favorite Dylan tune

[mix]

today, it's "Not Dark Yet"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijiVYgvbP1M
Beautiful video too.

"...I was born here and I'll die here against my will.

What's yours?

[cemaphonic]

1. Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts, lately.

But it changes on a pretty regular basis.

I like Not Dark Yet too, though my favorite on that album is probably Tryin' to Get to Heaven.

[JimGinPA]

2. Positively 4th Street...

With a very large list tied for second.


B-)

[newcriminal]

3. Ballad of a Thin Man

[graywarrior]

4. Man, I just LOVE that song.

[Forkboy]

5. I don't know any.

:hide:

[Forkboy]

6. I don't know any.

:hide:

[rug]

7. Don't post twice, it's allright.

[Forkboy]

8. LOL...just wanted to drive that point home.

;)

[fNord]

10. now that was funny

[fishwax]

23. haha

:thumbsup:

[mitchum]

39. I really did laugh out loud

nicely done :)

[fNord]

9. I can only pick one?

[mix]

11. only one and no double posts

[fNord]

12. One more cup of coffee.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvht7fToVx0

[abq e streeter]

13. hard to narrow it down more than top 20 but...Please Crawl Out Your Window

is definitely one of em. version with Highway 61 players, not The Band one, even though I love The Band.

[abq e streeter]

24. too late to edit, but found it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLeutT09Vnk

[ElsewheresDaughter]

14. Positively 4th Street and Maggie's Farm

[Lindsey]

15. Lay Lady Lay. n/t

[Swede]

18. This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfF0uHekcc8


Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen

Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead

[kwassa]

16. Watching the River Flow

What's the matter with me,
I don't have much to say,
Daylight sneakin' through the window
And I'm still in this all-night cafe.
Walkin' to and fro beneath the moon
Out to where the trucks are rollin' slow,
To sit down on this bank of sand
And watch the river flow.

Wish I was back in the city
Instead of this old bank of sand,
With the sun beating down over the chimney tops
And the one I love so close at hand.
If I had wings and I could fly,
I know where I would go.
But right now I'll just sit here so contentedly
And watch the river flow.

People disagreeing on all just about everything, yeah,
Makes you stop and all wonder why.
Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street
Who just couldn't help but cry.
Oh, this ol' river keeps on rollin', though,
No matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blow,
And as long as it does I'll just sit here
And watch the river flow.

People disagreeing everywhere you look,
Makes you wanna stop and read a book.
Why only yesterday I saw somebody on the street
That was really shook.
But this ol' river keeps on rollin', though,
No matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blow,
And as long as it does I'll just sit here
And watch the river flow.

Watch the river flow,
Watchin' the river flow,
Watchin' the river flow,
But I'll sit down on this bank of sand
And watch the river flow.

[dana_b]

17. Masters of War

Bob at Woodstock '94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gahPA5X2KcU

Pearl Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1CgReS1e0U

[rurallib]

41. +1

[Ptah]

19. May you stay forever young.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a5o-pOGI8s

May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.

May you grow up to be righteous,
May you grow up to be true,
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you.
May you always be courageous,
Stand upright and be strong,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.

May your hands always be busy,
May your feet always be swift,
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift.
May your heart always be joyful,
May your song always be sung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. Girl of the North Country

"Girl Of The North Country"

If you're traveling in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was the true love of mine.

If you go when the snowflakes storm
When the rivers freeze and summer ends
Please see if she's a coat so warm
To keep her from the howlin' winds.

Please see if her hair hangs long
If it rolls and flows all down her breast
Please see from me if her hair hangs long
That's the way I remember her best.

I'm a-wonderin' if she remember me at all
Many times I've often prayed
In the darkness of my night
In the brightness of my day.

So if you're travelin' in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine.

[mia]

21. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKxbFKVUmYQ&feature=related

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Mama, take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore.
It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can't shoot them anymore.
That long black cloud is comin' down
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

[Inchworm]

22. It's Alright Ma (I'm only bleeding)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjqYPH7rAo

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.

:smoke:

[Zomby Woof]

25. Visions Of Johanna

It changes from day to day.

Tomorrow it might be "Blind Willie McTell", the next day "Song To Woody".

Or "Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands".

My favorite new Dylan song is "It's All Good", from his new album 'Together Through Life':

Talk about me babe, if you must
Throw on the dust, pile on the dust
I'd do the same thing if I could
You know what they say, they say it's all good
All good,
It's all good

Big politician telling lies
Restaurant kitchen, all full of flies
Don't make a bit of difference, don't see why it should
But it's all right, 'cause it's all good
It's all good
It's all good

Wives are leavin' their husbands, they beginning to roam
They leave the party and they never get home
I wouldn't change it, even if I could
You know what they say man, it's all good,
It's all good
All good

Brick by brick, they tear you down
A teacup of water is enough to drown
You ought to know, if they could they would
Whatever going down, it's all good
All good
Say it's all good

People in the country, people on the land
Some of them so sick, they can hardly stand
Everybody would move away, if they could
It's hard to believe but it's all good
Yeah

The widow's cry, the orphan's plea
Everywhere you look, more misery
Come along with me, babe, I wish you would
You know what I'm sayin', it's all good
All good
I said it's all good
All good

Cold blooded killer, stalking the town
Cop cars blinking, something bad going down
Buildings are crumbling in the neighborhood
But there's nothing to worry about, 'cause it's all good
It's all good
They say it's all good

I'll pluck off your beard and blow it in your face
This time tomorrow I'll be rolling in your place
I wouldn't change a thing even if I could
You know what they say, they say it's all good
It's all good

[mix]

26. A favorite of mine as well.

I knew someone named Johanna in college. She said her mother had named her after the song.

[abq e streeter]

27. Not a particularly common name...I worked with a Johanna here in Albq

her last name didn't happen to start with a K , did it?

[mix]

35. It is a beautiful name, but she had an Irish surname...started with an "M."

[peekaloo]

28. Tangled Up In Blue. Idiot Wind running a close second these days.

[Sky Masterson]

29. Brownsville Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjYb__HQHQw

also
Idiot wind
girl from the north country
sad eyed lady of the lowlands
I want you
And countless others

[livetohike]

30. Subterranean Homesick Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBBHq_Ydz9Y

Johnnys in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
Im on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says hes got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
Its somethin you did
God knows when
But youre doin it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phones tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early may
Orders from the d. a.
Look out kid
Dont matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Dont try no doz
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You dont need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

Get sick, get well
Hang around a ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
Youre gonna get hit
But losers, cheaters
Six-time users
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin for a new fool
Dont follow leaders
Watch the parkin meters

Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Dont steal, dont lift
Twenty years of schoolin
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Dont wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Dont wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump dont work
cause the vandals took the handles

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

31. The times they are a changing!

Here he is live in 1976........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ_XwLSN45I

[Tommy_Carcetti]

32. Lay, Lady, Lay

Love the gentle steel guitar.

[Patiod]

33. Stuck Outside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2lptmWZSKo

My college roommate LOVES Dylan, and made my SO and I go see "no one there" with her the last time we visited.

I don't get high anymore, which sort of ruined the whole thing - watching a surrealistic Dylan bio with two stoners.

[EndersDame]

44. I used to change the lyrics to stuck inside of Waco with the Austin Blues Again

[gpandas]

52. me, too.

[redqueen]

34. I Want You

Hands down.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

36. Catskills Serenade.

http://ec.environmentalcountdown.org/_Bob-Dylan-Singing-Catskill-Serenade/VIDEO/352046/4315.html

This week at least.
Never'd heard of it before.
Found it on Limewire while back.
Written by David Blomberg.
7 minutes long, beautiful, moving.
"Where are the men/ that I used to talk (or sport?) with?
What has become/ of my beautiful town?"

[WinkyDink]

37. "If Not For You." ("L,L,L" a very close second!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSGDoNbKy_s&feature=related

[SteppingRazor]

38. Bah. I can tell you some favorite versions of songs...

like, for example, the version of "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" from the 1964 Philharmonic Hall show is probably my favorite. But my favorite Dylan song? I just couldn't say. There's too many.

[Withywindle]

40. Geez, that's a hard question!

OK, "One More Cup of Coffee." Also "Sara." And "Visions of Johanna." And "Desolation Row."

[Beer on a stick]

42. Open the Door Homer

[Jade Fox]

43. Spanish Harlem Incident

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ451OQYpcY

[Amerigo Vespucci]

45. The "May 17, 1966 Manchester" version of "Like A Rolling Stone" with the Levon-less Band

"Judas!!!"

"I Don't believe you...You are a liar!.....(PLAY IT FUCKING LOUD!!!)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHV3B3Qrhak

"Never mind the bollocks...it's BOB."

* Bob Dylan: Guitars, harmonica, piano, vocals.
* Robbie Robertson: Guitars.
* Rick Danko: Bass guitar, vocals.
* Richard Manuel: Piano, keyboards.
* Garth Hudson: Organ, keyboards.

* Mickey Jones: Drums, percussion.

:toast:

[Bennyboy]

46. Ain't no use in wondering why babe....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtkVGClqrT4&feature=fvw

We never did too much talking anyway,
Don't think twice it's alright....

[Highway61]

47. So many

To Ramona is my favorite

[Mr. Blonde]

48. Lately, High Water (For Charley Patton)

High water risin' - risin' night and day
All the gold and silver are being stolen away
Big Joe Turner lookin' East and West
From the dark room of his mind
He made it to Kansas City
Twelfth Street and Vine
Nothing standing there
High water everywhere

High water risin', the shacks are slidin' down
Folks lose their possessions - folks are leaving town
Bertha Mason shook it - broke it
Then she hung it on a wall
Says, "You're dancin' with whom they tell you to
Or you don't dance at all."
It's tough out there
High water everywhere

I got a cravin' love for blazing speed
Got a hopped up Mustang Ford
Jump into the wagon, love, throw your panties overboard
I can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mind
I'm no pig without a wig
I hope you treat me kind
Things are breakin' up out there
High water everywhere

High water risin', six inches 'bove my head
Coffins droppin' in the street
Like balloons made out of lead
Water pourin' into Vicksburg, don't know what I'm going to do
"Don't reach out for me," she said
"Can't you see I'm drownin' too?"
It's rough out there
High water everywhere

Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew
"You can't open your mind, boys
To every conceivable point of view."
They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five
Judge says to the High Sheriff,
"I want him dead or alive
Either one, I don't care."
High Water everywhere

The Cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies
I'm preachin' the Word of God
I'm puttin' out your eyes
I asked Fat Nancy for something to eat, she said, "Take it off the shelf -
As great as you are a man,
You'll never be greater than yourself."
I told her I didn't really care
High water everywhere

I'm getting' up in the morning - I believe I'll dust my broom
Keeping away from the women
I'm givin' 'em lots of room
Thunder rolling over Clarksdale, everything is looking blue
I just can't be happy, love
Unless you're happy too
It's bad out there
High water everywhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRlCeoli3Ys

Of course everyone in this thread has mentioned a good song.

[JitterbugPerfume]

49. favorite?

how do you pick a favorite? They are all my favorite.

[mix]

50. I know, it is hard...

...so to narrow it to one song, what is your favorite Dylan tune today, right now? Tomorrow it might be different...

:hi:

[JitterbugPerfume]

57. right now

One More Cup of Coffee:hi:

[JVS]

51. Freebird!

[retread]

53. No question. "Blowin in the Wind."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ced8o50G9kg&feature=related

[Maccagirl]

54. My Back Pages

and Mr. Tambourine Man.

[NNadir]

55. Visions of Johanna. Personal reasons...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

56. Desolation Row

among so many ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RenHNO19XKs

:hi:

[Common Sense Party]

58. Any one that Dylan isn't singing

I like his songs, he's a brilliant songwriter.

I just prefer when someone covers his tunes. Preferably, someone who can sing.

I do love the idea of Dylan being the voice of a GPS system, though.