BOTL Pot 7

[blues exile]

Joint written.

Ray wrote just the 'la la la' bit according to Wikipedia.

 

[Benfleet A1]

Ray wrote just the 'la la la' bit according to Wikipedia.

He is credited with being the co- writer according to better sources than wikipedia.

 

[The Big Dady]

Some of Bob Dylan's greatest Lyrics and songs

Like A Rolling Stone
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Tangled Up in Blue
Just Like a Woman
All Along the Watchtower
I Shall Be Released
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Mr. Tambourine Man
Visions of Johanna
Every Grain of Sand

 

[blues exile]

Some of Bob Dylan's greatest Lyrics and songs

Like A Rolling Stone
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Tangled Up in Blue
Just Like a Woman
All Along the Watchtower
I Shall Be Released
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Mr. Tambourine Man
Visions of Johanna
Every Grain of Sand

I'd add:
Don't think twice it's alright
Masters of war
God on our side
Lonesome death of Hattie Carroll
It's all over now baby blue
My back pages
Desolation Row
Plus so many more

 

[MK Shrimper]

Just over two hours for Dylan to wrestle the mantle away from Davies.

Note, please don't vote for Dylan. He smells of old man wee. Possibly.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Dylan never wrote as anything as good as this....

We are the Village Green Preservation Society
God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety
We are the Desperate Dan Appreciation Society
God save strawberry jam and all the different varieties
Preserving the old ways from being abused
Protecting the new ways, for me and for you
What more can we do?
We are the Draught Beer Preservation Society
God save Mrs. Mopp and good old Mother Riley
We are the Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium
God save the George Cross, and all those who were awarded them

Oh yes he did.Think this is my favourite of all his songs:-

It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Bob Dylan

Produced by Tom Wilson (producer)

Album Bringing It All Back Home

3

71.2K

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IT’S ALRIGHT, MA (I’M ONLY BLEEDING) LYRICS
[Verse 1]
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

[Verse 2]
Pointed threats they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fools gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
So don't fear
If you hear
A foreign sound
To your ear
It's alright, Ma
I'm only sighing

[Verse 4]
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

[Verse 5]
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without lookin' too far
That not much is really sacred

[Verse 6]
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

[Chorus]
And 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

[Verse 7]
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

[Verse 8]
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

[Verse 9]
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, ensure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he, or she, or them, or it
That you belong to

[Chorus]
But though the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to

[Verse 10]
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise 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

[Verse 11]
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 say "God bless him"

[Verse 12]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 13]
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

[Verse 14]
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 'em naturally
Life sometimes must get lonely

[Verse 15]
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed
Graveyards, false goals, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say, okay, I've had enough
What else can you show me?

[Chorus]
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

 

[MK Shrimper]

15 verses? Sounds more like something to endure than enjoy.

 

[MK Shrimper]

A perfect pop song, none of this 15 verses nonsense.

The tax man's taken all my dough
And left me in my stately home
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
And I can't sail my yacht
He's taken everything I got
All I've got's this sunny afternoon
Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze
I gotta big fat mama trying to break me
And I love to live so pleasantly
Live this life of luxury
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
In the summertime
In the summertime
In the summertime
My girlfriend's run off with my car
And gone back to her ma and pa
Telling tails of drunkenness and cruelty
Now I'm sitting here
Sipping at my ice cold beer
Lazing on a sunny afternoon

 

[Benfleet A1]

Joan Baez is coming up on the rails.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Joan Baez is coming up on the rails.

Even if she storms it with 30 mins to go she's out as I've not seen a shred of evidence. Poor Joan.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Well, it's a draw. That's handy.

I'll bow out as my other pick is already in the last 8 and I didn't expect Ray to put up such a battle against the might of Dylan.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Well, it's a draw. That's handy.

I'll bow out as my other pick is already in the last 8 and I didn't expect Ray to put up such a battle against the might of Dylan.

So what happens now?

 

[MK Shrimper]

So what happens now?

You read the sentence properly.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

You read the sentence properly.

OK you bow out so Dylan wins.

 

[MK Shrimper]

OK you bow out so Dylan wins.

 

[The Big Dady]

WOW yes, Dylan wins but it all went down to MK making the call after a 12 all draw.

Thanks MK, very gracious of you, but you know it made sense.

 

[MK Shrimper]

WOW yes, Dylan wins but it all went down to MK making the call after a 12 all draw.

Thanks MK, very gracious of you, but you know it made sense.

I didn't expect RD to put up such a battle. Ray Davies would have probably voted for Bob himself!

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Behold the wit and wisdom of the GIF.

 

[The Big Dady]

Is that you MK?

 

[MK Shrimper]

Behold the wit and wisdom of the GIF.

It's the modern way grandpa.