The Dylan lines "For them Who must respect authority That they do not respect in any degree Who dispise their jobs their destiny Speak jealously of them that are free Do what they do just to be nothing more than something they invest in " Coupled with Jack Nicholson's comment "What you represent to them is freedom " is the gist of the entire movie....Very few people are truly free!
@@SkeligMichael But talkin’ about it and bein’ it, that’s two different things. I mean, it’s real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don’t ever tell anybody that they’re not free, ’cause then they’re gonna get real busy killin’ and maimin’ to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they’re gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ’em.
This is a tough song to cover. When I first heard the song, it was being performed at a High School talent show. I recall noting what a challenging mouthful the lyrics had to have been for the young Folk musician performing the song that evening. Roger McGuinn does such a fine cover, it is my preferred version for listening.
@@gkarjala For some reason the soundtrack I had here in the UK didn't have this song on it. Not sure if it was a copyright issue. Glad to be able to listen to it now.
@@TibetanFox68 Im surprised at that Mark. I've got the original vinyl version and it's on that. I actually bought the album so I could have this track. When I first watched Easy Rider at the cinema this track blew me away.
@@TibetanFox68 Years ago, I recall reading that there was some kind of intellectual property matter to do with the song, and/or recordings of it, that was a hurdle.
Partly. Detest edited, shortened, "sawn off" versions of things, it's like showing the Mona Lisa with a corner sawn off, or a Bible with a few books done away with here and there.
@@repentorperish1405 well I gotta say budd, I've just discovered the song, bob dylan version is raw, it's his song so.. it is as epic as it gets. I'm listening to other versions I ended up here, in my opinion this come second, epic in its own way, fast and driven, dylan version is an epic poetic and cinematic, and this is more like a folky approach and it's good, veery good actually.
Makes it sound both easy & very decent indeed. A brilliant individual who was doing the counter culture thing before it even started. The documentary "Echo In The Canyon" is well worth a watch. Thanks for the great upload ♥
Wow! At the end of this recording, what you hear is from the 1969 movie, Easy Rider. Peter Fonda's character on his Captain America chopper is being shotgun blasted by a pair of Southern crackers in their pickup truck, and then the blasted & ruptured gas tank with the Captain America chopper blowing up. Roger McGuinn's "It's Alright, Ma", to it's 1st chorus, is the music heard leading in to that tragic ending of the film.
I deeply love songs that made me feel like I'm at somewhere other than where I am right now and this song made me feel like I'm in an old american movie
I watched Easy Rider this afternoon for the 30th time and shed a tear for the 30th time at the end. Too sad ! Great song in a great film. God bless you Peter and Dennis. Welcome to the Time Machine….
funny... 🤔 after watching the Arkansas Attorney General talk about protecting her state against "the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the likes of the radical left" I wondered for a moment "where have I seen this before?" and watched the end of Easy Rider a couple times. Knew that wasn't Dylan, and came here. Glad to see someone else with a similar connection.
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Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child's balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon There is no sense in trying. Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn Suicide remarks are torn From the fool's gold mouthpiece The hollow horn plays wasted words Proves to warn That he not busy being born Is busy dying. Temptation's page flies out the door You follow, find yourself at war Watch waterfalls of pity roar You feel to moan but unlike before You discover That you'd just be One more person crying. So don't fear if you hear A foreign sound to your ear It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing. As some warn victory, some downfall Private reasons great or small Can be seen in the eyes of those that call To make all that should be killed to crawl While others say don't hate nothing at all Except hatred. Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their mark Made everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much Is really sacred. While preachers preach of evil fates Teachers teach that knowledge waits Can lead to hundred-dollar plates Goodness hides behind its gates But even the president of the United States Sometimes must have To stand naked. An' though the rules of the road have been lodged It's only people's games that you got to dodge And it's alright, Ma, I can make it. Advertising signs that con you Into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on All around you. You lose yourself, you reappear You suddenly find you got nothing to fear Alone you stand with nobody near When a trembling distant voice, unclear Startles your sleeping ears to hear That somebody thinks They really found you. A question in your nerves is lit Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy Insure you not to quit To keep it in your mind and not fergit That it is not he or she or them or it That you belong to. Although the masters make the rules For the wise men and the fools I got nothing, Ma, to live up to. For them that must obey authority That they do not respect in any degree Who despise their jobs, their destinies Speak jealously of them that are free Cultivate their flowers to be Nothing more than something They invest in. While some on principles baptized To strict party platform ties Social clubs in drag disguise Outsiders they can freely criticize Tell nothing except who to idolize And then say God bless him. While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he's in. But I mean no harm nor put fault On anyone that lives in a vault But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him. Old lady judges watch people in pairs Limited in sex, they dare To push fake morals, insult and stare While money doesn't talk, it swears Obscenity, who really cares Propaganda, all is phony. While them that defend what they cannot see With a killer's pride, security It blows the minds most bitterly For them that think death's honesty Won't fall upon them naturally Life sometimes Must get lonely. My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards False gods, I scuff At pettiness which plays so rough Walk upside-down inside handcuffs Kick my legs to crash it off Say okay, I have had enough What else can you show me? And if my thought-dreams could be seen They'd probably put my head in a guillotine But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.
IT'S Fryday the 16th, 2024 of February, Dear Mom, Don't worry right now IT'S my left Thigh bone. IT'S gotta name but no Cure. It's my RIGHT Eye Mom. Your's Always in TRINITY. P.J.
I thought this was the version on the soundtrack. I know there have been live versions but this, I think, is the one from the soundtrack release, complete with crash FX at the end.
True in 69 true in 2018 , the more things change the more they stay the same. Well done roger peace man. I wonder if his majesty trump. Has ever listin to this?
Wild version this one by Roger McGuinn... It is said that Peter Fonda commissioned it to McGuinn for Easy Rider, because it was complicated to buy the rights from Bob Dylan. Harmonica is by Parson.
For me, this is the definitive version. I heard Roger do it first and when I heard Dylan's I didn't like it although I enjoy Dylan's work and appreciate the genius of his craft..
I'm a fan of The Byrds and McGuinn, but this version isn't close to being as good as Dylan's. Venom oozes from Bob's voice as he spits out the lyrics, and the instrumentation is so spare that you can feel the writer's frustration.
I have always found myself wondering why this generations musicians had such a maturity. Songs like this were written by people who were mostly teenagers, certainly under 25. Dylan more than most but also the Beatles, Paul Simon and many others were, I suppose, born with "Old souls."
These were children of the atomic age. Born either during or right after the second world war, their life experiences were decades old before they even graduated high school. Young people today could never write such music with poignant clarity
No matter what you think of this version the Byrds, and the members would not have had much going for them if not for Dylan. They covered a lot of his songs. And that is true of other musicians as well- many have covered Dylan. I prefer Dylan's original version best myself. His guitar playing is superb.
Let's hear you do better Marta, be successful at it and influence future artists. Isn't it a pity you can't even grasp the depth of your own ignorance and spelling??
I'll Always Love you Mom, R.I.P.
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Mcguinn puts on his best "Dylan" vocal on this track, a hard song to cover, but he totally nails it!
The way he says, "Trying." is the best!
Even though McGuinn’s take is a shortened version, this is still the best protest song ever written. Absolutely stunning lyrics!
Never thought it was protest song. I know it as soundtrack for the DYING SCENE of peter fonda in the Easy Rider movie
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The Dylan lines "For them Who must respect authority That they do not respect in any degree Who dispise their jobs their destiny Speak jealously of them that are free Do what they do just to be nothing more than something they invest in " Coupled with Jack Nicholson's comment "What you represent to them is freedom " is the gist of the entire movie....Very few people are truly free!
Very few people are truly free. Sad, but true.
@@SkeligMichael But talkin’ about it and bein’ it, that’s two different things. I mean, it’s real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don’t ever tell anybody that they’re not free, ’cause then they’re gonna get real busy killin’ and maimin’ to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they’re gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ’em.
@@Kamaitachi5587 that's the most accurate depiction of man I've ever read!
I just watched Easy Rider for the 1st time yesterday 8/20/2022...took me long enough. It's definitely makes a statement.
we blew it, man
This is a tough song to cover. When I first heard the song, it was being performed at a High School talent show. I recall noting what a challenging mouthful the lyrics had to have been for the young Folk musician performing the song that evening. Roger McGuinn does such a fine cover, it is my preferred version for listening.
Like our parents said, they don’t make songs like that anymore!
Roger is an all time great!!
as a 17 year old this Dylan tune blew my socks off when I saw Easy Rider
Never understood how this version isn't more famous... I've never even been able to find it in an album.
Easy Rider soundtrack. And you're right, this version is awesome.
@@gkarjala For some reason the soundtrack I had here in the UK didn't have this song on it. Not sure if it was a copyright issue. Glad to be able to listen to it now.
@@TibetanFox68 Im surprised at that Mark. I've got the original vinyl version and it's on that. I actually bought the album so I could have this track. When I first watched Easy Rider at the cinema this track blew me away.
@@TibetanFox68 Years ago, I recall reading that there was some kind of intellectual property matter to do with the song, and/or recordings of it, that was a hurdle.
Dylan's words covered beautifully by the legendary Jim (Roger) McGuinn
This is one of these songs for the cover would be better than the original.
Partly. Detest edited, shortened, "sawn off" versions of things, it's like showing the Mona Lisa with a corner sawn off, or a Bible with a few books done away with here and there.
@@repentorperish1405 well I gotta say budd, I've just discovered the song, bob dylan version is raw, it's his song so.. it is as epic as it gets. I'm listening to other versions I ended up here, in my opinion this come second, epic in its own way, fast and driven, dylan version is an epic poetic and cinematic, and this is more like a folky approach and it's good, veery good actually.
Nice photo of McGuinn! "He not busy bein' born is busy dyin'."
McGuinn brought this great classic into the forefront with this version!
I'm disappointed with SPOTIFY. Can't seem to find this version.
Makes it sound both easy & very decent indeed. A brilliant individual who was doing the counter culture thing before it even started. The documentary "Echo In The Canyon" is well worth a watch. Thanks for the great upload ♥
rest in peace Wyatt and Billy!
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~~Easy Rider music, really captured a whole generation at odds with the world and the establishment..
Yeah too bad you hippys souled out in the end...
@@jpw9012 well, we all sellout in the end, don't we "brother" lol, peace love & all that shit.
Roll another one
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Wow! At the end of this recording, what you hear is from the 1969 movie, Easy Rider. Peter Fonda's character on his Captain America chopper is being shotgun blasted by a pair of Southern crackers in their pickup truck, and then the blasted & ruptured gas tank with the Captain America chopper blowing up. Roger McGuinn's "It's Alright, Ma", to it's 1st chorus, is the music heard leading in to that tragic ending of the film.
OMG
Why don't you get a haircut? Wha'happened?
I deeply love songs that made me feel like I'm at somewhere other than where I am right now and this song made me feel like I'm in an old american movie
I can never end this before it's finished. In the car I sometimes put it on repeat.
I do that
Best cover song ever
I'll Always Love me Neal Patrick Fry
Roger Mcguinn ist one of the best masculin folk singers of the sixties !
I watched Easy Rider this afternoon for the 30th time and shed a tear for the 30th time at the end. Too sad ! Great song in a great film. God bless you Peter and Dennis. Welcome to the Time Machine….
funny... 🤔 after watching the Arkansas Attorney General talk about protecting her state against "the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and the likes of the radical left" I wondered for a moment "where have I seen this before?" and watched the end of Easy Rider a couple times. Knew that wasn't Dylan, and came here. Glad to see someone else with a similar connection.
Bad ass song of all time
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Something about the songwriters and musicians of the 60's we don't see these days!
And probably never will sadly .
Listening to this, it's clear why Dylan won the Nobel.
I first heard this cover by Roger McGuinn and then I heard the original by Bob Dylan. I think, the coverversion is better.
Roger McGuinns version is even better than the orginal.
He didn´t win the Nobel. Alfred Nobel is long time gone and dead. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
@@SkeligMichael However, he declined it.
he did not@@carlgustav945
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.
So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.
Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him.
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False gods, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.
it´s my childhood.... and i love it. I´m with you....
I've got nothing ma to live up to
6th grade. Favorite song. Big brother 4 yrs older.
Watched Easy Rider and Concert For Bangladesh on the big screen at 10 ot so!
イージーライダーを観ていて最も印象に残った曲です。それからだいぶ年月経ってから、曲名とか歌手名が気になって調べたら、ロジャー・マッギンの｢ It's Alright Ma｣ という曲でした。
Original Bob dylan
Omg love it! Had the 8 track! My kids don't get it! Lol
Kids are stupid nowadays.
I live 5 miles from the area where Billy and captain America were killed in the movie easy rider this song is so fitting for this pl
Just awesome!!!!
IT'S Fryday the 16th, 2024 of February,
Dear Mom,
Don't worry right now IT'S my left
Thigh bone. IT'S gotta name but no
Cure. It's my RIGHT Eye Mom.
Your's Always in TRINITY.
P.J.
You don't here tunes like this anymore
✌🏼Cool version man 👍🏼
My ride theme song... great cover of Bob Dylan
Thanks for Posting, Nothing has Changed !!!!
thanks, love this song
Harmonica by Gene Parsons (multi-instrumentalist sublime).....
I thought this was the version on the soundtrack. I know there have been live versions but this, I think, is the one from the soundtrack release, complete with crash FX at the end.
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When I 1st heard this, I thought is was Dylan, both voice and lyrics, Wow, what a likeness>>>!!!!
Me too. Always thought it was Dylan. Very atmospheric.
excellent!!!!
Awesome
Dat guitar!
One moody masterpiece
True in 69 true in 2018 , the more things change the more they stay the same. Well done roger peace man. I wonder if his majesty trump. Has ever listin to this?
Roger is rapping on this one! Lol!
super music
LOVE YOU MA!!! its all right Ma LG.
Following on from the Easyrider theme,I'll be dead in twenty years but I've had a far better life than most....:-)
Wild version this one by Roger McGuinn... It is said that Peter Fonda commissioned it to McGuinn for Easy Rider, because it was complicated to buy the rights from Bob Dylan. Harmonica is by Parson.
First rap rap song ever!
Burned in my mind from Easy Rider
Best version of this song .
earliest rap song?
For me, this is the definitive version. I heard Roger do it first and when I heard Dylan's I didn't like it although I enjoy Dylan's work and appreciate the genius of his craft..
I'm a fan of The Byrds and McGuinn, but this version isn't close to being as good as Dylan's. Venom oozes from Bob's voice as he spits out the lyrics, and the instrumentation is so spare that you can feel the writer's frustration.
Bob Dylan sure knows how to write amazing songs but this version far surpassed the original
Great song of protest
The Byrds
Jo que recuerdos
I have always found myself wondering why this generations musicians had such a maturity. Songs like this were written by people who were mostly teenagers, certainly under 25. Dylan more than most but also the Beatles, Paul Simon and many others were, I suppose, born with "Old souls."
These were children of the atomic age. Born either during or right after the second world war, their life experiences were decades old before they even graduated high school. Young people today could never write such music with poignant clarity
No matter what you think of this version the Byrds, and the members would not have had much going for them if not for Dylan. They covered a lot of his songs. And that is true of other musicians as well- many have covered Dylan. I prefer Dylan's original version best myself. His guitar playing is superb.
Turn, Turn, Turn. . .8 Miles High, yeah nothing here. . .
This guys famous for covering Dylan songs in the birds and solo while Dylan is an active musician playing his own songs…
Muy buena versión de dylan
good, but bobs is a full masterpiece
EASY RIDER ;)
Don't Bogart Me
The Byrds live version of this is just as good. I think its on the Byrds play Dylan cd.
"he not busy being born is busy dying"
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HIPPY SOLD OUT
There is no sense in trying (ho ho ho)
he toooo busy trying🗿🎤🎼🚴🚵
Dam..now I'm going to have to watch .nick nick . . Indian again
Better than the original IMO. Probably has something to do with when i heard it in my life tough
Does anyone know if I can send this song to my Deezer account as I can't find this version of the song on Deezer thanks.
Dylan is a great songwriter but prefer the covers.
I think this was the soundtrack to the Vietnam war not "Fortunate Son" or other candy ass tunes.
I cannot find this song on apple or anywhere for download. HELP!
'Easy Rider' Soundtrack?
Essa versão é 100x melhor que a do bob Dylan
A minha é melhor que todas 😂🎉
The Youth of today is so passed, you just can puke.
I would rather not puke but carry on listening
420 likes DONT TOUCH IT
21 are only bleeding.
If they ain't... they should be!
McGuinn sung this much better than Dylan.
Could have been written in 2020. Not much has been learned in the last half century.
Its not he or it that you belong to
It’s lacking in conviction
He didn't even do the whole song. What a freaking rip-off! He was sounded good too. I am disappointed
Pitty he's got no voice (simply can't sing).
And then there's people that can't spell. Isn't it a pity?
Pity that you just don’t grasp it !
Let's hear you do better Marta, be successful at it and influence future artists. Isn't it a pity you can't even grasp the depth of your own ignorance and spelling??
"He not busy being born is busy dying"