It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (track)
by Bob Dylan
Year: 1965
From the album Highway 61 Revisited (track #3)
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It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry appears on the following album(s) by Bob Dylan:
- Highway 61 Revisited (track #3) (this album) (1965)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (track #19) (2005)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue (track #16) (2002)
- The Original Mono Recordings (track #61) (compilation) (2010)
- Greatest Hits 2 (track #3) (compilation) (1967)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/25/2026 18:31 |  NowhereMan | 14,807 | 85/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2026 19:43 | Siromynian | 18,594 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/24/2026 16:06 | wizardalien | 10,030 | 60/100 |
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This might be Dylan’s most underrated track. It is an absolute beauty.
Nice little blues number :) (Edited)
GandalfORiley345 05/07/2014 22:29 | #111110
Isn´t the greatest song from the album, but still being an awesome song (Edited)
Relaxing :)
I only found this track to be decent.
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