Joan Baez - Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You Lyrics

All the negative comments on this site. This was her high range at her youngest. She was/is a phenomenon.

she was such a babe.

Thank God Led Zeppelin made this a good song. This woman is horrible.

This would make a beautiful and bittersweet funeral song.

Its way easier to arrange a song and improve on it than completely write a song from scratch. This song laid the groundwork for zep. Sad they didnt credit the original writer

Anne Bredon wrote this. This ( trad arr)nonsense is so annoying. Joan later recognised her mistake and gave credit.

this is kind of a spooky song you know, I can imagine it being used in a movie in a part when the main character is facing some kind of demons or facing his death

You must be young fuck:D

Yes this song should be played for a Wyatt Earp movie. He has to go west and follow and fufill some kind of inner desire. Only to find trouble and the previous demons come back to follow him in the new town. Then slowly he will leave his wife for another woman, while his former wife will eventually die of a opium overdose. At the end Wyatt realizes he never fufilled any destiny. He chased a empty road which only lead to death for his first wife, brother, and soon after his best friend. This song is about perfect for that kind of monologue. It eve has a spooky western sound.

@Andrew Sneacker ok

Well, Honestly, My f...ing ears hurt so badly after listening to this, possibly beyond any hope of repair, maybe permanent brain damage too.
I'm on my knees now thanking the music gods for Led Zeppelin

This sounds much like gretta van fleet

Yes, they do sound like Joan Baez. : )

🤣😂

Her voice is atrocious.

SO ALL GOOD SONGS BY LED ZEPPELIN ARE COVERS,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

1.no
2. can you do what zeppelin did when you were 18?

a beautiful composition by anne bredon.

An unbearably sad song - coupled with this wonderful voice coming down from the years just brought the tears. The tears for all parting souls, parting lovers and friends and - now I'm old - tears for myself and my long lost youth. Back in the 60s this sadness was tolerable since it served to compensate, balance, add gravity to the rash shallowness of youth. Now I just can't bear it.

нет слов !!!! Bravo !!!!

Fuck you led zeppelin

This song is not bad .... compared to led Zeppelin

Amazing

Led zeppelin makes a hit but emotions are here...

Can't stand this woman.

@Tommy Diamond - Phoney pos

Me dejo Ella para siempre Este verano. Con esta cancion siempre estara aqui

I'm here again again...

Ok, I’m am not a fan of this arrangement at all. I’ll stick with the LZ version!

They ripped this off and gave her no credit her son heard her playing singing it and asker her why she was singing zeppelin

I recall when Dylan sang All Along the WatchTower and fans thought he was ripping off Jimi...! LOL

Mike Patterson she did not write this song

Anne Bredon was the songwriter from Babe I'm gonna leave you not Joan ... when you want to put credits where it belongs, do it right..


Led Zeppelin adopted the song after hearing Baez's version, crediting the song as "Traditional, arr. Page". In the 1980s, Bredon was made aware of Led Zeppelin's version of the song and so, since 1991, this version has been credited to Anne Bredon/Jimmy Page & Robert Plant. Bredon also received a back-payment of royalties.

Baby tengo ke abandonarte, te o estoy diciendo.Cuando el verano este despuntando

The song's author is Anne Bredon: https://www.discogs.com/artist/768892-Anne-Bredon
Covers:
1964 The Plebs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VOcDoYt8xw
1964 Barbara Muller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSEepVx2K5s
1965 The Association https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-vOFPP0WDI&list=PLZ0SKx0AhLl6F7xuSOmdLxCtW3lu3UJ4Z&index=3&t=0s

First time hearing,thanks for the videos

Welsh psychedelic rockers MAN also did a version which was radically different

Headphone listeners RIP

Simply wonderful...

She be good lookin' but Zeppelin did it much better.

A voice, a guitar and the result is heavenly music.

I just love the fact that Page and Plant were once listening to this shrill female folk singer and were like, "yep. we could turn this into a banger. " XD

Of course Zeppelin blew this away and fully transformed it.

Haha! Yeah that’s a trip to think about! I always tell people that the artists we love listen to stuff we’ve never even heard of/would ever listen to.

With every original Zep got ahold of, they turned it up a dozen notches giving it such superior structure, dynamic, and power. The songs literally didn’t exist until Zep got ahold of them. And even though 90% of Zeps songs are total originals, the covers are magnified by ten. The masters.

Ambas versiones son hermosas . zeppelin le encontró la vuelta a esta versión no tan traumática sino mas dulce

traditional arrangement isn't the same thing as traditional song.

Wow.. I had no idea this wasn't an original Zep song until reading When Giants Walked the Earth and there is an excerpt when first meeting and Plant is flipping through Page's vinyl's and listens to this song. Completely taken aback.

I seriously don't see how anyone thinks Zep ripped this off. Other than the title and a couple of incidental words, there is no resemblance between the two. Even if inspired by this, still waaaay different.

Tiny Tim used to be a woman?

This doesn’t sound like the Led Zeppelin version!! Yes it has the same title and first couple lyrics are the same but instrumentally it’s different!! By listening to both versions, I mostly think Led zeppelin did not plagiarize this song!! Yes in one sense they kinda did by the using the same title and the lyrics are almost the same but not completely!! It was most lyrically plagiarized and but not instrumentally plagiarized!!

Year 2019 but ı just listening this beatiful voice. From turkey.😊

When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was Zach de la Rocha

haha damn dude, now I can't unsee it

led zeppelin is better

Good grief she sounds like Yoko Ono! Hadn't been for Zep this tune would just be another 3 mintues wasted that nobody would even care about.

No way love it

OUCH...and I sorta like Joan.

Don't hear much resemblance between this version and Led Zeppelin's. Hardly seems worthy of a lawsuit.

Paulo Pereira well the lyrics are the exact same and the layout and arrangement of the song is similar.

they werent actually sued over their version of this number - that was the case with 'whole lotta love'.

No doubt Zepp "cover" exceeds in each and every aspect this "original". AND THAT GOES FOR ALL THE ZEPP'S, SO CALLED, "COVERS". That was Jimmy Pages' idea to cover the American classics on each genre but THROUGH THE ZEPP'S UNIQUE STYLE JUST TO GRAB THE ATTENTION OF THE AMERICAN AUDIENCE. It was a very genious idea by Zepp, as their whole musical work was, as well.

warbling to the max

No se parece mas que en el titulo a la version de led zepp

You did a great job reworking songs Robert and Jimmy, I just wish you would have credited the originals from day 1 instead of pretending they were 100% your creation.

@Frodojack Damn, thank you for that thorough information, and for taking the time to share it

@Hiro Beats you are basically thanking them for googling it and copying what from Wikipedia. Not saying it is a bad thing, but if we are going to give credit for the song, give credit to Wikipedia for the info.

@thundrrd5 yes. All facts have a resource or multiple resources. Otherwise it would be a theory. Thanks

This was not Joan Baez's song. And it was Jimmy Who was the plagiarist not Robert Plant. Jimmy was a session guitarist who worked with many musicians including the Yardbirds. Plant wrote most of the good Zeppelin songs. So I think it bothered Paige that Plant got all the attention when he put the band together. It seemed as Paige wanted to prove he could write valuable songs. Most bamds covered songs from other artist. Hell the entire Doo wop era has their songs written by composition specialist. Thats the music buisness.

The reality is that this song and Zep's song barely sound like each other. If it wasn't for the lyrics no one would think they were the same. So Zep's music is 100% original. Each of these songs sound more like other songs than each other. The chords in this song are mostly basic shared by thousands of guitar songs. Zep should have changed the lyrics more than they did. Page seems to blame that on Robert. Whatever the case, the only reason Zep gets sued is because they were a lot more successful and made much more money. If you want to see more blatant stealing, see McCartney on songs such as I Saw Her Standing There. These artists including the Beatles admit to stealing music for their own use. In those cases when you hear the original, the theft is obvious. The only song that Zep stole musically was Dazed and Confused, and even there they added several minutes of completely original music. All the other stealing was just partial lyrics and no one is buying these albums because of the lyrics. But go ahead, keep spouting your nonsense. Zep typically put more original music into one song that many bands did on an entire album.

I’m a devoted Baez fan, I love her music, and that incredible voice.....that being said.....Zeppelin made this song everything!

Umm... " Yea

That's why many people tend to accuse Led Zeppelin of plagiarism. It's not easy to perceive the fact that Jimmy Page very discretely inserts the darkness into the song which speaks about love - The blues - in order to make it speak about the dark side. Light and shade, that's the key to understand.

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So haggard.

Not a bad song, but Led Zeppelin made it into something much greater.

Terrible, I never liked her shrill, unpleasant voice that slammed into her head.

Total trash.

Joan and Zep both did this soulful piece justice. (Please end the unnecessary arguments.)

She did it they didn't creat it.

@adullday Well they still did a great version. Some like her version more, some like Zep's more, but they're both extremely well done.

The most beautiful song

I feel like she has a really beautiful voice, she just doesn't know how to use it quite right. It could be so much more powerful, i feel like her voice could carry a lot more emotion, but i feel like she goes for loud instead.

I agree, i would like to hear her voice being pushed, hear her do some Carol king, Heart, fleetwood mac, rondstadt style ...etc etc

To Julian urban-if led zeppelin didn't do this song, no one would ever know about it. Jack ass.

Along with every other song they "ripped off" Who's Jake Holmes?? Who's Spirit?? :D

dylan knew it.

Horrible

Realmente siento que la letra de la canción en su voz expresa más que el mismo Robert Plant, siendo que amo Led Zeppelin.

This song literally gave me a flash back of all summer flings that ended way to quickly

Much respect to Bredon and Joan, but this song sounds MUCH better with JPJ's bass and Bonzo's drums.

If you really want to hear the BEST version of this song, listen to Quicksilver Messenger Service do it. There are several versions but the best one is on the Revolution soundtrack album. Do yourself a favor. The others don't even come close.

That comment section is the most pathetic thing I've seen all year...

How come, is it because people are entitled to their opinion?

led for the head! ;)

sundown005 hey everyone. Here’s the superior human being you’ve all been looking for. He’s going to show us the way. Lead on, your oerfectedness

first time, like a virgin.

Led Zeppelin made it much Greater.

original composser is Anne Brigs

YouTube "Jimmy Page | Full Address and Q&A at The Oxford Union"... brought me here.

Me too...

Old Ice-pick voice. Hate her. Only here to see how it sounds compared to Led Zeppelin. She sucks.

Ahhh hating is so easy these days.

Led Z didn't do a "version" of the song -- they just stole it and knowingly tried to pass it off as "Trad." making royalties on their "arrangement". That robbed Anne Bredon of income and wealth from legitimate royalties from a song she wrote. Bredon finally got some but not all the money back from Led Charlatan along with some partial writing credit begrudgingly allowed by Led Z skinflints Plant & Page. Ask Jake Holmes about "Dazed & Confused", another brazen Zep theft, where the original artist was never compensated or credited by the Led Grifters. Growup kids. Adults have a thing called money, and stealing it from others is illegal.

oh grow up and celebrate all versions. yes people should be recognised and paid for their works. bob dylan took and arranged many lovely works. it's always happened. and led zep did it better than most. dont know why people like to spread such negativity but that's the world we live in

A beautiful aria turned into an uncredited 70's pop rock rip off.

Unfortunately, I have to say that Led Zeppelin are Fake... Perhaps we have to research their other song's origin, as well.

Dude - The one thing Led Zeppelin were NOT is FAKE. They performed their tunes onstage - four pieces without backup singers or musicans You may not like them ripping off songs left and right, but that's just the music business - EVERYBODY gets screwed. Just ask any professional musician - we all have war stories about dirtbags who ripped us off. The Archies, Milli Vanilli and The Banana Splits!!!! Those were FAKE!!

Led Zeppelin was way better

A slow ethereal and lamentable dirge that Zeppelin turned into an overblown orgasmic affair as they always do

Gotta say.... Not my cup of tea.

mom it's a Led Zeppelin song!

I believe Baez never credited herself with the song ... which makes Zep look even more disgraceful .... I mean, at least credit Anne Bredon - none of the fans would've cared!!! HOWEVER, the fact that they "stole" everything else w/o crediting writers, I'm not surprised.
ZEP= Greatest Cover Band of the 1970's.

Led Zeppelin NEVER credited this song to themselves. On the first album the credits were "trad:arranged by Jimmy Page".
Get your facts right before you look stupid.
By the way, Zep credited 4 songs to others and credited 2 of their songs as 'trad'.

Zep gave credit to almost all the people the "stole" from. Stairway to Heaven was theirs though. A lot of songs use a similar guitar rhythm the way zep did

I love Zep, but this version is much better... it feels like a voice calling from a dusty, deserted highway ... BUT! I do agree that you won't want to listen at max volume - Baez will burst your eardrums.

This rendition is shit

You "love" Zep but you call them the greatest cover band of the '70s? You obviously don't know shit about them or the songs they supposedly stole. This song wasn't credited by Joan Baez when they covered it in the '60s. When Anne Bredon was able to prove she wrote it, they gave her credit and paid her back royalties. So what's the fucking problem?

Joe,
Zep were the greatest cover band. They covered every spectrum of music brilliantly. And yep, Zep did what Baez did, called it "trad". Zep never knew who wrote it and never argued against it when Bredon came forward. I don't see a problem either. Bredon is now more well known thanks to Zeppelin and she's also made a fair bit of money thanks to Zeppelin so win win for her.

treid100182 it’s better than the other versions I’ve heard, but it’s still way weaker than Zeps. Zep put it on the charts. 10 times better

I see the younger folks don't much care for Joan's version but much prefer Zep's. I think they're missing the point. This is a folk song in the traditional sense and on Zep's album, this song is the most mellow using acoustic guitar and drums and giving it more of a bluesy feel. Both versions are excellent in their own right and for their individual platforms. Although I think Plant has an awesome voice, Joan's can take you to places you've never been before and this song is sooo haunting the way she does it that although Zep's was the first version I'd heard, this is the one that really makes you "feel" the song. Peace & Love!!

Precisely. I havent heard the original in ages and am listening now and am truly ~shook. Haunting. And the Zeppelin version is one of my favorite tunes. There's room for both, people!

For me Original is far better than Led Zeppelin..!

Me too. Thanks, Guy.

Exactly. And it must've been enchanting in its day, for Led Zeppelin to want to cover it in the first place.

I'm 20 now and love this version too. Zeppelin's cover is great, but they're unique in their own respects.

I have to say this, every song Led Zeppelin has "covered" is so much better through their musicianship, I can hardly recognize the original at times the song has been improved so much. Just MY opinion. Peace brothers and sisters.

The internet is full of idiots who say Zeppelin "stole" or "plagiarised" their songs, but you (& the many others) don't understand the context of the time. Back in Zepp's early years, folk & blues standards were endlessly borrowed, circulated and re-used. How you interpreted what you were borrowing counted for everything. Authorship only became an issue when Zeppelin achieved big sales. Go and study some music history before cluelessly mouthing off on the internet.

"The Context of the Time" says it all....Thx!!

I would have agreed with you until i was "Led" to this (pun intended) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsLv1C3TbWE

this one song is better in its original form. Black mountainside aka Blackwater side is the exception

Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed by Blind Willie Johnson. You should try it.

Amazing !!! Thank you for share !!!

Then go already. Just leave me in peace. Sheeessss

Great cover

It's not a cover:)

It is, the original folk song was written by Anne Bredon.

Yes and it was so haunting Jimmy wanted to recreate that feeling.

AyrBe Oh My God ...
😂😂😂 the stupidity is killing me

Sorry yes I know it was the original. I meant to say LZs was the cover and JP wanted to recreate that haunting feeling.

Un pò diabetogena, secondo me non è il suo genere.

Julian I beg to differ. Had it not been for Zep. We would not even whispering about Joan Baez. The beauty about it, it's like Hip Hop. Had it not been for Rap. we would not know or even look them up .peace

for the record, she played woodstock, they didn't

""wtf Joan Baez is very popular without zeppelin.""
He means she wouldn't be as well known today. She would have been more forgotten. This is no longer the 1960s. Its not as if her albums still sell shed loads anyway LOL

Come on, she played with Bob Dylan. Led Zeppelin had nothing to do with her popularity.

+Paperback Writer ~ Absolutely correct. Not to mention a different fan base.

She is famous without Zeppelin.

What a beautiful voice.

I'm not really sure.

Guys, it is me or does she looks like Robert Plant wife, Maureen Wilson? XD.

@Brad Kursh w-what? No, dude. Also, that's way too many exclamation points considering your comment was a question.

Brad Kursh no

@Mr. WildChild 01. never occurred to me, but yes, she does resemble her somewhat.

Jesus christ, don't listen to this with headphones on max volume

Too late, I heard it before I read your warning. Now my ears are bleeding.

Im sure Jesus appreciates the advice :-)

just did it ! Deafening.

Wish I had read your post before playing lol

@CarSVernon let's not start a war here. ur comparing mangoes to watermelons. both great singers.

I remember an early 70's interview with Robert Plant and he was talking about this being done by Joan Baez and they were fans, but didn't know who the composer was. I think people forget that there was no internet in the 60's or 70's. As for the "Trad Ar." note on the zeppelin album, this is indeed a traditional arangement, and you can hear the same chord progression to Marriane Faithful's Scarborough Fair 6 months prior to Simon and Garfunkle. I've heard these chords on early 50's folk albums.

Tau Noctua rip off

Anne Bredon was the composer, an amateur guitarist.

That's not the problem. As a big Zepp fan, you can't just say that you're a fan, you've got to credit those responsible. The songwriting was attributed to Plant and Page. That's plagiarism, plain and simple.

Are you moron? Zep knew this song from JB, she credited it as trad. arranged by, so did Zep. When later they knew who was initial writer, in accord with AB, they attributed the credit on its following releases to AB for 50% of lyrics, Plant for another 50% of lyrics, and Page for the music. If AB didn't see nothing wrong with this, who are you to claim plagiarism ?

by far the most soulful version. magical. no wonder zep loved her so much

Led Zep is almost nothing compared to her.

@Frankincensed Each to their own!

@Radu Elf Led Zeppelin are much better than her, they are better musicians and robert plant has a better voice

@Frankincensed PINK FLOYD

You're all fools for making objective statements about totally different styles of music. Both this and LZ's versions are great in their own ways.

Baez did not write this song.

she did a great arrangement, obviously Page and Plant thought so, they did something really good too.

Who said she did?

One of many songs Zeppelin ripped off

@Eduardo Mántaras
No comprende Eduardo. I only know a few words in Spanish.

Julian Urbina It’s called a cover

Even though she got song writing credit and royalties

so hendrix ripped off dylan with all along the watchtower? they're all musicians it's the way they respect each others work

Zep didn't rip any songs off. They were always up front about what they were doing. If anything they just enhanced a few that's all like most big bands have done including Sabbath and many more. Lovely song this but my goodness Zep took it to a whole new level. Joan would have been proud.

Folk music is all about soulful interpretation. I admire what Jimmy Page created with this. NT

Jenny sang this as bobbie dylan in memphis

Jib Wangler This is normal!!

Page conveniently left out the original author's name when the album first came out. They subsequently added her name. Dazed and Confused is another example, they left off Jake Holmes but later added his name. Two blatant rip offs among many others.

Absolutely Beautiful. Thank you