Editing 4th Time Around (section)

==Critical reception==
[[Ralph J. Gleason]] of the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'' praised the song for "some great, grotesque and funny lines that dip into reality".<ref>{{cite news |title=Dylan's 'Blonde' broke all the rules |newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner |date=July 31, 1966 |page=TW.31}}</ref> Scholar [[Sean Wilentz]] wrote that "4th Time Around" sounds "like Bob Dylan impersonating John Lennon impersonating Bob Dylan", and is "slight" in comparison to Dylan's "[[Visions of Johanna]]'".{{sfn|Wilentz|2010}} Shelton described Dylan's voice on the track as that of "a tired, old bluesman" and commented that "The lyric is runaway fantasy, almost incongruous against the soft musical flow".{{sfn|Shelton|1987|p=324}} Rodgers finds that the "reprehensible" image presented by the narrator is "heavily distorted by boyish naiveté and Socratic irony and actually works in such a way as to make the whole affair extremely humorous".{{sfn|Rodgers|2012|p=21}} Although he writes positively about the song, Gray considers it one of the lesser tracks on ''Blonde on Blonde''.{{sfn|Gray|2002|p=149}} ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' rated the song as 54th in a 2015 ranking of the "100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs".<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Rolling Stone |year=2015 |title=100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-bob-dylan-songs-65159/4th-time-around-1966-141191/ |access-date=August 23, 2022 |archive-date=August 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824155829/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-bob-dylan-songs-65159/4th-time-around-1966-141191/ |url-status=live }}</ref>