A brilliant poet, the voice of the 60's Im 74 now and still recall these songs like they were yesterday...he will go down in history as one of our greatest artists.
@@cficarra You're probably correct but still a possibility, since in the past some have seemingly kept up with his life's journey and made awful false allegations about and against him. It really upsets me that the ole green-eyed monster at times surfaces spewing its misdirected jealousy where it doesn't belong. I have followed and been a fan of Bob's since 1970. I am certain he is as genuine as they come. Bob Dylan forever❤️
Come on man, that is so wrong. Bob's voice is sometimes great but sometimes it's sort of hard to listen to, per this song. Depends on the song, a la Neil Young. Production values count so much with 'unique' not so melodic vocals. It's an interesting melody, not a good one to me. A better song by Dylan is My Back Pages. Hope I'm not chiming in on your parade. The lyrics to My Back Pages are less cumbersome and less tiresome for me. In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand / At the mongrel dogs who teach / Fearing not that I’d become my enemy/ In the instant that I preach. See? Easy to understand and therefore more accessible to the unwashed masses and without the drudgery of the ponderous Chimes. Each lyric to My Back Pages leaps out of the Jimmy Page at me; few do with 'Chimes'. I like the honesty of self-doubt in My Back Pages and Chimes is just too much of an ostentatious show, for me. I guess Chimes is for the true believers that Dylan abandoned at Newport.
@@oppothumbs1 If I can allow myself, I like your analysis and the choice you took for comparing what you like and dislikke in Dylan's work, specially because to me, " my back pages" is his greatest song regarding the lyrics, and possibly the melody too, although it's finally a quite simple one..(melody) I agree with the saying the lyrics in "back pages are more percussive and easy going for the mind, (in fact they're absolut pure poetry, ) but however, to me the lyrics of "Chimes.. are still beautiful and interesting, ( although I must confess that, beeing French, I never took the time to understand them all, (wich I did of course for "my back pages..) and only read them all once, a LONG time ago when Dylan started to obsess me.. Anyway and despite what I've just confessed, I think I get what you mean about the "ponderous and ostentation" side of Chimes lyrics.. But still, sometimes, I like the elaborated side of some songs, which require a slight effort to reveal a huge beauty..
@@oppothumbs1 You misunderstood my comment--probably my fault...I meant "his voice" in more of the artistic sense of the word, not the actual sound of his voice.
@@sebasdebordeaux8347 Sure, your analysis is good. I do like deep or hard-to-understand lyrics sometimes, but I guess in this case I'm not really into the melody of Chimes to even want to know the lyrics. While writing you I had to turn off this song (lol) cause I sort of hate the melody and less so the singing and I don't mind Dylan's vocals ever if I like the song. I love Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Tangled up in blue, Positively Fourth Street - though none of these songs are lyrically complex as Chimes - and then I like the easy-to-understand Girl from the North Country, I Threw it all Away, Knocking on Heaven's Door, for examples. I think it just comes down to the melody, for me. There is a folk singer I like as much as Dylan .. Phil Ochs. I don't even share his politics but he can be a great lyricsist and songwriter. If you have a mind too, listen to Ochs' "Changes" or "Tape From California". Dylan can possess my mind, but Ochs, my heart and mind.
I told my friend, who thought his lyrics were important, “there‘a nothing you can say I haven’t already heard in a Bob Dylan song” Wasn’t trying to be mean. Just stating facts
Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️😊
A few years ago a radio station was taking nominees for the iconic voices of music and I nominated this singer, this song, this version. I’m 73 and Dylan remains by boyhood idol. May he stay forever young
77 here. He can't explain this song or most of his songs. You have to feel it as it can only be explained by singing or listening to it. I play it several times a week
With the power of both Chimes of Freedom and Ballad in Plain D, it is my favorite Dylan album. I admit I stopped listening to him after Blonde on Blonde as I did not like his new style. I liked him better as a gifted writer of folk songs.
Hmmn "Motor Psycho Nightmare" and "I Shall Be Free #10"? I mean it's an amazing album and this is coming from a Dylanphile of the highest degree but not every song is a winner. And songs like "Ballad in Plain D" are just bitter and angry. While I love his Symbolist era songs I still think he is at his best when writing his little love pop songs mixed with Symbolist imagery like "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
When I was a teenager in the 90's My Girlfriend and I would lay in Bed listening to the Northwest weather and this master album, held each other and Paid attention to each word each note.... We would go on to get married and have 2 boys, (Now grown) we are now Grandparents ... Thanks Dylan
When I WAS 12 my brother gave me a guitar, a chord book and the 1st Bob Dylan album. Years later we were in Scotland, and I (the little brother) was trying to tell him, it's not the music it's the poetry, he couldn't understand the difference. When Dylan got awarded a Nobel for his poetry my brother wrote to me here in Ireland and said "I understand". So never again if in Ireland or Scotland, we will chill with some whiskey and just enjoy possibly the greatest poet of our century
@@randomps2gamer283 Lyrically speaking, I'd put this song up against anything. It reads like classic literature and I love it. You're welcome to your own opinion though
How does one so young as Bob was when he wrote this understand life and the world like he did. Something in his soul saw the whole human condition long before he should have learned all this wisdom.
Bob Dylan is a national (and international) treasure who exemplifies the highest ideals and hopes for this country and all of humanity . There should be a national holiday in his name.
No one, except Shakespeare, has magnified our soul and spirit and struggles better. Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
I played the first five of Dylan's albums until the grooves and ridges were all but eliminated. Joyous, soulful, magical tour of our young lives. No one saw, felt, expressed it all, as did Bob Dylan. Truly, an American, a world treasure.
Can anybody tell me why he had to wait until 2016 for a Nobel prize? This guy is inimitable, unique, awesome, tremendous, etc, etc.. He deserves another Nobel prize, NOW, while he's still with us. Bob Dylan, you're a marvel.
You are wonderful and amazing darling, you are one in a million and I'm so thankful for your music and and your love 💗 for all of us. You will go down in History as a great musician, poet and writer, I love you Elizabeth ❤️
He was so young when he wrote this! Imagine seeing him perform this in the early days. I think this has to be one of the richest and most beautiful song ever. There's just so much in there.
I believe he wrote this and Mr. Tambourine Man around the same time. He went on a car Journey with some friends. Took LSD for the first time. Went to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras. I think after this experience, his songwriting went up quite a few notches. His songs began to look inward, and so with his influence on the likes of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, music would never be the same again. He influenced everyone from the top, Beatles, Stones, to bands just starting out, and because of this there was an explosion of great music in the mid to late '60s.
In 2012 Amnesty International released an album called “Chimes of Freedom” made up of over 70 covers of Dylan’s songs by artists of all genres. It is a testament to his brilliance as a songwriter and composer. Significantly, the only song featuring Dylan himself is “Chimes of Freedom”. Good enough for Amnesty International, good enough for me!
Jesus Christ! I live in a foreign country and sometimes tell people Dylan is where it is at. It is not simply just beauty, it is understanding, a deep connectedness, and truth. Hearing it changes me forever for the better. Wow. What a song.
Sorry, but if you're going to label any of his songs as the "voice of the 60's" it would have to be Blowing In The Wind. i always thought that Phil Ochs got short shrift when compared to Dylan. He was a better guitarist , a better singer, and though not as many songs in his library, every bit the lyricist as Dylan.
@@oleggorky906right on! I liked Ochs too, but he was a bit of a one-trick finger-pointing pony who lacked Dylan's depth and breadth. I agree with you about Prine. To me, he's the closest we've seen to Dylan... Such intimacy in his lyrics. Was lucky enough to see him live only months before his passing.
@@oleggorky906 I always have enjoyed that about Dylan... He's completely comfortable with who he is... Take me or leave me, I am who I am and owe you no explanation. That approach sure makes life easier.
@Bob Dylan Thank you Bob. I love your love songs and folk songs. I love all his lyrics, be what be the gender, because they are superb and unique and put the reality in all his essential beauty/ugly. Nobody had/has your courage and sensibility to write all his lyrics. Nobody, in all the world was and is able to write that lyrics. Only you Bob. I feel your heart and your soul in your songs. I love you for all your capacity of Creation and your humanity as the special human being you are. God bless you and all your fans, including me. Take care yourself too.
And for every hung up person in the whole wide universe...Thank you Bob Dylan ....I heard that at about 14 in '69 after Positively 4rth St turned me on and buying every Bob Dylan album in any order. Last saw Mr Dylan in Bend Oregon June 2022 False Prophet tour and songs. Re-listening is mind-blowing what is contained in all his work.
His poetry on this album is stunning. A 23 year old poet expressing his growing weariness in My Back Pages, his realization that he may never find love on It Ain't Me, and his sincere care for the common man on Chimes. To create three such songs in a career would be laudable and he does it on one record.
This song covers so many of the sections of my prayers with my prayer partner. We meet once a week and cover a lot of these points. God Bless you so much for your regular beacon lights in our various different weather and the wind chimes blowinin the wind as you have noted to us. Thank you very much.
I am feeling well as long as I am able to watch and listen to Bob Dylan. These words of The Chimes are still working since you recorded them almost 60 years ago!!!
I'm only a coupla years younger than Bob. I was still at school (in Scotland) when he burst upon the scene. Changed my life. Still does. I sincerely hope I pass away before he does. I couldn't handle his death.
Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight An' for each an' ev'ry underdog soldier in the night An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. Through the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched With faces hidden while the walls were tightening As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin' rain Dissolved into the bells of the lightning Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an' forsaked Tolling for the outcast, burnin' constantly at stake An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind An' the unpawned painter behind his rightful time An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales For the disrobed faceless forms of no position Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts All down in taken-for-granted situations Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute For the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute For the misdemeanor outlaw, chained an' cheated by pursuit An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. 🎵🎶🎵🎶 Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed An' the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. 🎵🎶🎵🎶 Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Happy Birthday to you .Bob Dylan.May you stay for ever young God bless you so much. Thank for your wonderful songs full of the spirit of God like chimes freedom.
For some surreal reason in the midst of my dismay about the aggressions against the Ukraine, I felt compelled to listen to this song yet again and read all verses of the original composition. This song is timeless genius and unfortunately it will be channeled by many generations to come as we continue to find ways to dismantle peace, harmony, and order on this planet. Thank you Bob. You nailed the issues. Humanity has been incapable of nailing the solutions. I can only hope that I am wrong.
Theres not an artist ever that can write lyrics like the proper king of music The rest have so much to learn from my god i love ya bob i dont know what i ever would have done without ya Ya kept me going for decades now
What, would Bob be about 23 years old when this was recorded? This entire album was recorded in one night. And he told us a lot about his changed with My Back Pages and then just did what he wanted ever since. That takes immense courage.
"Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind And the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing" I started crying after the 3rd verse the first time I heard this song many years ago
It's the first time I've heard it (at 50!) and I can't stop crying! All this guy ever was, was love, who fought relentless for the oppressed with courage and truth for 60 years, regardless the price I reckon was high. He was my my first musical love and right now, listening to this epic Anthem unclassed, I'm pretty sure he'll be my last 🕊
I’ve always liked this one.It still means as much today as it did then.No major wars yet but who knows what the future holds for us.Prayers for peace and freedom for all.
Haven’t listened to this in years and years. God bless the people and soldiers of the Ukraine; Godspeed to you and your country. This is a sad time for all freedom loving people…
Pahleeeze 🤦🏻♂️ !!! It takes two to Tango . G-d bless anyone caught in the middle of the insanity of war and oppression is the essence of this song . It’s not in any way about Nationalism . Get a grip !!!
@Shiekuerbooti Did you feel the same when Ukrainian Azov Battalion troops were killing women and children in Donbas - in a war that’s been going on for 8 years and has killed thousands? Or did you wait until the mainstream media told you to care for the side supported by the CIA, WEF and Mossad, and headed by an actor infamous for playing the piano with his shlong ? The fact is that Russia did not start this war. Ukrainian troops did. And the Ukrainian government reneged on their agreement remain neutral, and not to ally with the EU and NATO. Try doing some research before posting such nonsense.
correct me if im wrong but i think all these new videos are a result of the company that bought him out. I'm all for anything that makes it easier to hear this cat. God bless.
Dylan was almost impossible to find on YTube prior to the buyout. I'd say that he had the old guy approach to the modern marketplace. The risk isn't that you'll be overexposed....Rather the risk is that you'll be irrelevant.
@@godwarrior3403 Do you ascribe your own interpretation to the meaning of everything everybody says, to fit comfortably in your delusional state, or just what Bob cryptically eluded to in a TV interview… in the poetically vague sort of manner… which coincidentally just happens to be his hallmark, genius and calling card ? Don’t bother to answer that especially because I won’t see it, but I will drive point home . People who believe what you apparently do are certifiably insane .
Being introduced to his music as late as 1979 coming to San Francisco as a somewhat naive german immigrant I'm forever grateful to my best friend and mentor "Uncle Dan" for introducing me to this heartwrenching music❤
And the youth of today really, really, needs to go back and listen to his works. So meaningful today,
The young do listen to Bob Dylan....I was 37 when a young one, a teenager explained why Bob dylan's voice was so important.
Required listening! For the truly educated. Music educators....etc..
“Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight” - I will never ever forget that line, every time it just blows my mind.
The single mateless mother. The mistiteled prostitute. They, too, are incredible lines. Nice one, friend.M.F. McCorriston U.K. 🍀🏴🇮🇪🙏🇮🇪🏴🍀
A brilliant poet, the voice of the 60's Im 74 now and still recall these songs like they were yesterday...he will go down in history as one of our greatest artists.
This hit home. Bob Dylan is a lyrical genius.
Anyone who ever questioned Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize needs to listen to every word of this magnificent song.
Truth! Example, Joni Mitchell. Love Bob always 💕
Agreed. Of course, anyone who questions his Nobel is unlikely to turn up here anyway.
@@cficarra You're probably correct but still a possibility, since in the past some have seemingly kept up with his life's journey and made awful false allegations about and against him. It really upsets me that the ole green-eyed monster at times surfaces spewing its misdirected jealousy where it doesn't belong. I have followed and been a fan of Bob's since 1970. I am certain he is as genuine as they come. Bob Dylan forever❤️
One of the best American songs ever written
... And they need to listen to romance in Durango, Harvard Square version.
God so loved the word that he gave us Bob Dylan❤
Anyone who ever said they couldn't listen to Bob Dylan because of his voice never really heard Bob Dylan's voice in the first place.
Come on man, that is so wrong. Bob's voice is sometimes great but sometimes it's sort of hard to listen to, per this song. Depends on the song, a la Neil Young. Production values count so much with 'unique' not so melodic vocals.
It's an interesting melody, not a good one to me. A better song by Dylan is My Back Pages. Hope I'm not chiming in on your parade. The lyrics to My Back Pages are less cumbersome and less tiresome for me. In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand / At the mongrel dogs who teach / Fearing not that I’d become my enemy/ In the instant that I preach.
See? Easy to understand and therefore more accessible to the unwashed masses and without the drudgery of the ponderous Chimes. Each lyric to My Back Pages leaps out of the Jimmy Page at me; few do with 'Chimes'. I like the honesty of self-doubt in My Back Pages and Chimes is just too much of an ostentatious show, for me. I guess Chimes is for the true believers that Dylan abandoned at Newport.
@@oppothumbs1 If I can allow myself, I like your analysis and the choice you took for comparing what you like and dislikke in Dylan's work, specially because to me, " my back pages" is his greatest song regarding the lyrics, and possibly the melody too, although it's finally a quite simple one..(melody)
I agree with the saying the lyrics in "back pages are more percussive and easy going for the mind, (in fact they're absolut pure poetry, ) but however, to me the lyrics of "Chimes.. are still beautiful and interesting, ( although I must confess that, beeing French, I never took the time to understand them all, (wich I did of course for "my back pages..) and only read them all once, a LONG time ago when Dylan started to obsess me..
Anyway and despite what I've just confessed, I think I get what you mean about the "ponderous and ostentation" side of Chimes lyrics..
But still, sometimes, I like the elaborated side of some songs, which require a slight effort to reveal a huge beauty..
@@oppothumbs1 You misunderstood my comment--probably my fault...I meant "his voice" in more of the artistic sense of the word, not the actual sound of his voice.
@@sebasdebordeaux8347 Sure, your analysis is good. I do like deep or hard-to-understand lyrics sometimes, but I guess in this case I'm not really into the melody of Chimes to even want to know the lyrics. While writing you I had to turn off this song (lol) cause I sort of hate the melody and less so the singing and I don't mind Dylan's vocals ever if I like the song.
I love Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Tangled up in blue, Positively Fourth Street - though none of these songs are lyrically complex as Chimes - and then I like the easy-to-understand Girl from the North Country, I Threw it all Away, Knocking on Heaven's Door, for examples. I think it just comes down to the melody, for me. There is a folk singer I like as much as Dylan .. Phil Ochs. I don't even share his politics but he can be a great lyricsist and songwriter. If you have a mind too, listen to Ochs' "Changes" or "Tape From California". Dylan can possess my mind, but Ochs, my heart and mind.
@@charlieolewnik OK, sorry for my mistake.
There are so many brilliant songs by this incredible man. We’re fast coming to the end but what a journey we’ve all been on. Thanks Bob.
❤
🌹🎶🎩🎶🕊️🎶🙏 Legendary 😎Bob Dylan ❤️💯🤍
It's impossible to duplicate this lyrical brilliance. I don't see something like this happening again. Cheers!
I vow to these
I vow to thee
Ukraine
❤💝❤💝❤💝❤ /The mute
Bruce Springsteen done a good job on this gem
Everyone knows Dylan is THE lyrical genius. But he also has one of the most powerful voices in the history of popular music.
Please stop it right now/
@@stevenmeyer9674 no he’s 1000% correct:))
Simplemente descendencia Judia, recordad, Mardoqueo y Haddassah
I told my friend, who thought his lyrics were important, “there‘a nothing you can say I haven’t already heard in a Bob Dylan song”
Wasn’t trying to be mean. Just stating facts
Exactly.
One of Bob's absolutely best songs with incredible lyrics
Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️😊
@@BobDylan-1bob,you’ve been my idol since 1965 👍👏👏👏
The greatest poet of our times.
You not wrong. Bob is a genius.
Of all time
One of the greatest of our time?
Up there with Taylor Swift and Ye
A few years ago a radio station was taking nominees for the iconic voices of music and I nominated this singer, this song, this version. I’m 73 and Dylan remains by boyhood idol. May he stay forever young
I'm 25 and he's also my idol, now and forever
Same here, my friend.
Staying Forever Young in our hearts . . .
Ditto..I just turned 74
77 here. He can't explain this song or most of his songs. You have to feel it as it can only be explained by singing or listening to it. I play it several times a week
Only Bob sings all the verses of this amazing, poetic, timeless song. Dedicated to peace for the ages.
Hello,how are you doing it’s nice meeting you here.
Ever single song on this album is pure poetry
This album is criminally overlooked.
With the power of both Chimes of Freedom and Ballad in Plain D, it is my favorite Dylan album. I admit I stopped listening to him after Blonde on Blonde as I did not like his new style. I liked him better as a gifted writer of folk songs.
Hmmn "Motor Psycho Nightmare" and "I Shall Be Free #10"? I mean it's an amazing album and this is coming from a Dylanphile of the highest degree but not every song is a winner. And songs like "Ballad in Plain D" are just bitter and angry. While I love his Symbolist era songs I still think he is at his best when writing his little love pop songs mixed with Symbolist imagery like "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
This album was made in one night. Crazy
One of the greatest lyrics bob has ever written!
Thank you master
When I was a teenager in the 90's My Girlfriend and I would lay in Bed listening to the Northwest weather and this master album, held each other and Paid attention to each word each note.... We would go on to get married and have 2 boys, (Now grown) we are now Grandparents ... Thanks Dylan
Hahahahaha!!! Greaaat !!
Raindeer Project Good luck to you and yours. Thanks for sharing.
And my best friend/hubby and I are now Great Grandparents - Thanks, Dylan!!
@@langstongrandma Classic Martha also Has to be better than every one else... lol Congrats on the Great Grand Kiddos
When I WAS 12 my brother gave me a guitar, a chord book and the 1st Bob Dylan album. Years later we were in Scotland, and I (the little brother) was trying to tell him, it's not the music it's the poetry, he couldn't understand the difference. When Dylan got awarded a Nobel for his poetry my brother wrote to me here in Ireland and said "I understand". So never again if in Ireland or Scotland, we will chill with some whiskey and just enjoy possibly the greatest poet of our century
Every single word in this song flows on such a natural way.
Nobel could have been given after first 7 albums. Nobody ever wrote like he does!
Arguably best song of all time
Clearly! Only Bob’s many other masterpieces can compete with this astonishing, magnificent work of genius!
Best lyrics
not at all LOL
@@randomps2gamer283 Lyrically speaking, I'd put this song up against anything. It reads like classic literature and I love it. You're welcome to your own opinion though
All songs on this album were recorded in one night. To me, he has never sounded more archaic, as if previous ages are braided through his vocal cords
i personally think that no one has ever sounded more true in his words than bob in this album. this album was just briliantly produced no doubt.
I've always loved this album. I've learnt to play I don't believe you (She acts like we never have met), on guitar. As it's one of my favourites.
I say that all the time! 1964 Dylan had the best voice, sounds almost like a prophet of sorts
That's astonishing - recorded in one night. Yes, he is a genius
How does one so young as Bob was when he wrote this understand life and the world like he did. Something in his soul saw the whole human condition long before he should have learned all this wisdom.
Yes. I heard in a documentary something like "it's still hard to absorb all his work from the 60s to this day"... And I agree.
Es ist alles genauso gekommen
The greatest lyrical masterpiece I’ve ever hear.
A wordsmith and poet of the highest order. Pure bliss!
Bob Dylan is a national (and international) treasure who exemplifies the highest ideals and hopes for this country and all of humanity . There should be a national holiday in his name.
No one, except Shakespeare, has magnified our soul and spirit and struggles better.
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse
An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Love. I wish folks would really listen to the words of all of Bob's songs instead of listening to the lies of the media or bitter, jealous folks.,💜
I have many a times over and still find amazement in Bob's prowess of the English language and I blew up my tv decades ago.
Yebo Sandra.
I played the first five of Dylan's albums until the grooves and ridges were all but eliminated. Joyous, soulful, magical tour of our young lives. No one saw, felt, expressed it all, as did Bob Dylan. Truly, an American, a world treasure.
Same thing, when I was 14.
Well said. Nobody, no musician or singer has made me feel all that I feel when I listen to Dylan.
Still the most important and affecting song ever written.
Can anybody tell me why he had to wait until 2016 for a Nobel prize? This guy is inimitable, unique, awesome, tremendous, etc, etc.. He deserves another Nobel prize, NOW, while he's still with us.
Bob Dylan, you're a marvel.
I think he's got us all covered. Thanks Bob.
Still brings tears to my eyes!
You are wonderful and amazing darling, you are one in a million and I'm so thankful for your music and and your love 💗 for all of us. You will go down in History as a great musician, poet and writer, I love you Elizabeth ❤️
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
He was so young when he wrote this! Imagine seeing him perform this in the early days. I think this has to be one of the richest and most beautiful song ever. There's just so much in there.
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
I believe he wrote this and Mr. Tambourine Man around the same time. He went on a car Journey with some friends. Took LSD for the first time. Went to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras. I think after this experience, his songwriting went up quite a few notches. His songs began to look inward, and so with his influence on the likes of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, music would never be the same again. He influenced everyone from the top, Beatles, Stones, to bands just starting out, and because of this there was an explosion of great music in the mid to late '60s.
The greatest song that nobody knows.
That young voice! I remember when this came out. Brings tears to my eyes.
I first heard this song in the sixties. It remains one of the most powerful and memorable songs of that era. I was privileged to be there.
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here.
Bob's lyrics are his alone, exquisite, reflecting a peaceful heart, quiet mind, while calling us, all, to be that spark through everything+!
one of his greatest songs...
Thank you for this beautiful poem, oh gifted troubadour of the 60's!
perhaps his greatest song.
In 2012 Amnesty International released an album called “Chimes of Freedom” made up of over 70 covers of Dylan’s songs by artists of all genres. It is a testament to his brilliance as a songwriter and composer. Significantly, the only song featuring Dylan himself is “Chimes of Freedom”. Good enough for Amnesty International, good enough for me!
“Condemned to drift/or else be kept from drifting” BANG 💣 !!!
one of Bob's greatest poems.
In my opinion this is one of his greatest songs. The lyrics are truly wonderful.
Jesus Christ! I live in a foreign country and sometimes tell people Dylan is where it is at. It is not simply just beauty, it is understanding, a deep connectedness, and truth. Hearing it changes me forever for the better. Wow. What a song.
Probably the best song that captures the voice of the 60’s
Sorry, but if you're going to label any of his songs as the "voice of the 60's" it would have to be Blowing In The Wind. i always thought that Phil Ochs got short shrift when compared to Dylan. He was a better guitarist , a better singer, and though not as many songs in his library, every bit the lyricist as Dylan.
@@oleggorky906right on! I liked Ochs too, but he was a bit of a one-trick finger-pointing pony who lacked Dylan's depth and breadth. I agree with you about Prine. To me, he's the closest we've seen to Dylan... Such intimacy in his lyrics. Was lucky enough to see him live only months before his passing.
@@oleggorky906 I always have enjoyed that about Dylan... He's completely comfortable with who he is... Take me or leave me, I am who I am and owe you no explanation. That approach sure makes life easier.
What a beautiful meaningful song
Greatest Singer and songwriter ever there have been. He is better than even some vintage bands
Thank you to avalilable this wonderful song with this clear sound. God bless you.
@Bob Dylan Thank you Bob. I love your love songs and folk songs. I love all his lyrics, be what be the gender, because they are superb and unique and put the reality in all his essential beauty/ugly. Nobody had/has your courage and sensibility to write all his lyrics. Nobody, in all the world was and is able to write that lyrics. Only you Bob. I feel your heart and your soul in your songs. I love you for all your capacity of Creation and your humanity as the special human being you are. God bless you and all your fans, including me. Take care yourself too.
Our Planet Earth was saturated in Blue Light to illuminate the lovely persons and people like Bob Dylan that walk amongst us.
Hello Dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
And for every hung up person in the whole wide universe...Thank you Bob Dylan ....I heard that at about 14 in '69 after Positively 4rth St turned me on and buying every Bob Dylan album in any order. Last saw Mr Dylan in Bend Oregon June 2022 False Prophet tour and songs. Re-listening is mind-blowing what is contained in all his work.
Man, that's a great song.
Bob is the prophet and my conscience
His poetry on this album is stunning. A 23 year old poet expressing his growing weariness in My Back Pages, his realization that he may never find love on It Ain't Me, and his sincere care for the common man on Chimes. To create three such songs in a career would be laudable and he does it on one record.
This song covers so many of the sections of my prayers with my prayer partner. We meet once a week and cover a lot of these points. God Bless you so much for your regular beacon lights in our various different weather and the wind chimes blowinin the wind as you have noted to us. Thank you very much.
Hello Dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
I am feeling well as long as I am able to watch and listen to Bob Dylan. These words of The Chimes are still working since you recorded them almost 60 years ago!!!
Keeper of the faith, Bob Dylan.
Unbelievable. Just beautiful. Can't get any better.
The voice... nobody can sing like this... who can sing like this?
Nobody
One of his best songs
Yes
The poet and the painter, far behind his rightful time" The man is a genius
The greatest user of a pen ever. There will never be another Bob Dylan
Easily the best Dylan song ever.
Bob Dylan is a literary genious and worthy of this award!
Makes me cry every time I play this
... without fail 😢
🌹🎶🎩🎶🕊️🎶🙏
I'm only a coupla years younger than Bob. I was still at school (in Scotland) when he burst upon the scene. Changed my life. Still does. I sincerely hope I pass away before he does. I couldn't handle his death.
I'm 62 and wish I'd been 18 in 1967! M.F. McCorriston. Born Elder Park Street Govan, brought up in Bradford, friend.🏴🙏🏴
His songs will live forever so don't grieve too much.
This may be the most underrated song ever
Dylan is just actually the best.
Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll
We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing
As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds
Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing
Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
An' for each an' ev'ry underdog soldier in the night
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Through the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden while the walls were tightening
As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin' rain
Dissolved into the bells of the lightning
Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an' forsaked
Tolling for the outcast, burnin' constantly at stake
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
An' the unpawned painter behind his rightful time
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
All down in taken-for-granted situations
Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute
For the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
For the misdemeanor outlaw, chained an' cheated by pursuit
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
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Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An' the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
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Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look
Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse
An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Thank you for words!
Thank you for the words,,xo
Many thanks for this Lyric.
Thanks
What can you say about Dylan he was ment to be heard him 1964
Thanks Bob. You've made my life more beautiful. Hungs from Spain. I learnd to play guitar along with listening you.
Just look at all those songs on one album - stunning.
The words stand on their own feet, but they embrace the messages of change that were in the hearts and minds at the time. Awesome!
The memories . . . at home from school . . . listening to this original 33 1/3 album . . . diving back into the eternal . . . Thank you, Bob Dylan.
Hello,how are you doing it’s nice meeting you here.
Poet and painter and also an amazing musician.
Hello,how are you doing it’s nice meeting you here.
Happy Birthday to you .Bob Dylan.May you stay for ever young
God bless you so much.
Thank for your wonderful songs full of the spirit of God
like chimes freedom.
one of his greatest masterpieces he was on fire!
For some surreal reason in the midst of my dismay about the aggressions against the Ukraine, I felt compelled to listen to this song yet again and read all verses of the original composition. This song is timeless genius and unfortunately it will be channeled by many generations to come as we continue to find ways to dismantle peace, harmony, and order on this planet. Thank you Bob. You nailed the issues. Humanity has been incapable of nailing the solutions. I can only hope that I am wrong.
Whoever you are you are totally right. It is one of his greatest songs. Greetings from Germany.
Such a full meaning song !!
@Bob Dylan ❤
Theres not an artist ever that can write lyrics like the proper king of music
The rest have so much to learn from my god i love ya bob i dont know what i ever would have done without ya
Ya kept me going for decades now
how i love his voice and ALL !!
His live performance at Newport in 64 is amazing. I don't think a studio does the song justice.
What, would Bob be about 23 years old when this was recorded? This entire album was recorded in one night. And he told us a lot about his changed with My Back Pages and then just did what he wanted ever since. That takes immense courage.
Only Dylan can write and sing the songs he does. He truly is one of a kind been listening since the 60’s. God bless you
Been a fan for all adult life. This is likely the best song, poetry, social commentary ever written. Thank you. ❤
So beautiful
"Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
And the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing"
I started crying after the 3rd verse the first time I heard this song many years ago
It's the first time I've heard it (at 50!) and I can't stop crying!
All this guy ever was, was love, who fought relentless for the oppressed with courage and truth for 60 years, regardless the price I reckon was high.
He was my my first musical love and right now, listening to this epic Anthem unclassed, I'm pretty sure he'll be my last 🕊
This one and countless others at that perfect moment when words and song touches your heart and tears fall.
I’ve always liked this one.It still means as much today as it did then.No major wars yet but who knows what the future holds for us.Prayers for peace and freedom for all.
Hello, how are you doing it’s nice meeting you here.
Haven’t listened to this in years and years. God bless the people and soldiers of the Ukraine; Godspeed to you and your country. This is a sad time for all freedom loving people…
Yes. It resonates right now, doesn’t it?
Pahleeeze 🤦🏻♂️ !!!
It takes two to Tango .
G-d bless anyone caught in the middle of the insanity of war and oppression is the essence of this song . It’s not in any way about Nationalism . Get a grip !!!
@Shiekuerbooti Did you feel the same when Ukrainian Azov Battalion troops were killing women and children in Donbas - in a war that’s been going on for 8 years and has killed thousands?
Or did you wait until the mainstream media told you to care for the side supported by the CIA, WEF and Mossad, and headed by an actor infamous for playing the piano with his shlong ?
The fact is that Russia did not start this war. Ukrainian troops did. And the Ukrainian government reneged on their agreement remain neutral, and not to ally with the EU and NATO.
Try doing some research before posting such nonsense.
Gold bless those 24.000.000 Russians, who lost their life during the II. WW.
And the Vietnamese, the Iraquis, the Afghans, the Iranians.... I could go on.
Excellent
correct me if im wrong but i think all these new videos are a result of the company that bought him out. I'm all for anything that makes it easier to hear this cat. God bless.
Dylan was almost impossible to find on YTube prior to the buyout. I'd say that he had the old guy approach to the modern marketplace. The risk isn't that you'll be overexposed....Rather the risk is that you'll be irrelevant.
Guys!
Could there ever be anyone behind the Mike, say it singer, poet, politician, filmstar etc. Who can outdo this genius ?
Dylan sold his soul to God. There's just no way a mortal can write such penetrating & meaningful lyrics like Bob does.
I respectfully disagree. I think the lesson of someone like Dylan is that mere mortals ARE capable of such brilliance.
@@cficarra Not according to Dylan. According to Dylan he sold his soul to the devil
@@godwarrior3403 He said no such thing.
@@123thof Yes he did
@@godwarrior3403 Do you ascribe your own interpretation to the meaning of everything everybody says, to fit comfortably in your delusional state, or just what Bob cryptically eluded to in a TV interview… in the poetically vague sort of manner… which coincidentally just happens to be his hallmark, genius and calling card ?
Don’t bother to answer that especially because I won’t see it, but I will drive point home .
People who believe what you apparently do are certifiably insane .
Fantastic lyrics beautiful song 🎵❤ love it my friend
Nothing less than a masterwork.Molte grazie, Bob.
I try singing along and can’t get through without crying.
Now more than ever.
Devine inspiration
Being introduced to his music as late as 1979 coming to San Francisco as a somewhat naive german immigrant I'm forever grateful to my best friend and mentor "Uncle Dan" for introducing me to this heartwrenching music❤
my first concert was Dylan. 12 years old and out of my head for my head for him.