John Wesley Harding is probably best known for ‘All Along the Watchtower,’ although it would be more accurate to say that ‘All Along the Watchtower’ is well-known because of Jimi Hendrix and John Wesley Harding is best known as the album that contains the original version.
The only other song that made any sort of commercial splash was ‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight,’ the album’s closing track, and it wasn’t until a 1990 cover by Robert Palmer and UB40 that it reached the charts.
You can hear that version here but I don’t recommend it on a full stomach.
Dylan’s version, on the other hand, is simply delightful. After an album full of downbeat morality tales loaded with Biblical allusions, this sweet love song is just what the doctor ordered.
Dylan doesn’t do tender very often, but when he does he usually connects.
You don’t have to worry any more.
I’ll be your baby tonight.
Shut the light, shut the shade,
You don’t have to be afraid.
I’ll be your baby tonight.
Well, that mockingbird’s gonna sail away,
We’re gonna forget it.
That big, fat moon is gonna shine like a spoon,
But we’re gonna let it,
You won’t regret it.
Kick your shoes off, do not fear,
Bring that bottle over here.
I’ll be your baby tonight.
Meet Me In Montauk 
nice enough song, but nothing all that special to me. And, actually, I think the cover by Palmer and UB40 actually gives the song some needed lift. It’s hardly as though the song is so deep or profound that it doesn’t work with a reggae twist.
We used to study the cover of the LP. There, in the gnarly tree trunk behind Dylan, one can see the four Sgt. Pepper-era faces of the Beatles. Really.