# What's your favorite Bob Dylan cover

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**Created:** [September 29, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-bob-dylan-cover/990887 "2023-09-29T22:07:24Z")\
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> [@E-DUB](#):
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> OK, here’s mine. The Boss doing “Chimes of Freedom” in East Berlin, before the wall came down.

Thank you, thank you so much for posting this. I was moved to tears and cried like a baby (I’m writing this still with tears in my eyes). Of course I knew about Springsteen’s concert in East-Berlin and its importance, I even knew the short speech he gave in German before the song. But I never knew that he dared to play “Chimes Of Freedom”. It’s such a strong plea for freedom in a song like few others, and the line “And for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail” hit so close to home, there still were many people of that kind incarcerated in East Germany at the time Bruce sang the song.

ETA: and one year later, it all came down. Still unbelievable and surreal to me.

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