Here is the version he performed in Renaldo and Clara: It Ain’t Me, Babe
What you should know about this song: One of Dylan’s “most elegant women-don’t-get-me-songs,” as dubbed by Rolling Stone Magazine, is a catchy tune that is most famously remembered from Dylan’s performance in the panoramic film Renaldo & Clara. On a side note, Rolling Stones Magazine also indicated that while Dylan used 16th century poetic formulas in the lyrics, he also pulled form contemporary artists to write the song. For example, it has been suggested that the “no, no, no” in the song was likely meant to parody the “yeah yeah, yeah,” from the Beatles’ “She Loves You.”
“My songs are just talking to myself. Maybe that’s an egotistical thing to say, but that’s what it is. I have no responsibility to anybody except myself.” – Bob Dylan, 1965.*
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