Bob Dylan - With God on Our Side (Official Audio)
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- “With God on Our Side" by Bob Dylan
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Lyrics:
Oh my name it ain't nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I was taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side
Oh, the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh, the country was young
With God on its side
The Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War, too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I was made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side
The First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side
The Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now, too
Have God on their side
I've learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side
But now we got weapons
Of chemical dust
If fire them, we're forced to
Then fire, them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side
Through many a dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ was
Betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.
So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
That if God's on our side
He'll stop the next war
#BobDylan #Folk #SingerSongwriter
![Bob Dylan - With God on Our Side [MTV Unplugged Rehearsal, 1994]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BYU0mFtKvXw/mqdefault.jpg)
2023 .... 59 years later....and this song is more relevant than ever.
This song will be relevant as long as people wander the earth.
@@henriklarsson5221They're working on a plan to curtail them wanderings.
That thought just entered my mind as i was listening to this prophetic song ❤
So true friend
It sure is. This man was ahead of his time. And his songs are timeless.
This song is so timely for today. People think God is on their side, but they're on their own side
Why isn't God on our side?
God is love. He doesn't want anyone to go to war.
True gods there for you when you respect, pray to him and accept him, he was here for me today.
They aren't even on their own side.
I don't believe but I don't want to dy
"Did Judas Iscariot have God on his side" is one of the all time great lyrics
Theres the argument that without Judas, Jesus wouldn't have been cruzified and wihout his cruzification Jesus wouldnt have died for the sins of humanity.
@@hanzfranz7739 Yes, but that's only the superficial answer....
The real answer has an immense depth and comes only after one has proven for real that one was willing to disengage from the Ego thought system of retaliation altogether to become the living Christ...
I am sure that Dylan understood it somehow and "left it for us to decide...."
Because it can't be taught by the Mind of Ego but only experienced by going through a process of constant TOTAL Surrender to GOD to give up all attack and retaliation and to constantly forgive everyone everything allways regardless of what one's own EgoMind tells & yells one to think, feel & do to the contrary,
nothing less...that only a tiniest fraction of the so called BeLIEvers in Christ are ever willing to go fully through....
But yes, a truly brilliant Song of Dylan...no wonder he felt weary as hell....and his lines about Judas Iscariot are the doorway to the real spiritual Depth of it ....👌🙏
@@hanzfranz7739Yes, but if Judas hadn't betrayed him, he still would have been executed eventually. He chose a side, and well, as Dylan said "I can't think for you".
And it was this line that inspired a young Tim Rice who would later write Jesus Christ Superstar with Andrew Lloyd Webber. He mentions this in an old interview
I@hanzfranz7739 If Judas Iscariot had not betrayed Jesus Christ , yes He would have been crucified but NOT necessarily that it has to be from one of his diisciples.
Song of the moment .
Hi, I came here today with such a need deep in my heart to hear this song and was so grateful to find your post. Thank-You.
I don't know what gave me more tears, your post or the song.
One thing I can't agree with you though is the sad fact that the moment has Always been.
Not just in the now due to what's going on in our sad situation in 2022. The moment never ended. Seems like to me it always was and always sadly may be.
Most of my people fled Ukraine for freedoms of all different kinds and to think of their journey to freedom and the torture, rape, murder and horrors they faced and saw to get here and that there are those still living through these things, not just there but in Many countries around the world, like I said, the moments never seem to end.
I remember at reunion picnics, cousin club meetings and such when the old ones sat in circles speaking in their languages so the younger one's wouldn't understand. I can't imagine and it blows my mind that my sweet little aunt Goldie, sitting there knitting shawls, was in charge of making sure the brothers and sisters had guns for the journey!
And yet we were still raised with some pride in being Russian from Ukraine. Not proud of what was done to us or how we were treated or which ones were on Stalin's top 5 red death list. We came for the freedom of religion.
My parents were older than Bob but also had Duck and Cover practice in school.
I've always wondered for him in this song, how hard it must have been to be taught to hate the Russians with Russian blood flowing through his veins too?
All these modern day wars, all these new fears so, so Damn real! Divide and Conquer is the name of their games and they're waging wars on love and hatred serves no-one!
I will not accept it.. neither bravely nor foolishly
The song brought tears and we're living in a scary time right now again. I agree with "The moment has always been." "Why can't we all just get along?"
Unfortunately Putin does not listen to this song.
@@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017 .. How do you know? They love the Beatles in Russia so I'm guessing they know Bob Dylan.
"if god's on our side, he'll stop the next war..."
That's a piercing statement. We'll done Bob. ❤
Or maybe with nearly everyone having solved out to the devil for the Devil doesn't come to you with horns and a pitchfork tail he comes to you as what it is you mostly want deep inside but as with everything there's a price you must pay if it were up to me I'd let all the devils soldiers kill themselves and I'd save my chosen few not that God chose but that have chosen God and have been faithful and true ! I can't tell you how many people that didn't believe in God but let their children fall ill or someone they truly love be in a life threatening position and all of a sudden they are praying 🙏 to God like they'd always been faithful never fails I died once and came back and I remember what I saw it's your call but Hell ain't no place anyone would wanna be!
Spoilers: he won't.
@@artes.impiasThanks a lot, wanted to see how it worked out.
@@artes.impias😂
If God's on our side, he'll stop the next war. No young Russian and Ukrainian men dying in senseless war. Mothers of Russia and Ukraine unite. Don't let your sons fight. It is a children's war, like all the rest of war. Peace on Earth.
No, the planners of that conflict won't let them stop. Those evil schemers would love the Russians and Ukrainians exterminate each other so they could take control of Russia's natural resources.
Get it?
God bless U
So nice 😊
I see that God did some great work.
You said it Sister. 👍🏻
Today as I listen intently to Bob Dylan with respect much the same way I did 50years ago; my heart hurts, my mind aches. This song is still So Real. Thank You Sir Bob.
Very true my. Friend
Muchly agree. 60 years and we the people still haven't heard the words. Might be his most important words. The moral is we should be trying to be on God's side, not the other way around. (apologies to Arlo Guthrie)
Dope ❤🎉
Bob has written some of the the best songs ever, but for me this is the best. It's timeless. ❤
Exactly...just listening as I observe how individual & collective (self-) destructive Ego cycles still through Humanity everywhere.....😖
This is what a genius in the early stages of his career sounds like
If this song doesn’t get to you, I don’t think anything can.
“You don’t count the dead when God’s on your side”
Man bob Zimmerman is a legend god gifted in story telling but only the truth nothing else but the truth. Long live bob mr.bob.
One n only 1.Mr bob Zimmerman Dylan. Master of words. Like the sun he always shines. Respect regards to u bob.
During a Crusade rampage, the Bishop said, kill them all, God will sort them out.
I had that album as a young teen. It was the first time I had ever heard music that meant something .
@Bob Dylan That’s a piss poor Dylan impersonation.
Thank you for Appreciating my Music, I'm grateful for your support, Much Love❤❤❤
@@bobdylan4687 thank you
me too.
@@bobdylan4687 inspired me to be a poet and a writer through the musics profundity when i first heard it at 21. Pulled me out of psychosis from the dishevelled state of a majority neohippies in nsw australia. Idk if this is just fragments of sentimentality, like, it just was so mottled with grit and truth and realness, it managed to persuade my quote unquote "demons" to quit.
Idk if this is actually dylan, but cheers mate, truly.
Pray for the world 🌎
As someone who is still in their teenage years, I feel blessed to be here at this point in my life
Keep on trucking buddy.
THERE'S A LONG SLOW TRAIN ACOMIN' 'ROUND THE BEND@@meowmeow-cr5sn
God bless you
"You never ask questions when God's on your side." TIMELESS
This song is now more relevant than ever
'I was taught to hate the Russians for all of my life. If another war comes, it's them we must fight. To hate them, to fear them...to run and to hide. But to bear it all bravely...with God on our side.'
I dream of the day when the words of this song don't mean much anymore. Unfortunately, they are as relevant today as they were 60y ago when Dylan wrote it
Stop dreaming not happening ever
Now the world should sing this together
Unfortunately they're too bloody busy singing Ed bleedin' Sheeran songs.
@@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017 We should not let such things stop us. Blessings to you n yours.
The greatest idea yet.
It's too late now. The world has already got God on their side.
@@asmodeo5756 The *Russian world has already got God on their side. Whole that the rest of the world left with is hate, as they're now on Judas Iscariot's side.
"If God's on our side, He'll stop the next war."
That's the only line in the song I don't agree with. Heh I'm Gnostic.. so I just don't think it works that way.
Maggie thewolfstar How could you disagree? This song, I don’t think is really religious. God is merely a stand-in for ultimate goodness. In this line, God is opposed to war, and is in favor only of peace. This line, I think, really just says that war is morally wrong, and that taking part in war in morally wrong because peace is a moral good
@@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158Ok. I wasn't looking at it like that but what you say makes sense.
@@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158 I don't think Dylan here meant God as good throughout the whole song, but rather an allegory used by hypocrites to justify their misdeeds. Even though Dylan was never affiliated to atheism, many a times he questioned the presence or rather in-activity of God. He also ends this song in despair, If God----------------next war, knowing for sure that not only next war but many many next wars even to the extent of a third world war is inevitable !!!
@@gomessylvester205yeah I think 'God' was getting confused here by the young Dylan. Throughout the song he was talking about people's mistaken belief that their war crimes were cool because they thought they were supported by their God. But then in the end he threw a kind of atheistic POV that God should stop the war.... but then lol that isn't right either. Never mind I'm too sleepy and brain dead right now to make any sense. I dunno.
How fortunate we were to grow up with Dylan's music.
If we could ever use a voice like his , it would be now.
IdiotWind, he is still very much alive.🤣
@@jerrygarciaisgod4409
⚡🌹😁 and touring
A lot of good music from the mid 60s through the late 70s is still relevant today, which scares the shit out of me because that was 60 years ago and we STILL haven't improved enough as a society to render these songs irrelevant. Still dealing with the same old shit even as technology exponentially increases. We're going to blow ourselves up if we can't grow past these age old issues.
@@erich1394 It seems as if an exponential increase in technology only leads to an exponential increase in death and cruelty.
I can’t help but feel as if the Domesday Clock is about to strike midnight. 🕛
I would love to be wrong though because they have thrown the worst fear that can ever be hurled - fear to bring children into this world.
@@oleggorky906 I think it's quality versus quantity - do we want more people or do we want happier people? Until we figure our shit out as a species, I certainly am unwilling to bring children into this world. I didn't ask to be here, but I'll make the most of it and try to improve things while I'm here.
Some technology is good! Sewers, indoor plumbing, electricity.. I feel like, for a while, technology really did improve our lives. It still does. That being said - there does seem to be an exponentially growing preponderance of tech that doesn't serve us very well.. new bombs, new and insidious forms of propaganda, new ways to fuck up the environment to get more shit to burn out of the ground, cell phone garbage giving people cancer as they process through it for scraps of precious metals... it is scary. I agree. It's dystopian.
I think that a brighter future involves fixing our corrupt power structures and keeping everyone accountable for how they affect the world around them. Especially large corporations and wealthy oligarchs who make ends-justify-the-means decisions without giving those affected a chance to vote on them. I don't think that we're inherently incapable of a better society, but I do think that human power structures are inherently unstable - they tend to collect more and more power at the top until they collapse and the cycle repeats.
I'm optimistic because I choose to be. Even if the human world were ending, maybe we can have a decent last act as a species. I guess I'd feel strangely privileged to see it all go down in my lifetime, but my heart wants peace and healing, not destruction.
I choose to see the shittyness of the world as growing pains on our way to becoming a more enlightened species. We're having an existential crisis on a societal level. This last century has pretty much been the first time humanity ever truly believed it could be wiped out by its own hand. I'm curious as to how we will process this moving forward. Hopefully with reverence for life and a renewed sense of urgency for self preservation!
God doesn't take sides.
No, cause he obviously doesn't exist
Just because you don't believe something, doesn't make it not so.
Jeff Bridges as "Starman" ---" i love that when things are at their worst, that's when your people are at your best"
Dear Dylan, This is just the peak of creativity. How can one man write so great ? Salute 🎶
I’ve decided these are the best lyrics I’ve come across.
Alweer "a timeless masterpiece". Alweer een sublieme Bob Dylan compositie... die door diverse anderen mooi & knap werden gezongen....met vaak een rijker en mooiklinkend arrangement... B D is een verdiende Nobelprijswinnaar van Literatuur... veel van zijn songs zijn gebalde romans... ongelooflijk knap... met hele knappe vondsten erin! Te bewonderen! Blij dat ik kan genieten van het "uitzonderlijk knappe" in heel wat Dylan songs...
Echt waar!
This man is a poet-genius. He always will be.
No to war .
First album I ever bought. I was 12. His words and music were phenomenal. I felt every thing he said. So many people could not deal with his honesty.
You must have put on one hell of a school nativity play that year.😀
I was way too lost to appreciate you then Bob....loved you as so many did but now, 2022 I can more fully appreciate you. Thank you . Love n blessings to you n yours from Sydney Australia.
Nothing has changed since this was recorded and still rings true
True very much true to bone.world war 3 is going to end the human race from the earth.sin is control
I really hope that we're finally tired of war.
'It's in your nature to destroy yourselves' Terminator 2 Judgement Day
Change is inevitable, though often slow, sometimes almost imperceptibly so...& comes mostly at a cost. As CSN said in their "Cost Of Freedom" ("Ohio") --" find the cost of freedom buried in the ground...mother earth will swallow you....lay your bodies down"---
perhaps that can evolve to.....
" --- Lay your... weapons... down---"
( for good! )
It is such pity I went on through more than 35 years of life without knowing Bob Dylan!
This was the first Bob Dylan record I ever got ..Along w/ a few others it changed my life !!!
One of the most relevant and beautiful poem ever written.
So, so true. Like so many of Dylan's lyrics, we should have listened fifty years ago and it would have been a better world today.
Hmm tasty
My favorite Bob Dylan song, surprisingly.
@@davedeckwa5309 it did get better for a time. We did have some disarmament for a while but it's up to each and every succeeding generation to carry the baton. I suppose it's the continuity bit that we're not very good at.
This song is pretty straight forward prose.
It's actually not much of a poem.
But it strength is its simplicity -
set to a to a likewise fairly simple melody.
And it does help that it is telling the truth.
History will tell it so well this man was a gift to us all and how lucky we were to enjoy his music
I believe this is one of the few Bob Dylan songs that is not up for interpretation.
A few of his earlier songs are like that, masters of war for example
He's a living legend and EXCELLENT poet. I've been a fan since the early Sixties CLASS ACT! POIGNANT CLASSIC!
There have been a lot of covers of this song. I still prefer Bob's original though.
@@luckydave328 I have to confess that until today I believed that the Neville Brothers wrote this. Oh shame on me. Bitter truth in this song. But I am with C. Hitchens here anyway, so...
@@thedandelion157 Me too. In many ways this is also a song against religion. 'God' never stops war.
This song plays over and over in my head when conversations turn to fighting and killing for our “rights”. It’s been playing 50 years now and I still haven’t resolved this paradox of what we’ve been taught and how it can be justified - with God on our side.
Well said.
Exactly. Humans just don't learn.
I can't believe that the mind that created this song and this album, one day became a s.c. _"born-again Christian"._
Not that this song is a critique of religion or Christianity. Rather how faith is abused. He just seems to intelligent to buy into a man-made religion. It even ask a theological question. If I were a Christian, I'd ask myself the same question and I never got why the Catholic church is condemning Judas that much. Didn't he play a major part in God's plan to absolve mankind from sin.
@@yannick245 "Vengeance is mine" sayeth the Lord. Pity those that profess Christianity have forgotten the Words of its namesake!
@yannick - I don't think that being "born again" is at all incompatible with questioning, wondering, and searching.
The religion professed by many people who believe themselves to be Christian has absolutely nothing to do with the words of Jesus in the Gospels - "Do unto others as you would have them do to you," for example. (I'm Lutheran - and Martin Luther was *incredibly* antisemitic. So... we have to look beyond ourselves.)
This album came out when I was in grade school, during the height of the backlash against the Civil Rights movement. This song really made me think. That's still true.
Song sends chills down my spine.
Listening to the song I felt the Goosebumps Rising
Today s world as well as the past. It all has already been written. Dylan was definitely ahead of his time. Love all his music.
Same here
Hey there, all my lovely friends down in America! I am up here in America’s top hat, CANADA, admiring our cousins to the south, and the beautiful music that y’all create for THE WORLD to enjoy! Bob Dylan's 'With God on Our Side' is a timeless masterpiece that resonates with the complexities of war, politics, and the human condition. Dylan's poignant lyrics force us to confront the consequences of blind patriotism and religious justifications for violence. It's a powerful reminder to question authority and seek peace above all else.
Sending the ultimate love and respect from your northern neighbors! Take care everybody!
Hibbing Minnesota is much closer to Canada then it is to the rest of the USA my friend. Thanks to you too!
I'm not an emotional type of guy at all..
But when he sang at the end if God is on our side he'll stop next war
I couldn't stop the tears from falling...
ALL TOO TRUE TODAY. THE MAN IS BRILLIANT.
Great songs are timeless... and sadly this song remains relevant to this day.
Such a timeless song. The tune sounds ancient and the lyrics do ample justice to his status as a Nobel laureate.
Mr.bob Zimmerman deserves
Another noble if possible. What u say..
That's because the tune is far older than Dylan (The merry month of May) and Dylan lifted it after hearing it adapted to The patriot game.
@@kij100 So, the same traditional tune was 'adapted' for "The Patriot Game" but 'lifted' for "With God on Our Side"? Could you please elaborate?
Oui, en effet, c'est aussi un écrivain tout à fait compétant. Pour une fois le prix Nobel fût correctement attribué.
It sounds a bit like two English folk songs ‘The Nightingale’ first printed in 1698 and ‘The merry month of May’ printed in 1656,both from Southern England with references to Nightingales.
... if the God on our side, He'll stop the next war!...
This song brings me to tears, cant explain how good Dylan is.
I am addicted to Bob Dylan's songs..Love and Respect from India.
same but from usa
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The man only speaks the truth and it still applies today my children ...from a 60 year old
I am 19 years old. I find myself still relating to everything he is speaking. It’s rather sad.
@@LifeofLatimer live your life, seek happiness and peace. Don't dwell on the bad. It will come anyhow when you are old..Get your beauty out of this life..
I recall as a teen listening to Dylan on a pocket 6 transistor radio,40 years later still listening to Bob on the Internet,man's a genius!!!
He is the god of music. Soulful painful truth pure truth spoken out in a poem. Live long Bob Zimmerman Dylan.
I looked for this song long, long tome ago, now I know why I loved this song, a song for every body, for rich and poor people, because God is a Big excusa for our mistakes.
"I'm more of a song and dance man."
What a lie.
@@grahamsymonds2489 Haha. Yes, maybe.
He said it, btw, at a press conference in SF in 1966, a long video of which you can see here on YT.
(Reading your reply, I immediately thought of Tony Montana, played by Al Pacino in Scarface: "I always tell the truth. Even when I lie, I tell the truth.")
He is more of the legends of legendary. So full of truth so much pain so soothing
Live long bob Zimmerman Dylan. God on your side
I’m a dance and song man
I sing and I dance
What a fantastic song of undiluted truth.
these lyrics are metal as hell
yes they are
I can’t listen to this without crying…such outstanding work and message ❤
Just switched over to this from the Backstreet Boys. And all I can say is...nothing beats a great songwriter, like Bob Dylan!
Happy Birthday, Mr. Tambourine Man!!! God bless you ! Follow sing your wonderful songs to us, your fans!
I heard this back in the 1960's. it gave me chills back then and I still feel the same these many years later. Dylan was a person of deep compassion..
@@stardust86x Ditto
@@stardust86x Yes! Bob is very much alive!!
i first heard it at gerde's on 42nd in new york
Yes. . I love songs like "shelter from the storm", "chimes of freedom" or "hard times". They show his big compassion, too.
Bob IS, not WAS. It’ll be a truly dark day when he’s gone
You dont count the dead.....you don't ask questions,....with God on your side
Aint it
And you never ask questions when God is on your side...
Damn, I cant believe this song came out in 1964, feels so modern in its message. I love almost everything Bob Dylan put out, but this stripped down, acoustic guitar and harmonica folk music on his first few albums will always be my favorite
Still wonderful!!
The best songs are always timeless... and this is one of them
Right before Vietnam.
No words to describe this poem. Great greatest grand.painful truth. Long live mr.bob Zimmerman.
And that unrefined voice of his!
if God's on our side
He'll stop the next war - I am praying...
With world heading dangerously close towards new war in Europe, this song sonds more chilling then ever to me
With all the evil that was done that one line he says "They too have God on their side" his poetry done with words an I mush include the music are exceptional with every word he writes 💯💯💯💯👏👏👏👏💥💥💥💥
This song gets less than a million views, but Lady Gaga gets billions views... we need God more than ever.
We live in a world where people use music only for distraction without listening to it carefully.
@@deliapanescu6548 so true, to find good music you have to search for it now, just like how they like to hide the truth.
When did this world lost the ability to question life or just anything?
You totally missed the point
@@dennissneed2162 please explain.
@@dennissneed2162 that is true, politicians, people in power use the name Of God to do evil and people have been programmed to believe that if God is on your side your in the right like it says in the song.
It’s easy to blame God for the deaths and murders, than to blame our selfs... mankind.
This is a warning against thinking whatever path you choose is the "right" one. It's not your decision and your faith that protects you. It's undertaking whatever it is that you are doing with a PURE HEART that will keep you alive.
I continuously listen to it, in these hard times, I’m from Italy, my great-grandfather fought the Austrians in the First World War, my grandfather was a war prisoner in the Second World War, will I be the third generation stained by a world war? I’m so scared. I hope this situation would solve easily but each day is getting worse.
The Cabal (Elites; Khazarians; Annunaki; Illuminati; fallen angels; Canaanites - they have many names. These are 12 bloodline families that rule the World. They start all wars for profit and population reduction. Covid was their ‘pet project’ as they own big Pharma and made billions (and poisoned us). These Annunaki appear human but they carry the blue blood - more copper than carbon (always RH negative). They are extremely intelligent but have no compassion, OnEarth, they report to the Black Pope and the Black Sun..and sacrifice children for adrenochrome. Their off-World God is Marduk (also called Lucifer, Baal, Moloch). These are end times. We Adamites will win this War of the Heavens with our true Creator (Source) and not the Annunaki God of the Old Testament).
UNITED NETWORK NEWS - Kim Goguen.
Then cry for peace, for Christ's sake it is not yet forbidden .
I'm not worried about it till it happens.
No point
@@davidlabrosse9661YOU CAN'T YANK A TANK OUT OF QUICKSAND IF YOU ARE THE DRIVER
And a stunning Irish trad melody! “ The Patriot Game”.
63 years ago Bob Dylan was fantastic
Lyrics
Oh my name it ain't nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I was taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side
Oh, the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh, the country was young
With God on its side
The Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War, too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I was made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side
The First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side
The Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now, too
Have God on their side
I've learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side
But now we got weapons
Of chemical dust
If fire them, we're forced to
Then fire, them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side
Through many a dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ was
Betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.
So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
That if God's on our side
He'll stop the next war
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Songwriters: Bob Dylan
With God On Our Side lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Thankyou for posting the lyrics
to this song.
I didn't know about this song ,but it seems to be so relevant .
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@@土居加奈-e9b This is Victoria Nuland's song, as it resonates the most with her hate filled heart, she as well as Bob being on Judas Iscariot's side.
God has empowered humans to stop the violence and given us tools to resolve conflicts more humanely. It seems that the culture of warfare is very ingrained in people with the promotion of
seductive mythology of the glory of nationalistic gladiatorial contests between nations.
Ethical thinking people who have an awareness of the consequences of bloody destructive behaviours do know better.
It is imperative that we all speak truth to power and reevaluate habitual behaviours.
@@maxryder995 ... i get it ...
You cannot both abandon God and have God on your side!2023!!
No more words needed. Everyboy who can still feel will understand. Until we are not understanding, that killing/hating will be our end, nothing will change. God will not be on our Side.
I'm listening in 2024, I wish everyone who reads this comment always be safe 💖💖💖💖
😂❤ 26/10/2024, in south africa 🇿🇦 time 4:53,I was white a black
😂❤ 26/10/2024, in south africa 🇿🇦 time 4:53,I was white a black
😂❤ 26/10/2024, in south africa 🇿🇦 time 4:53,I was white a black
This is the best Song for today,
Will the human race never learn? A brilliant, brilliant song from this giant.
I listen to this song and sing it as if God is on my side, I'm sure he loves and supports me, but I'm also sure he's laughing.
Went to college in the early 1970's. Loved Bob Dylan.
I think Dylan came from another dimension.
Most profound.Shalom.
Mein Vater hat deine Lieder so geliebt, ich spiele sie immer wieder für ihn ab, du weilst leider nicht mehr unter uns😔 aber du bist bei mir, in meinem Herzen und immer dann, wenn diese Melodie ertönt, fühle ich, das du niemals richtig fortgegangen bist, du bist bei uns, ganz nah an unsere Seite! Ruhe in Frieden Dad❤🙌wir lieben dich
great lyrics! he's a phenomenal thinker, and philosopher, much more than a poet and singer!
A great poet IS a great philosopher and thinker
Actually a clumsy lyrical rewrite of Dominic Behan’s “The Patriot Game”. That is, it uses precisely the same music (borrowed in turn from the public-domain folk-song “The Merry Month of May”) and alters the lyric. It’s essentially another of Bobby Zimmerman’s many exercises in plagiarism, and like most of these, vastly inferior to the work it plagiarizes. It’s clumsy not only in that it’s replete with failed attempts to rhyme and rhythmically random superfluous syllables, but in that the narrative itself is ragged, thematically inconsistent, and unconvincing, the sentiment trite and the point blunt. In any case, anyone who makes use of someone else’s material is ethically obligated to credit the original author. If the original author is anonymous, he should still be acknowledged (just say “traditional”). Zimmerman goes around stamping his stage name (“Dylan”) on anything he can get his hands on.
@@jeffryphillipsburns hmm just looked this up and you’re very much correct, I wonder how much of his work is a copy 🤔 this is far out stuff for a 22 year old to write, makes you think if most of his early work are plagiarisms
@@jeffryphillipsburns Stealing or borrowing songs is an old folk and blues music tradition. Everyone did it back then and nobody thought of it as plagiarism. It's about how you used the song, giving it a new life with your own personal interpretation. Bob Dylan did it brilliantly.
My little brother heard me say that I had never actually heard Bob Dylan speak or sing (just people imitating him for a joke), and this is the first song he played for me. I haven't been able to get it out of my head for almost a year now, it's just so haunting.
Now you've got god on your side.
He's got a thousand of them.
I've been singing it nonstop the past few weeks
Last thoughts on woody Guthrie
Love Minus Zero
Visions of Johanna
Girl from the North Country
It's alright ma I'm only bleeding
Tambourine man
Hurricane
Gates of Eden
There's just a small place to start. Just listen to the album's in order. That first one I listed is spoken word, you should definitely check that out because I'm not sure the album its on, one of countless performances. I've listened to it once a month at least the last 30 years.
This album actually doesn't have a bad song, neither do the next few
You really never heard him until your little brother played him for you? How old are you and how old is your little brother?🤔
Lyrically...the greatest album ever written. ❤
Thank you. The truth is here. It's GOD. Yes. God is on our side. Gives me chills. The truth.
You didn't understand the song.
@@abhijitmajumdar9476 Maybe it's too deep for ya. Open your eyes to what's going on around our nation. Bob Dylan was always ahead of his time. His songs will have meaning in all chapters of our nation. He is my generation. MY time. I am thankful for all he has written and sung.
A thought-provoking statement. Dylan is amazing.
Irish people will recognise that this is the tune from the ballad ‘The Patriot Game’. Apparently Dylan heard the great Brendan Bethan sing the ballad, the lyrics of which were written by his brother, Dominic. The tune is traditional and is called ‘The Merry Month of May’.
I was having a difficult time with my songwriting. It was 2004. Down at Moe’s books in Berkeley, there was a huge biography in Bob. It explained that he « copied all his tunes » from old Irish and English ballads. I was stunned! Crazy!!
He is a master of interpretation - old English ballad Lord Randall turned into A Hard Rains
Still I like Irish whiskey..Jameson. same with bob Dylan Zimmerman.
He did whatever he had to do, to survive. This is his job. Writing songs. That's how he was able to make himself a dinner, to buy new shoes, to make a living. Period.
@@bsnf-5 I don’t understand your comment. I wasn’t questioning how he made his money, just pointing out where the tune came from. Jeez!
Always amazed me someone as Young as him could write like that.
Astonishing
Bob is an old soul. He always was..
This song is more relevant than ever in our times.
You'd better believe it. If another war comes, it's the Russians we will most surely fight.
This song has been relevant since the dawn of religion. It's preeminently relevant for all human history.
no sh1t sherlock
The best American poems are generally not poems. They are song lyrics, rap lyrics, commercial jingles, and speeches. Everything but poems themselves.
Music expresses what cannot be said and what it is impossible to remain silent about. Victor Hugo.
Bob Dylan said what so many felt. Makes me believe in eternity ~~ rock on
Not sure you quite understand the point of the song.
@@stellasara4315 he sure does, allegiance to God not country is the theme of the song. Bob Dylan was and is a believer in higher power although now no longer Christian and at the time of the song he was a evangelical Christian
Hi Stella. You were right in a way. I do not believe in people killing, pillaging, places and persons in the name of God. Eternity is when we all live as we desire and enjoy wishing people a good morning, even if it is not. Thank you for helping in my growing process. Happiness always to you and yours.
You must have God on your side 🙏
A masterpiece of lyrical heaven.
Bob Dylans songs were the first protest songs and political views I was exposed to in my childhood.
Woody Guthrie and his friend Pete Seeger inspired Bob and Woody’s son Arlo Guthrie. I thank God for them all
Lucky you!
While the rest of us were just beginning to dip our toes in the River Of Decent Bob Dylan was already on the other side drying off
I love you Bob Dylan because you changed my thinking and thank you for that!
Why does nobody ever say The Times are A-Changin as Dylans best Album? Look at that song lineup. Astonishing.
I agree completely. BEST album
couldn't agree more, in my opinion it is one of the top 10 albums of all time. I was 14 at the time it was released and my older sister brought it home and i was spellbound
Perfect!!
I say it.
I'm almost positive everyone thought that. Did you see the reaction he got in the mid 60s when he wasn't playing this kind of stuff anymore? People openly booed and berated him for it.
I have known these words for decades but tonight I listened and it's crystal clear these words are not a joke🎉
I am a Dylan fan and I never heard this one before. Dylan as usual controversial and facing up to reality. Very powerful.
There will be a resurgence of these songs...which are being heard once again, now. It has already begun
just amazing , first time hearing this , i knew i loved dylan but not this much . hes on another level
The words were there before Bob came. He just picked them up and stuck them in the right place. Thank you Bob.
Was amazing his music will never be forgotten,a great wordsmith
He wrote so many masterpieces in song a genius we will never see the like of again
WE do not know how lucky we are to have Dylan in our lives but it is inevitable that his power will be challenged and denigrated by those followers of he establishment who wish us to be denied the truth. Bob spoke about things that should always matter and for that he will not be forgiven by those who want us to believe in what is shit!!!!
Nothing has changed. It seems worse. My dad loves this song but can't listen to it anymore... he heard this when it was first released...he troed and he tried to be good and influence... to model the future we all surely need... and he so hoped in his youth and maturity... that things would improve... it hasn't. It's just the same. The young die for corruption and games... my dad has no hope now.
I feel much like your dad. I fear this song could have endless stanzas as the future unfolds. Sad state this planet. 😢
@@EmilioIacobelli There isn't really anything I can say.... hugs. We just have to hope but it is hard to... the good who forget become the evil and we are manipulated... but as with Pandoras box it was what we were cursed to do.
Everyone loses their humanity
@@NM-ub6ml never lose hope , keep that as an anchor to humanity, hugs back to you
@EmilioIacobelli I feel like I'm living back in the 70's again man!! Compare gas prices from then and now. You have to feed the family but you're scraping just to get by. The USA's government is so ass backwards. We're not progressing. We're regressing.
For you don’t count the dead when God’s on your side.!