Why would Bob Dylan misquote his own lyrics?

The penultimate verse of Isis on the LP version (as MetroLyrics confirms) are clearly audible as follows:

She said "Where ya been?", I said "No place special"
She said "You look different", I said "Well, I guess"
She said "You been gone", I said "That's only natural"
She said "You gonna stay?", I said "If you want me to, yes"

I Binged this a couple of days ago because I wanted to pin down some lyrics that are mumbled (what I thought was "the borderline" is actually "dividing line", not that it makes any difference) and was surprised to see that Bob Dylan's official site gives the penultimate verse as:

She said “Where ya been?”, I said “No place special”
She said “You look different”, I said “Well, not quite”
She said “You been gone”, I said “That’s only natural”
She said “You gonna stay?”, I said “Yeah, I jes' might”

This might be some bizarre copyright wrangle, where Bob Dylan doesn't have to hand over a share of the royalties if he publishes his own version of a song which he co-wrote, but FFS.

Short lists

Songs by Bob Dylan and AC/DC which had the same title

1. Shot of love (points to EKTWP)
2. Baby, please don't go (double points EKTWP for most obscure one of all time)
3. Are you ready (Bob Dylan, AC/DC).

Next list: Soviet leaders against whom a coup d'état was mounted while they were on holiday at a Black Sea resort.

Short Lists

Famous people who shot somebody 'by mistake' (exclude accidental suicides)

1. Dick Cheney (submitted by Ross)

2. Willie Whitelaw (Jer)

3. William S Burroughs (DBC Reed)

4. Ashley Cole (The 23)

5. Charlie Sheen (belated entry by Joseph Takagi)

Next short list: Songs by Bob Dylan and AC/DC which had the same title

Click and highlight to reveal clue: Both of the Bob Dylan songs I'm thinking of were from his 'Christian' albums

Short List

Songs which both Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan performed

1. A Fool Such As I
2. I'll Be Home For Christmas.

If there's another one I'll be annoyed as a Short List ^TM is only supposed to consist of two things with a tenuous connection. Three times is enemy action (c. Ian Fleming).

UPDATE: there appear to be at least a dozen songs which both of them recorded. Oops.

Next Short List: Foreign politicians who are/were married to English men.

Short List

Political leaders who like(d) to hold meetings in a tent.

1. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
2. Colonel Gaddafi.

And from history: Genghis Khan. Only all his people lived in tents, so I'm not sure if that counts.

Next list: Songs which both Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan performed.

Posted from an internet café in Scarborough.

Friday night gear change - early Xmas edition (3)

I can't embed a YouTube Clip to this, because there isn't one, but those of you who own Bob Dylan's absolutely dire/most excellent Xmas album* of last year can listen out for the semi-tone upwards truck driver's gear changes at 1 min 9 seconds and again at 1 min 45 seconds into into his hatchet job/idiosyncratic tribute to "Must be Santa Claus".

That album is the gift that keeps on giving (see also O' Little Town Of Bethehem and Do you hear what I hear?). If I find another gear change on there, that'll put it first equal with Shania Twain's greatest hits in my list of 'albums with the most gear changes on them'.

* Is it dead serious? Is it a piss take? Or both or neither? Probably not even he knows.

Friday night gear change - early Xmas edition (2)

I can't embed a YouTube Clip to this, because there isn't one, but those of you who own Bob Dylan's absolutely dire/most excellent Xmas album* of last year can listen out for the semi-tone upwards truck driver's gear change at 2 mins 9 seconds into his hatchet job/idiosyncratic tribute to "Do you hear what I hear?".

See also O' Little Town Of Bethehem

* Is it dead serious? Is it a piss take? Or both or neither? Probably not even he knows.

Friday night gear change - early Xmas edition

I can't embed a YouTube Clip to this, because there isn't one, but those of you who own Bob Dylan's absolutely dire/most excellent Xmas album* of last year can listen out for the choir doing a semi-tone upwards truck driver's gear change at 1 min 6 seconds into his hatchet job/idiosyncratic tribute to "O' Little Town Of Bethlehem".

* Is it dead serious? Is it a piss take? Or both or neither? Probably not even he knows.

Missing beats round

In place of a gear-change this weekend, let's do 'missing beats' instead*.

Here's a fairly faithful version of "Rolling and tumbling" by Muddy Waters. The riff (which is in A) between the singing parts isn't repeated four times, it's repeated three-and-a-half times or it's three times with two empty beats where they slide up to the singing parts (which are in D or E) depending on which way you look at it. I'd been listening to this song for over twenty years before I noticed - it wasn't until I compared it with Bob Dylan's version on "Modern Times" (who just does the riff four times in a perfunctory sort of fashion) that the penny dropped...



* Other songs to be featured in this series will be "Heart of glass" by Blondie and "Hell in a bucket" by The Grateful Dead. I can't actually think of many others.