Ill Be Damned Here Comes Your Ghost Again

Welcome to Music Friday when nosotros feature classic songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, folk music legend Joan Baez recounts an unexpected phone call from former lover Bob Dylan in her hauntingly cute 1975 ballad, "Diamonds & Rust."

Baez and Dylan had been in a human relationship 10 years earlier, and Dylan's telephone call sparks a cascade of memories — both uplifting and heartbreaking — that are symbolically reflected in the championship of the song and the post-obit lyrics…

She sings, "Ten years ago / I bought yous some cufflinks / You lot brought me something / We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust."

Baez goes on to tell the story of the "unwashed phenomenon" and "original vagabond" who strayed into her arms. She sweetly recalls how his eyes were bluer than robin's eggs. She besides explains how he seemed "temporarily lost at sea" and how she did her best to go along him unharmed. Sadly, the relationship wasn't reciprocal and the couple parted ways.

When Dylan placed the surprise call to Baez in 1974, she sensed his life was "heading straight for a fall." Music historians believe this was a fourth dimension when Dylan'due south union was on the rocks and he was looking to rekindle his relationship with Baez.

Merely, as we see in the last line of the song, Dylan's outreach is strongly rebuked. With zip left to give him, she sings, "It's all come back too clearly / Yes I loved you dearly / And if you're offering me diamonds and rust / I've already paid."

Frequently regarded every bit 1 of her best compositions, "Diamonds and Rust" topped out at #5 on the Billboard U.Southward. Developed Contemporary chart and #xiv on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart. It was likewise the title vocal of Baez'southward gold-selling album, which was released in 1975.

When introducing "Diamonds & Rust" at live performances, Baez describes Dylan as "past far, the most talented and crazy person I've ever worked with."

Joan Chandos Baez, who was born in Staten Island, Northward.Y., in 1941, is best remembered for her folk music performances of the 1960s, which included 14 songs at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. She was inducted into the Stone and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. After 60 years of performing, Baez announced her retirement in 2019.

Please check out the audio rail of Baez performing "Diamonds & Rust." The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along…

"Diamonds & Rust"
Written and performed by Joan Baez.

Well I'll be damned
Here comes your ghost again
Simply that'due south non unusual
Information technology'southward just that the moon is total
And you happened to call
And here I sit
Paw on the telephone
Hearing a vox I'd known
A couple of light years ago
Heading direct for a autumn

As I call back your optics
Were bluer than robin'south eggs
My verse was lousy yous said
Where are you calling from?
A booth in the midwest
Ten years agone
I bought you lot some cufflinks
You brought me something
We both know what memories tin can bring
They bring diamonds and rust

Well yous burst on the scene
Already a fable
The unwashed miracle
The original vagabond
You lot strayed into my artillery
And there you stayed
Temporarily lost at body of water
The Madonna was yours for free
Yes the girl on the half-shell
Would keep y'all unharmed

Now I run into y'all continuing
With brown leaves falling around
And snow in your hair
At present you lot're smiling out the window
Of that crummy hotel
Over Washington Square
Our breath comes out white clouds
Mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
Nosotros both could accept died then and there

Now you're telling me
You're non nostalgic
So give me another discussion for it
You who are so expert with words
And at keeping things vague
Because I demand some of that vagueness now
It's all come back also conspicuously
Yeah I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid

Credit: Image past Rowland Scherman [Public domain].

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