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"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" is a song written and performed by
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. It was originally recorded on August 2, 1965, and released on the album ''
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''. The song was later released on the
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'' Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II'' and as two separate live versions recorded at concerts in 1966: the first of which appeared on the
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of Dylan's " I Want You" single, with the second being released on '' The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert''. The song has been
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by many artists, including
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,
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, Frankie Miller,
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. Lightfoot's version was recorded only weeks after Dylan's original had been released and reached #3 on the Canadian RPM singles chart. "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" has six verses but no chorus. The song's lyrics describe a vision of the narrator's experiences in Juarez, Mexico, where he encounters poverty, sickness, despair, available women, indifferent authorities, alcohol and drugs before finally deciding to return to New York City. The lyrics incorporate literary references to
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's ''
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'',
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's '' Desolation Angels'', while the song's title references
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's "My Bohemian Life (Fantasy)". Music journalist
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included it on his list of the 1001 greatest songs of all time, and music critic
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ranked the live version of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" from Liverpool, released as the B-side of "I Want You", as the #243 greatest single of all time.


Lyrics and music

"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" was recorded on August 2, 1965, at Columbia Studios in New York, the same day Dylan recorded " Ballad of a Thin Man", "
Highway 61 Revisited ''Highway 61 Revisited'' is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 30, 1965, by Columbia Records. Dylan continued the musical approach of his previous album ''Bringing It All Back Home'' (1965), usi ...
" and " Queen Jane Approximately", three other songs that would appear on ''Highway 61 Revisited''. However, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" took more attempts to perfect than the other songs recorded that day; it wasn't until
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16 that Dylan and his band captured on tape the version that was released on the album. The backing musicians on the take that was used on ''Highway 61 Revisited'' were
Mike Bloomfield Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American blues guitarist and composer. Born in Chicago, he became one of the first popular music stars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrume ...
on electric guitar,
Al Kooper Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt; February 5, 1944) is an American songwriter, record producer, and musician. Throughout much of the 1960s and 1970s he was a prolific studio musician, including playing organ on the Bob Dylan song " Like ...
on
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Cembalet; a type of electro-mechanical piano, Paul Griffin on piano, Harvey Brooks on bass guitar and Bobby Gregg on drums. According to Dylan biographer
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, on early takes of the song Sam Lay was the drummer and Frank Owens played piano. In Heylin's opinion, Gregg's jazzier drumming and Griffin's more fluid piano playing better communicated the feeling of dislocation that Dylan desired for the song. Take 5 of the song, which, according to Heylin, featured both Lay and Owens, was included on the 2005 album '' The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack''. In 2015, the entire recording session was released on the 18-disc edition of '' The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966'', while the 2-disc version of the album featured Take 3 and the 6-disc edition contained Takes 1, 3 and 13. Lyrically, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" in a way continues a descriptive road theme from the album's previous song, "Highway 61 Revisited." The singer finds himself at Easter in Juarez, Mexico, amidst sickness, despair, whores and saints. While there, he encounters corrupt authorities, loose women, drugs and alcohol. The song establishes an occasionally nightmarish vision as the singer is influenced by gravity, negativity, sex, drugs, drink, illness, remorse and memory. In the song's final verse, the singer decides he has had enough and announces his intention to leave and head back to New York City. Author
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has noted that scene and situation in the song are combined into "a gorgeous evocation of muddied consciousness". Despite the sordid details of the singer's experiences in Juarez, the lyrics maintain a wry sense of humor, and William Ruhlmann of the
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website wrote that the song would have been considered a "comic ''tour de force''" if it hadn't tended to be overshadowed by Dylan's other songs of the period. During a concert in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in April 1966, Dylan said of the song, "This is, this is called Tom Thumb. This story takes place outside of Mexico City. It begins in Mexico City and it ends really in Des Moines, Iowa, but it's all about this painter, he's a quite older fellow, he comes from Juarez, Juarez is down cross of Texas border, some few feets, and he's a painter. He's very very well-known painter in the area there and we all call him Tom Thumb and when Tom Thumb was going through his blue period, this is one of the most important times of his whole life and he's going to sell many many paintings now taken from his blue period and this is all about Tom Thumb and his early days and so we name this Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues." Like many of the songs on ''Highway 61 Revisited'', "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" has abundant literary references, including images recalling
Malcolm Lowry Clarence Malcolm Lowry (; 28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel ''Under the Volcano'', which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list.
's novel ''
Under the Volcano ''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by the English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) published in 1947. It tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British Consulate general, consul in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, Quauhnahuac on the D ...
'' and a street name taken from
Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely re ...
's short story "
The Murders in the Rue Morgue "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in ''Graham's Magazine'' in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective fiction, detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of wikt:ratio ...
". The song also uses the phrase "Housing Project hill" from
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's novel '' Desolation Angels''. A number of Dylan biographers, including Colin Irwin, Robert Shelton and Andy Gill, have suggested that the song's title makes reference to
Arthur Rimbaud Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (, ; ; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism. Born in Charleville, he s ...
's poem "My Bohemian Life (Fantasy)", in which Rimbaud refers to himself as "Tom Thumb in a daze." In addition, some commentators have suggested that there may be a musical reference in the lines "And she takes your voice/And leaves you howling at the moon," since " Howlin' at the Moon" is the title of a song by the country singer-songwriter
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, whom Dylan admired. Musically, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" consists of no
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, but six verses, varied by a handful of chords and Dylan's vocal emphasis. Keyboards, drums and vocals provide texture, while Mike Bloomfield plays Latin Americanesque fills on electric guitar. The keyboard parts in particular make innovative use of two different pianos, with Al Kooper playing an electric Hohner Cembalet and Paul Griffin adding a barroom feel on
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.


Other appearances and acclaim

In addition to its appearance on the ''Highway 61 Revisited'' album, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" was included on the
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'' Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II'' (known as ''More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits'' in Europe) and on another compilation released exclusively in Europe titled '' Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2''. Alternate takes of the song from the August 2, 1965, recording session have been released on '' The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack'' and '' The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966''. The song has also been popular live in concert. Clinton Heylin has stated that "as performed live in 1965–66, 'Tom Thumb' became an inferno of pain. As if pain were indeed art." A live version recorded at a concert in Liverpool, England, on May 14, 1966, featuring Dylan backed by
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, was released as the B-side to the " I Want You" single in 1966, and later also appeared on the '' Masterpieces'' compilation. The song was also performed on May 17, 1966, by Dylan and the Band at the famous and controversial so-called ' Albert Hall' concert (which in fact took place at the Manchester
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), and consequently it appears on '' The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert''. In November 2016, all Dylan's recorded live performances of the song from 1966 were released in the boxed set '' The 1966 Live Recordings'', with the May 26, 1966, performance released separately on the album ''The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert''. Dylan also played "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" regularly during his 1974 tour, and has played it in concert occasionally ever since. In a 2005 readers' poll published in ''
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'' magazine, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" was listed as the number 13 all-time greatest Bob Dylan song. In 2002 '' Uncut'' magazine listed it as the number 38 all-time best Bob Dylan song. Music journalist
Toby Creswell Toby Creswell (born 21 May 1955) is an Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer. He was editor of ''Rolling Stone'' (Australia) and a founding editor of ''Juice''. In 1986, he co-wrote, his first book, ''Too Much Ain't Enough'' a bio ...
included "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" on his list of the 1001 greatest songs of all time, and music critic
Dave Marsh Dave Marsh (born ) is an American music critic and radio talk show host. He was an early editor of '' Creem'' magazine, has written for various publications such as ''Newsday'', ''The Village Voice'', and ''Rolling Stone'', and has published num ...
ranked the live version from Liverpool as the 243rd-greatest single of all time and as one of the dozen or so truly great B-sides, noting that it demonstrated Dylan's prowess as a great live performer. The song makes an appearance in the 2012 film ''
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Cover versions

Canadian singer-songwriter
Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters, ...
covered "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" in 1965 in a version that reached number 3 on Canada's national RPM singles chart, and number 8 on Toronto's
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. ''
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'' said of this version that "one of best but lesser known Dylan tunes serves as a blockbuster debut on United Artists for the Canadian performer-composer" and praised the vocal performance and the
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. ''
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'' described it as a "medium-paced chorus-and-orked folk-blueser about the problems women can cause men" and said Lightfoot's rendition was "impressive." Other covers recorded in the 1960s include those by
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on his 1966 album '' This Precious Time'' and by
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, on her 1966 album ''
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''.
Nina Simone Nina Simone ( ; born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, pianist, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and po ...
also covered it in 1969 on her '' To Love Somebody'' album.
Jennifer Warnes Jennifer Jean Warnes (born March 3, 1947) is an American singer and songwriter who has performed as a vocalist on a number of film soundtracks. She has won two Grammy Awards, in 1983 for the Joe Cocker duet " Up Where We Belong", and in 1987 fo ...
included it on her 1969 release ''See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me!'' Frankie Miller covered "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" in 1973 on '' Once in a Blue Moon'',
Linda Ronstadt Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer who has performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin music. Ronstadt has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three A ...
covered it in 1998 on '' We Ran'' and
Bryan Ferry Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945) is an English singer and songwriter. He became known as the frontman of the band Roxy Music and also launched a solo career. His voice has been described as an "elegant, seductive croon". He also established ...
covered it on his 2007 album ''
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''. The
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have, on occasion, performed "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" live in concert, with bassist
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taking a rare turn as lead vocalist, and a recording of the song by the band appears on the album '' View from the Vault, Volume One''. Additionally,
Neil Young Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. Since the begi ...
covered the song for the Bob Dylan tribute concert '' The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration'' in 1992, and the
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sampled the last two lines of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" for their song "Finger Lickin' Good", which appeared on their '' Check Your Head'' album of the same year.


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