Three versions of same tune - which do you like?

[Dave Bagwill]

http://youtu.be/qOIt7fOgeFk By the guy that wrote it
http://youtu.be/8tFN902wH0g I think he's boring, but hits the right notes.
http://youtu.be/RZBmIXE31pw More like Paul Simon played it. Be careful of volume - Loud at beginning!

[Herman]

The latter is top.

Here is Dutch input:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZ2VN5cvLY

[Tim Benware]

For me, the writer's version was best. It seemed to carry more expressive emotion in the picking and strum patterns than the other two. While not necessarily the fastest picking, I think that is what lent it to be more emotional. I noticed he used more up strokes when the others were using down strokes, that changes the sound.

[Dave Bagwill]

Dutch version - very nice as well.

I had not noticed the upstroke/downstroke difference - very interesting.

[John Parchem]

I liked the Paul Simon version best, he took some of the repetition out. Davy Graham does a good job playing it as written but I found the original composition was on the boring side. I learned to play the original once; by the time I could play it I was really sick of it.