Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- “Tombstone Blues" by Bob Dylan
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Lyrics:
The sweet pretty things are in bed now, of course
The city fathers, they're trying to endorse
The reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse
But the town has no need to be nervous
The ghost of Belle Starr, she hands down her wits
To Jezebel the nun, she violently knits
A bald wig for Jack the Ripper, who sits
At the head of the Chamber of Commerce
Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes
Daddy's in the alley, he's lookin' for food
I'm in the kitchen with the tombstone blues
The hysterical bride in the penny arcade
Screaming, she moans, "I've just been made"
Then sends out for the doctor, who pulls down the shade
And says, "My advice is to not let the boys in"
Now, the medicine man comes and he shuffles inside
He walks with a swagger and he says to the bride
"Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it's not poison"
Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes
Daddy's in the alley, he's lookin' for food
I'm in the kitchen with the tombstone blues
Well, John the Baptist, after torturing a thief
Looks up at his hero, the Commander-in-Chief
Saying, "Tell me, great hero, but please make it brief
Is there a hole for me to get sick in?"
The Commander-in-Chief answers him while chasing a fly
Saying, "Death to all those who would whimper and cry"
And, dropping a barbell, he points to the sky
Saying, "The sun's not yellow, it's chicken"
Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes
Daddy's in the alley, he's lookin' for food
I'm in the kitchen with the tombstone blues
The king of the Philistines, his soldiers to save
Puts jawbones on their tombstones and flatters their graves
Puts the pied pipers in prison and fattens the slaves
Then sends them out to the jungle
Gypsy Davey with a blowtorch, he burns out their camps
With his faithful slave Pedro behind him, he tramps
With a fantastic collection of stamps
To win friends and influence his uncle
Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes
Daddy's in the alley, he's lookin' for food
I'm in trouble with the tombstone blues
The geometry of innocence, flesh on the bone
Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown
At Delilah, who's sitting worthlessly alone
But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter
I wish I could give Brother Bill his great thrill
I would set him in chains at the top of the hill
Then send out for some pillars and Cecil B. DeMille
He could die happily ever after
Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes
Daddy's in the alley, he's lookin' for food
I'm in the kitchen with the tombstone blues
Where Ma Rainey and Beethoven once unwrapped their bedroll
Tuba players now rehearse around the flagpole
And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
To the old folks' home and the college
Now, I wish I could write you a melody so plain
That could hold you, dear lady, from going insane
That could ease you and cool you and cease the pain
Of your useless and pointless knowledge
Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes
Daddy's in the alley, he's lookin' for food
I'm in the kitchen with the tombstone blues, oh right
#BobDylan #Folk #SingerSongwriter
55 years in and this is still some of the absolute wildest shit ever put to tape
Insanely listen to explain this 2020s
73 Years here, I agree the absolute wildest shit ever put to tape the Electric Guitar was a Nashville Fellow I can't remember his name,
@@edwardlouisbernays2469 It was the legendary Mike Bloomsfield. He died young in 1981. Signing off, a 50-yr from 1973... Glad to see that the next generations younger than me are passing on the torch too
Dylan is a once in a lifetime artist
@@edwardlouisbernays2469 michael bloomfield from chicago
The greatest chorus ever written?
"Mama's in the factory/She ain't got no shoes/Daddy's in the alley/He's looking for food/I'm in the kitchen with the tombstone blues"
Second best to anything written by Paul McCartney ;)
Jokes aside even Dylan himself said the only person he was in awe of was Paul
His lyrics are great poetry, everyone knows that, but the way he sings so cleverly each word is also pure genius.
This song is crazy. My advise is not 2 let the boys in. I love it.
😄
@@katherinekirkwood9632 You will not die, it's not poison! :p
Genius 4 sure I am stuck on a song 4 today I can't hear enough of. EVERY GRAIN OF SAND REhearsal version my favorite as he whines better than the other versions but the lyrics r wrenching- fabulous omg omg
Tomorrow I may b back 2 Tombstone Blues. Oresome talk about LYRICS 🔥🎉
Yes agreed
100 percent
No other pop songwriter in the world could have written a line like
"Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride.
You will not die,
it's not poison."
Seriously, that verse may just be his best. It's mindblowingly good.
This isn't pop
@@jakesnacks1149 But by 1965 Bob had moved into the mainstream and he and others were having Top 10 hits with his songs. Dylan and The Beatles were stretching the definition of what was termed "pop"
@@edwardwilson7858 Into something else
@@edwardwilson7858 The Beatles a generic boyband until Bob made them write some decent lyrics.
Mike Bloomfield showing Dylan fans what time it is!♥
hot guitar by Bloomfield
Probably one of my favorite Dylan songs. The bizarre drum beat, wailing vocals, and twisted lyrics all tangle so neatly together. Never gets old.
Absolutely !
William Fiske I don’t it’s that bizarre of a drumbeat. It’s basically classic blues
Yeah these lyrics got me through basic training in 1981. They tried to break me and mold me to their version of a soldier. Me and Bobby kept our independence. Thank you Mr. D.
Kickass good song
That lead guitar is so savage. Deranged. Beautiful song.
I remember carving "The Sun's not yellow, it's chicken," on my desk in my first (and thankfully, only) year of college.
What did you think the saying means? Sounds absurdly proud and arrogant to me. Plus the sun is white, not yellow until late sunset.
@@Lumalnatti11
The sun used to be yellow. You must be too young to know that.
Please stay out of adult conversation.@@Lumalnatti11
"I wish I could write you a melody so plain/That would hold you dear lady, from going insane/That could ease you and cool you and cease the pain
/Of your useless and pointless knowledge"
The greatest
No doubt about it.🚀🚀🚀
Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride. You will not die, its not poison. Beautiful
I must be dreaming. All these great Bob Dylan songs are showing up. It's nice to see them, instead of those cheap cover versions. There is only one Bob Dylan. I have seen him live and buy his music. This is a great song from a great album. Rest in peace Michael Bloomfield.
Hell yeah
I've just bin made
All Rappers need to memorize the lyrics to: "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding"
A little known fact: Charlie Daniels did some early session work for Dylan...
RIP Robert Zimmerman...
The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone
Causes Galileo’s math book to get thrown
What an insane set of lines
Tombstone Blues is just Bob Dylan rambling nonsense for six minutes straight. And it just works.
no shit
And "The National bank, at a profit,sells roadmaps t o the soul, to the old folks home, in the college."
What’s insane I don’t get the significance of the line
@@jimjimjjjimjijmjim "Something is happening here, but you just don't understand, do you Mr. Jones."
The genius that is Bob Dylan. Tremendous guitar work by the late/great Mike Bloomfield,
THE ENERGY IN THIS SONG IS INSANE!
It's so freaking good! Good god I love it.
mike Bloomfield on lead guitar
IAmD.J. I’m glad someone else noticed that. He could have kept going you just feel it
The drums are so active and messy - it's pretty much proto-proto punk.
METHEDRINE.
No one can and ever will touch Bob Dylan...!!!!
the commander in in chief was Trump was Johnson in 1965
Tombstone Blues is high on my list of best songs ever.
Me too, but hard to pick. My favorite is "The Hour that the Ship Comes in" "Then they'll raise their hands, sayin' we''ll meet all your demands,' but we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered. And like Pharoah's tribe they'll be drownded in the tide, and like Goliath they'll be conquered." May it be true--soon!
Very close to this is the conclusion of Masters of War: "and I'll stand on your grave to be sure that you're dead," preceded earlier about the war profiteers, "Not even Jesus could forgive what you do."
These lyrics are fucking incredible
"A BALD WIG FOR JACK THE RIPPER WHO SITS AT THE HEAD OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE"Dylan Is a fuckin'genius.Tombstone blues Is a masterpiece like all the album
Those guitar solos say everything I want to say
The one and only Mike Bloomfield, rip
Listen to Super Session , Mike Bloomfield and Al Cooper. Oh, yeah, and everything by the Butterfield Blues Band.
This is what we meant by psychedelic. The sudden expanding of your mind and thought process. Highway 61 and Bringing It Back Home were like rockets caroming through the minds of an entire generation. Not all hits were direct but when it did go off in your head it was transformational. I was thrown out of a record store listening booth when I got hit with "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" . I don't know what I yelled but that was the moment the lights came on. Every cut on both albums made you think, observe, imply, embrace, yada. By verse, by phrase by single word. It made your mind sparkle and your eyes pop. And it wasn't Magic. It was created by another human to his satisfaction and benefited the rest of us who happened to be there and needed exactly what he was sharing.
I understand you perfectly.
Well said!! Thanks for sharing your experience of discovering Bobby D!!!!
It's called alchemy friends
That psychic energy is so needed right now to blow away the prevailing mindsets. Down with sycophants! Be real, be authentic, assert sovereignty!
The suns not yellow its chicken!!!!
interpretation?
Perhaps it's a commentary on "John the Baptists" (and generally the elites of this society) consume natural wonder (while the chorus show poor people who "got no food").
But it's abstract enough to be any number of things.
@@billfarnsworth7536 That specific line is about how politicians (The Commander In Chief) spin words and never speak straight. Yellow and chicken are both slang for being a coward.
@@apolloptx Well yeah, Trump is a pretty big coward, with ambitions to rule by royal decree (tweet). Could Trump be the new Louis XIV (ie "the Sun King").
@Sam Houston Not a gotdamn thing , son...well , maybe a couple o things...come to think of it.
Rock n Roll's greatest album
Great song, Bob was flying at this point, skooting around the ceiling, no-one ever caught him!
Very well said Chuck !
he was in the groove!
Bloomfield's guitar is amazing. It is like one long solo.
The late great Mike Bloomfield killin it. Bob was right, in saying he was the best he had ever heard. Proved him correct..
Omg thank you for mentioning Mike Bloomfield playing the electric on this! I loved that guy when I first discovered him when I was a kid! This song is awesome all around!
@@kathleenburke9853 Yes Mike was the best no doubt. He would later join in with the great Paul Butterfield and start what many say was the start of the electric explosion and did session work that is to me is the best in music history. I'm saying Bloomfield was better than you can name at that period. Sadly he was found dead at 37 years old.
just don't play that BB King shit
I was lucky enough to see BOB DYLAN live on his first electric tour on november 12,1965 in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the electric songs he did was this song. Beautiful memories. I have seen Dylan 35 time and met him on July 17,1991 in Cleveland. He was really nice to me.
I was just over 15 in early 1966 when I saw Dylan and The Hawks, (minus Levon Helm, he had stayed in the US after all the booing) here in Perth Western Australia. First half acoustic second electric. Listening to music about to take a new direction. Maybe seen him about 7 times since then. Once with Tom Petty. Gave my Dylan LP collection to a Dylan music writer in Queensland a few years ago. Great days. I told my friend who went with me, that Dylan was a poet who set prose to music, much of it the blues.
@greghale6272 so please describe how the 66 dylan concert was in Perth. What did he look like. Was it loud. Did they boo him. Describe.
I saw him in Honolulu a few months into 1966, but sparse audience then who hadn't gotten it yet. Saw Elvis at the same location early 1973.
Underrated song. It feels as if I just transcended to another dimension.
This song gave me so many one liners to use. My favorites are, "But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter," along with "To win friends and influence her uncle," and "The sun is not yellow it's chicken." Yeah!!
"The reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse."
It always gives me the chills when he says "tell me great hero", his voice is so on point
James Williamson from Iggy and the Stooges got half his playing style from this song. Everyone talks about Clapton, but it's Bloomfield that guitar players first learned to to kick ass to.
Eric has cited Bloom also as one of his favorites
I prefer Bloomfield myself
Fantastic guitar work.
Underrated
Dylan the greatest all time .
"...The geometry of innocence...causes Galileo's math book to get thrown..." 👏
I love it when insanely iconic and respected songs and albums have weird, mysterious lyrics.
Every line a surreal gem delivered at a break-neck pace. And just look at that f**k you attitude in the album photo.
Anything that starts with:
"The sweet pretty things are in bed now, of course
The city fathers, they're trying to endorse
The reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse
But the town has no need to be nervous"
You KNOW it's gonna be good. So good. 😎
yeah but I'm in ¡TROUBLE! with the Tombstone Blues!
Because feeling good is allright.
no idea what that even means but i knew it was freaking epic
It's a commentary on the red scare of the 1960s, in that political leaders are trying to sound the alarms over the approach of communism ('endorse the reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse" e.g. warn the public) but the populace isn't buying into it ("but the town has no need to be nervous").
@@PaleNeon i like your interpretation~ One of my all time favorite Bob songs. Top 10, sometimes top 5. The lyrics are so colorful and multi-layered. Peak Dylan for me! 😎
Huge influence during HIGH school in the 60's....in super rural Indiana. Great escape music 4 sure. His unique talent will never be duplicated. We almost lost him in his bike wreck. Live well Robert Zimmerman!
Highway 61 revisited great album
He walks the Earth knowing he's Bob Dylan. Imagine that.
he'll tell you its not much differnet than walking the earth as anybody else
@@chaitanya7 except for some of us...pressuring him.......who have one more wish........to meet him...lol
Yes...must be a HUGE pain in his ass....lol
@@chaitanya7 Damn right!
Bob doesn't walk
He glides.
I have loved this song for decades. Dylan's view of society and culture through a kaleidoscopic magnifying glass and Bloomfield's absolutely on fire guitar fills pair perfectly to put this tune over the top. One of his very best of the period.
Man I've been on a spiral into the Bob Dylan abyss, all after one Traveling Wilburys video.
You are entering a world of pain.
You arent the first....
"The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone
Causes Galileo's mathbook to get thrown"
These may just be two of the finest lines of lyrics in the history of recorded music.
Mike Bloomfield plays a great lead guitar in this song with his trademark Telecaster! Thanks for posting!
From folk to folk rock , blues , country, garage , punk and. Rap too really he king of the rock
sometimes I picture Bob winding up Bloomfield like a toy while he's singing and then when he lets him go he's just off the fuckin' rails
"Now I wish I could write you a melody so plain
That could hold you dear lady from going insane
That could ease you and cool you and cease the pain
Of your useless and pointless knowledge"
Here after finishing Carrie by Stephen King.
Same lmao
Amen!
That lead guitar cuts right through you
Like shards of ice!
Micheal Bloomfield is on fire playing this song!
A rollicking surreal gem from an "in the zone" Genius.
Interesting note:
Anyone who has read Stephen Kings' Novel "Carrie", he quotes this song at the end of the book, " I wish I could write you a melody so plain........."
u have already written three comments..
@@ElijahBerg0011 Congratulations on your ability to count. Now show us you can spell.
viviandarkbloom100 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dylan couldn’t of wrote that any better
Hell yeah man I'm here after reading it too!
yes it don't forget Stephen King also wrote the book buy a title from this album from a Buick 6
The guitar breaks at the end of each chorus by mike Bloomfield are just AWESOME
This is why the universe gave us rock n roll!!
Havent heard this in a long time still fire after so many years the poetry is fresh n crisp still so unbelievably good
Yes. Very well said!
This song is pure genius. Even if it appears to be about nothing, the power is in the poetry. The music is lively and after all these years is still as energetic as when Dylan recorded it in 1965.
What'dya mean nothing? The world a nd it's leaders have gone mad, while normal people are suffering looking for food.
A masterpiece
Pure poetry in motion
Thanks Bobby
Ya didn t leave me alone
Very well said Gaelic Buddy !
@@danielgiraud1118 SLAINTE
One of Dylan's best songs helped along with some great guitar work from Mike Bloomfield.
I'm in the kitchen with the Tombstone Blues!!!
❤️Bob, he has saved my life so many times. Thank you for this
My favorite bob dylan song, never get bored of this
One of the most beautiful poems ever from the greatest artist of our times. Bob’s 1962-1966 run is one of the greatest artistic phases ever witnessed! And his 1973-1976, 1978-1981 and 1988-2020 runs are as good as that one...
Why exclude John Wesley Harding, 1967?
@@clovisotterspasm7144 I would exclude it too. Why exclude "Infidels"?
I don't think many people back in the 60s understood Dylan.
Many more today still don't get him. The first time I heard him in 84 I'm not quite sure i did. All I knew was I wanted more.
Like a junkie wanting his fix.
Love ya Bob.
Almost sixty years later and I'm singing along with every verse. Thank you synapses. Thank YOU, Bloomfield!
Listened to this for 40 years and it wasn't till about 5 years ago I noticed how the word at the end of every verse rhymes with previous verse . Nervous...commerce. just genius
Which is why the sun is a chicken!
Bob as far as I know really admired Dylan Thomas.
I love the lead, but I also love what sounds like an acoustic guitar playing rhythm and then there's the rockin' bass. Makes for a sensational, one-off sound, never bettered..Acoustic and rock'n'roll, all rolled into one!
Why do you think it's acoustic rythym guitar on Satisfaction....no accident
I saw Bobby a couple of years ago and he almost smiled at me. Our national treasure . ☮
With a fantastic collection of stamps. ❤❤
Mike Bloomfield absolutely rips on this track
He is known to melt faces with his riffs and solos. Just asked those at Newport
Say you want acknowledgement for knowing who someone is and their work without actuality having any talent lmfao. F out of here.
@@pdkeast what a lame comment.
Agreed
RIP Mike Bloomfield
If there's a song more perfect lyrically.... I've yet to hear it.
If there is then Bob wrote it.
man what a guitar sound a blast from the past
Many people loved too much his folk period but for me this rock blues time was his best creative phase. 5 years of bliss and this album Is an eternal Masterpiece of ironic visionary lyrics and immense music. This Song Is hypnotic and so intense..Wow
Thia song makes me wanna wim friends and influence my uncle
After this amazing album I'm surprised that Bob wasn't called back to the crossroads to pay up.
Bloomfield is fucking unreal here
One of the greatest album covers of all time,Bob lookin straight into the lens ,sayin you r not lookin at me I'm lookin right at you!
The highway 61 cover picture was taken in june of 1965 . He was sitting on the steps in front of his apartment in Manhattan in new your city. The dude behind him holding the camera is bob neiarth dylans friend. I love that picture too. Blond on blond front cover is cool too.
Dylan has great music but his art covers are ugly or boring, except for of course great blonde on blonde cover art and imo Nashville skyline looks cool
One of my all time favorite lines...The city fathers, they're trying to endorse
The reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse
I am aware of who Paul Revere is but could you school this millennial on what your interpretation of this line is? I am just curious what it means, not trying to be sarcastic or rude.
@@ericsmith718 I have no idea.
@@ericsmith718 I believe it means, as well as the song in general, that the madmen are running the asylum, or should i say the world/government, and the chaos it causes for the poor, normal people just trying to get by (mamas lookin for food, has no shoes).
That Butterfield blues band
Has so much soul
It's insane
Paul Butterfield band was so good.
The story arc of this song perfectly covers the Colonel Kurz scenes in Apocalypse Now.
Dylan is THE FIRST RAPPER OF HISTORY OF MUSIC BUSINESS....Wow is son! !
R.A.P. (Rythme of poetry)
I give that accolade to Walter Brennan, not Bob Dylan.
what?
Jean-Guillaume Gagnon I’ve thought that for a while, this and Subterranean are very rap-oriented
You really dont understand abbreviations
it was rap before rap, but actually said something
Genius & Timeless!! Although sucked in concert. It's ok within his lyrics is priceless wisdom. Thank you Mr. Zimmerman. 👍👌🤔
Proud to own this album.
It's blues, but with better words. In fact, the best words in the business.
I forgot how god-damn good this song is Bob!
everything I say EVERYTHING in this song is perfect. PERFECT, I say!!!!
how great is this!!! National Anthem!
This makes me Roll until I cant Breath What an artist Dylan Was I grew up listing to him Thank God For Hippie Moms lol Or my whole world would of been shit!!! lol Dylan's A Legend!!!! As long as There is Earth There will always be Dylan!!! Thanks Old Man For The Schooling
What a vision, somebody throw out the script I'm on fire with inspiration. One of my fav dylan songs.
Wonderful - and as for that guitar.....
My advice is to not let the boys in.
“Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride; you will not die, it’s not poison.”
Greasy beautiful
Rythem section
Pushing and pushing
Till blast off
So cool
So great
Thanks
In many ways Highway 61 shaped an entire generation. These many years after the fact, as he has always done, Mr. Dylan is shaping my own wander into these so tennuous times. This is one song for the ages, as he said, "Open your ears and you are influenced."
Is it just me or is Bob one cool cat
Not just you, Fuzy.
He's like, far out, man.
It's not you
ain't just you pal (Paul) i am 67 & addicted to ALL KINDS of music since i was 12 or 13. i have never seen or EVER heard of a cooler cat than Dylan. and there have been QUITE A FEW cool cats over the years especially back in the day. (Jimi, Johnny, Jorma (& Jack Casady) JJ, Eric, Duane, Ian, etc etc. I have seen most of them in concert & various "festivals", but i never saw Dylan. Not sure why, honestly. I was born, raised & always lived in So FL so i saw almost every band that played down there in late 60's-early to mid 70's at small charming dumps like Musicians Exchange in Ft Laud, Tobacco Road in MIA & "larger" venues like Pirates World in Dania, Hollywood Sportatorium, Mia Bch Convention Center, Miami Jai-Alai Fronton, Gusman Hall, UM Campus, Miami Marine Stadium, Gulfstream Park, WPB Auditorium etc. And of course we went to Greynolds Park on Sundays for free concerts. I am willing to bet there are a bunch of old folks like me that remember (or half-remember) that whole scene. Dylan is still performing and you just forced me to put him on my ASAP bucket list. He is the definition of cool cat. Thank you Sir
Holy God where does he come from 🚀
It’s not that this song is the best ever, but it’s when it was released that was truly remarkable. I am convinced Dylan is a time traveler from the future, just like Little Richard was.
Lil' Richard sings Gospel. D'ye know dat ?
@@danielgiraud1118 i did know dat!
@@bluestate69 : 'ello, 'ello mah Blueboy pretty green, I'm sure thou do know devil, devil, devil guitar wizard Melvin Taylor, twin in law wi' James Marshall Hendrix an' Lucky Peterson ? Melvin is a great Gospel player on Hammond organ. Today I've received a CD where he sings an' plays Gospel wi' Mavis Staples from the Staples Singers. But alle that iz nuthin' compared wi' Donald Trunk on wah-wah guitar (may he burns in hell). Lucky bastards yewh poor Yanks which still hath God on thy side.
@@bluestate69 : So wot, lil' Sissy gurl ? Help ! I'm a Yank ! Wot do an altar boy an’ a Daesh child have in common ? Daesh's child only banged himself up once. » Understand who can, understand who wants.
this song is like perpetually tumbling down a flight of MC Escher's stairs
Bob did his own thing pretty cool
this album is simply amazing
his winning streak---the album before this, this, blonde, basement tapes, harding or hardin.
Simply BRILLIANT!
I like how Bob allows comments on his channel
Forgot how hilarious this was! I used to play this over and over when I was in my teens. I'm still laughing out loud.
"Is there a hole for me to get sick in?" 😂
I just like the way you write a song, Bob. Plain and simple.
A genius. The greatest put down artist of all time !
remember hearing this when I was 15 years old, fantastic!