I'm 64 years old now. For decades I have followed your career. Now I have painful joints. I battle depression. And yet, when I close my eyes and listen to your words and that voice of a lark, they wash away all that pain. I thank you for who you are. The world is a better place having you in it.

@themistermax

Жыл бұрын

Amen.

@danyleforestier

Жыл бұрын

Oh que oui

@markmarchand6663

Жыл бұрын

❤❤❤

@sumgai2585

Жыл бұрын

Sooo you are 65. 33 1/3 was slo. 45? But 78!! (Like me)

@tanyadohoney5217

Жыл бұрын

I'm 63. Same damn thing. God, I love this song and all the memories it evokes. Just saw you on with Colbert after you saw and sang with one of the Tennessee lawmakers. Thanks for all you do.

Tears just come flooding down... this song is just so tender, honest, and comes from a place of love and true pain. The world is better with Joan in it.

@lilianaruiz897

2 жыл бұрын

Well said 💜

@steves3760

2 жыл бұрын

Judas Priest did a better job but both are beautiful

@drumsanddrumming

2 жыл бұрын

❤🙏🙏

@scotthoneycutt1822

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilianaruiz897n_mlm g LLP m m mlm P

@trinidadapodaca7027

2 жыл бұрын

her bob dylan song

Possibly Joan's best song of all.

No auto tune or voice editing. Pure RAW talent. 👏

@davidprince1138

Жыл бұрын

It is a sad state of affairs when Taylor Swift is considered the best artist of the decade.

@jalliboy

Жыл бұрын

and then came judas priest and made the song theirs ! don`t get me wrong.. this lady can sing !

@joejones9520

Жыл бұрын

another misinformed autotune comment of course...

@edwardholappa8410

Жыл бұрын

@@jalliboy I like both of their voices, Rob and Joan's are completely different, Rob is in a higher pitch than Joan.

@lowellcalavera6045

11 ай бұрын

You again? 😂

My husband proposed to me 35 years ago and played this song. It brings tears to my eyes because he passed away 6 years ago and 6 beautiful kids later it still sounds magical to me.

@shirleywatre5092

2 жыл бұрын

💕💚💜💕💕🙏🙏🙏

@lennyglynn4645

2 жыл бұрын

I hope his memory...and spirit...live with you still

@gijsschubert7901

2 жыл бұрын

That is a beautiful song to propose to the love of your life. Hope you have had a wonderful marriage. Married for 32 years and blessed with 3 kids, and I hope it will last forever...

@yunusak1758

Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏

@gillesbueno1153

Жыл бұрын

10 years down the road, I hope you found another companion.💐

Best advice I’ve ever received: “Don’t ever make a man tell you twice he doesn’t want you”.

@avengernemesis7990

3 жыл бұрын

G-Girl Hindsight is a marvellous thing... A song for someone who no longer remembers me.. Australia

@michaelspencer3369

2 жыл бұрын

...or a woman....I had to painfully learn this truth many times.

@g-girl9867

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelspencer3369 Yes, Michael, either way it's harsh when you realize the truth and it feels harsh to see what was always there. The humility can be brutal to your self esteem for awhile. Years later I still feel it in my gut how I debased myself trying to convince someone my motives were genuine when his were nothing of the sort all along. Removing the curtain from a false relationship and seeing it clearly is the best favor you can do for yourself.

@g-girl9867

2 жыл бұрын

@@avengernemesis7990 hello Australia hope you are living your best life in gratitude and health.

@nelsonx5326

2 жыл бұрын

Three times a charm.

No matter how many times I hear this song it will always bring tears to my eyes. What a gift.

Bobby broke Joanie's heart, such is life, from such heartbreak comes such great art

Joan has one of the most haunting and beutiful voices ever. She is also a phenominal guitarist.

19 years old currently; sad very few, if any, from my generation will ever learn to appreciate this and similar masterpieces. Joan Baez, Gordon Lightfoot, and Jim Croce are who inspired me to play guitar

@paulhale929

2 жыл бұрын

I'm 58. I would make everyone on my bus shut up so I could listen

@paulhale929

2 жыл бұрын

A g a c and a d?

@stickxxcummings

2 жыл бұрын

Check out Judas priest ver

@ageofechochambers9469

2 жыл бұрын

Think of your soul after death . Look up islam.

@ryleeamick

2 жыл бұрын

I’m 18!

Maybe the greatest love song ever written and sung. Could not stop the tears.

@fforflower8636

4 жыл бұрын

James Levison someone had to say it. Now that read it, I have to agree.

@green8718

4 жыл бұрын

@@lynnhenson3042 Joan is a Quaker, not Catholic

@teresaclark5593

3 жыл бұрын

@@green8718 is, not was, she's still alive. 🙂

@teresaclark5593

3 жыл бұрын

So much emotion in one song!

@green8718

3 жыл бұрын

@@teresaclark5593 Yes, you are correct. I wasn't sure if she was still a practicing Quaker, though.

Asa 78 year old man I need the bittersweet reminders of what I once had and lost, to truly appreciate and cherish, the sweetness of what I will never have again. An incomparable talent on record and stage.

@utzuckz

4 жыл бұрын

well put

@lkgreenwell

4 жыл бұрын

John Knox Not quite made that (80 now?). Only 69, but know what you mean. Via con Dios

@gerryqq1

3 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there 😉

@jasomkovac9115

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, couldn't have said it better

@hangarrat

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you’re doing well.

Has got to be one of the loveliest songs I've ever heard and sung by a woman with such a wonderful voice.

This woman is a legend in her own right. She is, without a doubt, the best female guitarist, song-writer and singer of all time. She has it all. The voice of an angel. Multi-talented and well..... what can you say. I love you Joan! XxX

@freespyrit

2 жыл бұрын

Well I'd say Joni, but I appreciate Joan's talent and voice. And Joan would probably agree, not just because she's a lovely person. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hm1pzpWYlcTPaJs.html

@grahamdrummond6153

2 жыл бұрын

@@freespyrit This song is utterly spellbinding, songwriting, singing and guitar playing just superb, but Joni is above everyone for me, l just wish she and Van Morrison had some babies x

@sh230968

2 жыл бұрын

Ever heard of Joni Mitchell? She is a goddess of poetry and guitar playing.

@latitudeselongitudes1932

2 жыл бұрын

Joni Mitchell is the greatest,then comes Joan,Mama Cass and others

@TAndrackeH

2 жыл бұрын

For me it's a tie, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.

This song and the memories it personally brings to my own life.. sigh..

Today the world knows. But she knew it all along. "you who are so good with words, and at keeping things vague..." :)

Wonderful performance. Her voice is ethereal. You can hear her heart singing.

I am 76 years old but her sentiment is as wonderful now as it was 60 odd years ago. She is still breathtakingly gorgeous!!😅😅

@AndyArnold-uz5yo

Ай бұрын

This song reminds me of my wife. It was her favorite song before she lost battling cancer, I wish I could change the hands of time, I never missed a moment with her, life could be so unfair most times but sometimes I wonder why bad things always happen to good people,

I saw Joan perform at a small venue in Columbia, MO many years ago. One of the best shows I have ever seen in my 68 years. Thank you, Joan for so many good songs and memories.

The years a Joan, Arlo, Dylan, Rondstadt, Simon and Garfunkel, and others of that generation-long gone, never to be replaced.

Ms. Baez' voice is so remarkable, but her guitar composition is so ethereal and appropriate for the song. Joan's a world treasure.

This is hands down the most bad ass woman singer songwriter rock and folk music legend I have ever seen in my life. She is and always will be amazing. Wow.

her superb voice almost overpowers and hides the fact how smoothly she plays beautiful guitar along with her song....beautiful beautiful

@lobowolf9406

5 жыл бұрын

she is a great

@SkeligMichael

4 жыл бұрын

She has the most beautiful voice of a female singer. Her singing is just outstanding.

@elisabethseaton6521

4 жыл бұрын

I learned to play guitar because of this song. It took me three years to get it. The finger picking has made me into a decent player. I've just come back again to make sure I have the timing right. She is such an inspiration. Thanks for posting this.

@SalsaAdam

4 жыл бұрын

the writing and the voice are expected. But its great guitar work

@leschaps2387

3 жыл бұрын

She is phenomenal.

What can be said.......the soul, the voice, the talent, the looks of a GODDESS!!!!!

Joan has such power, sensitivity, intelligence and honesty with this song. It is a masterpiece and I haven't heard very many in 44 years since Diamonds and Rust was released.

For all of us who have loved and lost -- which is everyone.

One of the greatest songs ever..She is wonderful..

@marccouvillion7

6 жыл бұрын

it went #1

@errolwaguespack7196

5 жыл бұрын

Incredible Song.

Sometimes we need the bittersweet reminders of what we once had and lost, to truly appreciate and cherish, the sweetness of what we have now.

@gmajorspresents

6 жыл бұрын

Perfectly stated and so beautiful in your comment. Such a clean heart. I love the way you said that.

@leviteromain5576

6 жыл бұрын

Nia the Gulf Gypsy omoilljjuyugff cchjghghhn .o

@slwtgf

6 жыл бұрын

This vid is my inspiring reflective therapy today, appreciate the upload thank you very much

@iralee9787

6 жыл бұрын

Nia, thank you for so eloquently describing the agony and ecstasy of true love and life itself. Ira Lee, Ph.D.

@macm3081

5 жыл бұрын

For me its a bittersweet reminder of what i had and lost and the agony of what i have now.

A voice from heaven. Such tone with vibrato most singers could only envy. What a talent! Love it. X 💐

listening to this with tears streaming down my cheeks as Joan's voice has touched the very essence of my heart and soul and just makes everything in life alright again ❤ I'm 69 in September so my main love of music was the 70s but I'm now having a true love for all things Joan Baez with her voice that is just so heartfelt and angelic and healing. It's so good to know you are still with us #JoanBaez You take away the pain of just everything and give life such meaning with beautiful reflection. Blessings to you Lady 🙏💖

The images brought in this song are hauntingly beautiful...the leaves blowing during a cold winter night in front of a runned down building, snow in the hair, so cold you could see it as he breathed. Poetry at its finest.

@mysticmardi

Жыл бұрын

I heard an interview where he said or she said that BOB DYLAN wrote it. I don’t believe it. She wrote this definitely. Why did he take credit? Not everything he copyrighted in his catalog was written by him personally. He probably had great intellectual property attorneys from day 1 no doubt

This a phenomenally powerful song. People are calling it a love song on here, but for me it's about bitterness caused by disappointment in love. Because the person who disappointed the singer is calling out of the blue, she seizes the moment to say that, while she cherishes a memory of what they shared, she's moved on and isn't going to let herself be hurt again.

@festeradams3972

10 ай бұрын

I suspect that the "stranger" was Bob Dylan, who she once dated.

@davidvergari6715

8 ай бұрын

@@festeradams3972Good guess! 😉

@festeradams3972

8 ай бұрын

One of the few benefits of being Old is I'd heard the story some years ago :-).@@davidvergari6715

I am in Japan, listening to Joan Baez's song, being comforted and saved. Thank you for delivering a wonderful song

"By far the most talented crazy person I've ever worked with" ...Great introduction by Joan of Diamonds and Rust...and Bob was for sure hearing this backstage!

After hearing Priest do this since I was a teenager and never thinking to go to the original, I must say this is haunting and beautiful. It is very interesting to compare the arrangements of the two.

I met Joan Baez in San Francisco at the Teatro Zinzanni Dinner Theatre around 2008. She sang in the show but she sang akin to opera, her role in the show. During the show, I was chosen to dance with Baez at her request, 'Sir, Would You Like To Dance'? And of course I accepted. Amazing to see Joan Baez in my waltzing arms, her speaking to me, eye to eye. And later after the show, met her again at an empty venue with her performer friends and my family. , played music with her with my brother Mark Stock. Joan was wonderful, we all played a few songs when she gave us all the great gift of some of her greatest songs...Diamonds and Rust, 4 Letter Word, and a few others. That was the most memorable night of this local yokel musicians life.

@BahFrancis

6 жыл бұрын

WOW !!!

@buxusb.4379

6 жыл бұрын

Quelle chance!! Un souvenir sans prix

@irlan0624

5 жыл бұрын

:O impresionant, she is humble and so great. What fortunate you are!!

@giglehart

5 жыл бұрын

observer17 farout...she is absolutely a legend. Her voice caries me away. I love her talent...

@schwaarnkreddy7805

5 жыл бұрын

observer17 Those are your artistic life's defining&rewarding moments of "Moksha"&"Nirvana". Consider yourself Blessed!

Makes me cry too. Of course I love both Joan and Bob. I love to play this song but I can't come anywhere close to the magic and emotion of the woman who had the experience. 💖🎼

I sang her songs in my voice class at college in the 80’s! Love Joan Baez and this song is awesome!

My dad showed me this song when I was a little kid and it still gives me chills:)

You bring tears to me and I'm 67 years old

Surely one of the most staggering opening lines in a song lyric! And the quality doesn't let up...We move on, we change, our perceptions of what was once alter as time passes. But there are always instances where something, apparently long gone, returns with disarming vividness!

@westonweigand1228

5 жыл бұрын

Amen

@jamz0301

4 жыл бұрын

So true!

@lindacole7393

2 жыл бұрын

Well said!! : ))

@latitudeselongitudes1932

2 жыл бұрын

Thats the power and fascination that Bob can cause on someone. But his true love was Sara,their divorce really broke him. The tragedy in Bob's romantic life is that he connected with Joan on a musical,artistic level but didnt love her. With Sara it was the opposite,he was in love with her but didnt connect,bond with her on an artistic level.Sara wasnt an artist. Bob said that when he started taking painting classes in NY he couldnt share it wih her,it didn't interest her,its not like they talked about it for hours,she wasnt nourishing him on his artistic life. He always felt incomplete in relationships,i believe he is a deeply lonely man,a hermit soul deep down

@agnusdei8

Жыл бұрын

Sarah who?

Haunting; not to mention the voice is unparelled and beautiful!

"We both know what memories can bring. They bring diamonds & rust."

The last verse absolutely kills me. Must be one of the most beautiful songs

love that haunting song and what a voice

Love this song 🎵 ❤

Such an emotive voice, brings me to tears. Thank you Joan Baez.

This song still gives me the chills.. this is a perfectly written song

As intense as it gets lyrically. The music is haunting. Like those shattered relationships. I love her voice. Musically and socially speaking.

I could never listen to Joan, and then everything came together in this song. I love this. I bring it up about once a year, and listen to it 20 times.

Actually I find the poetry here quite incredible, Joan. Thanks a lot.

@jameshowland7393

7 жыл бұрын

Many folk artists start off as, and still are, poets. She has such a sweet voice, doesn't she?

@AvengingAngel777

5 жыл бұрын

I think Dylan was probably just teasing her when he said that.

@vickiehenshaw1890

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, NOT lousy.

@KaiserBlade

Жыл бұрын

Dylan finally admitted he wrote it.

@christinequinn5355

Жыл бұрын

@@KaiserBlade Nope. He didn't. Write it, or say he did.

A masterpiece from Joan Baez. It's so good that Judas Priest did a terrific metal version. Folk and Joan fans, please, try to listen to it. Rob Halford's voice make absolute justice to this gem.

@RichardBrake-fo4iw

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/l3ytzpqaY5yaXbA.html Fantastic version

There are so many songs of Joan that speak to me. She is truly THE singer-songwriter of her generation and she shows a huge heart for humanity in every song.

This lady is the Alpa and Omega of Love and Life. James Unsworth

@1950lo

7 жыл бұрын

Alpha not Alpa!

I'm from Brazil too. I use to heard this song every day. It's amazing!

I was 23 when this gem came out, i'm still listening to it. One such artist per generation ❤

She has a beautiful voice. I really like this song and she sings it with feeling and honesty; a sad song filled with pain.

My husband proposed to me playing this song! A very special and poignant song I will never forget! He passed away 5 1/2 years ago and it stilll sounds wonderful to me!

Poignant, personal, beautiful, Takes me away. Thank you for the memories.

The Only Voice that ever made me Just plain cry.

I wonder, what kind of people dare to dislike songs like this? But then she starts to sing and i forget on how this world is so fucked up! This is one of my top ten, for sure!

@MultiVal67

10 жыл бұрын

This 191 people came on this page by mistake i guess. Looked for shakira or justin bieber... As for me - one of greatest songs ever!

@MrGaidzak

10 жыл бұрын

MultiVal67 I'm sorry to disagree with you, but for me this people don't even know that songs like this actually exist. Cheers!

@gregstorm8428

9 жыл бұрын

Well said Guga!

I've cried so many times listening to this beautiful song. And I don't think nothing can ever make me feel so calm and serene. Joan, I'm so grateful for your existence. Love you.

No one can do this song like Joan! She is a master, it's from her own heart.

Joan Beaz your voice is amazing. Im sure you loved bob x 😢. Maybe i another life time he would love you more x you are so beautiful x x x ❤.

As long as human beings have ears--this song will be treasured!

I first heard Joan Baez age 12 and last saw her in person on her farewell tour 2019. The world will never forget her talents, her strive for peace and freedom and her amazing paintings. The most talented artist of her generation.

Just so beautiful, thank you.

I am from Brazil . I don´t know english very well . I liked this music very , very much . Her voice is sweet and wonderful . It seems like a song to sleep children . I know that is impossible , cause I never heard her voice when I was a child , but is what I feel . My language is portuguese and I know spanish too . It is my first opinion in you tube in my life . .

@gulfgypsy

8 жыл бұрын

+César W. K. Alcântara Your English is very good -- please don't judge yourself harshly. Few people know more than one language and you're able to speak three. Joan Baez has a voice that is as pure as a spring rain and as strong and perfect as the finest silk. This song was the perfect song for the time, back in the mid 1970's - It spoke to her former relationship with Bob Dylan and yet was so true, it spoke to the hearts of so many who understood that loving can sometimes be both wonderful and heart breaking. Be happy, find the joy in your world and life. I've heard Brazil is a very beautiful country.

@angelinacruzdaniel315

8 жыл бұрын

+César W. K. Alcântara Vc sabia que essa musica ela fez para Bob Dilan?

@gatorcock79

7 жыл бұрын

Obrigado, from an American embarrassed about our political situation.

@luisnieves8242

7 жыл бұрын

don't be!

@abdelagami

7 жыл бұрын

César W. K. Alcântara man of a

Joan, you are so special to me. There is no one like you. I would love it if you would put some new things on youtube...you are still gorgeous and so is your voice. 💟💗💝

She blows me away with this song. What an amazing guitarist. A legend in her own right

Memories... when you get older that all you have left any more. And this song sure brings them back along with a smile.

There has never been and probably never will be a more apt ode to Bob Dylan who turns 75 today, May 24, 2016 CE. Thanks, Joan. Good health and happiness for the most talented and crazy person you ever wrote for. Love from Bangladesh.

@veroluisacarra4364

7 жыл бұрын

yes I agree

@ismailsaroglu5426

7 жыл бұрын

interesting...

@carollipton4584

7 жыл бұрын

She really nailed Dylan

@luisnieves8242

7 жыл бұрын

dylan wrote the song.

@luisnieves8242

7 жыл бұрын

sorry joan wrote the song!

"As I remember your eyes Were bluer than robin's eggs ' Well, Joan was Tangled Up In Blue

I was born in the 70s, but it was better to live 70s. I love you Joan Baez in 2024.

man that song is so beautiful

At at least one moment in his life, this song leveled Bob

How many of us women have lived this, not just once but to be repeated in our hearts and kept in secret. 💔

As moving, brilliant and profound today as it was then. Ageless.

Still loving this song and the beautiful lady who sings it❤❤❤

The greatest voice of ever in a masterpiece love Song: Joan and her guitar simply wonderful.

I agree, folk music is the heart and soul of a people, Baez is certainly an Angel that shares the depth of that collecttive soul with you, awakened.

Sempre meravigliosa da ascoltare. Che voce. Immensa Joan❤

Very beautiful Song of Joan Baez! I like so much !

Yes, Joan was an Angel. I wouldn't have walked away from her. Bob wasn't ready.

STUNNINGLY moving this song still gives me goosesbumps in 2022. I remember I first heard it in the movie 'Silent Running'. I need to learn this on my guitar - beautiful words.

@frankbacak8295

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful voice Listen to the Judas Priest cover version ..

loved her then love her now

Tears flow when grief hits you too hard, music & nostalgia really helps to soften the blows wave after wave just let it flow, be brave my brother, we will be brothers in arms soon enough!!!

So beautiful, always, Petet, NZ.

Listening on me Birthday October 19th 2020 🙋🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️

The Last Chapter of Kermanshah Diary (Raamtin Residence) ...now you're telling me you're not nostalgic - then give me another word for it...

@HaroldFlood15

9 жыл бұрын

Diggin This

@martinrenee7114

9 жыл бұрын

Harold Flood A GREAT SINGER ...

@HaroldFlood15

9 жыл бұрын

Indeed.........

@mira71819byonayonaqasamade

9 жыл бұрын

Bojan Boskovicさん。素晴らしい歌を有り難うございます。

Such a beautiful and timeless song, sang by an outstanding and lovely lady

I come back to this video at least once a year. Happy 2019 everyone

I saw Joan in concert, Great Lady, what a voice and imposing presence.

Gorgeous song depicting a beautiful love for Bob Dylan.. wow, what classy musicians...

I am 70 years old and I cannot believe I had never heard this before. This is beyond outstanding!!!!!

@mikelane2866

4 жыл бұрын

Check out the Judas Priest version

@neutralnickhotel

4 жыл бұрын

Mike Lane it’s terrible compared to this

@mikelane2866

4 жыл бұрын

neutral nick hotel sorry you feel that way Joan herself said it was her favorite cover. But at least you checked it out

@azul8811

4 жыл бұрын

Larry, you were probably listening to hard rock during your younger days. As we mellow with age, so do many of our tastes. At least it did for me.

It takes me Some where Where i am Alone And an apparition of yours lingers

I just love this version!! Joan I love your voice...❤❤❤

I was on the road when I first heard this song. I believe I was passing through Arkansas. A beautiful song and I was very lonely

Mesmerizingly powerful and so beautiful, inside and out. I love Joan Baez. I wish Bob had treated her better. Happy birthday, sweet and strong Joan.

❤❤This song and its words breaks all the boundaries and states that emotions of pure selfless love are just the same everywhere. Amazing singer amazing words and thanks a lot.