Hey! Mister Tambourine Man play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm goin' to Hey! Mister Tambourine Man play a song for me In the jingle jangle mornin' I'll come followin' you
From: "Gustav Persson" gustav__persson@hotmail.com To: webmaster@expectingrain.com Subject: Mr. Tambourine man=Bruce Langhorne Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:37:35 "Mr. Tambourine Man, I think, was inspired by Bruce Langhorne. Bruce was playing guitar with me on a bunch of early records. On one session, (producer) Tom Wilson has asked him to play tambourine. And he had this gigantic tambourine. It was like, really big. It was as big as a wagonwheel. He was playing, and this vision of him playing this tambourine just stuck in my mind. He was one of those characters...he was like that. I don't know if I've ever told him that. I haven't seen him in a long time. I wrote some of the song in New Orleans too. I don't know, different things inspired me...that Fellini movie? What was it? La Strada. It was all sort of like the same thing, you know. Drugs never played a part in that song...'disappearing in the smoke rings of my mind', that's not drugs, drugs were never that big a thing with me. I could take 'm or leave 'm, never hung me up." - Bob Dylan, from "Biograph" /Gustav