Bob Dylan - Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 10 бер 2019
- “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" by Bob Dylan
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Lyrics:
With your mercury mouth in the missionary times,
And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes,
And your silver cross, and your voice like chimes,
Oh, do they think could bury you?
With your pockets well protected at last,
And your streetcar visions which you place on the grass,
And your flesh like silk, and your face like glass,
Who could they get to carry you?
Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands,
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes,
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums,
Should I put them by your gate,
Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
With your sheets like metal and your belt like lace,
And your deck of cards missing the jack and the ace,
And your basement clothes and your hollow face,
Who among them can think he could outguess you?
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims,
And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,
Who among them would try to impress you?
Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands,
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes,
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums,
Should I put them by your gate,
Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
The kings of Tyrus with their convict list
Are waiting in line for their geranium kiss,
And you wouldn't know it would happen like this,
But who among them really wants just to kiss you?
With your childhood flames on your midnight rug,
And your Spanish manners and your mother's drugs,
And your cowboy mouth and your curfew plugs,
Who among them do you think could resist you?
Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands,
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes,
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums,
Should I leave them by your gate,
Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
Oh, the farmers and the businessmen, they all did decide
To show you the dead angels that they used to hide.
But why did they pick you to sympathize with their side?
Oh, how could they ever mistake you?
They wished you'd accepted the blame for the farm,
But with the sea at your feet and the phony false alarm,
And with the child of a hoodlum wrapped up in your arms,
How could they ever, ever persuade you?
Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands,
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes,
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums,
Should I leave them by your gate,
Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
With your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row,
And your magazine-husband who one day just had to go,
And your gentleness now, which you just can't help but show,
Who among them do you think would employ you?
Now you stand with your thief, you're on his parole
With your holy medallion which your fingertips fold,
And your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul,
Oh, who among them do you think could destroy you?
Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands,
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes,
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums,
Should I leave them by your gate,
Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
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Reading these incredible comments about this incredibly beautiful song…gives me a dose of light and hope in these dark times of 2024. Thanks to all of you kindred spirits out there.
💯
The harmonica is almost an embrace.
Tom Waits said of "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" in 1991: "It is like Beowulf and it takes me out to the meadow. This song can make you leave home, work on the railroad or marry a Gypsy. I think of a drifter around a fire with a tin cup under a bridge remembering a woman's hair. The song is a dream, a riddle and a prayer".
Also visions of our lady in New York harbor.
I sort of dislike the chore of listening to most Tom Waits songs. But this is one of the greatest songs ever by Mr Dylan.
Beautiful, Haunting, of his top 3 songs for me. So well sung, Bob modulates his voice well with his sandpaper vocals now smoother. An earnest voice takes one through a cryptic, surreal love letter to his then-wife, Sara (Lowlands) Lownds. Sara is sad about the state of Bob or is thinking of leaving him.
Though Bob doesn't mention "love" in the song, we feel his love and obsession. Bob's obscure lyrics might confuse one unless one has some history of Sara. Sara has " a mercury mouth in the missionary times". Translation: she's silver-tongued and worked at the New York Times (Missionary Times). "Your flesh like silk, and your face like glass. With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns (she's writing down lyrics, like a wanna-be Dylan) Who among them would try to impress you?" Send this song in a time capsule to another universe more worthy than ours. Rating 10 PLus.
Poss more Joan Baez than Sara ?
@@wendykenny7463 Not positive but critics I've read never said Joan but say it's Joan for some other Dylan songs.
I 'm 73. and i know every word,
69 , me too.
I had my babies and cleaned house to BOB DYLAN music. My children grew up with DYLAN music and Tom Waites. Made them better men for the influences.
😂❤
I raised myself on Dylan and Baez and all the other folkies around, still embracing every other possible musical genre on the way😂 Definitely made me a more bewildered man, but in a good way, I hope. 😌
@@malakinga Good Good to hear that that and best wishes with it all it all from Liverpool UK 🇬🇧 📚 🔥
@@DaveSCameron Best wishes from Bavaria back into the home of the Merseybeat😃
Totally agree. I danced my sleepless baby boys to Dylans song. Named my youngest after him. He's proud of his name
I've been listening to this track and all the others on Blonde on Blonde since I was 20 years old and I am now a young 70 years. I never tire of Bob!🤗🥰🧡👍🌻🌹💃
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
I am feeling the same as you!!!
Without doubt one of the greatest songs ever written. Never gets old. Gotta love Bob for giving the world so much beautiful music.
I agree. It's impossible to write and perform a more beautiful song.
Aye Mark, without a doubt. At the age he's at he produces an album as brilliant as Rough and Rowdy Ways. Only a true master can do that.
Couldn’t agree more.
So great! Whenever I drink alone, this song is the final piece. Tonight it happens in Warsaw. Thumbs up for Bob for all beautiful songs he has made!
@@samuelhimmelstein3430
This is maybe the most beautiful love song I’ve ever heard
I was 14 in 1966 when this album came out. I begged my mom to buy it for me. Thanks mom. I love you.
And to think, the Beatles' Revolver, and a masterpiece called East-West by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band came out in the same year.
I was 13 and I bought it on my own
@@sanfordshultz1871 me too
@@pauljnewmann 3 Insanely timeless albums. Not to mention Pet Sounds as well. Great year for pushing the boundaries of music.
What a glorious year
One of Dylan’s best tracks,He’s a genius
@@BobDylan-privbro thinks he is bob dylan
@@BobDylan-privJudas!
This song alone, in my opinion, shows why he received the Nobel Prize for literature.
This ranks with the greatest love poetry in the English language. How do I love thee? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? With your silhouette, as the sunlight dims/Into your eyes, where the moonlight swims. . .
Mystical, mysterious song. It's like a spell.
That boy was in LOVE.
Mystically so if you ask me! 😂👍
Me too..
It was about his wife when they were married but soon to be divorced.
@@sgg17003 Written in '66. 10 tears before they divorced.
@TonyWud Thanks for correcting me. I remembered it backward. Says he wrote it 3 months after they got married. He sure had some talent. I'm glad Joan Baez brought a bunch of his songs to a much wider audience. These songs will still be great amongst folks way into the future as long as humans are around to hear it.
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims.
This is poetry as much as it is music.
it's doggerel, but not that bad
@@shaunwilson2537 Go touch grass and stop being a twat.
Thanks for showing up on earth Mr. Dylan. We did nothing to deserve you and yet here we are...
Listening to this lovely song by Bob, and always have since 1967, it never ages, amongst us forever. Thank you Bob
Another of Dylan's songs that helped me make it thru the year in Vietnam. Loved it then, love it now.
Thank you for your service.
Praise God you came back. Xxx
Thank you for your service.
thank you for your Service. My husband was over there too, got blown up but survived. They put his face back together by using his high school picture. Confession, I had only heard Joan's version. Bob's is a sad story, Joan's is a tragedy
@@theresakotas-akridge1418 Never heard Joan's version. So sorry about your husband. That had to be hard for both of you.
Bob Dylan is the greatest singer, the greatest guitar player and the greatest harmonica player who ever lived! Thumbs up if you agree.
You forgot greatest songwriter
He is none of the above ....but maybe the best at all at the same time
@@haraldwendland5258 Yeah I fully agree with that I just didn't wanna start an argument or anything lol.... However he is the greatest songwriter
played this at the funeralof my beloved partner. Being from the lowlands, The Netherlands, or Holland, this was his favorite song for me. So beautiful..
😊😊I'm very pls to know I'm not the only one that loves😍 👆 the song but when last did you play it
Love the Netherlands,one of the countries i would live
I'm so sorry for your loss - but what a beautiful song to honour your partner with. Wishing you peace.
Yes. I was very close to a women who is this song. She passed sadly as a young women. She was beautiful, intelligent and had it all but she came down with a fierce illness that took it's time. Neil Young's song World On A String reminds me of her also because she had it all but then it didn't matter anymore.
Yes this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever had privilege to hear.
Man oh man This Song just Takes me into another World.......anyone else.? Or am I alone?
I hope we are not alone in this.
You are not alone, I love it!
You are alone! Just kidding.... 😅
I remember sitting in my college dorm in the UK the day this album was released. I couldn't stop listening to this track.
Still gives me the shivers. Way better than drugs.
yes. you are in another world, so are we all when we listen to bob
This is why Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the man is a poet. This is one of my favourites of his songs.
He is the Shakespeare of our time!
Mine too.This is hypnotic. Switch the lights off before going to bed (to sleep or to make love) and put this on auto-repeat!
@Will Lawson right, he's miles ahead of Shakespeare lol
He may be a poet but he's not a great poet, this is a great song it is not particularly great poetry.
Idiots. This is not Shakespeare,this is as insightful as the great poet.
Not many songs move me. But this song more then moved me. It is the most beautiful piece of music and the most enchanting piece of poetry I have ever heard. It has gotten me out of many writers blocks, and has influenced a number of my own songs. Just pure beauty.
'Tears burn in my eyes.'
@walrusthepriest 4718. Hello. What beautiful and wise and true words...... . This song is really enchanting. I love B. Dylan. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
There's a lot of music I like, but Bob Dylan honestly moves me in a way few others do!
No matter how many times you listen to it, you need to hear it again.
Thanks Bob.
Wow That is so True.
Paul Karafillis, vous avez parfaitement raison !
Paul - that's such a simple statement - and yet so true!
@@georgebennett3197 , on se connait ?
True
Imagine. To have such an influence on the greatest artists of the late 20th century. When your just a kid.
Makes me smile with joy xx
I pet my cat while listening to this. We both enjoy this thoroughly.
It's funny how we can pet... Massage our buddies in rhythm and time moon to music. Channel the spirit. Jah Herb from Tucson Arizona Sonoran 🏜️ desert 🍄🌵🇯🇲🇺🇸🇸🇪 Afro Viking 🇬🇳 rastafari Africa Ethiopia Addis Ababa Selassie I.. one planet one people one love... 🌵
the masterpiece that took up all of side four of bob's double album.
70 years old and thought i had heard the best, and then i find this. Todays woes just fell off my shoulders.
Truly one of the most astonishing songs ever written.
just how great of an artistic work is this? Way up there among the greatest IMHO
So many great comments here. Thanks all.
Don’t any bob fans worry just think from this moment all the time future generations have got to listen to this and all the other brilliant stuff from bob.
M
unfortunately it's hard, if not impossible to hear his stuff on the radio (I'm old school) or anywhere else for that matter :(
and your silver cross... my god what a dude... words placed perfectly... no one played with words like this guy
@Bob Dylan dude keep it up
Al's organ is so great throughout Blonde. I think his best playing ever.
Happy 80th Robert Zimmerman, what a legacy. It still reduces me to tears after all these years.
As a new Canadian I borrowed this record from the library. I learned so much.
Still one of my favourites from Dylan.
oh my god, 45 years after my first listen of this ballad, still give me shivers
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands Beautiful, Haunting. So well sung, Bob knows how to modulate his voice now; the sandpaper is smoother or the production is. An earnest voice takes one through a cryptic surreal love letter to his then-wife, Sara (Lowlands) Lownds. Though Bob doesn't mention "love" in the song, we feel his love and obsession in the present, past, and future for Sara, though Bob's ever-present obscurities might confuse you unless you have some history of Sara. Sara has " a mercury mouth in the missionary times". Well, she's silver-tongues and worked at the New York Times (missionary times). "Your flesh like silk, and your face like glass. With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns (she's writing down lyrics, like a wanna-be Dylan) Who among them would try to impress you?" Send this song in a time capsule to another universe just in case our little world falls apart and we are dancing in the dark to ruins we create or maybe we improve a notch and climb a rung up to desolation row.
It's one of the best Dylan songs/lyrics ever! I still have and play this double vinyl album.
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
@@Carlossantanamusicinc Care for a third? kid.
The greatest love-song ever. It's timeless.
Thats right!!!😀
Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.This song leaves me speechless. Your voice and words are heavenly. Thank you.
This just mesmerisers me, rivalled only by the lyrics of “Desolation Row”
Yes both 11 minute masterpieces!
@@kingkoalaproductions3912 and chimes of freedom
Man you r so right
"Oh you like Bob Dylan - what's your favourite track of his?" - "whatever track I'm listening to at the time!!"
The ones with blood on them
This song doesn’t always hit, but when it hits it HITS
Always hits for me
This song could have gone on for hours and I would never get bored.
I recorded this song 3 times on one side of a cassette because it’s not long enough and I didn’t want it to end.
@RoyFive. Neither would I
@RoyFive. Never would I !!!!!. I love B. Dylan's voice, songs and the lot !
Yeah, kind of puts you in a trance.
My father thought it did when yelling at me to turn it down back in the day....now 73❤❤❤
Isn't this song just so incredibly beautiful that it could move you to tears. Oh, this man!
So well sung, Bob knows how to modulate his voice now; the sandpaper is smoother than most earlier albums. An earnest voice takes one through a cryptic surreal love letter to his then-wife, Sara (Lowlands) Lownds. Though Bob doesn't mention "love" in the song, we feel his love and obsession in the present, past, and future for Sara, though Bob's ever-present obscurities might confuse you unless you have some history of Sara; then things become clearer. Sara has " a mercury mouth in the missionary times". Well, she's eloquent and worked at the New York Times. That's easy (for some, not for me) . "Your flesh like silk, and your face like glass. With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns (she's writing down lyrics, she's wanna-be Dylan) Who among them would try to impress you?" Bob is very impressed with her throughout the great song.
Great song, send it in a time capsule should the world fall to ruins or a Desolation Row.
I don't know if it's memories of my dad or the genius of Bob that brings tears each time..
I believe it's both. 💗💗🌹
some believe it was for Joan@@mickstanding5311
Thank you Bob. God Bless you for understanding t tradgedy & triumph of All of our lives in this world. Ur NobrlbSoul sees t upper story of All of our Lives. Your Heart is So Incredible & Your Love so beautiful. It Touches All of our Hearts with your Great Love. You are Very Previous, expensive, dear, Cherished, highly esteemed in this world. God Always Love & Keep you Very Close to HIS Heart, Also.
What a great song by the greatest song writer of this era.
Not the greatest songwriter of that era, the greatest songwriter who has or ever will live.
This song is the good tunes of Bob Dylan at his best. Kind Regards worldcall.
"........and your deck of cards missing the Jack and the Ace......" Love it! Been a Dylan fan forever.
I'm proud to call him the great poet of my generation. Goosebumps and memories.
I,ve been listening to this album for 40 years and im still lost .
only 40 - wow - i bought it in 1966 !!!
go to Slow Train Comin' and You should get it
Ok, here’s my confession. This album and this song is what started everything for me. It’s why I am what I am.
What are you?
@@cockoffgewgle4993 void, only void, at the atomic level
God Bless you xxx
We all are
Me too. :)
He wrote this beautiful song for his first wife sarah and when you hear this song you know that he is talking about her and you can hear it in his voice how much he love her and its one of the most beautiful love song ever
Lowlands was obviously a play on words of her surname Lownds.
can you imagine.....a whole vinyl recording with just 1 amazing song taking up 1 whole side?? A work of art.
We are not worthy. Happy 80th Maestro. Seriously and inexplicably incredible work of total and utter genius.
My nine year old daughter listens to this song over and over again. I wonder is she even knows the meanings of half the words, but she does listen to this over and over again.
😊😊I'm very pls to know I'm not the only one that loves😍 ✅the song but when last did you play it
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That's cool
And slowly everything will sink in and then she will love and admire Bob Dylan even more. You are such a good parent that you let her listen to it again and again. ❤
maybe she justs love the song its poetry with a great tune
Used to put this on the old record player when going to bed that would stop itself off, was the best way that ever was to get to sleep and wake up whit a good feeling........20 then 70 now!
Same story. Except, the first week I owned the album I met a girl the first week of high school. She was so different, and lived a mile away which may as well been the moon! Anyway, I loved this girl for 13 years and likely to this day. But she was my sad-eyed lady and she would always sign every card she gave me the same. I miss her, but she is happily married and kids etc...But I get the record player thing!
Never has there been an artist that touches me like Dylan. It's been a lifetime for me, and sadly I know there will never be another who puts lyrics into melodies or vice versa. Who can really know? Thanks Bob, you made eccentricities not so fearful to me, or far away.
Did the same thing but put it on tape. Everyone has a memory of a girl that you put in this song and remember.
@@kathykralovich9634llove bob Dylan l lived through the hippy sixties in england the seventies and then came with my ex husband to south africa during apartheid l wanted to go back but saw l could do so much here to change lives l am now seventy five and remember bob and his life changing songs l loved and still play today ❤thank you bob for ever Gillian fay ❤
Dear God ~ thank you for Bob Dylan
the tears are just flowing....I relate to this lady...God I love Bob
@Bob Dylan 💜
This is such a hauntingly beautiful and bittersweet song from my favorite Dylan album.
One of the best songs of all time...staying up for days in the Chelsea hotel writing sad eyed lady of the lowlands for you.. true love cheers bob...
Dylan doesn't get enough credit for his genius harmonica playing.
Really? no bigger Dylan fan than me. but...
Proof that even lyrics that you may not understand can move you deeply.
I never want this song to end.
May I print as the late Paul Nelson (critic) wrote in 1966; Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands renders any commentator completely helpless again: What can one possibly say that can even hope to evoke the greatness and beauty of this song? One of the loveliest Dylan has ever written, an exquisite, almost religious portrait of a girl, it is told in images so delicate and incredibly tender that one stands as awe-struck and be-numbered before it as dose the singer before the girl. This celebration of woman as work of art, religious figure, and object of eternal majesty and wonder takes Dylan almost fifteen minutes to perform, yet its impact is so concentrated that the listener is unaware that more than four or five minutes have passed. These lines are among the most beautiful in any Dylan song: "With your childhood flames on your midnight rug/And your Spanish manners and your mother’s drugs/And your cowboy mouth and your curfew plugs/Who among them do you think could resist you?"
Thank you for uploading. Liked.
Lovely!!
In this pandemic time Bob Dylan's song is an inspiration till now.
I think you will love that one >>
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so true. this is one artist whose soul is always raw and tender and full of such spiritual grace that no one can criticize without sounding arrogant and stupid
@@davidbeyer6027 Good point and worth remembering.
It's curfew gloves
@@janicelivett8892 Check out www.bobdylan.com/songs/sad-eyed-lady-lowlands/ and I'll think you will find that it's "plugs".
My Father, a Vietnam Veteran, and among the Angels now, loved to play this song every time we spent time together. I swear this is one of Bob's best songs yet.
Back in 1969, when I went out into the field as a common 11B infantryman, the guys in my unit asked me what was new in the States. The country was very divided at the time, both here and there. I told them that Bob Dylan just had a duet entitled “Girl from the North Country”. I do not recall whom was more upset.
Jessica Goodman ❤️
Larry Linn ❤️
Dear Jessica . . . I was in country (Vietnam) in 1971 and I'm sorry for your loss. There are no words other then your father is now safely home.
Jessie, I'm so happy you were able to spend time with your Father. I'm an old Vietnam veteran. I have enjoyed spending time with my children. And someday I too will take my place alongside those who went before me. Bob Dylan and a few others were a great comfort to me in those days and in the days which followed those days.
Music, words, incredible voice, magical chord changes, beauty, one night, one take, and time becomes... timeless.
When I hear this song playing i expect to hear the little imperfections at certain points that i got used to on my vinyl copy that i bought in '66, magic and amazing like all the rest of Bob's stuff, truly great listening !
One of the greatest songs of all time bless you Mr Robert Allen Zimmerman
Most hypnotic song ever..! That’s all!
Up there with TB Sheets by Van Morrison
Really?
Finally you can type a Bob Dylan song into UA-cam and find the original. Quite shocking.
Why?
@@nicolafisher1782 For years Bob wasn't on UA-cam at all, all you could get was shitty cover versions.
@@jimmyart007 very true!
Still missing far too many!! But I'll take the scraps thrown under the table (-;
I find it a little worrying, it maybe implies he sees the end is near and decided to give everyone access, I really hope not
The lyrics of this song are beyond greatness, superb
We all were witness to him, and these words were strung together....and still I will never understand how a mortal entering their 20's could tap into our universal sufferings and come away with this, and other hymns. So, having seen him many times, and having access to his vast body of work, I will just spend what time we have and dive in deep. Thank you Bob, via con dios
❤😢yr words so perfectly put
Thank you so much for this beautiful comment! This Shakespearean poet has managed to reach a point, a peak that no one else managed to do it before him. A timeless genius of music, poetry and lyrics and literature all rolled into one bohemian, prophetic body of work.
Greatest poet in the '60's Went to I.U. in 70's. Purdue anoche?
Poetry at its finest...
One of the most haunting songs ever written.
You are absolutely spot-on
COLAPSO it cripples me every time 😢
Totally agree!
the music can be so many different things, there is so many different emotions and moods in the background and the imagery in the words is one of his best.
Yes the most haunting ever written
Probably the best poetical love song ever written.
This song turns my soul inside out.
"Should I leave them by your gate
Or, sad eyed lady, should i wait?"
These words stab me right in my heart. Thank you, Bob.
What stabs me in the heart is "And your saint-like face, and your ghost-like soul; who among them could ever think he could destroy you?"
Dang gotta change my comment lol should have checked more
@@mohtoadh ya that is deep , nice
Lorenzo Dini, oh comme je te comprends... pour les auditeurs français : commencez, pendant la 1ère année, à écouter sa voix sans chercher à comprendre la signification des mots pour vous abreuver de la large palette des émotions générées par sa voix unique et nasillarde, puis pendant les 5 années qui suivent, mettez-vous au travail pour "essayer" de comprendre sa poésie fulgurante et riche d'une imagerie sans pareille et propre à l'univers de Dylan. Mais ne tentez pas de "comprendre" avec ce cartésianisme propre aux français. Nous sommes dans un autre monde.... C'est le discours que je tenais à mon professeur d'anglais en 1966.
I been listening to Bobby since the early 60's - my heart is FULL A HOLES
"With your silhouette, when the sunlight dims, into your eyes where the moonlight swims"
That's so beautiful...
Mindblowing
Yes💜
My God this song gets better every time i hear it and its been 55 years .
you've just heard the best song ever written - the best piece of music there is
This is like listening to it for the first time again. One of the best songs he ever wrote.
I agree.... but maybe one of hundreds of genius songs this guy wrote.
Was 17 yrs. living in a hut, working in Oslo, Norway, saving up to buy that LP, listening to it in a freezing bedroom!
Those were the days!
This is without a doubt, hands down, Dylan's definitive magnum opus. The most profound essence of Dylan's artistry reached its highest or purest form in this masterpiece... an elusive, yearning apotheosis of the spectors of beauty, eternity, and ambiguity which haunt every facet of the puzzle of life. The Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is an archetypal feminine vision which unites those three spectors as simply different aspects of the same transcendental essence which forms the interconnectivity of the human experience . The poetic and musical journey that Bob Dylan originally embarked on reached its ultimate destination with this song, hence why it also signaled the conclusion/end of his mythical artist phase in his career
@@kirklandau2826 Agreed, Kirk, agreed!
it have been decades since I sat down and listened straight thru, I cant believe I am at the end.....
One of the best songs ever written and performed. Nobody can write and perform like this
@@mickstanding5311Apparently, low lands was a word play upon Sara’s surname when he met her - Lownds - which sounded similar. Thus, low lands, was a coded gesture by which he could serenade her openly but also keep their privacy.
@@mickstanding5311 When you think of what Al Weberman did a few years later, rummaging through his refuse and barging past Dylan’s wife, uninvited, and into their home, it seems that he even saw that coming and was right!
Whether it was dissatisfied fans, news hacks or vengeance seeking lovers or even rival performers, it’s remarkable how he seemed to be able to anticipate people’s moves and always stay one step ahead of them.
I'm a guitar player that loves playing Bob's songs, just for the progressions/picking, even if I don't actually sing them...I just learned this one, and I'm in a trance, playing this long ' Bob chord loop'- each verse/chorus, is a complete song! ( like many of his) ❤
Any young musicians who are not inspired, by Bob Dylan, are in the wrong line of work.
Absolutely 💯 correct 👍
There is this young man who audition on American idol and his first song was a song by Bob Dylan, he is awesome he has done CCR, Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs so far and the judges are blowed away by his talent and Lionel Richie is one of the judges and he says he is Bob reincarnated he even plays the harmonica and guitar the same way, if you haven't already seen him his name is Arthur Gunn and AI comes on Sunday nights at 7pm I hope you enjoy watching this young man as much as I do, PS stay safe and God bless!
So true, but Dylan's work isn't work is it, it's a sublime creation of poetry, melancholy, and stunning melodies and THE most amazing voice which just, fits!
All musicians are inspired by Bob Dylan. They just don't know it. Their heroes were certainly inspired by Bob Dylan.
I was 16 when this came out , somehow I managed to be born to be a teenager in one of the greatest decades ever , and now an old man in one of the worst ,
This is a normal feeling, otherwise there would be no place for the young ones. Bei grateful for the good times you have passed when you where young. Take this advice from a 73 Year old one🥰
I too and agree 😘
So did you vote ? For the idiot president ? Who is controlled by the transgenders and China?
Then why are you complaining
Me too, brother, me too.
The most romantic and inspired songs ever written
If a man ever wrote a song like this for me, I would have to marry him. Timeless and thoughtful.
Only Bob can accomplish that feat. I love your comment though. Always wishing to find a lady who loves Dylan as much as me.
÷what ever made her change her mind ?
I think I DID marry him. I took an anthropology class once and we found out that some mystical women have "spirit husbands". You can have one of these on the side and not cheat, BTW.
I am a straight, married man….but if someone wrote a song like this for me, I’d have to marry him as well.
This song is so sad in Bob's voice
One of the greatest love songs of my time.
Put earphones on and lie back and listen to this song.
It will transform you to another dimension.
The greatest love song of all time, one of the greatest album closers of all time, and the only song I've ever listened to that rendered me completely speechless.
Bob's true love was Sara,their divorce really broke him. The tragedy in Bob's romantic life is that he connected with Joan on a musical,artistic level but didnt love her. With Sara it was the opposite,he was in love with her but didnt connect,bond with her on an artistic level.Sara wasnt an artist. Bob said that when he started taking painting classes in NY he couldnt share it with her,it didn't interest her,its not like they talked about it for hours,she wasnt nourishing him on his artistic life and interests. He always felt incomplete in relationships,i believe he is a deeply lonely man,a hermit soul deep down
Totally agree. The greatest, yes!
I love the story of the recording of this track:
On February 15, the session began at 6 p.m., but Dylan simply sat in the studio working on his lyrics, while the musicians played cards, napped, and chatted. Finally, at 4 a.m., Dylan called the musicians in and outlined the structure of the song. Dylan counted off and the musicians fell in, as he attempted his epic composition, "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". Drummer Kenny Buttrey recalled, "If you notice that record, that thing after like the second chorus starts building and building like crazy, and everybody's just peaking it up 'cause we thought, Man, this is it...This is gonna be the last chorus and we've gotta put everything into it we can. And he played another harmonica solo and went back down to another verse and the dynamics had to drop back down to a verse kind of feel...After about ten minutes of this thing we're cracking up at each other, at what we were doing. I mean, we peaked five minutes ago. Where do we go from here?" The finished song clocked in at 11 minutes, 23 seconds, and would occupy the entire fourth side of the album.
(from Wikipedia)
that is amazing !!! I have to say I truly love Wikipedia, glad to be a donor. Did not know this till now but it works
Wait this vid is 2 seconds short. I feel cheated!!
The thing that surprises me the most is how he could learn those lyrics in such short amount of time and then perform it like he does
@@Julian-sr9dg same amazement towards sunshine
@@Julian-sr9dg he was reading from his notes - - not sure Bob ever did this live !!!
I've likely listened to this Song 300+ times. Where did these words come from? Bob? Your basement clothes and your hollow face! Just amazing!!
Hello Dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
I grew up with Dylan songs and albums, he wrote the 1st 14 years O' my life.
A lot of commenters below bung on about Dylan's prowess in poetry, comparing him to other greats (eg, Shakespeare). But what many ignore is that he is a SINGER/SONGWRITER -- which means he scripted the *poetry* PLUS wrote a *melody and chordal structure* perfectly suited to each poem PLUS *sang all those elements* in his inimitable style, such that the final product is far far greater than any dry old piece of written poetry.
His sung phasing, intonation, his very voice tone is one with the poetry ... unlike any other poet.
And that mouth harp!!!
"With your sheets like metal, and your belt like lace."
Your ghost like soul..
Immense n fleeting..
My heart lives in that line...x
What could I possibly say about Dylan that hasn't already sprouted a thousand times ... except to say many of his songs just seem to live on and never fade in their ability to evoke an emotion and a mystery ...
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims.
The greatest love verse ever.
Perfect isn't it
Perfect and beautiful.... gawd bless your genius Bob..we are truly grateful for this and the many many other masterpieces you have given us....made many a grey day go away
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Agree
Gives me chills.
It moves me
Amazing wanderful iloveyou the best Forever 🥰💋💕🤘👍💘
1,000,000 people have found and listened to this masterpiece. Thank you Bob
I wasn't even born when this came out, but I love it!