My Chemical Romance Busts Out Bob Dylan Cover In Washington D.C.

My Chemical Romance continued the North American leg of their Long Live The Black Parade Tour at Nationals Park in Washington D.C. on Monday. The rockers brought their cover of the Bob Dylan classic “Desolation Row” into the tour for the first time in the nation’s capital.

My Chemical Romance is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album The Black Parade, featuring a full performance of the 2006 LP. MCR recently wrapped the European leg of the tour and kicked off the North American stint in New York City on August 9.

The Long Live The Black Parade Tour gets underway with a theatrical production of the record, a satire about the fictional authoritarian country of Draag. For the 20th anniversary tour around The Black Parade, the band has updated many of the songs with different outros and intros.

Following The Black Parade performance in D.C., MCR decamped to a B-stage where they offered various songs from their catalog. Monday’s show saw the band slotting in two tour debuts: the original “Surrender The Night” and Dylan’s “Desolation Row.”

MCR played the song frequently in the late 2000s just after releasing The Black Parade. The song has since become a rarity, with the last performance of “Desolation Row” coming in 2022. My Chemical Romance infuses their version of the acoustic number with punk rock. Watch the band breakout “Desolation Row” below: