this man ... this zimmerman ... jow he likes to play this song, i can see that from his face and body language ... after all those years, it still is amazing ... yes, this song undoubtedly is my favorite one ... thanks for uploading this version !
John Spoor brings us ,,,this great DESOLATION ROW.... I love the ..in the moment comments !!!! A wonderful thrill in Real in Time #themusicalityofbobdylan. Thanks, Janey 2022
His live performances are when he is at his spontaneous best. Feel so blessed to have lived to appreciate his immense God given talent. (and these UA-cam uploads).
After years of listening to it I can finally say this is my favourite Dylan song. Plain brilliant. Oh I remember the old days, spent by the river, it was another lifetime...
Great version of one of my favourite songs. But Bob, you left out one of my fav verses! What happened to "Erza Pound and T S Eliot, fighting in the captain's tower, . . . ". How could you!
They’re selling postcards of the hanging They’re painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They’ve got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they’re restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row Cinderella, she seems so easy “It takes one to know one,” she smiles And puts her hands in her back pockets Bette Davis style And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning “You Belong to Me I Believe” And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend You better leave” And the only sound that’s left After the ambulances go Is Cinderella sweeping up On Desolation Row Now the moon is almost hidden The stars are beginning to hide The fortune-telling lady Has even taken all her things inside All except for Cain and Abel And the hunchback of Notre Dame Everybody is making love Or else expecting rain And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing He’s getting ready for the show He’s going to the carnival tonight On Desolation Row Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window For her I feel so afraid On her twenty-second birthday She already is an old maid To her, death is quite romantic She wears an iron vest Her profession’s her religion Her sin is her lifelessness And though her eyes are fixed upon Noah’s great rainbow She spends her time peeking Into Desolation Row Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood With his memories in a trunk Passed this way an hour ago With his friend, a jealous monk He looked so immaculately frightful As he bummed a cigarette Then he went off sniffing drainpipes And reciting the alphabet Now you would not think to look at him But he was famous long ago For playing the electric violin On Desolation Row Dr. Filth, he keeps his world Inside of a leather cup But all his sexless patients They’re trying to blow it up Now his nurse, some local loser She’s in charge of the cyanide hole And she also keeps the cards that read “Have Mercy on His Soul” They all play on pennywhistles You can hear them blow If you lean your head out far enough From Desolation Row Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains They’re getting ready for the feast The Phantom of the Opera A perfect image of a priest They’re spoonfeeding Casanova To get him to feel more assured Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence After poisoning him with words And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls “Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know Casanova is just being punished for going To Desolation Row” Now at midnight all the agents And the superhuman crew Come out and round up everyone That knows more than they do Then they bring them to the factory Where the heart-attack machine Is strapped across their shoulders And then the kerosene Is brought down from the castles By insurance men who go Check to see that nobody is escaping To Desolation Row Praise be to Nero’s Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody’s shouting “Which Side Are You On?” And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain’s tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers Between the windows of the sea Where lovely mermaids flow And nobody has to think too much About Desolation Row Yes, I received your letter yesterday (About the time the doorknob broke) When you asked how I was doing Was that some kind of joke? All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now I can’t read too good Don’t send me no more letters, no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row
Again this stunning string gripping magic - countering and poking. Bliss... this I follow the flow with my dads Hohner Blues Harop in A - thanks Dad (+ @ 89 in da year 2001)
Such a good take on Stienebeck's "Cannery Row. " doesnt matter if he cross the borderline, folk music does that, and should be always give and take and acknoloments to all.
Maravillosa canción (para mi la mejor) del extraordinario poeta y excelente músico Bob Dylan... Uno de los tres grandes (en mi opinión) con Leonard Cohen y Lou Reed... "Desolation row", el lugar de la desolación, un grito desgarrado de la soledad existencial del ser humano, esa cadena sucesiva y eterna, de la que todos formamos parte, sin saber muy bien por qué ni para qué... En el fondo, creo que las mejores canciones de Dylan apelan a una pregunta que no tiene respuesta... Y TODO ESTO (QUE NO DEJA DE SER, ES CIERTO, UN MILAGRO MARAVILLOSO... TODO ESTO, PARA QUÉ?, o dicho de un modo más filosófico... POR QUÉ HAY ALGO EN VEZ DE NADA?, o su Equivalente expresado de una forma más coloquial... QUÉ "COÑO" HACEMOS AQUI...? En fin, Elston... Gracias por la música y perdona por el "rollo". Un abrazo solidario desde España 💫💃🕺💫
Damn I want to hear his original studio version. It is blocked from You tube in the US. The US is becoming a hypercapitalistic country that ought to go to hell
From a Robt. Earl Keene song..."He knew a crusty caballero Who played an old gut string guitar And he sang like Marty Robbins could Played like no one I've known"
and a genius lost his special voice , it was not that long ago ... as he strained his weary vocal chords ... on Desolation Row . : / Listen to the original masterpiece from the Times They Are A Changin album instead .
Yes, exactly . I was listening to The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll when writing that . My simple mistake. I do own Highway 61 Revisted , along with all his 60s and 70 albums.
Just beautiful, isn't it a nightmare to think if Hitler had burned Bob's parents we wouldn't have Bob and his awesomeness and all the other great Jewish American entertainers God Bless them all.
don't care what anyone else thinks,This is Bob Dylan in full flow and BRILLIANT.
Who could not LOVE THIS....Masterpiece!
Yesyesyes!
You are correct, sir.
@@HRL48 great bob dylan
Dylan and the dead magic
In my opinion this is hands down the best live performance of any dylan song ever!
"hands in her back pockets...Betty Davis style". What a great image!
Gets better every time I listen to it. Genius
Nobody else can bring pathos and pain to this song but him
His poetry will live forever in his magical songs !
One of the best Bob Dylan song. Great performance!
this man ... this zimmerman ... jow he likes to play this song, i can see that from his face and body language ... after all those years, it still is amazing ... yes, this song undoubtedly is my favorite one ... thanks for uploading this version !
Love this song but the guitar rendition is wonderful! Enjoyed it immensely!
+steve elliot Interesting guitar work added by Dylan himself
John Spoor brings us ,,,this great DESOLATION ROW.... I love the ..in the moment comments !!!! A wonderful thrill in Real in Time #themusicalityofbobdylan. Thanks, Janey 2022
This version is the best one.
STUNNING!!!! Amazing performance, thank you.
Nessuno come lui . Lo ascolto da 50 anni e mi affascina sempre di più. Grazie Bob
Poetry masterclass
Hundreds of years from now when we speak of music, Mozart & Dylan shall be the two we speak of. With the latter being the more important of course.
ah now go on ;-)
Hundreds of years from now we are not going to speak anymore. Respect all the great artists!
I wonder what music will sound like?
His live performances are when he is at his spontaneous best. Feel so blessed to have lived to appreciate his immense God given talent. (and these UA-cam uploads).
I've listened to Dylan since the 1960's and I'm still amazed how one man can produce such perfection all the time.
Whenever I listen to Dylan i wonder why I listen to anyone else - a 20th C poet, they'll be studying his stuff at Uni's in a hundred years from now
1000 years too, if mankind still exists
wow I was there, he sings on many levels, but the genius is in the delivery and the words. Thanks
Obviously a great version ... love Bob's guitar on this! :)
So lovely. He skipped and alternated a few versus in this one.
Late 90's...A damn good era for Bob and the band.
Definitely..
What a great performance -thanks for sharing!
Yes, very lucky, In that era, two great artists at one venue, and I thank you for being there and sharing your videos!
Hey man, great slow down, and you get it, thank you for being there,and bringing it to everyone, who love Bob's Music!
I was not there. I'm just a fan and like to pass on beautiful videos.
this and "it's all right ma, I'm only bleeding" equals a Nobel Prize.
brilliantissime version ♥♥♥
such a wistful version love it Tysm John Spoor and Bobby and his fab band !
This tour was a shining highlight for both Dylan and Van! So lucky to have seen 2 shows in NYC!
I just watch this over and over.
After years of listening to it I can finally say this is my favourite Dylan song. Plain brilliant. Oh I remember the old days, spent by the river, it was another lifetime...
I was there! Thank you for sharing ... so many memories :)
What an imagination...who writes lines like these?...AND puts them to such amazing music...only Bob Dylan...genius!
What a musically awesome song!
Excellent, excellent, excellent!!!
Dylan you are a legend
+Allan B it's just the "GENIUS "i love him too ♥♥♥
no doubt about it - one of his master piece
Great version of one of my favourite songs. But Bob, you left out one of my fav verses! What happened to "Erza Pound and T S Eliot, fighting in the captain's tower, . . . ". How could you!
Another gem from the Boss, wonderful!
just LOVE Tony and the boys on "slow simmer" ... great performance!!
Forever 🌟🎹
What's not to love on desolation row, stay forever young you little rascal
He looked so immacutely frightful as he bummed a ciggarette
They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row
Cinderella, she seems so easy
“It takes one to know one,” she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning
“You Belong to Me I Believe”
And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend
You better leave”
And the only sound that’s left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On Desolation Row
Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars are beginning to hide
The fortune-telling lady
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
And the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing
He’s getting ready for the show
He’s going to the carnival tonight
On Desolation Row
Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday
She already is an old maid
To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
Her profession’s her religion
Her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah’s great rainbow
She spends her time peeking
Into Desolation Row
Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
With his friend, a jealous monk
He looked so immaculately frightful
As he bummed a cigarette
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet
Now you would not think to look at him
But he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin
On Desolation Row
Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
Inside of a leather cup
But all his sexless patients
They’re trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser
She’s in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps the cards that read
“Have Mercy on His Soul”
They all play on pennywhistles
You can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough
From Desolation Row
Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains
They’re getting ready for the feast
The Phantom of the Opera
A perfect image of a priest
They’re spoonfeeding Casanova
To get him to feel more assured
Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence
After poisoning him with words
And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls
“Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know
Casanova is just being punished for going
To Desolation Row”
Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row
Praise be to Nero’s Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody’s shouting
“Which Side Are You On?”
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain’s tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row
Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the doorknob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can’t read too good
Don’t send me no more letters, no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row
Thank you SO much,I’m deaf & no cc were provided!😊
Summer 2016.Still on the road..
Thank you for posting!
The best version of 'Desolation Row' (I think)
AGREE WITH YOU ♥♥♥
chris smither's isn't bad either.
My grandpa was a sailor about that time, and the
American Nors could barely speak the language...Good, I love this song.
Het blijft goed al hoor je het nog zoveel. Fantastisch
Sounds great one of favourite songs
Dylan brought the goods in '98 and '99.
Again this stunning string gripping magic - countering and poking. Bliss... this I follow the flow with my dads Hohner Blues Harop in A - thanks Dad (+ @ 89 in da year 2001)
"Equality, I spoke the word/ As if a wedding vow/ Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" :) , thanks4sharin` - WOW
Great guitar perform Bob😊
Fantastic!!
DO NOT "SLAGG BOB" HE IS THE KING
Yes! He is!!!
I was there . brilliant night.
Genius in motion....
Such a good take on Stienebeck's "Cannery Row. " doesnt matter if he cross the borderline, folk music does that, and should be always give and take and acknoloments to all.
So much older then, forever younger than that now, like a 30th century man.
I love this. thanks
'TRYING TO LIST ALL WONDERFUL & GOOD STUFF...FINDING SPORTS/MUSIC/ART/MIRACLES/MOVIES...THE GOOD/BAD/UGLY/MINE!'
YEAH BOB HONEY YOU AND YOUR BAND ARE THE BEST I AM JUST SMOKING AND LISTENING TO YOU A CIRCUS IS IN TOWN
ANOTHER GREAT SONG IT HARD TO KNOW WHICH ONE IS THE BEST I GUESS IT IS THE ONE THAT YOUR LISTING TO ....................
Maravillosa canción (para mi la mejor) del extraordinario poeta y excelente músico Bob Dylan... Uno de los tres grandes (en mi opinión) con Leonard Cohen y Lou Reed... "Desolation row", el lugar de la desolación, un grito desgarrado de la soledad existencial del ser humano, esa cadena sucesiva y eterna, de la que todos formamos parte, sin saber muy bien por qué ni para qué...
En el fondo, creo que las mejores canciones de Dylan apelan a una pregunta que no tiene respuesta... Y TODO ESTO (QUE NO DEJA DE SER, ES CIERTO, UN MILAGRO MARAVILLOSO... TODO ESTO, PARA QUÉ?, o dicho de un modo más filosófico... POR QUÉ HAY ALGO EN VEZ DE NADA?, o su Equivalente expresado de una forma más coloquial... QUÉ "COÑO" HACEMOS AQUI...?
En fin, Elston... Gracias por la música y perdona por el "rollo". Un abrazo solidario desde España 💫💃🕺💫
Dylan = a genius!
absolute song
Great deep feeling
Every version is lightly different, which does not matter at all.
Cooking apples and a bowl of sugar and a mills and boon were my downfall
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Oh, geez, I love this!!!
Дилан - эпоха, которая к счастью, ещё не закончилась!
Я полностью с вами согласен!
Fab, fab, fab go Bobby go !!!!!!!!!!
"Desolation Row" -- Positively Orwellian.
Instrumental interlude: 5:55
Damn I want to hear his original studio version. It is blocked from You tube in the US. The US is becoming a hypercapitalistic country that ought to go to hell
Never heard the verse about Nero’s Neptune, ...is it on any YT videos?
Love it!!!!!!!!!
Thats from My Back Pages
From a Robt. Earl Keene song..."He knew a crusty caballero
Who played an old gut string guitar
And he sang like Marty Robbins could
Played like no one I've known"
Bobs in pain here..damn
Why cant i play like thus
Desolation Row sounds like California dreaming
1000% awesome
🎼🎼🎼⭐️⭐️
' slightly different'.
Words in the bracket is “My Back Page”
I know :) But my point is: he was so much older then, he's younger than that now. :)
John Spoor ..☺???..☺findag👪ogdetblirnokenturtilBergen
Does anyone know the history behind this one?
Woolhall filmed this
unfuckingbelievable - play your pennywhistle - desolation row
and a genius lost his special voice , it was not that long ago ... as he strained his weary vocal chords ... on Desolation Row . : / Listen to the original masterpiece from the Times They Are A Changin album instead .
It's on Highway61 Revisited :)
Yes, exactly . I was listening to The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll when writing that . My simple mistake. I do own Highway 61 Revisted , along with all his 60s and 70 albums.
+ThefightingCelt You mean listen to that version "also"... :-)
No , I really did mean instead . : )
This is a great version! I love his voice at this point in his career for this song in particular
I AM NOT FROM DESOLATION ROW BOB HONEY I AM TOO LOUD AND PROUD ON MYSELF I HAVE JUST WASH MY LONG HAIR THE CIRCUS IS IN TOWN
Just beautiful, isn't it a nightmare to think if Hitler had burned Bob's parents we wouldn't have Bob and his awesomeness and all the other great Jewish American entertainers God Bless them all.
Bob's parents were both born in the United States but I get you're coming from.
I cpuld wear the crown
What a bridge
🎶💃💞👏
Honeeeee Oh Hone Boba.
WOW
tragically degenerate shadow of young dylan dying on a cross.o
Should have got Fisher seals
Cannot understand him