Monday, October 10, 2016

Bob Dylan's "Standing in the Doorway"

As I've been going through my music collection for my Collection Audit project, I've rediscovered some things I'd forgotten about and/or haven't written about.  A couple days ago, I listened to Bob Dylan's Time out of Mind, and I re-realized that the line "I'll eat when I'm hungry, drink when I'm dry" at the beginning of the last verse of "Standing in the Doorway" is a quote from the folk song "The Moonshiner."  I have only Tommy Makem & the Clancy Brothers' version, in which the line is "I'll eat when I’m hungry, and I'll drink when I'm dry."  The Wikipedia article for "The Moonshiner" notes that Dylan recorded the song in 1963 and that it's included on one of his Bootleg Series albums.  I don't have any of those though, so I couldn't say how much of a connection his recording has with either the version of "The Moonshiner" with which I'm familiar or "Standing in the Doorway."