Matthew Met Mary

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Matthew Met Mary (unreleased song) Written by Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello Performed by Elvis 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) “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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