I've been desperate to repost this ever since I saw it on Aquarium Drunkard. I think it's been long enough since they originally brought it to my attention, so now I'm passing it on to you, a very small but hopefully appreciative extra audience. This is one of the most wonderful snippets of music I've ever come across. It brings tears to my eyes, and very few songs do that:
Anyone who knows me well will tell you how much I love Bob Dylan, how much I love his style, his lyrics and his music, but this is perhaps the most beautiful love song he has ever sung, in one of the loveliest singing voices I've ever heard. I know, right? Why doesn't he just sing like that all the time, instead of nasal-o-jefferies? (as much as I love nasal-o-jefferies). I dunno, you'd have to ask him I guess, the man's an enigma wrapped in a puzzle.
P.S. I found the original Aquarium Drunkard post, while trying to find out whether this song had ever been recorded, and they posted the lyrics as follows (with a couple of amendments):
“Where she leads me I do not know, well she leads me where she goes. I can’t find her nowhere. Well, she needs me how, all aware, I just can’t hear her walk, I just can’t hear her talk, though sometimes you know you will. And when she comes my way, I’ll just be left any night or day, I will hear her say, that I don’t wanna try, I tried, also cried, but I can’t leave her behind.”
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