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Is this rude?
Posted by LOUDspeaker on 19 February 2010 - 10:01am.
Absolutely Sweet Marie by Bob Dylan.
"Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can't jump it
Sometimes it gets so hard, you see
I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet
With all these promises you left for me
But where are you tonight, sweet Marie?"
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Not usually thought of as a crumpet man
But Bob has written some of the best love lyrics ever sung (though I'm not sure this is among them).
My own favourite is Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You from the Rolling Thunder cd of the Bootleg Series, where there original 'You cast your spell and I went under' is re-written as the sensual 'You came down on me like warm thunder', a line so vivid that it sometimes pops into my mind even when, ahem, I really ought to have my mind on other matters.
A perfect example of why Bob Dylan is so great...
he can take a perfectly good line and change it to one that is even better. 'You came down on me like warm thunder'... it's a long way from Love Me Do.
A pedant writes
The re-write in "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" is surely "You came down on me like rolling thunder..." as in Rolling Thunder revue.
Really?
I'll listen to it on the walk home. I'll be disappointed if you're right, but take comfort from the idea that my version is a clear improvement.
I had a lsiten
It may be my crappy earphones, but it sounds like one syllable. It also sounds like it starts with an R, making me wonder who Ron Thunder may have been.
Yes
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/carry-rocking
I was too lazy to check if anyone
else had mentioned it before.
I was listening to Blonde On Blonde for the first time in ages and those lyrics leapt out at me as being rather rude.
An ageing massive member writes
Well, not that it matters, it was 2 years ago now. Wouldn't really expect you to check. Since I posted it last time I remembered and was just struck that that particular bit of the lyric extract was being brought up again. Well it's not that surprising I suppose. I know, never apologise, never explain. I never thought about the innuendo in that song until recently though. For years I listened to the album and never noticed it. But then I'm not one to work too hard on deciphering the lyrics I hear, they either stand out and grab me or they don't.
No..
It's a metaphor for stuff going on in his head.
You dirty gets.
My favourite Dylan cover ever ...
Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you Jason & The Scorchers ...
(Insert own gag about hilariously dated '80s video).
it's the best bit of Bob
ASM - that and "She Belongs to Me". Dylan always best when he keeps it around the 3 or 4 minute mark. 5 tops.
Otherwise he comes over all poetic, starts rambling on and loses the plot.
Yes says Michael Gray
who, iirc, warms to this theme as regards several of the other songs as well