Joan Baez - Boots Of Spanish Leather [HD]

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Joan Baez sings the Bob Dylan song 'Boots Of Spanish Leather' from her 1968 Vanguard album 'Any Day Now'. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below with some notes on the song and album.

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Boots Of Spanish Leather

Singer - Joan Baez

Oh, I'm sailing away my own true love
I'm sailing away in the morning
Is there something I can send you from across the sea
The place that I'll be landin'?

No, there's nothing you can send me my own true love
There's nothing I'm wishing to be owning
Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled
From across that lonesome ocean

Oh, but I just thought you might want something fine
Made of silver or of golden
Either from the mountains of Madrid
Or from the coast of Barcelona

Oh, but if I had the stars from the darkest night
And the diamonds from the deepest ocean
I'd foresake them all for your sweet kiss
For that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'

But I might be gone for a long old time
And it's only that I'm askin'
Is there something I can send you to remember me by
To make your time more easy passin'?

Oh, how can, how can you ask me again?
It only brings me sorrow
For the same thing I would want from you today
I would want again tomorrow

Well, I got a letter on a lonesome day
It was from her ship a-sailin'
Sayin', "I don't know when I'll be comin' back again
It depends on how I'm feeling"

So take heed, take heed of the Western wind
Take heed of stormy weather
And yes, there's something you can send back to me
Spanish boots of spanish leather

Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan Music Co.
[Lyrics from azlyrics.com]

Wikipedia states:

"Boots of Spanish Leather" is a ballad written and performed by Bob Dylan, recorded in New York City on August 7, 1963, and released in 1964 on his album The Times They Are a-Changin. Lyrically, "Boots of Spanish Leather" is a "restless, forlorn ballad for the ages and sages—a classic Dylan tale of two lovers, a crossroads, and the open sea." The song is written as a dialogue, with the first six verses alternating between the two lovers; however, the last three verses are all given by the lover who has been left behind. Within these nine verses, one of the lovers - a woman - goes across the sea. She writes, asking whether her lover would like any gift and he refuses, stating that he only wants her back. Towards the end it becomes clear that she is not returning, and she finally writes saying she may never come back. Her lover comes to realize what has happened and finally gives her a material request: "Spanish boots of Spanish leather."

In his Allmusic review, music critic Thom Jurek wrote of the album "Her empathy for the material, her keen understanding of Dylan's sound world, and her own glorious voice brought another dimension to these 16 songs and, if anything, extended their meanings. There is no greater interpreter of Dylan's music, and while evidence of that certainly was offered on earlier recordings (such as 1967's Joan), the verdict was solidified here... The bottom line is that Any Day Now, like Joan and David's Album, found Baez at an intensely inspirational and creative peak."

Musicians on the album are Joan Baez – vocals, guitar, Fred Carter – mandolin, Pete Drake – pedal steel guitar, Johnny Gimble – fiddle, Roy Huskey, Jr. – bass, Tommy Jackson – fiddle, Jerry Kennedy – guitar, Jerry Reed – guitar, Harold Bradley – guitar, dobro, Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano, Stephen Stills – guitar, Harold Rugg – guitar, dobro, Grady Martin – guitar, Buddy Spicher – fiddle, Norbert Putnam – bass and Kenny Buttrey – drums.