To my knowledge, Dylan has never performed any Christmas songs like Away in a Manger, or even Marshmallow World. But by being oblique, it’s not impossible to read a little Christmas theme into this one: a nice version of Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior from Bismarck, North Dakota on March 29th, 2000. Christians would believe that this holiday commemorates an occasion on which our Savior most assuredly did not pass us by. (That’s “Saviour” for those using the Queen’s English.)

The lyric was written by Fanny Crosby in 1868 — the tune by William H. Doane.

And a little Christmas morning scripture from the good King James, and Isaiah, Chapter 52:

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

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