Melanie - Mr. Tambourine Man Lyrics

This must be what Dylan heard in his head while he wrote this song. This is how the song was meant to be interpreted and sung... heart-wrenching, tender and vulnerable.

Ja, sie covert Bob Dylans song, aber sie macht ihn auch zu ihrem eigenen... In Bobs Version fehlt einfach das zerbrechliche, weibliche, das den song zu etwas besonderem macht... und dazu ihre tolle Stimme... ganz normal feuchte Augen zu bekommen :)

She helps you to overcome the Greta Tunafish-nightmare... in a wonderful way

Obviously must thank Bob Dylan for the beautiful lyrics. I also thank The Byrds and Melanie Safka for their undeniably beautiful versions. Personally i like the Byrds version (1965 released) because of the sweet 1960's memories their version returns to me. Peace.

You make me breath again. Thanks for sharin'

Breathtaking!

The very best cover ever from the best performer ever.

Wonderful stuff; Melanie was my celebrity crush back in the day (now it's Rihanna).

The top hippie chick ever.

Hauntingly beautiful song!

this is A GOOD SONG OF MELANIE

Dylan is the greatest poet, but Melanie brings that poetry to life in a way that no one else does. Thank you Bob Dylan for the poetry but thank you most of all to Melanie for giving it life

Mr Tambourine man, Hey I don't Give a fk. "With respect and no disrespect to your'e self.

" I'm not sleepy and nobody . . . cares . . . where I'm going to "

The way she says "cares" moves me so.

Still the best cover of the song... From France.

This and Nickel song are divine! Melanie Safka +++++++++++++++++

Bob Dylan eterno, Melanie maravilhosa, posso morrer agora!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God ....this is so good

Picture yourself in the desert, perhaps on a Native American reservation around a campfire, & that's what this song sounds like.

I wonder how she does Beatle songs.

Melanie puts her stamp on an already established song & makes it her own. A true songbird. 🐦🎼

From Bob Dylan to The Byrds to Melanie.

Another cover done beautifully by Ms. Melanie Safka

An achingly personal interpretation.

Melanie is a true angel who touches the soul like no one else!

Thank you for not adding a slide show!

SO BEAUTIFUL!

Dylan hat rohlinge verkauft.zu diamanten wurden sie von interpreten gemacht

Dylan is a diamond himself . All the rest only can enjoy with his light .

Even the grateful dead made a cover

omg wow ! takes me back to the sixties . im getting on a bit now , but oh, that incredible voice , and incredible interpretation is fantastic , makes you want to shed a tear , and i did ! love you Melanie x

This has to be the most beautiful yet very poignant version of this great classic. Remember hearing first off the album way back - it's lost none of it's impact despite the passing of the years. In fact the whole of this album was something else. In my view she is unique in the pop world.

What a bloody pathetic voice.

You fucking nailed it there, John!

Pathos as in 'a quality that evokes pity or sadness. From the Greek word for "suffering " '.

I hope that's what you meant.

I love Melanie's version of this classic Dylan song. I wish she would have sung all the verses though as her version is so haunting.

Hey Melanie I love listening you singing!

I know tha it's been posted a long time ago. but I like to make comment in respect an d honor to the great Melanie Safka, I have been listening to her songs for many years since I was a very young boy, back on the early 70's. this my favorite version from her. I qualified this rendition as good as the great Bob Dylan. I know that the birds took it to top many years ago, but is her version that really touches me. Melanie has a soul and a sentimental way to interpret any song she sings and reaches million of people's hearts including me. way to go Melanie keep up your work.

love this saw her live brilliant!

I want to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free.

Melanie broke down the music, and allowed the slow release of all it's mystery and pleasure

THE bEST!

A strong and sensitive interpretation of Dylan's poetic classic...

These covers are amazing !!!!

I come back to this every now and then for the best of reasons. I once had a girlfriend from 1978 to 1983. She would eventually die of cystic fibrosis, but not before we shared great times at the small town radio station I worked at and elsewhere. I used to make her cassettes because she really liked, as she told it, "all those records you played that I've never heard before." So after she died, I visited her mother a few times and she gave me a few of the cassettes back with some other mementos. On the cassette with this song on it, she had circled "Mr Tambourine Man." I'll never know completely why, but Melanie's voice and her voice were very similar, so this still cuts through me like a knife, but it is such a sweet sorrow. A sweet sorrow that will outlive us both.

Thanks for sharing this, fek2000.

song from the heart has a lot more meaning she rips this song apart

Take me disappearing down the smoke rings of my mind . I wanna dance beneath tha diamond sky & pls let me forget about today until tomorra

Hell's bells! Great version! Amazingly beautiful!

My favourite album and track

This lady's voice.....!

Help me out. Why do some think that this is "the best" cover of this song. This girl sounds like she is giving a speech not singing a song. I prefer the versions where the artist actually sings the song. I'm certainly not critizing her. Just need help with a divergent point of view.

oh my god....so beautiful

Sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it - wonderful.

Wow , Melanie epitomizes the spirit of the sixties and she is a

I agree with you totally... Brilliant... <3

Her music touched my soul

She sang it last night in Milwaukee 11/14/17

Oh Melanie you are beautiful inside and out!! to think you lived in my era I have loved you then and now. Bless you.

Melanie, her voice is so very special that every song she sings becomes a much better song.

Love her. So beautiful.

This is the Best version of this song, I do like Bob Dylan however I just think that it sound better at a slower speed and obviously sung by Melanie.

❤👍

does antibody fill the way I do..

Melany, Dylan, Siger, Joplin, Clappton..and...me ..lool, love..from heart....

I know its great, but Bob Dylan is the Father and Son of this song.

Melanie was cool till she gave her heart to Scientology.

So glad i have this on vinyl

the best cover of this song, Melanie's voice!!!!!!!!

Hey Mr. Tamborine Man play your song for me! Love her and loved the ending -- sweet melancholy

her delivery on this song reminds me a lot of Conor Oberst's delivery.

quelle superbe version dépassant de loin l'original de Dylan

Thanks Frankey.
I was very much alive in the 60's in NYC but, somehow, missed her !

I'm very young to like this, but in so glad that I was taught at a very young age who Melanie is. She is a hint of the Lost sad girl that I am today.

This is good, but I think the Cloud Cult version is the best of the bunch. https://youtu.be/7mWgFZ4KnH8

What a great cover of a great song!

Melanine Melanie the completion of global unity sign for all humankind! upon completion ..Nuclear Starships shall be flying only for the most righteous families of thousands of generations since Adam and Eve!

Is she still alive? I hope so, I have always loved Melanie. She's part of why I really wished I was a teenager in the 60's(Woodstock and all). Her spirit is so beautiful. This cover is epic. Thanks for posting! :)

Melanie...one of the great forgotten voices of freedom. She was and is a gifted singer and performer with that incredible 60's spirit.

Best version of this song - as far as I know :-)

Melanie sings this so beautifully, better than Dylan (sorry Dylan you are wonderful) but Melanie sings this BETTER love her voice, music love Melanie

any thing you sing is special and beautiful, Melanie thank you for the beautiful music and your spirit , peace and love more now than ever 2-2017.

This song haunts me with so many quiet, beautiful memories of my days of youth. How I loved her then, and do to this day! It is 1970 again... and the summer sun is shining with the melancholy sounds of Melanie on beams of pure gold! Thank you for the 'trip upon your magic, swirling ship,' sweet angel!

Its just beautiful I love Melanie and her voice and music

Diese Interpretation ist einfach klasse !!! Ein Traumsong der Extraklasse !!!
Danke Bob Dylon und Danke Melanie !!!!

Wunderbares Lied, gesungen von einer wunderbaren Sängerin!

If Melanie does your song, then it's a real song!!!

Merci que du bonheur après plus de 40 ans d'oubli......ma jeunesse

Marion A. Schröter: Very cool!

I feel shes singing it for me,to me better than Dylan

Melanie is one of those rare performers who can reach out and grab your soul and touch your heart, have loved her for years.

https://youtu.be/8LwyOSyWpNg?list=RD8LwyOSyWpNg

Wow, this gives me goosebumps

So would that shite she done in her pants in 76 on a pan am. Ginger smell to.it. gagged up

I'm on a Melanie binge this morning - there's no better way to spend time

Me too Mac. I hadnt listened to her to since the 70s & forgot how great she is & am now listening to all her songs

What she's done since her early success is astonishing. I recently discovered "A Hard Rain" and "Purple Haze". From everyone's favourite flower power girl to an incredible talent!

Hey! Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you.

Take me for a trip upon your magic swirling ship,
And my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step,
Waiting only for my bootheels to be wandering.
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,
I promise I'll go under it.
Hey! Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and nobody cares where I'm going to.
Hey! Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following.

Take me disappearing down the smoke rings of my mind,
Through the foggy ruins of time,
Down past the frightened leaves
And the lifeless frozen trees
Way down to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
I wanna dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves.
Please let me forget about today until tomorrow.
Hey! Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and nobody knows where I'm going to.
Hey! Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following.

PAULO R brilliant lyrics

@Juju Rellama Makes this old sixties guy shed a tear or two such a beautiful version. Melanie Safka was fantastic. Peace.

!!!!!!!

Wish I was born in that era... 😊❤🌻

THE BEST MELANIE -MAGNIFICENT -TANKS

i did cry with this song ;(

Brilliant. Get well soon Melanie.

Melanie still brings me to tears; this interpretation in particular. Please Melanie Safka...tour again. We will follow.

I'm seeing her in Ann Arbor, MI on Friday!

Pooped herself next to me in 76 on a airplane. Didn't seem to care. Ginger smell you know what I mean. Big girl at time. Back door like the Mersey tunnel. Never felt it exit. Scruffy mare. Comments please. Do you think that is ok. Sweet corn the lot....

Now at 71, I look back at those hippy days and  don't really know how most of us got through them. I talk to fifty year olds and tell them I think they are lucky to have missed 1964-1974. Just me thinking.

64 & 74? Ali won Liston & Foreman. Tough years for the states!

Tough times for the whole world as well. Melanie, Baez, and Janis got us through. Cheers.