Matthew Met Mary

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Matthew Met Mary (unreleased song)
Written byBob Dylan and Elvis Costello
Performed byElvis Costello

Background:
 Elvis adapted Bob Dylan's lyric for Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes, but the song does not appear on the finished album.
First known performance:
October 14, 2014, Stuttgart, Germany
Last known performance:
May 24, 2016, Milan, Italy
     (8 known performances)


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“There's a song called ‘Matthew Met Mary’ and a kind of refrain [is] ‘A thousand doors couldn't hold me back from you.’ If you wrote that line, would you leave it in a drawer for 47 years?” — Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2014

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