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.
Not only is it her best song but it is a GIANT of a tune. You feel the hurt with her and you pull for her because she is giving you a look at the genuine pain she was feeling. That and I hate Bob Dylan and he did her dirty , the sonofabitch.
@@gib59er56 "did her dirty", what are you talking about? You aren't required to keep loving every person that loves you, nor are you a bad person for not doing so. Love is strange, and love is fleeting.
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...
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-
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,
I first heard this song in 1979 in Casablanca, Morocco. At this point in my life, I was a senior in high school in a small podunk town about 200 miles away from Casablanca. Besides my love for Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Cat Stevens, Long-Distance Running was my life. In school, my favorite class was English, and after three years of immersing myself in the language, I was somewhat good at understanding spoken English. I was a kid who did not get allowance money, or have a job but managed to save for important needs, and on this particular time, I desperately needed some good running shoes for competing, however, the clothing shops in the small town where I lived had only "Saroukh Brand", a generic plastic sneakers that stunk the minute you put them on. Not finding the right pair of competition-level shoes, I grabbed the meager savings I had and took the overnight train in the "Quatrième Classe" (the lowest economic class in the rear car of the train, with the chickens and goats) to the big city. After a few inquiries on where to find good running shoes in the largest city in Morocco, I was led to Souk Smat, a flea market of a sort in the old Medina of Casablanca. Zigzagging between the droves of people from one stall to the next, I finally hit the jackpot of the everything-abroad shop as if I stumbled on heaven. This shop specializes in imported black-market items from the US and Europe. There was running gear just like what the Track and Field stars (Lasse Viren, Frank Shorter, Henry Rono, to name a few who adorned my room walls) wore, all kinds of Levis Blue Jeans, hip sunglasses, some second-hand stuff as well, etc, in short, the coolest stuff ever for an insignificant kid from a Middle-of-Nowhere town. As I was haggling with the shopkeeper over these incredible Nike sneakers, I saw a Joan Baez album that I had never seen before with Baez in her iconic straw hat picture facing me in the corner of the tiny shop. My focus immediately shifted to "The Best Of Joan C. Baez" vinyl album, I asked the seemingly annoyed shopkeeper to play a couple of songs from the album for me before I bought it. From the minute the first song (Diamonds And Rust) started playing, I just lost it, and by the time "Prison Trilogy" song hit, I was sobbing in a trance-like fashion, not worrying about the gathered mesmerized crowd surrounding me or the shopkeeper. I will never forget that shop or that moment, it was like a freight train of emotions hit me at a vulnerable time with the most sincere words and music that only The Queen of Folk in her prime could create. I skipped the much-needed shoes, gave the shopkeeper all the money I had, and lingered on an empty stomach for hours (with my new-found treasure underarm) in the fascinating boulevards of Casablanca until the past-midnight train ride, so I could easily bunk the train for nearly 200 miles by getting off the train at almost every town and village and getting back on the last train car that the ticket inspector had just visited. Years later I eventually immigrated to the USA, officially named myself Dylan after his Bobness, and had a great family. I saw Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez many times in concerts, and my innocent youth promise, decades ago, was to meet Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in person. After many crazy attempts, I doubt that I will ever fulfill that dream of meeting Bob, but on the contrary, I have met Joan Baez in person twice; once backstage at a concert in Denver where I sang "Jari Ya Hamouda" with her, and once one evening on August 2, 1996, in the woods of Poudre Canyon in the Rocky Mountains near a small motel where she was staying during a very small outdoor concert at the Mishawaka Amphitheatre in Bellvue, Colorado. When we lived in Colorado Springs, My French friend Fabien LOEWENGUTH, who is also a big fan of Joan Baez, and I took the 4-hour drive with much anticipation to see Joan Baez, and after getting lost for a bit, we eventually made it in the nick of time, that concert was very low-key and just outstanding, especially being in the middle of the mountains, there were not many people, which made it fantastic for all the attendees and very intimate being very close to Joan Baez. I do not remember the songs she played, but the set was dreamy with a few songs from the Play Me Backwards album, I believe. Mid-concert, it started raining lightly and despite that, Joan insisted on playing until "it starts sparking" she said. Sure enough, the thunderous rain started sparking the electric cables, at which point the concert came to a frantic halt and everyone scattered for safety. Joan and the band ran uphill to the motel where they were staying, but the hardcore devotees huddled around hoping for a sign from Joan, however after an hour or so of relentless rain everyone left. Fabien kept insisting that we should also leave especially after the innkeeper kept pestering us and that we still had 4 hours of driving back home in severe weather conditions. I had brought a couple of Baez's books and about 40 or so sleeves from my collection of Joan Baez's official and non-official bootleg CDs with me just in case and refused to leave without at least having her autograph them. A few minutes passed when the innkeeper burst from the gate threatening to call the sheriff's office if we didn't leave immediately, I was in dismay, then sprung and lied to him that I flew in from Morocco and was not leaving unless he took Joan Baez's books and CD jackets to her, he agreed to do so, and I pulled my pen and wrote "you mean so much to the oppressed and the politically persecuted people of Morocco" and signed it "dylan" on the cover of the album that contains "Natalya Gorbanevskaya", a song about a Russian dissident who later became a close friend to Joan (I can't remember the album's title now). A long time went by and the rain had stopped, I thought, what a big mistake I made! I will never see my collection back. To my surprise, not only did I get everything back, but Joan Baez in all of her Majesty, brought them back with all humility, barefoot in a blue jeans shirt and shorts, and above all with the hugest welcoming smile that I have ever seen on Joan Baez. I was about to faint when she asked "Who is this Dylan?" Very funny I thought (Tears are rolling down my cheeks as I am typing this now). Among the things I sent with the innkeeper was a photograph of me and Joan Baez from my backstage visit with her the year prior that my wife took, so she mentioned that she remembered me well and my great singing, I told her that I had two choices to name myself, either Dylan or Gandhi, and that my wife preferred Dylan, and also that if I were a woman, I would have named myself Joan or Baez, and with a smirk, she thought that I should have gone with Gandhi. My friend Fabien joined us, and we took pictures and talked for what seemed an eternity about everything that mattered. She asked about my connection with Gandhi, about the Human Rights situation in Morocco, and was genuinely interested in us more than just as fans. It started to sprinkle again and was getting dark by now, we gave each other hugs and left, me with joy, disbelief, and part of my heart torn then and there. That was an experience of a lifetime, that only confirms my belief in Joan Baez as an incredible human being. Some months later, Joan Baez went to sing in Morocco for the first time, and I am convinced it was because of that encounter. My friends in Morocco don't believe that I had anything to do with it, of course not I assure them! Love to you Joan, and may you stay forever young.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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 🙏💖
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.
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.
No matter how many times I’ve listen to Joan & her singing this is beyond a doubt her finest. Everytime I play it l applause . This has been going on for 50+ years☮️
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. 💖🎼
65 to 75-decade in our BOOMERS generation: this song expressed the "love songs" & eternal memories in our days. She and Bob, most beautiful couple; each of us have a '1st love' that remains special in the heart and is forever
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.
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.
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.
Joan Baez,who is always one of my favourite artists of all times,been one of her fans for more than a half of the century,what a singer and songwriter,her voice is always on my mind,love you so much
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.
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!
Tears flow when grief hits you too hard, music & nostalgia really helps to soften the blows wave after wave just let it flow, be brave my brother, we will be brothers in arms soon enough!!!
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.
❤❤This song and its words breaks all the boundaries and states that emotions of pure selfless love are just the same everywhere. Amazing singer amazing words and thanks a lot.
"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!
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!
Joan, you are so special to me. There is no one like you. I would love it if you would put some new things on youtube...you are still gorgeous and so is your voice. 💟💗💝
There where 3 cassettes in my parents car that still matters to me today... Stuff I first heard in the late 70ties and early 80ties Joan Baez - live at every stage Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom and San Quentin and The Beatles 1962-1966 (the red album) and I still love those albums! Joan dit not write that many songs but one she did write are fantastic!
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.
At at least one moment in his life, this song leveled Bob
10 years after they broke up she was still writing songs about him. Beautiful song.
I love this song!
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.
Not only is it her best song but it is a GIANT of a tune. You feel the hurt with her and you pull for her because she is giving you a look at the genuine pain she was feeling. That and I hate Bob Dylan and he did her dirty , the sonofabitch.
@@gib59er56 "did her dirty", what are you talking about? You aren't required to keep loving every person that loves you, nor are you a bad person for not doing so. Love is strange, and love is fleeting.
That is my feelings on Bob Dylan. I hate him, and always have. That is me.
One of the most beautiful songs about disappointed love ever written. Bob is lucky to be forever memorialized in this haunting ballad.
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.💐
First time listening to this song, but I'm here because of the recent Bob Dylan movie. This is so beautiful!
I’m 74 and just saw the movie too. It brought back many memories of my hometown, New York as well my love of folk music, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.
I was born in the 70s, but it was better to live 70s. I love you Joan Baez in 2024.
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...
@@jalliboy
I like both of their voices,
Rob and Joan's are completely different, Rob is in a higher pitch than Joan.
You again? 😂
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-
This song and the memories it personally brings to my own life.. sigh..
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,
Who cares what your age is? It's irrelevant.
No matter how many times I hear this song it will always bring tears to my eyes. What a gift.
I first heard this song in 1979 in Casablanca, Morocco. At this point in my life, I was a senior in high school in a small podunk town about 200 miles away from Casablanca. Besides my love for Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Cat Stevens, Long-Distance Running was my life. In school, my favorite class was English, and after three years of immersing myself in the language, I was somewhat good at understanding spoken English. I was a kid who did not get allowance money, or have a job but managed to save for important needs, and on this particular time, I desperately needed some good running shoes for competing, however, the clothing shops in the small town where I lived had only "Saroukh Brand", a generic plastic sneakers that stunk the minute you put them on. Not finding the right pair of competition-level shoes, I grabbed the meager savings I had and took the overnight train in the "Quatrième Classe" (the lowest economic class in the rear car of the train, with the chickens and goats) to the big city. After a few inquiries on where to find good running shoes in the largest city in Morocco, I was led to Souk Smat, a flea market of a sort in the old Medina of Casablanca. Zigzagging between the droves of people from one stall to the next, I finally hit the jackpot of the everything-abroad shop as if I stumbled on heaven. This shop specializes in imported black-market items from the US and Europe. There was running gear just like what the Track and Field stars (Lasse Viren, Frank Shorter, Henry Rono, to name a few who adorned my room walls) wore, all kinds of Levis Blue Jeans, hip sunglasses, some second-hand stuff as well, etc, in short, the coolest stuff ever for an insignificant kid from a Middle-of-Nowhere town. As I was haggling with the shopkeeper over these incredible Nike sneakers, I saw a Joan Baez album that I had never seen before with Baez in her iconic straw hat picture facing me in the corner of the tiny shop. My focus immediately shifted to "The Best Of Joan C. Baez" vinyl album, I asked the seemingly annoyed shopkeeper to play a couple of songs from the album for me before I bought it. From the minute the first song (Diamonds And Rust) started playing, I just lost it, and by the time "Prison Trilogy" song hit, I was sobbing in a trance-like fashion, not worrying about the gathered mesmerized crowd surrounding me or the shopkeeper. I will never forget that shop or that moment, it was like a freight train of emotions hit me at a vulnerable time with the most sincere words and music that only The Queen of Folk in her prime could create. I skipped the much-needed shoes, gave the shopkeeper all the money I had, and lingered on an empty stomach for hours (with my new-found treasure underarm) in the fascinating boulevards of Casablanca until the past-midnight train ride, so I could easily bunk the train for nearly 200 miles by getting off the train at almost every town and village and getting back on the last train car that the ticket inspector had just visited. Years later I eventually immigrated to the USA, officially named myself Dylan after his Bobness, and had a great family. I saw Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez many times in concerts, and my innocent youth promise, decades ago, was to meet Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in person. After many crazy attempts, I doubt that I will ever fulfill that dream of meeting Bob, but on the contrary, I have met Joan Baez in person twice; once backstage at a concert in Denver where I sang "Jari Ya Hamouda" with her, and once one evening on August 2, 1996, in the woods of Poudre Canyon in the Rocky Mountains near a small motel where she was staying during a very small outdoor concert at the Mishawaka Amphitheatre in Bellvue, Colorado. When we lived in Colorado Springs, My French friend Fabien LOEWENGUTH, who is also a big fan of Joan Baez, and I took the 4-hour drive with much anticipation to see Joan Baez, and after getting lost for a bit, we eventually made it in the nick of time, that concert was very low-key and just outstanding, especially being in the middle of the mountains, there were not many people, which made it fantastic for all the attendees and very intimate being very close to Joan Baez. I do not remember the songs she played, but the set was dreamy with a few songs from the Play Me Backwards album, I believe. Mid-concert, it started raining lightly and despite that, Joan insisted on playing until "it starts sparking" she said. Sure enough, the thunderous rain started sparking the electric cables, at which point the concert came to a frantic halt and everyone scattered for safety. Joan and the band ran uphill to the motel where they were staying, but the hardcore devotees huddled around hoping for a sign from Joan, however after an hour or so of relentless rain everyone left. Fabien kept insisting that we should also leave especially after the innkeeper kept pestering us and that we still had 4 hours of driving back home in severe weather conditions. I had brought a couple of Baez's books and about 40 or so sleeves from my collection of Joan Baez's official and non-official bootleg CDs with me just in case and refused to leave without at least having her autograph them. A few minutes passed when the innkeeper burst from the gate threatening to call the sheriff's office if we didn't leave immediately, I was in dismay, then sprung and lied to him that I flew in from Morocco and was not leaving unless he took Joan Baez's books and CD jackets to her, he agreed to do so, and I pulled my pen and wrote "you mean so much to the oppressed and the politically persecuted people of Morocco" and signed it "dylan" on the cover of the album that contains "Natalya Gorbanevskaya", a song about a Russian dissident who later became a close friend to Joan (I can't remember the album's title now). A long time went by and the rain had stopped, I thought, what a big mistake I made! I will never see my collection back. To my surprise, not only did I get everything back, but Joan Baez in all of her Majesty, brought them back with all humility, barefoot in a blue jeans shirt and shorts, and above all with the hugest welcoming smile that I have ever seen on Joan Baez. I was about to faint when she asked "Who is this Dylan?" Very funny I thought (Tears are rolling down my cheeks as I am typing this now). Among the things I sent with the innkeeper was a photograph of me and Joan Baez from my backstage visit with her the year prior that my wife took, so she mentioned that she remembered me well and my great singing, I told her that I had two choices to name myself, either Dylan or Gandhi, and that my wife preferred Dylan, and also that if I were a woman, I would have named myself Joan or Baez, and with a smirk, she thought that I should have gone with Gandhi. My friend Fabien joined us, and we took pictures and talked for what seemed an eternity about everything that mattered. She asked about my connection with Gandhi, about the Human Rights situation in Morocco, and was genuinely interested in us more than just as fans. It started to sprinkle again and was getting dark by now, we gave each other hugs and left, me with joy, disbelief, and part of my heart torn then and there. That was an experience of a lifetime, that only confirms my belief in Joan Baez as an incredible human being. Some months later, Joan Baez went to sing in Morocco for the first time, and I am convinced it was because of that encounter. My friends in Morocco don't believe that I had anything to do with it, of course not I assure them! Love to you Joan, and may you stay forever young.
Beautiful moving story. Thank you for sharing.
Merci d'avoir partager ces anecdotes sur votre jeunesse au Maroc et cette ferveur à l'égard de Joan Baez et sa musique.
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.
Joan has one of the most haunting and beutiful voices ever. She is also a phenominal guitarist.
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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Think of your soul after death . Look up islam.
I’m 18!
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.
For all of us who have loved and lost -- which is everyone.
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.
Has got to be one of the loveliest songs I've ever heard and sung by a woman with such a wonderful voice.
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.
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.
How many of us women have lived this, not just once but to be repeated in our hearts and kept in secret. 💔
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.
Ms. Baez' voice is so remarkable, but her guitar composition is so ethereal and appropriate for the song. Joan's a world treasure.
She gets some rich sound from that guitar, she has the guitar saying every bit as much as the lyrics to song are saying.
back when a simple guitar and good voice were enough.
"We both know what memories can bring. They bring diamonds & rust."
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.
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.
One of the greatest songs ever..She is wonderful..
it went #1
Incredible Song.
This is Soul pure...❤
I sang her songs in my voice class at college in the 80’s! Love Joan Baez and this song is awesome!
So did I! But my college voice class was in the 70s.
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
Still loving this song and the beautiful lady who sings it❤❤❤
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?
You bring tears to me and I'm 67 years old
Today the world knows.
But she knew it all along.
"you who are so good with words, and at keeping things vague..."
:)
This song is very powerful. Sad to me now. But a beautiful song
What can be said.......the soul, the voice, the talent, the looks of a GODDESS!!!!!
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 🙏💖
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.
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.
No matter how many times I’ve listen to Joan & her singing this is beyond a doubt her finest. Everytime I play it l applause . This has been going on for 50+ years☮️
man that song is so beautiful
I am in Japan, listening to Joan Baez's song, being comforted and saved. Thank you for delivering a wonderful song
A voice from heaven. Such tone with vibrato most singers could only envy. What a talent! Love it. X
💐
Calling from a phone booth...so many memories of those days!
I'm Still blown away Juads Priest did their version of it
Haunting; not to mention the voice is unparelled and beautiful!
My dad showed me this song when I was a little kid and it still gives me chills:)
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. 💖🎼
Where are these heavenly words lyrics come from? Sooo spiritual. Brings cries, confusion and miss opportunities for me. I love it so much.
65 to 75-decade in our BOOMERS generation: this song expressed the "love songs" & eternal memories in our days. She and Bob, most beautiful couple; each of us have a '1st love' that remains special in the heart and is forever
Joan Beaz your voice is amazing. Im sure you loved bob x 😢. Maybe i another life time he would love you more x you are so beautiful x x x ❤.
There aren’t many songs that bring me to tears. This one does. I don’t play it a lot because of the bare emotions
It exudes.
Hangs in the air, gets me every time. That is beautiful and soulfully sang. Great performance.
We need a new word to describe this 🌹
The word you're looking for is "genius". It describes very few of us, and my atheist friends can't seem to explain it
Such an emotive voice, brings me to tears. Thank you Joan Baez.
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
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.
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.
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.
This song still gives me the chills.. this is a perfectly written song
Memories... when you get older that all you have left any more. And this song sure brings them back along with a smile.
Beautiful song,beautiful lady
As intense as it gets lyrically. The music is haunting. Like those shattered relationships. I love her voice. Musically and socially speaking.
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.
Joan Baez,who is always one of my favourite artists of all times,been one of her fans for more than a half of the century,what a singer and songwriter,her voice is always on my mind,love you so much
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'm from Brazil too. I use to heard this song every day. It's amazing!
Back when talent was raw and not manufactured.
My feeling about a very precious person at the moment .
The best description of lost love.
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!
As beautiful now as when I first heard it decades ago...
Tears flow when grief hits you too hard, music & nostalgia really helps to soften the blows wave after wave just let it flow, be brave my brother, we will be brothers in arms soon enough!!!
Great song and your poetry is not lousy…❤️🎶
I was 23 when this gem came out, i'm still listening to it. One such artist per generation ❤
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.
love that haunting song and what a voice
No one can do this song like Joan! She is a master, it's from her own heart.
❤❤This song and its words breaks all the boundaries and states that emotions of pure selfless love are just the same everywhere. Amazing singer amazing words and thanks a lot.
brings back wonderful memories from almost 50 years ago...thank you!
"Memories bring diamonds and rust" gets me every time.
Such a beautiful and timeless song, sang by an outstanding and lovely lady
"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!
Love this song 🎵 ❤
Beautiful bittersweet song!
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!
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 last verse absolutely kills me.
Must be one of the most beautiful songs
Poignant, personal, beautiful, Takes me away. Thank you for the memories.
So beautiful, always, Petet, NZ.
Joan, you are so special to me. There is no one like you. I would love it if you would put some new things on youtube...you are still gorgeous and so is your voice. 💟💗💝
Beautiful song,Beautiful woman ❤❤❤
Very beautifully sung melancholic song; and Joan's voice made it so; what a true treasure of the arts.
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.
There where 3 cassettes in my parents car that still matters to me today...
Stuff I first heard in the late 70ties and early 80ties
Joan Baez - live at every stage
Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom and San Quentin
and The Beatles 1962-1966 (the red album)
and I still love those albums!
Joan dit not write that many songs but one she did write are fantastic!