Disc 3 track 14 of Tracks.
- Tracks (1998)
- Bruce Springsteen: vocals, guitar
- Roy Bittan: piano
- Clarence Clemons: saxophone, percussion
- Danny Federici: organ, glockenspiel
- Nils Lofgren: backing vocals, guitar
- Garry Tallent: bass
- Steven Van Zandt: guitar
- Max Weinberg: drums
Released on I'm Goin' Down (Single, 1985), Tracks (1998), and 18 Tracks (1999).
Live versions are available on the following 5 official live downloads:
One of these recordings is also available on the playlists The Live Series: Songs Of Friendship (2019), and The Live Series: Songs Of Character (2022).
| JANEY, DON'T YOU LOSE HEART - V1a | 4:31 | UH / GS / MI / 1984AC |
| JANEY, DON'T YOU LOSE HEART - V1b | 3:24 | TRACKS / 1985 single / BACK |
| JANEY, DON'T YOU LOSE HEART - V2 | uncirculating |
Note: "Janey, Don't You Lose Heart" was originally recorded on June 16, 1983 at The Hit Factory, New York. The heavily bootlegged V1a features Steve Van Zandt on background vocals and guitar, and an extended wistful organ coda closes out the track. V1b is the same base recording, except Nils Lofgren's new vocal and guitar parts replace Van Zandt's. Lofgren's overdubs were recorded on July 14, 1985. The organ coda was also removed, reducing the length by over a minute. V1b was released September 7, 1985, as the b-side of "I'm Goin' Down" and then re-released in 1998, on Tracks. On June 16, 1995, the twelve year anniversary of the 1983 recording date, V2 was recorded at Springsteen's home studio in Beverly Hills with a line-up of Bruce, Gary Mallaber (drums), Garry Tallent, Marty Rifkin, and Chuck Plotkin (keyboards). Both variants of "Janey" were considered for Tracks, but the 1995 recording was dropped in favor of the 1983 cut.
Studio Sessions: Born In The U.S.A.
Janey, Don't You Lose Heart |
You got your book baby with all your fears
Oh let me, honey, and I'll catch your tears, ah no no no no
I'll take your sorrow if you want me to, no no no no no
Yeah come tomorrow that's what I'll do
Listen to me
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart
Well you say you got no new dreams to touch
Ah you feel like a stranger babe who knows too much, oh no no no no
When you come home late and get undressed, oh no no no no
You lie in bed and feel this emptiness
Well listen to me
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart
Alright
Yeah, 'Til every river baby it runs dry
Until the sun honey's torn from the sky, no no no no no
'Til every fear you've felt burst free, no no no no no
Is gone tumbling down into the sea
Listen to me
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart, no no no no
Janey don't you lose heart
Janey don't you lose heart
(Janey don't you lose heart)
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