This ever growing page was made to give us a hand to understand more and more Leonard's work. It is also legitimate as Leonard told us once (during the Frankfurt concert of April 6th, 1972) that if we listen to him sing and we can't listen to him talk, what we are hearing is a lie. This site is based on his live recordings, interviews, or notes. In fact, all his own words. I picked up the spoken or sung introductions to the songs and some additional verses Leonard included sometimes. I also included some songs like "Tennessee Waltz", "Billy Sunday", Wither thou goest, "Passing Through"..., for, although not written by Leonard, they are often sung on tour, and always introduced in his own unique way. You'll also find some earlier songs' versions like "Chelsea Hotel 1" and "The Bells", and a section called "Improvisations", which include the spoken or sung words unread and unheard. These improvisations stand for Leonard as a way of unslaving himself from his "lawyers and contracts and royalties"...

December 4th, 1974 Interview "Pacifica" Joan Baez, I've heard her sing Suzanne and she completely changes the song. She doesn't like the metaphysical possible ways of somebody having their bodies touched with somebody else's minds. So that offends her anticlerical position. It sounds religious to her. It smacks of something that she doen't embrace. So she changes it around to like "touched her perfect body with her thumb" I don't know exactly what it is, but she moves it around that way, but that's okay. It's okay because a song enters the world and it gets changed like everything else. That's okay as long as there are more authentic versions. A good song I think will get changed.