Bob Dylan: 5 Great live versions of “Seven Days”

Seven days, seven more days she’ll be comin’
I’ll be waiting at the station for her to arrive
Seven more days, all I gotta do is survive

Dylan did not do any studio recordings of Seven Days, but he released a live recording from Tampa, FL – April 21, 1976 on The Bootleg Series (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991, Volume 3 on March 26, 1991.

He has performed the song 18 times live, 5 in 1976 and 13 in 1996.

Civic Center
Lakeland, Florida
18 April 1976

Live debut

She been gone ever since I been a child
Ever since I seen her smile, I ain’t forgotten her eyes
She had a face that could outshine the sun in the skies


Curtis Hixon Convention Center
Tampa, Florida
21 April 1976

Bootleg Series 3 version

I been good, I been good while I been waitin’
Maybe guilty of hesitatin’, I just been holdin’ on
Seven more days, all that’ll be gone


State Theater
Portland, Maine
19 April 1996

There’s kissing in the valley
Thieving in the alley
Fighting every inch of the way
Trying to be tender
With somebody I remember
In a night that’s always brighter’n the day


Hall Omnisports
Differdange, Luxembourg
24 June 1996

Seven days, seven more days that are connected
Just like I expected, she’ll be comin’ on forth
My beautiful comrade from the north


Empire
Liverpool, England
27 June 1996

There’s kissing in the valley
Thieving in the alley
Fighting every inch of the way
Trying to be tender
With somebody I remember
In a night that’s always brighter’n the day