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1966 song by Bob Dylan

"4th Time Around" (also listed as "Fourth Time Around") is a song by American singer songwriter Bob Dylan, which was released as the 12th track on his seventh studio album Blonde on Blonde on June 20, 1966. The song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. Commentators often interpret it as a parody of the Beatles' 1965 song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". John Lennon composed "Norwegian Wood" after being influenced by the introspective lyrics of Dylan. Lennon later reflected on his feelings of paranoia when Dylan first played him "4th Time Around". Twenty takes of "4th Time Around", most of them incomplete, were recorded at Columbia Studio A, Nashville, on February 14, 1966. The last of these was used for the album. "4th Time Around" has received critical acclaim, despite being identified as one of the lesser tracks on Blonde on Blonde.

A few weeks after the release of his sixth studio album Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Bob Dylan's first recording session for his next album was on October 5, 1965, at Columbia Studio A, New York City. The producer was Bob Johnston who had supervised from the third, to the concluding sixth, recording session for Highway 61 Revisited at the same studio. After this session, Dylan toured the United States and Canada; there was a second recording session in New York on November 30, during the tour. Three recording sessions in January (on the 21st, 25th and 27th) were not productive. At Johnston's suggestion, the location for the sessions was changed to Nashville, Tennessee. After two further concerts, Gray comments that "it says something that Dylan was suspected (not least by Lennon) of parodying rather than copying". Heylin regards Dylan's song as "altogether darker, more disturbing". Classics scholar Richard F. Thomas considers that the Beatles track "sounds coy, almost innocent in comparison to the sophistication of Dylan's voice and lyrics". Thomas argued that if indeed "4th Time Around" is addressed to the Beatles, then its closing couplet, "I never asked for your crutch/Now don't ask for mine", is "devastating", and a message to the Beatles to "[s]tay away from what I'm doing". He believes that it rings true to hear that Lennon was "unhappy at what must have seemed like mockery and parody", and that Dylan does in fact "parody the simple rhyme of the Beatles song".

Ralph J. Gleason of the San Francisco Examiner praised the song for "some great, grotesque and funny lines that dip into reality". Scholar Sean Wilentz wrote that "4th Time Around" sounds "like Bob Dylan impersonating John Lennon impersonating Bob Dylan", and is "slight" in comparison to Dylan's "Visions of Johanna'". Shelton described Dylan's voice on the track as that of "a tired, old bluesman" and commented that "The lyric is runaway fantasy, almost incongruous against the soft musical flow". Rodgers finds that the "reprehensible" image presented by the narrator is "heavily distorted by boyish naiveté and Socratic irony and actually works in such a way as to make the whole affair extremely humorous". Although he writes positively about the song, Gray considers it one of the lesser tracks on Blonde on Blonde. Rolling Stone rated the song as 54th in a 2015 ranking of the "100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs".

According to his official website, Dylan has played the song in concert 37 times. The live debut was on February 26, 1966, at Island Garden, West Hempstead, New York, and it featured regularly on setlists until the conclusion of his 1966 World Tour, on May 26, 1966, at the Royal Albert Hall, London. One off acoustic performances in 1974 and 1978 have been criticized as "among Dylan's worst ever live performances" by Heylin, who praised the 1966 performances, where he felt Dylan was focused, and a 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue live rendition that he felt "came caressingly close to [the song's] corrosive core". The song also featured in Dylan shows in 1999, 2000, and 2002.