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|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.
|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 = [[Concert 2014-10-14 Stuttgart|October 14, 2014, Stuttgart, Germany]]
|first = [[Concert 2014-10-14 Stuttgart|October 14, 2014, Stuttgart, Germany]]
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|last  = [[Concert 2015-06-03 Oxford|June 3, 2015, Oxford, England]]
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| quote      = 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?
| quote      = 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?

Revision as of 23:08, 27 October 2015

lyrics not available

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:
June 3, 2015, Oxford, England
     (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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