I Shall be Released

"I Shall Be Released" is a 1967 song written by Bob Dylan.
The Band played it on their debut album, Music from Big Pink (1968), with Richard Manuel singing lead vocals, and Rick Danko and Levon Helm harmonizing in the chorus. A legendary performance of the song was performed near the end of The Band's farewell concert, The Last Waltz, in which all the night's performers (with the exception of Muddy Waters) plus Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood graced the same stage.
Dylan recorded two primary versions. The first is the Basement Tapes initial recording, recorded in 1967 and released on Bootleg Series 1-3 in 1991. Dylan recorded the song a second time in 1971, releasing this new recording on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II.
In 1969, the Jamaican harmony group The Heptones covered "I Shall Be Released" as a Reggae tune in 1969 for Studio One and then later on in 1976 at Lee "Scratch" Perry's Black Ark studio and label for the album Party Time.


The Band - I Shall be Released

Title：I Shall Be Released
Artist(band)：The Band
Album：Music From Big Pink

E f#m
They say everything can be replaced
G#m a b e
They say every distance is not near
F#m
So i remember every face
G#m a b e b
Of every man who put me here

(chorus:)
E f#m
I see my light come shinin'
G#m a b e
From the west unto the east
F#m
Any day now, any day now
G#m a b e
I shall be released

They say ev'ry man needs protection
They say that ev'ry man must fall
Yet i swear i see my reflection
Somewhere so high above this wall

(chorus)

Now yonder standing there in this lonely crowd
A man who swears he's not to blame
All day long i hear him shouting so loud
Just crying out that he was framed

(chorus)

Mama Cass, Mary Travers & Joni Mitchell - I Shall Be Released


Joe Cocker - I Shall Be Released (Live at Woodstock 1969)


Jerry Garcia Band - I Shall Be Released


I Shall Be Released - Bette Midler


BETTE MIDLER - I shall be released (LIVE Roxy LA 1977)


Sting - I Shall Be Released (Live)


I shall be releast (Bob Dylan All cast ) 邦訳　-lastwalts