If You See Her, Say Hello

Dylan first recorded "If You See Her, Say Hello" in New York City on September 16, 1974, during the initial Blood on the Tracks sessions at A&R Studios, with two solo takes on that day. These were followed by a third on September 19, where he was accompanied by Tony Brown on bass.{{Cite book |last=Heylin |first=Clinton |title=Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 1974–2008 |date=2011 |publisher=Constable |location=London |isbn=9781849015981 |pages=39–42 }}{{Cite web |title=Read the complete tracklisting for Bob Dylan's More Blood, More Tracks – The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 |url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/news/read-complete-tracklisting-bob-dylans-blood-tracks-bootleg-series-vol-14-107408/ |last=Bonner |first=Michael |date=September 20, 2018 |website=Uncut |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407115523/https://www.uncut.co.uk/news/read-complete-tracklisting-bob-dylans-blood-tracks-bootleg-series-vol-14-107408/ |archive-date=April 7, 2020 |access-date=April 7, 2020}} That December, working from a suggestion made by his brother David Zimmerman that the album should have a more commercial sound, Dylan re-recorded five of the ten songs on Blood on the Tracks, including "If You See Her, Say Hello" on December 30, 1974, at Sound 80 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.{{Cite news |last=O'Hagan |first=Sean |date=October 28, 2018 |title=The raw, painful birth of Blood on the Tracks |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/28/bob-dylan-more-blood-more-tracks-raw-painful-birth |url-status=live |access-date=April 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417055617/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/28/bob-dylan-more-blood-more-tracks-raw-painful-birth |archive-date=April 17, 2019}}{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Chris |year=2007 |title=Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks Review |publisher=BBC |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/659x/ |url-status=live |access-date=April 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190919065715/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/659x/ |archive-date=September 19, 2019}} Dylan played mandolin that was overdubbed on the track.

Zimmerman was the producer for the Minneapolis recordings, but was not credited on the album.{{cite news |last=Bream |first=Jon |title=Minnesotans finally get credit for playing on Bob Dylan's 1975 classic 'Blood on the Tracks' |url=https://www.startribune.com/minnesotans-finally-get-credit-for-playing-on-bob-dylan-s-1975-classic-blood-on-the-tracks/499161281/ |date=October 31, 2018 |work=Star Tribune |location=Minneapolis |access-date=October 7, 2020 |archive-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113110/https://www.startribune.com/minnesotans-finally-get-credit-for-playing-on-bob-dylan-s-1975-classic-blood-on-the-tracks/499161281/ |url-status=live }} The re-recorded versions were radical departures from the original recordings, and each new recording included changes to the lyrics from the earlier versions.{{Cite web |title=Shelter From The Storm – the inside story of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks |url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/shelter-from-the-storm-the-inside-story-of-bob-dylan-s-blood-on-the-tracks-15656/ |last=Hasted |first=Nick |date=November 15, 2013 |website=Uncut |orig-year=2005 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715011356/https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/shelter-from-the-storm-the-inside-story-of-bob-dylan-s-blood-on-the-tracks-15656 |archive-date=July 15, 2018 |access-date=April 6, 2020}}{{Cite book |first=Toby |last=Creswell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bhYnNaM0zEUC&pg=PA24 |title=1001 Songs |date=November 1, 2007 |publisher=Hardie Grant Publishing |isbn=978-1-74273-148-3 |pages=24–25 |access-date=July 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003184046/https://books.google.com/books?id=bhYnNaM0zEUC&pg=PA24 |url-status=live }}{{Cite book |last=Dalton |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDcDAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT346 |title=Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan |date=June 1, 2012 |publisher=Omnibus Press |location=London |isbn=978-0-85712-779-2 |pages=346–347 |access-date=July 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003184047/https://books.google.com/books?id=SDcDAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT346 |url-status=live }} The session featured a full band: Kevin Odegard (guitar), Chris Weber (guitar) Gregg Inhofer (keyboards), Billy Peterson (bass), and Bill Berg (drums), with Dylan singing, and on guitar and harmonica.{{cite book |last=Heylin |first=Clinton |date=1996 |title=Dylan: behind closed doors. The recording sessions (1960–1994) |publisher=Penguin |pages=101–107 |isbn=0140257497}} These musicians were based locally and had arrived after Zimmerman's contact, and Dylan had not met them before they started working together on December 27, 1974.

The Minneapolis version was included as the eighth track on Blood on the Tracks, released on January 20, 1975.{{efn|name=dateq|Some sources state the release date as January 17, 1975}}{{cite web |title=Blood on the Tracks (1975) |url=http://www.bobdylan.com/albums/blood-tracks/ |author= |website=bobdylan.com |access-date=October 5, 2020 |archive-date=September 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917111207/http://www.bobdylan.com/albums/blood-tracks/ |url-status=live }} The album reached number one on the US Billboard 200.{{Cite magazine |last=Partridge |first=Kenneth |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/review/album-review/6443561/bob-dylans-blood-on-the-tracks-at-40-classic-track-by-track |title=Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' at 40: Classic Track-by-Track Album Review |magazine=Billboard |date=January 16, 2015 |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513175750/https://www.billboard.com/articles/review/album-review/6443561/bob-dylans-blood-on-the-tracks-at-40-classic-track-by-track |url-status=live }} The song was also issued as the B-side of the single "Tangled up in Blue" in February 1975.{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Krogsgaard|title=Positively Bob Dylan: A Thirty-year Discography, Concert & Recording Session Guide, 1960–1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i7cQAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Popular Culture|isbn=978-1-56075-000-0|pages=104–106|access-date=May 13, 2021|archive-date=May 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513175811/https://books.google.com/books?id=i7cQAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}} The single reached number 31 on the US Billboard Hot 100.{{cite book|first=John |last= Nogowski|title=Bob Dylan: A Descriptive, Critical Discography and Filmography, 1961–2007, 2nd ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1WQBQAAQBAJ|date=April 28, 2008|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3518-0 |page=66}} The second take from September 16, 1974, was released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991, and the version from September 19 was included on the November 1974 Blood on the Tracks test pressing. All of the recorded versions, including a remix of the December 1974 master issued on Blood on the Tracks were included on the deluxe edition of The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks (2018). The first take of the song, recorded on September 16, 1974, was also included on the single-CD and 2-LP versions of the compilation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bobdylan.com/news/more-blood-more-tracks-the-bootleg-series-vol-14-to-be-released-on-november-2/|title=More Blood, More Tracks – The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 to Be Released on November 2 |website=www.bobdylan.com|language=en-US|access-date=October 21, 2018|archive-date=November 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105064613/https://www.bobdylan.com/news/more-blood-more-tracks-the-bootleg-series-vol-14-to-be-released-on-november-2/|url-status=live}}

• Bob Dylan – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin
• Chris Weber – acoustic twelve-string guitar
• Peter Ostroushko – mandolin
• Gregg Inhofer – Hammond organ
• Bill Berg – drums

Aware that many people thought Blood on the Tracks was autobiographical, Dylan told Bill Flanagan in a 1985 interview "It didn't pertain to me. It was just a concept of putting in images that defy time – yesterday, today and tomorrow. I wanted to make them all connect in some kind of a strange way."{{Cite book |first=Bill |last=Flanagan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BUAqAAAAQBAJ |title=Written in My Soul: Conversations with Rock's Great Songwriters |date=April 1, 2010 |publisher=RosettaBooks |isbn=978-0-7953-1081-2 |access-date=April 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506011534/https://books.google.com/books?id=BUAqAAAAQBAJ |archive-date=May 6, 2016 |url-status=live}} In his 2004 memoir Chronicles: Volume One, Dylan says that Blood on the Tracks was "an entire album based on Chekhov short stories. Critics thought it was autobiographical – that was fine". The opening lines of the album version of the song are:{{cite book|first=Daniel |last=Karlin|title=The Figure of the Singer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nivct-I5B9QC&pg=PA185|date=July 4, 2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-921398-6|page=185|access-date=May 26, 2021|archive-date=May 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526135400/https://books.google.com/books?id=nivct-I5B9QC&pg=PA185|url-status=live}}{{cite book|first=Neil |last=Corcoran|title=Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EycZeejktNoC&pg=PT92|date=December 15, 2010|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4464-1332-6|page=92|access-date=May 26, 2021|archive-date=May 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526135340/https://books.google.com/books?id=EycZeejktNoC&pg=PT92|url-status=live}}{{quote|"If you see her, say hello, she might be in Tangier
She left here last early Spring, is livin' there, I hear
Say for me that I'm all right, though things get kind of slow
She might think that I've forgotten her, don't tell her it isn't so"}}

Phillipe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon describe the song succinctly as a "sad love story", commenting that it is reminiscent of Dylan's earlier "Girl from the North Country" (1963).{{cite book |last1=Margotin |first1=Philippe |last2=Guesdon |first2=Jean-Michel |date=2015 |title=Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track |publisher=Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers |page=425 |isbn=978-1579129859}} Similarities with the earlier track were also commented on at the time of the album's release by multiple writers,{{cite news |title=Dylan appears back on the fiery path |first=Ron |last=Kroese |work=Rapid City Journal |location=Rapid City, South Dakota |date=February 2, 1975 |page=28}}{{cite news |first=Robin |last=Deneslow |title=Bob Dylan on record |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=February 8, 1975 |page=8}} although it was noted by Lyn Van Matre of the Chicago Tribune that unlike in "Girl from the North Country", "this time the woman rather than Dylan himself, leaves to ramble".{{cite news |title=A new Dylan flint sparks hope |first=Lyn |last=Van Matre |work=Chicago Tribune |date=January 26, 1975 |page=Section 6, p. 4}} Robin Deneslow, in The Guardian, praised the song as "as immediately attractive as 'Girl from the North Country' but infinitely more mature and emotionally complex".{{cite news |first=Robin |last=Deneslow |title=Bob Dylan on record |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=February 8, 1975 |page=8}} Timothy Hampton, in Critical Inquiry, noted that "each verse ends with the singer mouthing a statement of consolation that undermines the account of the events of the affair he has just offered. This ironic display of self-delusion is unprecedented in Dylan's work."{{cite journal |last=Hampton |first=Timothy |title=Tangled Generation: Dylan, Kerouac, Petrarch, and the Poetics of Escape |journal=Critical Inquiry |volume=39 |number=4 |year=2013 |page=720 |doi=10.1086/671353 |jstor=10.1086/671353 |s2cid=170966193 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/671353 |access-date=28 May 2021}}

Some reviewers identified "If You See Her, Say Hello" as a standout on Blood on the Tracks.{{cite news| title=Disc See |first=Diane |last=Morgan |work=The Press Democrat |location=Santa Rosa, California |date=January 24, 1975 |page=16}}{{cite news |title=The Music Makers |first=Mike |last=Kalina |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=February 5, 1975 |page=20}}{{cite news |first=John |last=Edmiston |title=Maggie's Farm |work=The Paris News |location=Paris, Texas |date=February 16, 1975 |page=33}} John Edmiston, in The Paris News, and Mike Kalina, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, both named the track as their favourite on the album; Kalina felt that the song covers the same topic as Dylan's "I Threw It All Away" (1969), and Edmiston praised Dylan's lyrics as "magnetic, icy". The track's similarity to earlier work by Dylan was seen as a negative by March French, who, in a generally positive review, opined that "If You See Her, Say Hello" and "You're a Big Girl Now" are the weakest two tracks on the album due to being "retreads".{{cite news |first=March |last=French |title=Dylan's new album is worth hearing |work=St. Cloud Times |location=Saint Cloud, Minnesota |date=March 15, 1975 |page=19}} Praise from other reviewers included the comments "exquisite … an old love remembered with dignity";{{cite news |last=Lloyd |first=Jack |title=It's the old Dylan – the good one |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |date=January 26, 1975 |page=5K}} "stunningly beautiful";{{cite news |last=David |first=Brewer |title=Dylan lives, thrives, grows |work=The Wichita Independent |location=Wichita, Kansas |date=February 7, 1975 |page=13}} "Dylan's sadness bring out the beauty of this song";{{cite news |title=A new Dylan: a new album |first=Anthony |last=Buccino |work=The Belleville Times |location=Belleville, New Jersey |date=January 30, 1975 |page=5}} and that the song was "unsentimental but strongly felt".{{cite news |first=Gaylord |last=Walker |title=Bob Dylan's 'Blood' is on the tracks |work=The Sacramento Bee |location=Sacramento, California |date=February 2, 1975 |page=S5}}

Jon Landau of Rolling Stone criticized the "awkwardness" of the music,{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/blood-on-the-tracks-255430/ |title=Blood on the Tracks |last=Landau |first=Jon |date=March 13, 1975 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=December 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230122112/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/blood-on-the-tracks-255430/ |url-status=live }} while Jonathan Cott, in the same issue of the magazine, gave a more positive review and stated that "You're a Big Girl Now" and "If You See Her, Say Hello" are "the two most direct and poignant songs about rejection and the two least mediated by a narrative foil" on the album.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-blood-on-the-tracks-55031/ |title=Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks |last=Cott |first=Jonathan |date=March 13, 1975 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003184048/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-blood-on-the-tracks-55031/ |url-status=live }} Oliver Trager wrote that the song "may be the most painful" on Blood on the Tracks, with the narrator haunted by memories of a woman that he loved; a 2016 Rolling Stone article also stated that it "might be the most painful moment on" the album. Andrew Ford commented in The Sydney Morning Herald that "the vicious irony of Dylan's exaggerated pronunciation of 'separation' … can't be represented on the printed page",{{cite news |title=Hip hop brat's a Broadway baby |first=Andrew |last=Ford |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |location=Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |date=April 13, 2001 |page=S6}} and Dylan's delivery was also covered by Robert Shelton, who singled out the delivery of the couplet "Either I'm too sensitive/Or else I'm gettin' soft" as showing that the song's narrator "cannot keep his feelings from bursting out".{{cite book |last=Shelton |first=Robert |title=No direction home: the life and music of Bob Dylan |publisher=New English Library |location=London |year=1985 |isbn=0450048438 |page=443 }} Shelton says that the vocal delivery has similarities to performances by Dylan during his 1974 tour, giving the examples "he turns 'chill' into 'chi-i-u-ill,' 'stay' into 'stay-hay-ay' and 'town' into 'town-ow-ow-un-un".

Bootleg recordings from the September 1974 sessions were circulated before the official releases of those sessions on albums in The Bootleg Series, including the ones of "If You See Her, Say Hello". In 1989, Ford wrote that "the original version was faster, harder and tinged with off-hand bitterness", and bemoaned the failure of commentators to consider the original in their coverage.{{cite news |first=Andrew |last=Ford |title=Wagner v a man named Zimmerman |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |location=Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |date=August 26, 1989 |page=7}} Later commentators did compare the September and December versions. Nigel Williamson felt that the album's version "toned down the hurt and anger" from the September session.{{cite book |last=Williamson |first=Nigel |title=The rough guide to Bob Dylan |publisher=Rough Guides |location=London|edition=Second |year=2006 |isbn=1843537184 |page=95 }}

Margotin and Guesdon rate the song as one of Dylan's best. Jim Beviglia ranks it 56th in his 2013 assessment of the 100 best Dylan songs,{{cite book|first=Jim |last=Beviglia|title=Counting Down Bob Dylan: His 100 Finest Songs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRMeAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|date=July 11, 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-8824-1|pages=83–85|access-date=May 13, 2021|archive-date=May 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513175745/https://books.google.com/books?id=nRMeAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|url-status=live}} and Rolling Stone placed the track 63rd in their 2016 ranking of the 100 greatest Dylan songs.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-bob-dylan-songs-65159/if-you-see-her-say-hello-1975-163407/ |title=100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs |author= |date=May 24, 2016 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=November 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102172731/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/100-greatest-bob-dylan-songs-65159/if-you-see-her-say-hello-1975-163407/ |url-status=live }} A 2021 article in The Guardian included it on a list of "80 Bob Dylan songs everyone should know".{{Cite web|last=Docx|first=Edward|date=May 22, 2021|title=Beyond Mr Tambourine Man: 80 Bob Dylan songs everyone should know|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/22/beyond-mr-tambourine-man-80-bob-dylan-songs-everyone-should-know|access-date=May 22, 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=May 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522100415/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/22/beyond-mr-tambourine-man-80-bob-dylan-songs-everyone-should-know|url-status=live}}

Dylan has performed the song live 88 times up to July 2009.{{cite web |title=If You See Her, Say Hello |url=https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/if-you-see-her-say-hello/ |website=bobdylan.com |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=April 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425132337/http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/if-you-see-her-say-hello/ |url-status=live }} The first time was on April 18, 1976, at Civic Centre, Lakeland, Florida; the most recent live performance (as of May 2021) was on July 4, 2009, at Coveleski Stadium, South Bend, Indiana.{{cite web |title=Setlists that contain If You See Her, Say Hello |url=https://www.bobdylan.com/setlists/?id_song=26015 |website=bobdylan.com |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125082415/https://www.bobdylan.com/setlists/?id_song=26015 |url-status=live }} The debut live performance was acoustic, and featured new lyrics, which Heylin has described as delivered as if "revenge sat in his soul". Trager has said the performance shows the narrator "haunted by the woman ... hating himself for granting her an upper hand".{{cite book |last=Trager |first=Oliver |title=Keys to the rain: the definitive Bob Dylan encyclopedia |year=2004 |publisher=Billboard Books |location=New York | isbn=0823079740 |pages=287}}

Live performances of the song in 1996 garnered positive reviews, with a syndicated article in Canada from April stating "his voice [was] sounding beautiful on the Dylan Scale, which is a different measurement than that applied to other singers",{{cite news |agency=The Canadian Press |title=Dylan puts fans in the palm of his hand and they don't hold slurred lyrics against him |work=Nanaimo Daily News |location=Nanaimo, British Columbia |date=April 29, 1996 |page=11}} and Dave Ferman's October review in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram writing that the song gained from "a sparkling country rock arrangement" and observing how Dylan's delivery gave it "a heart-rending, poignant quality that actually outran the 21-year-old recorded version".{{cite news |first=Dave |last=Ferman |title=Dylan Redux |work=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |location=Fort Worth, Texas |date=October 26, 1996 |page=10}} In 2002, Sean O'Hagan of The Observer was unimpressed by "a spiteful take … [with] the regretful tenderness of the original replaced by late-blooming bitterness", which featured a lyrical change to "If she's passing back this way / That would be too quick / Don't mention her name to me / Cos that's a name that makes me sick".{{cite news |first=Sean |last=O'Hagan |title=Bob just keeps on keeping on |work=The Observer |location=London |date=May 19, 2002 |page=C10}}

Bob Geldof used the title as the opening line to his composition "A Gospel Song" from his 1990 album The Vegetarians of Love.{{cite news |last=Sweeting |first=Adam |title=Light, love and licks |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=July 12, 1990 | page=27 |quote="its opening line ... acknowledging a recurring debt to Bob Dylan"}}

A fragment of the song is sung by David Duchovny's character in the series Californication, who describes the album as a "real heartbreak album".{{Cite magazine |last=Willman |first=Chris |title=Dylan's blood-best album: 40 facts about the 40-year-old Blood On The Tracks |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dylans-bloody-best-album-40-facts-about-the-40-year-old-blood-on-the-tracks-159901/ |date=January 21, 2015 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=April 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200405155031/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dylans-bloody-best-album-40-facts-about-the-40-year-old-blood-on-the-tracks-159901/ |url-status=live }} In an interview with The Guardian, Ricky Gervais mentioned the song as the last he ever played while working at Xfm. He also named Blood on the Tracks as his favorite album of all time.{{cite news|title=Home entertainment – Friday 12 April 2002|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/apr/12/artsfeatures|website=The Guardian|date=April 12, 2002 |access-date=April 23, 2015|archive-date=June 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140613113725/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/apr/12/artsfeatures|url-status=live|last1=Hodgkinson |first1=Will |last2=Hodgkinson |first2=Interview by Will }}{{efn|The article published in the print edition wrongly named the song as "If You See A Sailor"{{cite news |title=Corrections and clarifications |work=The Guardian |location=London |date=April 15, 2002 |page=19}}}} The song is played in the closing scene of the "Vesuvius" episode in the 9th season of How I Met Your Mother.{{cite web |last=Krule |first=Miriam |title=Is the Mother in How I Met Your Mother Dead? |url=https://slate.com/culture/2014/03/how-i-met-your-mother-theories-is-the-mother-dead.html |website=Slate |date=March 4, 2014 |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=August 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812125146/https://slate.com/culture/2014/03/how-i-met-your-mother-theories-is-the-mother-dead.html |url-status=live }}

An Italian version of the song was recorded by singer-songwriter Francesco De Gregori, titled "Non Dirle Che Non È Così", for his album La valigia dell'attore that appears on the Masked and Anonymous soundtrack (2003).{{Cite web |title=If You See Her, Say Hello |url=http://www.bjorner.com/songsi.htm#_Toc532968706 |publisher=Olof Björner |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207154647/http://www.bjorner.com/songsi.htm#_Toc532968706 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Four new Dylan songs on soundtrack |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2003/0724/399724-dylanb/ |publisher=RTÉ.ie |date=24 July 2003 |access-date=4 July 2021}} It has also been covered by Jeff Buckley,on his EP Live at Sin-é (1993), by Brazilian singer Renato Russo under the title of "If you see him, say hello",{{cite web |last=Rivadavia |first=Eduardo |title=the legendary Brazilian band you need to know |url=https://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2016/08/the-legendary-brazilian-band-you-need-to-know |publisher=BBC America |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027203525/https://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2016/08/the-legendary-brazilian-band-you-need-to-know |url-status=live }} and by Mary Lee's Corvette as part of their cover of the entire Blood on The Tracks album in 2002.{{Cite web |title=Mary Lee's Corvette – Blood on the Tracks |url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/mary-lees-corvette-blood-on-the-tracks-28113/ |last= |date=February 1, 2003 |website=Uncut |access-date=April 6, 2020 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003184111/https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/mary-lees-corvette-blood-on-the-tracks-28113/ |url-status=live }}

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• [http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/if-you-see-her-say-hello Lyrics] at Bob Dylan's official website
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWzMVNy0YwE Blood on the Tracks version] at Bob Dylan's official YouTube site

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