Patti Smith explains nerves during her Bob Dylan Nobel prize tribute

In a candid, poetic piece for the New Yorker, Smith says she didn’t forget the words to A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, but was too nervous to sing themWhen Patti Smith stumbled over the lyrics of a Bob Dylan song during the Nobel prize ceremony last week, it was because she was overwhelmed with nerves by the magnitude of the experience, not because she forgot the words to A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.Smith writes in an essay published Wednesday by the New Yorker that after loving th