credits are sometimes given on recordings to Bob Dylan or Roger McGuinn. It should be noted that there is substantial variation between some of these versions of the song.&gt; From liner notes from Country Gentlemen album. They did not record the song until MAR 1969, but this is what they have to say:&gt; Leading off the album was a folk sounding selection called He Was A Friend Of Mine&gt;. Eddie Adcock recalled that the tune was not too popular with the band. "Duffey cussed He Was A Friend Of Mine&gt;. Charlie hated every inch of it...he probably still hates it. He may have got to like it because we got to clowning it up towards the end. John used to sing like Joan Baez on it, [he] would pretend he was throwing his hair back like Baez used to do. Charlie was mocking Bob Dylan. It sounded awful." John Duffey however characterized it as "one of my favorites". Charlie Waller couldn't recall the source for the song but remembered that it was one that they were doing. The band was rather vague about the source, citing it as "an old PD thing." In his liner notes to "Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991," John Bauldie wrote the following account of the song: "He Was A Friend of Mine&gt; was recorded for, but not used on, Dylan's first Columbia LP, "Bob Dylan". When he was interviewed for the liner notes to the record, Dylan [said] that