And there are no clothes upon the clothesline
And there are no sheets upon the bed
And there are no agents to decipher, darling
All the thoughts that go on in your head
here an early version that perfectly illustrates Leonard’s song writing process. They often sounded completely different and were written and re-written until recording ( and afterwards too in many cases - see ‘Hallelujah' who’s definitive version is really an arrangement by John Cale that being the version that Jeff Buckley based his version on and recorded and has since gone on to influence all subsequent versions being covered by all and sundry but the original was very VERY different . . . .and I still very much doubt anyone singing it today has any full understanding of what it is they are singing (Cale and Buckley notwithstanding!) It is said he re-wrote it over and over and was given to turning up at recording sessions with great sheaves of re-written pages. sic!
The version at The Isle of Wight is also vastly different to this early demo and as distinct from the recorded album version as it’s possible to be . . . . .there is another version here recorded live dedicated to the then newly elected POTUS Ronald Reagan in 1980!
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