Bob Dylan / The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (Columbia, CL 1986 ; mono) <May 27, 1963> MAT ; 3A / 2A

Bob Dylan / The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (Columbia, CL 1986 ; mono) <Release: May 27, 1963>

プロモのオリジナル・ヴァージョンでは、このアルバム用に行われたセッションから (1)ROCKS AND GRAVEL (2)LET ME DIE IN MY FOOTSTEPS (3)GAMBLIN' WILLIE'S DEAD MAN'S HAND( 4)TALKIN' JOHN BIRCH BLUES の4曲が収録されていましたが、「歌詞内容不適切」との判断で差し替えられました。こうして作成されたプロモの「改定ヴァージョン」が写真のレコになります。内容は正規に発売されたいわゆる「オリジナル・セカンド・アルバム」と同一。この改定ヴァージョンでも十分にレアなんですけれどもね。写真のレコのマトは「3A/2A」です。「改定ヴァージョン」は、状態が悪ければ1－2万円で手に入りますが、良いものは10万円を軽く超えます。

このアルバムで1曲好きな曲をと言われたら、僕にとってはこの1曲でしょうか・・・
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bjyu_h_7os

While riding on a train goin' west
I fell asleep for to take my rest
I dreamed a dream that made me sad
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had
With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I'd spent many an afternoon
Where we together weathered many a storm
Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn
By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung
Our words were told, our songs were sung
Where we longed for nothin' and were satisfied
Jokin' and talkin' about the world outside
With hungry hearts through the heat and cold
We never much thought we could get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances really was a million to one
As easy it was to tell black from white
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
And our choices they was few so the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split
How many a year has passed and gone?
Many a gamble has been lost and won
And many a road taken by many a first friend
And each one I've never seen again
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
That we could sit simply in that room again
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that