The song was subsequently recorded by several. Sruck by the sounds before the sun I knew the night had gone The morning breeze like a bugle b. Los Angeles folk rock group the Byrds recorded Lay Down Your Weary Tune for their 1965 album Turn Turn Turn. And no one was able to do that any better than they did. Videoklip a text psn Lay Down Your Weary Tune od The Byrds. Not true at all but they did do a nice line in Dylan, basically taking elements of his songs and the feel of some of what The Beatles did and combining to make their own sound. But as an easily-led youngster keen on getting to the story and finding my way I did take the advice that the Byrds did Dylan better than he did himself. G C G Lay down your weary tune lay down lay Em D down the song you strum G And rest yourself neath the strength of C G D G strings no voice can hope to hum. Lay down your weary tune, lay down Lay down the song you strum And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum The text alternates between lines of four and three feet, which is a metric pattern shared by ballad stanzas and many hymns, referred to generally as common measure. He’s one of the great, great singers in this world. It was a way in to Dylan when so many people were telling me that his voice wasn’t good. Originally recorded for The Times They Are-a Changin and then replaced with Restless Farewell, Lay Down Your Weary Tune is a visionary folk ballad which signals Dylan’s departure from politics. I can remember hearing t his in the days before I really knew how to separate compilations from albums – and I thought man The Byrdsreally are hammering home the fact that they love covering Bob Dylanalbums – now they’ve done a whole record of them! When in actual fact this is a post-break-up money-grab that collects the many Dylan covers from the original Byrds albums. ( The Byrds, The Byrds Play Dylan( 1979 )
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