STAY WITH ME

Written by Jerome Moross (music) and Carolyn Leigh (lyrics) for the 1963 motion picture "The Cardinal", “STAY WITH ME” was recorded by Bob Dylan in early 2014 for the studio album “Shadows In The Night”, which was released in January 2015, and which features ten standard ballads written from 1923 to 1963.

On October 26, 2014, at the end of the last of three shows in Hollywood, California, Bob Dylan performed "STAY WITH ME" for the first time on stage. Bob Dylan chose to close all 26 subsequent concerts of his North American fall tour as well with amazing performances of "STAY WITH ME", sometimes while standing center stage, but mostly while sitting at his piano.

In 2015 Bob Dylan also chose "STAY WITH ME" to close all 28 concerts of his US spring tour. During the European summer tour of 2015, the European fall tour of 2015, and the Japan spring tour of 2016 "STAY WITH ME" has not been performed at all.

But after almost fourteen months, at the last four shows of the US summer tour of 2016, "STAY WITH ME" reappeared as the closing song of the set. And a few months later, in November 2016, Bob Dylan chose to close the last ten concerts of his US fall tour with "STAY WITH ME".

~ [LIVE DEBUT] ~ MP3 ~ STAY WITH ME ~
~ HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA ~ OCTOBER 26, 2014 ~ [LIVE DEBUT] ~

~ MP3 ~ STAY WITH ME ~ NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK ~ DECEMBER 3, 2014 ~

~ MP3 ~ STAY WITH ME ~ COLUMBUS, OHIO ~ MAY 16, 2015 ~

~ MP3 ~ STAY WITH ME ~
~ FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA~
~ NOVEMBER 23, 2016 ~

~ MP3 ~ STAY WITH ME ~
~ PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA ~
~ JULY 13, 2016 ~

video - Stay With Me - Hollywood 2014-10-26

video - Stay With Me - Denver 2014-11-01

video - Stay With Me - Newark 2014-11-26

video - Stay With Me - New York City 2014-11-28

video - Stay With Me - New York City 2014-11-29

video - Stay With Me - New York City 2014-12-03

Biblical references:

~ Psalm 51 ~

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. ... Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. ... The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

~ Psalm 139 ~

O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. ... Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

~ Isaiah 53 ~

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

~ Matthew 18 ~

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

~ Luke 15 ~

He told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. ...

And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything. “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’ And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.


PERFORMANCES 2014.10.26, Hollywood, California 2014.10.28, Oakland, California 2014.10.29, Oakland, California 2014.10.30, Oakland, California 2014.11.01, Denver, Colorado 2014.11.04, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2014.11.05, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2014.11.06, Minneapolis, Minnesota 2014.11.08, Chicago, Illinois 2014.11.09, Chicago, Illinois 2014.11.10, Chicago, Illinois 2014.11.12, Cleveland, Ohio 2014.11.14, Boston, Massachusetts 2014.11.15, Providence, Rhode Island 2014.11.17, Toronto, Ontario 2014.11.18, Toronto, Ontario 2014.11.20, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2014.11.21, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014.11.22, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014.11.23, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014.11.25, Washington, D.C. 2014.11.26, Newark, New Jersey 2014.11.28, New York City, New York 2014.11.29, New York City, New York 2014.12.01, New York City, New York 2014.12.02, New York City, New York 2014.12.03, New York City, New York 2015.04.10, Atlantic City, New Jersey 2015.04.11, Baltimore, Maryland 2015.04.12, Richmond, Virginia 2015.04.14, Savannah, Georgia 2015.04.15, Montgomery, Alabama 2015.04.17, North Charleston, South Carolina 2015.04.18, St. Augustine, Florida 2015.04.19, Orlando, Florida 2015.04.21, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2015.04.22, Clearwater, Florida 2015.04.24, Atlanta, Georgia 2015.04.25, Durham, North Carolina 2015.04.26, Greenville, South Carolina 2015.04.27, Nashville, Tennessee 2015.04.29, New Orleans, Louisiana 2015.04.30, Memphis, Tennessee 2015.05.02, Thackerville, Oklahoma 2015.05.03, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2015.05.05, Houston, Texas 2015.05.06, Austin, Texas 2015.05.07, San Antonio, Texas 2015.05.09, Catoosa, Oklahoma 2015.05.10, Kansas City, Missouri 2015.05.11, St. Louis, Missouri 2015.05.13, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2015.05.15, Detroit, Michigan 2015.05.16, Columbus, Ohio 2015.05.17, South Bend, Indiana 2016.07.13, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2016.07.14, Boston, Massachusetts 2016.07.16, Portland, Maine 2016.07.17, Gilford, New Hampshire 2016.11.10, Columbia, South Carolina 2016.11.12, Asheville, North Carolina 2016.11.13, Chattanooga, Tennessee 2016.11.15, Birmingham, Alabama 2016.11.16, Mobile, Alabama 2016.11.18, Jacksonville, Florida 2016.11.19, Clearwater, Florida 2016.11.20, Fort Myers, Florida 2016.11.22, Orlando, Florida 2016.11.23, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
	STAY WITH ME Should my heart not be humble Should my eyes fail to see Should my feet sometimes stumble On the way, stay with me Like the lamb that in springtime Wanders far from the fold Comes the darkness and the frost I get lost I grow cold I grow cold, I grow weary And I know I have sinned And I go, seeking shelter And I cry in the wind Though I grope and I blunder And I'm weak and I'm wrong Though the road buckles under Where I walk, walk along Till I find to my wonder Every path leads to Thee All that I can do is pray Stay with me Stay with me
Written by Jerome Moross (music) and Carolyn Leigh (lyrics) for the 1963 motion picture "The Cardinal", “STAY WITH ME” was recorded by Bob Dylan in early 2014 for the studio album “Shadows In The Night”, which was released in January 2015, and which features ten standard ballads written from 1923 to 1963. On October 26, 2014, at the end of the last of three shows in Hollywood, California, Bob Dylan performed "STAY WITH ME" for the first time on stage. Bob Dylan chose to close all 26 subsequent concerts of his North American fall tour as well with amazing performances of "STAY WITH ME", sometimes while standing center stage, but mostly while sitting at his piano. In 2015 Bob Dylan also chose "STAY WITH ME" to close all 28 concerts of his US spring tour. During the European summer tour of 2015, the European fall tour of 2015, and the Japan spring tour of 2016 "STAY WITH ME" has not been performed at all. But after almost fourteen months, at the last four shows of the US summer tour of 2016, "STAY WITH ME" reappeared as the closing song of the set. And a few months later, in November 2016, Bob Dylan chose to close the last ten concerts of his US fall tour with "STAY WITH ME". ~ [LIVE DEBUT] ~ MP3 ~ STAY WITH ME ~ ~ HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA ~ OCTOBER 26, 2014 ~ [LIVE DEBUT] ~ ~ MP3 ~ STAY WITH ME ~ NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK ~ DECEMBER 3, 2014 ~ ~ MP3 ~ STAY WITH ME ~ COLUMBUS, OHIO ~ MAY 16, 2015 ~ ~ MP3 ~ STAY WITH ME ~ ~ FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA~ ~ NOVEMBER 23, 2016 ~ ~ MP3 ~ STAY WITH ME ~ ~ PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA ~ ~ JULY 13, 2016 ~ video - Stay With Me - Hollywood 2014-10-26 video - Stay With Me - Denver 2014-11-01 video - Stay With Me - Newark 2014-11-26 video - Stay With Me - New York City 2014-11-28 video - Stay With Me - New York City 2014-11-29 video - Stay With Me - New York City 2014-12-03 Biblical references: ~ Psalm 51 ~ Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. ... Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. ... The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. ~ Psalm 139 ~ O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. ... Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! ~ Isaiah 53 ~ Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. ~ Matthew 18 ~ What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. ~ Luke 15 ~ He told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. ... And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything. “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’ And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate. See for yourself "if the Bible is right".
1. I'm A Fool To Want You (1951) 2. The Night We Called It A Day (1941) 3. Stay With Me (1963) 4. Autumn Leaves (1945-47) 5. Why Try To Change Me Now? (1952) 6. Some Enchanted Evening (1949) 7. Full Moon And Empty Arms (1945) 8. Where Are You? (1937) 9. What'll I Do? (1923) 10. That Lucky Old Sun (1949)