Un huevo de letras: BOB DYLAN: Otras letras (T)

1. Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
2. Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues
3. Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
4. Tatle O'Day
5. Tell Me
6. Tell Me, Momma
7. Tell Ol' Bill
8. The Death Of Emmett Till
9. The Lonesome River
10. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
11. These Hands
12. The Shape I'm In
13. The Water Is Wide
14. The Weight
15. Things Have Changed
16. Thirsty Boots
17. This Evening So Soon
18. This Land Is Your Land
19. Tomorrow Is A Long Time
20. Trouble In Mind

TALKIN' BEAR MOUNTAIN PICNIC MASSACRE BLUES
(from "The Bootleg Series Vol.1")
Well, I saw it advertised one day
Bear Mountain picnic was comin’ my way
“Come along ’n’ take a trip
We’ll bring you up there on a ship
Bring the wife and familly
Bring the whole kids”
Yippee!

Well, I run right down ’n’ bought a ticket
To this thing called the Bear Mountain Picnic
Little did I realize
I was in for a pleasent funny surprise
It had nothin’ to do with picnics
Don’t come close to a mountain,
I hate bears

Took the wife ’n’ kids down to the pier
There were six thousand people there
Everybody had a ticket for the trip
“Oh well,” I said, “it’s a pretty big ship
Besides, anyhow, the more the merrier”

Well, we all got on ’n’ what do you think
That big old boat started to sink
More people kept a-pilin’ on
That old ship was a-goin’ down
Funny way to start a picnic

Well, I soon lost track of my kids ’n’ wife
So many people I never saw in my life
That old ship was sinkin’ down in the water
There were six thousand people tryin’ to kill each other
Dogs a-barkin’, cats a-screamin’
Women a-yellin’, men a-flyin’, fists a-flyin’, paper flyin’
Cops a-comin’, me runnin’
Maybe we just better call off the picnic

I got shoved down ’n’ pushed around
All I remember was a moanin’ sound
Don’t remember one thing more
All I remember’s wakin’ up on a shore

My arms and legs were broken
My feet was splintered, my head was cracked
I couldn’t walk, couldn’t talk, smell, feel
Couldn’t see, I didn’t know where I was
I was bald, quite lucky to be alive though

Well, feelin’ like I just climbed outta my casket
I grabbed back hold of my picnic basket
Took the wife ’n’ kids ’n’ started home
Wishin’ I’d never got up that mornin’

Now, I don’t care just what you do
If you wanna have a picnic, that’s up to you
But don’t tell me about it, I don’t wanna hear it
’Cause see, I just lost all my picnic spirit
Stay in m’ kitchen, have picnics
See I got picnic in my bathroom

Now, it don’t seem to me quite so funny
What some people are gonna do for money
There’s a brand new gimmick every day
Just to take somebody’s money away
I think we oughta take some of these people
Put ’em on a boat, send ’em up to Bear Mountain for a picnic

TALKIN' HAVA NEGEILAH BLUES
(from "The Bootleg Series Vol.1")
Here's a foreign song I learned in Utah
Ha va, hava, na, havana, gei, havanagei, lah,
Hava negeilah
O-de-ley-he-he-hee

TALKIN' JOHN BIRCH PARANOID BLUES
(from "The Bootleg Series, Vol.6")
Well, I was feelin’ sad and kind of blue
I didn’t know what I was gonna do
The Communists were comin’ around
They was in the air, they was on the ground
They were all over

So I ran down most hurriedly
And joined the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
Went back to my backyard
And started looking on the sidewalk
‘Neath the rose bush

Well, I was lookin’ everywhere for them gold darned Reds
I got up in the mornin’ and looked under my bed
Looked behind the kitchen, behind the door
Even tore loose the kitchen floor
Couldn’t find any

I looked beneath the sofa, beneath the chair
Looking for them Reds everywhere
I looked way up my chimney hole
Even deep down inside my toilet bowl
They got away

I heard some footsteps by the front porch door
So I grabbed my shotgun from the floor
I snuck around the house with a huff and hiss and
“Hands up, you Communist”, it was a mail man
He punched me out

Well, I quit my job so I could work alone
I got a magnifying glass like Sherlock Holmes
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they was red stripes on the American flag
Did you know about Betsy Ross

Well, I was sittin’ home alone and I started to sweat
I figured they was in my television set
I picked behind the picture frame
And got a shock from my feet that hit my brain
Them Reds did it, no one’s on the hootin’ nanny

Well, I finally started thinkin’ straight
When I run outa things to investigate
I couldn’t imagine doin’ anything else
So now I’m at home investigatin’ myself!
Hope I don’t find out too much, goo God

TATLE O'DAY
(From "The Bootleg Series Vol.10")

I buyed me a little dog

Color it was brown

I learned him how to whistle

Sing and dance and run

His legs they were 14 yards long

His ears they were quite broad

Around the world in a half a day

And on him I could ride

Sing Tattle O’Day

I buyed me a little bull

About four inches high

Everybody feared him

That ever heard him cry

When he begins to bellow

It made such a melodious sound

And all the walls in London town

Came tumbling to the ground

Sing Tattle O’Day

I buyed me a flock of sheep

I thought they were all weathers

Sometimes they yield at wolves

Sometimes they yield at feathers

I think mine are the very best sheep

For yielding increase

For every full change of the moon

They bring both lambs and geese

Sing Tattle O’Day

I buyed me a little box

About four acres square

I filled it full of guineas

And silver so fair

Oh now I’m bound for turkey

I travel like an ox

And in my big chest pocket

I carry my little box

Sing Tattle O‘Day

I buyed me a little hen

All speckled gay and fair

I sat her on an oyster shell

She hatched me out a hare

The hare it sprang a handsome horse

Blew fifteen hens high

And him that tells a bigger tale

Would have to tell a lie

Sing Tattle O’Day

TELL ME
(from "The Bootleg Series Vol.3")
Tell me, tell me I’ve got to know
Tell me, tell me before I go
Does that fire still burn? Does that flame still glow?
Or has it died out and melted like the snow
Tell me (tell me)
Tell me

Tell me, what are you focused upon?
Tell me, will it come to me after you’re gone
Tell me now with a glance on the side
Shall I hold you close or let you go by?
Tell me (tell me)
Tell me

Is that the heat and the beat of your pulse that I feel?
If it's not that then what is it your're trying to conceal
Do you have any secrets that will only come out in time?
Do you lay in your bed, do you stare at the stars?
Is your main friend, someone alone an acquaintance of ours?
Tell me (tell me)
Yes, tell me

Tell me, are those rock and roll dreams in your eyes?
Tell me, behind what door your treasure lies
Ever gone broke in a big way?
Ever gone the opposite of what the experts say?
Tell me (tell me)
Mmmm, tell me.

Is it some kind of game that you're playin' with my heart
How deep must I go, where do I start?
Do you have any morals?
Do you have any point of view?
Is that a smile that I see on your face?
Will it lead to glory or lead me to disgrace?
Tell me (tell me)
Mmmm, tell me.

Tell me, is that my name in your book?
Tell me, will you go back and take another look?
Tell me the truth, don't you tell me no lies
Are you anybody’s someone prays for or price?
Tell me (tell me)
Mmmm, tell me.

TELL ME, MOMMA
(from "The Bootleg Series, Vol.4")
Cold black glass don’t make no mirrors
Cold black water dog, make no tears
You say you love me with what may be love
Don’t you remember makin’ baby love?
Yes, you got your steam drill, now you’re lookin’ for some kid
To get it to work for you like your nine-pound hammer did
But I know that you know that I know that you show
Something is tearing up your mind

Tell me, momma
Tell me, momma
Tell me, momma, what is it?
What’s wrong with you this time?

Black sunglass came here, pony run
Tombstone babes, y’all can get it done
Fool’s gold in your teeth and cementary hips
Get outside of your graveyard lips
Yes, everybody’s wonderin’
When your friendship’s gonna end
But come on, baby, I’m your friend
And I know that you know that I know that you show
Something is tearing up your mind

Tell me, momma
Tell me, momma
Tell me, momma, what is it?
What’s wrong with you this time?

Ohh, you're pleasing, but your face is red
That ain't he can't get it, he's almost dead.
Everybody sees you on your window ledge
How long's it gonna take for your to get off the edge
Just gonna make everybody jump and roar
Now you wanna go and do that for?
I know that you know that I know that you show
Something is tearing up your mind.
Tell me, momma,
Tell me, momma,
Tell me, momma, what is it?
What's wrong with you this time?

TELL OL' BILL
(from "The Bootleg Series Vol.8")
The river whispers in my ear
I've hardly a penny to my name
The heavens never seemed so near
And all my body glows with flame.

The tempest struggles in the air
And to myself alone I sing
It could sink me then and there
I can hear the echoes ring.

I tried to find one smilin' face
To drive the shadow from my head
I'm stranded in this nameless place
Lyin' restless in a heavy bed.

Tell me straight out if you will
Why must you torture me within?
Why must you come from your high hill?
And throw my fate to the clouds and wind.

Far away in a silent land
Secret thoughts are hard to bear
Remember me you'll understand
Emotions we can never share.

You trampled on me as you passed
Left the coldest kiss upon my brow
All my doubts and fears have gone at last
I've nothing more to tell you now.

I walk by tranquil lakes and streams
As each new season's dawn awaits
I lay awake at night with troubled dreams
The enemy is at the gate.

Beneath the thunder-blasted trees
The words are ringin' off your tongue
The ground is hard in times like these
The stars are cold, the night is young.

The rocks are break, the trees are bare
Iron clouds go floatin' by
Snowflakes falling in my hair
Beneath the gray and stormy sky.

The evenin' sun is sinking low
The woods are dark, the town is too
They''ll drag you down, they run the show
Ain't no tellin' what they'll do.

Tell ol' Bill when he comes home
Anything is worth a try
Tell him that I'm not alone
And that the hour has come to do or die.

All the world I would defy
Let me make it plain as day
I look at you now and I sigh
How could it be any other way?

THE DEATH OF EMMETT TILL
(from "The Bootleg Series Vol.9")
’Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago
When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door
This boy’s dreadful tragedy I can still remember well
The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till

Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up
They said they had a reason, but I can’t remember what
They tortured him and did some things too evil to repeat
There were screaming sounds inside the barn, there was laughing sounds out on the street

Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain
And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain
The reason that they killed him there, and I’m sure it ain’t no lie
Was just for the fun of killin’ him and to watch him slowly die

And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial
Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till
But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime
And so this trial was a mockery, but nobody there seemed to mind

I saw the morning papers but I could not bear it
To see the smiling brothers walkin’ down the courthouse stairs
For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free
While Emmett’s body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea

If you can’t speak out against this kind of thing, a crime that’s so unjust
Your eyes are filled with dead men’s dirt, your mind is filled with dust
Well, arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains, and your blood it must refuse to flow
For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low

This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man
That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan
But if all of us folks that thinks alike, if we gave all we could give
We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live

THE LONESOME RIVER
(from "The Bootleg Series Vol.8")
I sit here alone on the banks of the river
The loneseome wind blows and the water runs high
I can hear a voice calling out there in the darkness
But I sit here alone too lonesome to cry

Oh the water rolls high on the river at midnight
I sit on the shore too grievin' to cry
The woman I love she left me this morning
With no-one to love or kiss me goodnight

We met there one night on the banks of the river
Sat there holdin' hands and makin' a vow
That we never would part and be happy together
But the new love she's found, she's gone with him now.

Oh the water rolls high on the river at midnight
I sit on the shore too grievin' to cry
The woman I love she left me this morning
With no-one to love or kiss me goodnight

THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN
(from "Before The Flood")
Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train,
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
In the winter of '65,
We were hungry, just barely alive.
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell,
it's a time I remember, oh so well,

The night they drove Old Dixie Down,
And all her bells were ringing,
The night they drove Old Dixie Down,
And all the people were singin'.
They went
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me,
Said, "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"
Now I don't mind choppin' wood,
and I don't care if my money's no good.
Yoy take what you need and you leave the rest,
But they should never have taken the very best.

The night they drove Old Dixie Down,
And all her bells were ringing,
The night they drove Old Dixie Down,
And all the people were singin'
They went
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Like my father before me, I will work the land,
And like my brother up above me, who took a rebels stand.
He was just eighteen, proud and brave,
But a yankee laid him in his grave,
And I swear by the mud below my feet,
You can't raise a Caine back up
when he's in defeat.

The night they drove Old Dixie Down,
And all her bells were ringing,
The night they drove Old Dixie Down,
And all the people were singin'
They went
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

The night they drove Old Dixie Down,
And all her bells were ringing,
The night they drove Old Dixie Down,
And you could hear ‘em singin'
They went
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

THESE HANDS
(From "The Bootleg Series Vol.10)

These hands aren't the hands of a gentleman

These hands are calloused and old

But these hands raised a family

these hands built a home

Now these hands raised to praise the Lord

These hands won the heart of my loved one

And with hers they were never alone

If these hands filled their task

Then what more can one ask?

For these fingers have worked to the bone.

Now don't try to judge me by what you'd like to be

My life ain't been much success

While some people have power, but still they grieve

While these hands are brought me happiness.

Now I'm tired and I'm old and I ain't got much gold

Maybe things ain't been all that I planned

But Lord above, hear my plea, when it's time to judge me

Take a look at these hard-workin' hands

THE SHAPE I'M IN
(from "Before the Flood")
Go out yonder, peace in the valley
Come downtown, have to rumble in the alley
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in

Has anybody seen my lady
This living alone will drive me crazy
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in

I'm gonna go down by the water
But I ain't gonna jump in, no, no
I'll just be looking for my maker
And I hear that that's where she's been? Oh!
Out of nine lives, I spent seven
Now, how in the world do you get to Heaven
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in

I just spent 60 days in the jailhouse
For the crime of having no dough
Now here I am back out on the street
For the crime of having nowhere to go
Save your neck or save your brother
Looks like it's one or the other
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in

Now two young kids might start a ruckus
You know they feel you trying to shuck us
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in

THE WATER IS WIDE
(from "The Bootleg Series Vol.5")
The water is wide and I can't cross over
Neither have I wings that I could fly
Build me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row my love and I.

There is a ship and it sails on the sea
Loaded deep as deep can be
But not as deep as the love I'm in
I know not if I sink or swim.

I leaned my back up against an oak
Thinkin' it was a trusty tree
But first it bent and then it broke
Just like my own false love to me.

Oh love is gentle, love is kind
Gay as a jewel when first it's new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like some morning dew.

The water is wide and I can't cross over
Neither have I wings to fly
Build me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row my love and I

THE WEIGHT
(from "Before The Flood")
I pulled into Nazareth just a feelin' about half past dead
I just need to find a place where I can lay my head.
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, and "No!", was all he said.

Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny, and (and) (and) you put the load right on me.

I picked up my bag and went lookin' for a place to hide
When I saw old Carmen and the Devil walkin' side by side.
And I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on will you go downtown."
She said, "Well I gotta go, but my friend can stick around anyhow."

Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny, and (and) (and) you put the load right on me.

Go down, Miss Moses, ain’t nothin' that you can say
‘Cause it's just old Luke, and Luke's a-waitin' on the judgement day.
"Well now, Luke, my friend, what about young Anna Lee?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won’t you stay and keep Anna Lee company?"

Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny, and (and) (and) you put the load right on me.

Crazy Chester followed me, yeah, and he caught me in the fog.
He said, "I would fix your rack, oh yeah, if you'll just take Jack, my dog."
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man."
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed him when you can."

Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny, and (and) (and) you put the load right on me.

Catch a cannon ball now, to take me down the line
‘Cause my bag is sinkin' low and I do believe it's time.
To get back to Miss Fanny, you know she's the only one (she’s the only one)
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone.

Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free
Take a load off Fanny, and (and) (and) you put the load right on me.

THINGS HAVE CHANGED
(from "The Essential Bob Dylan")
A worried man got a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
There’s a woman on my lap and she’s drinking champagne
Got white skin, got assassin’s eyes
I’m looking up into the sapphire-tinted skies
I’m well dressed, waiting on the last train

Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed

This place ain’t doing me any good
I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug rag
Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove

Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed

I’ve been walking forty miles of bad road
If the Bible is right, the world will explode
I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
Some things are too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You can’t win with a losing hand

Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet
Putting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed

I hurt easy, I just don’t show it
You can hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I’m in love with a woman who don’t even appeal to me

Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake
I’m not that eager to make a mistake
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed

THIRSTY BOOTS
(From "The Bootleg Series Vol.10)

You've long been on the open road

You've sleepin’ in the rain

From the dirty words and muddy cells

Your clothes are smeared and stained

But the dirty words and muddy cells

Will soon be judged insane

So only stop to rest yourself

Till you are off again

And take off your thirsty boots

And stay for awhile

Your feet are hot and weary

From a dusty mile

Maybe I can make you laugh

And maybe I can try

Just lookin' for the evening

And the morning in your eyes

But tell me of the ones you saw

As far as you could see

Across the plain from field to town

A-marching to be free

And of the rusted prison gates

That tumbled by degree

Like laughing children one by one

Who looked like you and me

And take off your thirsty boots

And stay for awhile

Your feet are hot and weary

From a dusty mile

And maybe I can make you laugh

And maybe I can try

Just lookin' for the evening

And the morning in your eyes

I know that you are no stranger down

The crooked rainbow trails

From dancing cliff-edged shattered sills

Of slender shackled jails

But the voices drift up from below

As the walls I been scaled

And all of this and more, my friend

Your song shall not be failed

Then take off your thirsty boots

And stay for awhile

Your feet are hot and weary

From a dusty mile

And maybe I can make you laugh

And maybe I can try

Just lookin' for the evening

And the morning in your eyes

THIS EVENING SO SOON
(From "The Bootleg Series Vol.10)

Tell ol’ bill when he comes home this morning

Tell ol’ bill when he comes home this evening

Tell ol’ bill when he comes home to leave them downtown girls alone