personnel bob dylan - guitar , harmonica , keyboards , vocals pete drake - pedal steel guitar charlie daniels - guitar charlie mccoy - bass kenneth a. buttrey - drums bob wilson - organ , piano charlie bragg - engineer neil wilburn - engineer covers the byrds ' version the byrds ' recording of '' lay lady lay '' was released as a single on may 2 , 1969 and reached # 132 on the billboard chart but failed to break into the uk singles chart .