In typically enigmatic Dylan fashion, the singer-songwriter didn’t clarify whether he intended the lyrics of “Lay Lady Lay” to be about Streisand or if he wrote the song with her in mind to sing it, but either way, Streisand was delighted to learn that she inspired the ballad, and when this news was revealed, she said, “I’m very flattered to find out that Bob Dylan wrote ‘Lay Lady Lay’ for me. What I remember is getting flowers from him with a handwritten note asking me to sing a duet with him, but I just couldn’t imagine it then. Guess what, Bob, I can imagine doing it now!” Five years after she found out she was Dylan’s muse, the odd couple finally got their opportunity to work together on “The Very Thought of You.”
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