylan.. wow, what classy musicians...
I've cried so many times listening to this beautiful song. And I don't think nothing can ever make me feel so calm and serene. Joan, I'm so grateful for your existence. Love you.
Poignant, personal, beautiful, Takes me away. Thank you for the memories.
She blows me away with this song. What an amazing guitarist. A legend in her own right
Such a beautiful and timeless song, sang by an outstanding and lovely lady
True poetry
I wonder who Joan thinks of when singing this beautiful poetic ballad? Lovely lady, magical voice, ageless and timeless as is the song. Loved the guitar too, hauntingly beautiful.
don't you know this song is for bob dylan?
@@rocklover5628 Thought it might be. Glad you say it is. Adds to its beauty. Love Bob too.
Yes, Joan was an Angel. I wouldn't have walked away from her. Bob wasn't ready.
America and the world have been so blessed to have such a brilliant and beautiful artist in our lives. For decades Joan has kept the humanitarian ideals of peace and justice alive in the hearts of millions who believe that a better and kinder world is possible.
She is indeed one of the greatest American female singer songwriters, but being Scottish myself, I believe her talent came from her Scottish mother. The beauty of how America once was
Joan is one of a kind and still going strong at 75 and her voice is still incredible. This song touches on Dylan's arrogant personality and if you don't think he isn't watch any documentary on him. She adored him ("I loved you dearly") and during the British tour he just brushed her off and refused to let her sing on stage with him.
She has a beautiful voice. I really like this song and she sings it with feeling and honesty; a sad song filled with pain.
“the girl on the half-shell”
Joan Baez was so gifted as a songwriter. That lyric alone should propel her into some kind of pantheon of greatness, but then there is a full universe of stellar lyrics…in this one song alone.
I saw Joan in concert, Great Lady, what a voice and imposing presence.
No one can do this song like Joan! She is a master, it's from her own heart.
I agree, folk music is the heart and soul of a people, Baez is certainly an Angel that shares the depth of that collecttive soul with you, awakened.
Beautiful song,Beautiful woman ❤❤❤
At at least one moment in his life, this song leveled Bob
I am, first and foremost, an appreciator of all kinds of good music -- from Zeppelin to the Eagles and Judas Priest, to Streisand and Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford, but I must say that Joan Baez' version of this song is the most amazing concert of music, lyrics, and voice that I've ever heard. This just floors me to my core.
"Joan Boaz' version of this song" ? - she wrote it! It's her song
This is her song
Sempre meravigliosa da ascoltare. Che voce. Immensa Joan❤
As beautiful now as when I first heard it decades ago...
One of God"s gifted treasures, to feel such closeness to your woman, to know the pain of too much tenderness, so that all time could stop in that moment for all is complete, but time tarries not, yet that moment will last forever somewhere in the universe. I believe that's what Joan meant when she sang, " speaking strictly for me, we both could have died then and there."