[2] The album features a different recording of "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" from the version previously issued as the B-side of Dylan's 1971 single "Watching the River Flow".
[17] "Lily of the West" is a traditional British and Irish folk song which, in Dylan's adaptation, details the story of a man who travels to Louisville and stumbles upon a woman named 'Flora'.
Hayes enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1942 and fought in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, deployed in the Bougainville campaign before fighting in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Whilst serving in Iwo Jima, he was photographed by Joe Rosenthal alongside five of his comrades raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi.
Attempting to reintegrate into civilian life, he struggled to maintain employment and was arrested a total of 52 times for offences relating to alcohol.
Two months after attending the Marine Corps War Memorial, Hayes was found dead near his residence in Sacaton, Arizona after spending the evening drinking with his closest friends.
It tells the story of a homeless street performer that Walker had met in a New Orleans jail whilst imprisoned for public intoxication who used the moniker "Mr. Bojangles", likely taken from Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson.
"Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written by Joni Mitchell in 1970, released originally on the album Ladies of the Canyon, reaching the top 20 in Canada, Australia and the UK and peaking at No.
"Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" is a song based on the 1907 poem "A Border Affair" written by Charles Badger Clark, a cowboy poet.