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| Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues |
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This is a segment from D. A. Pennebaker's film,
Dont Look Back (a documentary on Bob Dylan's tour
of England in 1965). In the film, Dylan holds up
cue cards for the audience with words from the
song on them. While staring at the camera, he
flips the cards as the song plays. Interestingly,
there are intentional errors throughout the video.
For instance, the song's lyrics say "eleven dollar
bills," but the poster says "20 dollars". The
video takes place in an alley behind The Savoy
Hotel in London where poet Allen Ginsberg makes a
cameo appearance.
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Affichage : 1674233
Durée : 133 s |
| Bob Dylan - Forever Young (live) |
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Bob Dylan performing Forever Young at the David
Letterman Show
World gone wrong was released: Oct 26, 1993
This performance aired on: Nov 18, 1993
Lyrics:
May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
May you grow up to be righteous,
May you grow up to be true,
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you.
May you always be courageous,
Stand upright and be strong,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
May your hands always be busy,
May your feet always be swift,
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift.
May your heart always be joyful,
May your song always be sung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
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Affichage : 978207
Durée : 320 s |
| Bob Dylan |
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an example of his song writing genius!!!
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Affichage : 509083
Durée : 74 s |
| Hurricane - Bob Dylan |
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Hurricane
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall.
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
Cries out, "My God, they killed them all!"
Here comes the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
Three bodies lyin' there does Patty see
And another man named Bello, movin' around
mysteriously.
"I didn't do it," he says, and he throws up his
hands
"I was only robbin' the register, I hope you
understand.
I saw them leavin'," he says, and he stops
"One of us had better call up the cops."
And so Patty calls the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights
flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night.
Meanwhile, far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin'
around.
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before
that.
In Paterson that's just the way things go.
If you're black you might as well not show up on
the street
'Less you wanna draw the heat.
Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for
the cops.
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out
prowlin' around
He said, "I saw two men runnin' out, they looked
like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state
plates."
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
Cop said, "Wait a minute, boys, this one's not
dead"
So they took him to the infirmary
And though this man could hardly see
They told him that he could identify the guilty
men.
Four in the mornin' and they haul Rubin in,
Take him to the hospital and they bring him
upstairs.
The wounded man looks up through his one dyin' eye
Says, "Wha'd you bring him in here for? He ain't
the guy!"
Yes, here's the story of the Hurricane,
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin' that he never done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
Four months later, the ghettos are in flame,
Rubin's in South America, fightin' for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery
game
And the cops are puttin' the screws to him,
lookin' for somebody to blame.
"Remember that murder that happened in a bar?"
"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law?"
"Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw
runnin' that night?"
"Don't forget that you are white."
Arthur Dexter Bradley said, "I'm really not sure."
Cops said, "A poor boy like you could use a break
We got you for the motel job and we're talkin' to
your friend Bello
Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail, be a
nice fellow.
You'll be doin' society a favor.
That sonofabitch is brave and gettin' braver.
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim."
Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
But he never did like to talk about it all that
much.
It's my work, he'd say, and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
And ride a horse along a trail.
But then they took him to the jailhouse
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.
All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance.
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from
the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a
revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger.
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger.
And though they could not produce the gun,
The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
And the all-white jury agreed.
Rubin Carter was falsely tried.
The crime was murder "one," guess who testified?
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers, they all went along for the
ride.
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in
a land
Where justice is a game.
Now all the criminals in their coats and their
ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell.
That's the story of the Hurricane,
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.
by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy
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Affichage : 1192721
Durée : 535 s |
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