Nice job with Dylan's great song. I live within 100 yards of the ocean for 8 months of the year and willing lay down my tune every day to the ocean's roar. I can't hold a candle to that. No one can, not even Dylan.
Amazing! You've made my day. I've sung this song since the mid-sixties when I first heard it. I've sung it in coffeehouses in Philadelphia, busking on the streets of NYC and San Francisco; hiking in the mountains of the Thuringwald in Germany; in a bistro in Paris; a coffeehouse in Copenhagen; in a deserted church in Lyons, France. We learned it from Jim and Jean. But this version is possibly definitive! Sung in a round that begs for participation from the audience. And not many versions sing all the verses.
Man! Do I like this tune! Million thumbs up for this one jeffcont. :) The tune is so infectious that I've been humming it for hours how. God bless Dylan and Bragg and you for puting it here. Thanks mate.
I agree. This was a song that was destined for obscurity. Billy revived it, and saved it, in my opinion. I don't know why Dylan did not see the song's potential. But he has a history of shelving songs that had a lot of potential.
@@randystroud6513 Jim and Jean covered it in the late 60 s. A completely different version and one I think is more in its spirit. My one objection is that the version is abridged. ua-cam.com/video/OfdavMfJvgQ/v-deo.html
Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum Struck by the sounds before the sun I knew the night had gone The morning breeze like a bugle blew Against the drums of dawn Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum The ocean wild like an organ played The seaweed’s wove its strands The crashin’ waves like cymbals clashed Against the rocks and sands Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum I stood unwound beneath the skies And clouds unbound by laws The cryin’ rain like a trumpet sang And asked for no applause Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum The last of leaves fell from the trees And clung to a new love’s breast The branches bare like a banjo played To the winds that listened best I gazed down in the river’s mirror And watched its winding strum The water smooth ran like a hymn And like a harp did hum Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum
I, for one, appreciate the sheer genius of the recording concept. The song was basically discarded by Bob Dylan, who apparently did not understand its potential. If if had not been for Roger McGuinn and the Byrds, it might have been lost. Billy Bragg does a great job of resurrecting it once again. If you don't appreciate this fact, you have missed the point.
It was the incomparable Jim and Jean who brought the song solidly into the folk tradition with their delicate harmonies and richly developed arrangement. The Byrds released it in December 1965, while Jim and Jean released the much more lyrical version in 1966. ua-cam.com/video/OfdavMfJvgQ/v-deo.html
The original song is nowhere near the quality of this recording of it. The Byrds did an awesome arrangement. I like theirs best, but for a solo with a CHOIR? That is brilliant.
Maybe you don't like his voice, but he has one. And millions of people like it. Including me. He elevated this lost song to another level. Pure genius.
Yes, perfect!
Nice job with Dylan's great song. I live within 100 yards of the ocean for 8 months of the year and willing lay down my tune every day to the ocean's roar. I can't hold a candle to that. No one can, not even Dylan.
Love Billy Bragg.
Amazing! You've made my day. I've sung this song since the mid-sixties when I first heard it. I've sung it in coffeehouses in Philadelphia, busking on the streets of NYC and San Francisco; hiking in the mountains of the Thuringwald in Germany; in a bistro in Paris; a coffeehouse in Copenhagen; in a deserted church in Lyons, France. We learned it from Jim and Jean. But this version is possibly definitive! Sung in a round that begs for participation from the audience. And not many versions sing all the verses.
Man! Do I like this tune! Million thumbs up for this one jeffcont. :) The tune is so infectious that I've been humming it for hours how. God bless Dylan and Bragg and you for puting it here. Thanks mate.
I agree. This was a song that was destined for obscurity. Billy revived it, and saved it, in my opinion. I don't know why Dylan did not see the song's potential. But he has a history of shelving songs that had a lot of potential.
@@randystroud6513 Jim and Jean covered it in the late 60 s. A completely different version and one I think is more in its spirit. My one objection is that the version is abridged. ua-cam.com/video/OfdavMfJvgQ/v-deo.html
Billy Bragg does a good job on this Dylan tune.
Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum
Struck by the sounds before the sun
I knew the night had gone
The morning breeze like a bugle blew
Against the drums of dawn
Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum
The ocean wild like an organ played
The seaweed’s wove its strands
The crashin’ waves like cymbals clashed
Against the rocks and sands
Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum
I stood unwound beneath the skies
And clouds unbound by laws
The cryin’ rain like a trumpet sang
And asked for no applause
Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum
The last of leaves fell from the trees
And clung to a new love’s breast
The branches bare like a banjo played
To the winds that listened best
I gazed down in the river’s mirror
And watched its winding strum
The water smooth ran like a hymn
And like a harp did hum
Lay down your weary tune, lay down
Lay down the song you strum
And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum
Well done, brother Billy...
Oh dear !
I, for one, appreciate the sheer genius of the recording concept. The song was basically discarded by Bob Dylan, who apparently did not understand its potential. If if had not been for Roger McGuinn and the Byrds, it might have been lost. Billy Bragg does a great job of resurrecting it once again. If you don't appreciate this fact, you have missed the point.
It was the incomparable Jim and Jean who brought the song solidly into the folk tradition with their delicate harmonies and richly developed arrangement. The Byrds released it in December 1965, while Jim and Jean released the much more lyrical version in 1966. ua-cam.com/video/OfdavMfJvgQ/v-deo.html
Yes, I absolutely love, love the Byrds's version and also Jim & Jean's version.
I like it. The song wails like a wolf's howl.
Like the arrangement.
Nice
WHERE IS THE ORIGINAL SONG?
The original song is nowhere near the quality of this recording of it. The Byrds did an awesome arrangement. I like theirs best, but for a solo with a CHOIR? That is brilliant.
On the Bob Dylan album Biograph which I have on CD. ua-cam.com/video/iWvMuz7nYtY/v-deo.html
#RandyStroud sorry, but are you deaf?
Good version, Dylan is better a lot more exuberant....
A lesser version of a great tune.
Your ears must be painted on.
Like Dylan's version lots better.
Poor cover.
Why would you say that? It's one of the great stories of the resurrection of a lost song.
Billy bragg has no voice.
Maybe you don't like his voice, but he has one. And millions of people like it. Including me. He elevated this lost song to another level. Pure genius.