According to author Clinton Heylin, Lewis' contributions were removed before the song was released on Down the Road.
Biographer Clinton Heylin has noted that in writing "Drifter's Escape", Dylan found a new, economical style that allowed him to tell a five-act story in just three verses.
Clinton Heylin, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World (1993), Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-017970-4
Clinton Heylin, one of Morrison's biographers, obviously took the title of his best-selling book from this line and is also referring to Morrison's famously uncommunicative nature.
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Clinton Heylin reports that a Times reporter at a May 1964 Royal Festival Hall concert where Dylan first played "It Ain't Me" took the lines "no, no, no, it ain't me babe" as a parody of The Beatles' "She Loves You".