# What song is Bob Dylan's 'I've Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You' very similar to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-bob-dylans-ive-made-up-my-mind-to-give-myself-to-you-very-similar-to/920124 "2020-09-08T23:10:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-bob-dylans-ive-made-up-my-mind-to-give-myself-to-you-very-similar-to/920124/1 "2020-09-08T23:10:17Z")
That’s the song (from his latest album “Rough And Rowdy Ways”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xqJNgO5Caf4/maxresdefault.jpg "Bob Dylan - I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You (Official Audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJNgO5Caf4) This is driving me crazy. I’ve listened to the album a few times since it came out a few months ago, but only now I recognized a familiar melody in that song. It’s typical Dylan, he has been “borrowing” tunes since the beginning of his career. But I just cannot pinpoint it, though that melody is very familiar to me. It sounds a bit like a Viennese waltz, or maybe it’s from an opera or a movie score. I think it’s very famous. Maybe it’s even from a TV commercial, I don’t know, so please release me from this unsolved earworm I have. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-bob-dylans-ive-made-up-my-mind-to-give-myself-to-you-very-similar-to/920124/2 "2020-09-09T00:49:41Z")
Was it [this](http://tarakari.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-role-of-barcarolle-in-is-beautiful.html?m=1)? ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-bob-dylans-ive-made-up-my-mind-to-give-myself-to-you-very-similar-to/920124/3 "2020-09-09T03:18:11Z")
There was the episode of Gilligan’s Island where they put on a musical version of Hamlet. One of the songs had that tune. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-bob-dylans-ive-made-up-my-mind-to-give-myself-to-you-very-similar-to/920124/4 "2020-09-09T04:41:31Z")
_Barcarolle_, by Jacques Offenbach: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g7czptgEvvU/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLA6Rcuh-VoLBEiTgMvRkI_j5hka7g "Offenbach - Barcarolle , from 'The Tales of Hoffmann'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7czptgEvvU) ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-bob-dylans-ive-made-up-my-mind-to-give-myself-to-you-very-similar-to/920124/5 "2020-09-09T04:46:25Z")
**The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper** beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-bob-dylans-ive-made-up-my-mind-to-give-myself-to-you-very-similar-to/920124/6 "2020-09-09T11:20:39Z")
It’s the theme from Dragonheart. Go to 1:43. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GEzy8_67VmU/hqdefault.jpg "Dragonheart Theme - Finale") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEzy8_67VmU) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-is-bob-dylans-ive-made-up-my-mind-to-give-myself-to-you-very-similar-to/920124/7 "2020-09-09T13:10:50Z")
Sorry for replying so late and thanks to all! Yes, it’s definitely the Offenbach tune, and I think I’ve first heard it in a German TV commercial as a kid.