“If there’s an original thought out there I could use it right now... “ Classic Dylan... And I know my life is richer and fuller because of his music. ❤
As I play this song today, I join your spirit of of thought and emotion. The chords being played intertwine with the words spoken give flight once again to this American Anthem.
Dylan told Ed Bradley he doesn't know how he wrote the songs and it was as if it was a magical force. When asked why he thinks he could not write anymore, in true Dylan style he quietly said "Nothing lasts forever." There will never ever be another like him . . EVER
“Strange how people who suffer together Have stronger connections Than people who are most content I don’t have any regrets, They can talk about me plenty when I’m gone You always said People don’t do what they believe in, They just do what’s most convenient, Then they repent And I always said, Hang on to me, baby And let’s hope that the roof stays on.” Dylan . Sam Shepard Brownsville Girl My go to song when I’m down & broken And need to find my way again. From the first time I heard it in maybe 1986 or maybe 1987 And this song always delivers me back to the world … with one more day once again in my tank again .
Really moves the heart, don't it. Don't understand exactly why Dylan's music heals me the way it does.... Something about the combination of the exquisite beauty and the unfathomable mystery of it that always reassures me that there is still hope for redemption down the road. This song, in particular has a way of grabbing my heart/soul and taking me on the sweetest of trips. Liked your comment, man. Peace.
The Dylan Genius....."During the recording, Bob said he was short a verse," Ingber added. "I said, 'Let's come back to it tomorrow or whenever you finish it.' He said, 'wait a second.' He took out this impossibly small pen or pencil-like, maybe an inch and half long - and this tiny scrap of paper. He went off into the corner of the studio, and we're waiting maybe five or 10 minutes. He comes back and says, 'OK, let's go.' We start playing the song again, and all of sudden here comes this new verse that he'd written, and it was breathtaking. At that very moment, I remember thinking: 'That's why he's Bob Dylan. That's what the guy does. We all looked at each other and we were thinking, well - this is one for the ages."
Sweet Jesus! Can't get enough of this absolute masterpiece. What a great story by a master story teller. The whole thing just lands so deep in my soul/heart/mind and gut. Fucking bliss. God bless the poets, one and all. ❤
My Mom introduced me to this song when I was 11. On a 4-hour drive through the grey skies of Pennsylvania. Thanks, Mom. 30 years later it is still a memory that I will never forget.
Been listening to Dylan for 40 plus years and just now truly heard this song and grasped what a masterpiece it is. Everything about it is perfect-- the prose, his delivery, the music and the vocals. What a gem from the 80s!
I've listened to this particular song more than any other song in my entire life. Finding your all-time favorite song at the age of nearly 40 years old, was quite the delightful surprise. What an incredibly spectacular song. Thanks so much for creating this, Bob. Pure magic.
@@edited7382 well I was born in 1953 and I believe the album came out in '86 so a few years younger than Mr McMahan but similar to him in regards to my ditto on the subject it was great to discover the ''song of my life" at that age of about 33 and I have been listening and enjoying it for more than 33 years since. Now ain't life grand. Thank you, and you,Mr McMahan and Mr Dylan.
one of the most epic songs ever recorded ever the story is pure fiction but complete truth the imagery is so full of life it's as if you can see every act, every character and feel the feeling of every member of the cast this is more than a song it is a tribute to America, the beautiful forgotten people who struggle to make ends meet, the unrelenting love that remains a dream from the past and the journey to return to simpler times that were not so simple but in fact complicated by youth, dreams and the reality that life will never be as perfect as the heroes depicted on the silver screen who is the Brownsville Girl ... the girl you loved but never even spoke to the dream from your youth the romance that can never be captured but exists eternally
I bet your like me, tears in the eyes when Gregory Peck get shot in the back by the young squirt Skip Homeier, song and movie though a few years apart really complement each other.
Fantastic song. I remember when I was 14 years old, tried to sleep and discovered the song. Imagined that "Ruby" came to me as a painted desert with a busted down Ford and her platform heels.
My wife & I are watching “The Gunfighter” with Gregory Peck now & I kept thinking of this song & how it opens. This has to be the movie. 1950, a classic. It’s great like a Billy Wilder film. 1/2 way through & had to hear this tune. Thinking about Phil Lesh today too. We lost him yesterday. Thank you Bob for everything!!! ❤️🇺🇸‼️
I just watched Gregory Peck in "The Gunfighter". I kept on saying to myself, "Why did I miss this movie. It is so good." Then I listened to this song and I understood both the song and the feeling of the movie better.
Yes, I'm also always amazed how effortless Bob switches between those two states here. Have you listened to the predecessor of this song (i.e. 'New Danville Girl') on Bob's newest bootleg 'Springtime in New York' yet? To me, the transitions from talking to singing (and vice versa) sound even better on the earlier recording...
👏 Dylan channelize things. His lyrics always sound like Psalms that surely he read a lot: u take what u can at that moment. Like he wrote in a booklet of an old record in homage to Guthrie, " we're ali links in a chain" . Great line " strange how things never end in the way we had planned..." ❤
I love the way Dylan’s narrative flows from one scenario to another and takes the listener on the journey! Yet the chorus always brings us back to his intimate connection with the Brownsville Girl-but they aren’t together now, so he keeps us wondering about what happened. A lot of his songs are like that….the mystery keeps me wondering what happened and how the story ends. Oh yeah, the melody and backup singers also keep me hooked! What a genius! Thanks, Bob for the precious gifts you bring to us each day!
I discovered Dylan when I was around 15 years old, mid-eighties. I stopped into Virgin records every other Friday evening on my way home from work (Payday). Discovering a new album every few weeks and rushing home to play it was like Christmas morning for a kid.
"And sun is coming up over the Rockies..." This song came on the radio once when I was 17 and by great good fortune I just happened to hit record at the beginning! I went on a journey listening to this and have never forgotten it.
You may be the luckiest person in the entire world! What a way to finish your youth and roll on in to adulthood. You are hero in my eyes. peace and love
@@tynebar I wanna Ramble is a killer track for example. If you heard that song playing in a supermarket and had no idea who it was I bet you would be banging your head. There's alot of lil fun catchy songs like that that's why I like it but to each their own.
one of mr zimmerman's finest ~~ minnesota be proud of your very-own nobel laureate ~~ have loved you, bob, for all-my-life & have sung your stuff all over the world to prove it for all-my-life-in-musjc ~~ say hey to fish-kill for me, hahahaha xxoo mb &) ;-) .
And when I saw you break down in front of the judge and cry real tears. Fuknell Bob 😂😂😂😂 what a line boys and girls. Reminds me of, I waited for you on the running boards by the cypress trees as the spring time turned, slowllllyyyyyy into autumn. Setting me a picture. Anyway, I’m stoned, gngb people 🙏97
Fair to say, I have never been big into Bob Dylan, but I stumbled across this song this morning and listened 2x in a row and now another 2x. The magic is in the narrative, and the lyric, but the composition is outstanding. (Esp backing singers) I do recommend that you use headphones or a hi-fi system, pour a coffee, close your eyes and go on a journey, of lost love, human pain and the overwhelming belief in love... Spoiler alert, it's 11 minutes long. This line "Oh if there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now
I think we are all getting it are we not? Listen to Street Legal. Oh! I was a kid when I first hear that. Forget everything else. (I was at Blackbushe). When's that album coming out. 1978.
27 years ago I discovered B.Dylan. Now that I'm approaching 50 years old I can't stop listening to him and maturing his songs. For me, this song is at the top of the unsurpassed by this genius and poet named Dylan.
For those who ever bite down on Dylan, regardless of their age, they spend the remainder of their life growing through his work and seeing it through more experienced eyes and feeling its beats with a more experienced heart.
Well, there was this movie I seen one time About a man riding 'cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself The townspeople wanted to crush that Kid down and string him up by the neck Well, the marshal, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp As the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death Well, I keep seeing this stuff and it just comes a-rolling in And you know it blows right through me like a ball and chain You know I can't believe we've Lived so long and are still so far apart The memory of you keeps callin' after me like a rollin' train I can still see the day that you came to me on the painted desert In your busted down Ford and your platform heels I could never figure out why you chose that particular place to meet Ah, but you were right, it was perfect as I got in behind the wheel Well, we drove that car all night into San Anton' And we slept near the Alamo, your skin was so tender and soft Way down in Mexico you went out to Find a doctor and you never came back I would have gone on after you but I Didn't feel like letting my head get blown off Well, we're drivin' this car and The sun is comin' up over the Rockies Now I know she ain't you but she's here And she's got that dark rhythm in her soul But I'm too over the edge and I ain't in The mood anymore to remember the times when I was your only man And she don't want to remind me She knows this car would go out of control Brownsville girl with your Brownsville Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the Moon above Brownsville girl Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey Love Well, we crossed the panhandle and then we headed towards Amarillo We pulled up where Henry Porter used to live He owned a wreckin' lot outside of Town about a mile Ruby was in the backyard hanging Clothes, she had her red hair tied back She saw us come rolling up in a trail of dust She says, "Henry ain't here but you can Come on in, he'll be back in a little while." Then she told us how times were tough And about how she was thinkin' of bummin' a Ride back to from where she started But she changes subject every time money came up She said, "Welcome to the land of the living dead." But you can tell she was so broken-hearted She said, "Even the swap meets Around here are getting pretty corrupt." "How far are y'all going?" Ruby asked us with a sigh "We're going all the way 'til the wheels fall off and burn 'Til the sun peels the paint and the seat Covers fade and the water moccasin dies." Ruby just smiled and said, "Ah, you know some babies never learn." Something about that movie though Well I just can't get it out of my head But I can't remember why I was in it Or what part I was supposed to play All I remember about it was Gregory Peck and the way people moved And a lot of them seemed to be lookin' my way Brownsville girl with your Brownsville Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the Moon above Brownsville girl If you show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey Love Well, they were looking for somebody with a pompadour I was crossin' the street when shots rang out I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran "We got him cornered in the churchyard, " I heard somebody shout Well, you saw my picture in the Corpus Christi Tribune. Underneath it, it said, "A Man with no alibi." You went out on a limb to testify for me, you said I was with you Then when I saw you break down in Front of the judge and cry real tears It was the best acting I saw anybody do Now I've always been the kind of person That doesn't like to trespass but sometimes You just find yourself over the line Oh if there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now You know, I feel pretty good But that ain't sayin' much. I could feel a whole lot Better If you were just here by my side to show me how Well, I'm standin' in line in the Rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck Yeah, but you know it's not the one that I had in mind He's got a new one out now, I don't even know what it's about But I'll see him in anything so I'll stand in line Brownsville girl with your Brownsville Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the Moon above Brownsville girl Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey Love You know, it's funny how things never Turn out the way you had 'em planned The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter is that his name wasn't Henry Porter And you know there was somethin' about You baby that I liked that was always too Good for this world Just like you always said there was Something about me you liked that I left behind In the French Quarter Strange how people who suffer together Have stronger connections than people who Are most content I don't have any regrets, they can talk about me plenty when I'm gone You always said people don't do what they Believe in, they just do what's most convenient Then they repent And I always said, "Hang on to me Baby, and let's hope that the roof stays on." There was a movie I seen one time, I think I sat through it twice I don't remember who I was or where I was bound All I remember about it was it starred Gregory Peck, he wore a gun and he was shot In the back Seems like a long time ago, long before the stars were torn down Brownsville girl with your Brownsville Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the Moon above Brownsville girl Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey Love
I bought the album in 86 just as I started a job truck driving and being away for days at a time. Couldn't wait to get home just to hear Brownsville Girl. Don't know what it was but it just blew me away. 36 years have slipped passed and to this day it still does." You went out to find a doctor and you never came back"
Have you worked out why she needed a doctor? Why was he so scared of getting his head blown off if he went after her. Sounds like he wasn't man enough for her. Why didn't she come back? I think she must be a pretty racy chick in that busted down Ford and those platform heels so maybe she went to Mexico for a back street abortion, (they did sleep out by The Alamo} or to meet her supplier, or....she just had a headache. That pesky Mr Dylan, I love how he makes a fool of me.
Can't agree more .... never performed once (Danville ain't this) so it gives me hope one day I'll see him do it. Once is more than enough for me RIP Sam
at 2:41: "But I'm too over the edge and I ain't in The mood anymore to remember the times when I was your only man" My God, that delivery always blows my mind.
"Brownsville Girl" by Bob Dylan: "We're going all the way 'till the wheels fall off and burn 'Til the sun peels the paint and the seat covers fade and the water moccasin dies" Ruby just smiled and said, "Ah, you know some babies never learn"
They are The Queens of Rhythym which included; Madelyn Quebec - former Raelette and future Dylan mother-in-law. Carolyn Dennis - Madelyn's daughter and future wife. Debra Byrd Elescia Wright Great gospel harmony and Madelyn brings the Raelette sound. Check them out on Knockin' of Heaven's Door from Dylan's tour of Australia in 1986 with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
That's very true -- between *Blood on the Tracks* and *Time Out of Mind,* Dylan consistently produced one album after another that was a buffet of pure meh -- but every time with at least one true gem in the mix.
I'll never forget entering record store and the last musician I was thinking of was Dylan and I was blown away by his stunning lyrics equal to American genius Steinbeck and better than Whitman possibly with full charge tour de force of the gospel girls putting an end to critics slamming their inclusion in the stunning concerts with Tom Petty in the 1980's! Just when I had relinquished that rambling mumbling Jew he came right back at me with a double whammy which again he did with time out of mind which like other stolen lines Dylan seemingly adds layers to it's meaning never imagined before! Now I never ever dismiss any of his latest contributions without listening to every track and album backwards even if I think most of the album contains songs that simply fill the album but it's hard to produce other epic poems like ain't talkin/ Brownsville girl /scarlet town/ forgetful heart/ jokerman and man in a long black coat on a single album while continuing the operman effort that was the never ending tour! Most artists rest on the laurels of previous material not up the anti with stunning contributions that probably even had Leonard Cohen reeling from the bloom!
An absolute masterpiece. Some thoughts I wrote about it while introducing it to others: "I dislike the word "Epic". This may not be epic. But it is long, and it COULD be epic. It's a great read on its own. You'll either love or hate the recording because it sounds like somebody kidnapped Bob Dylan and held him in an abandoned warehouse along with Gladys Knight and the Pips:
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“If there’s an original thought out there I could use it right now... “
Classic Dylan... And I know my life is richer and fuller because of his music. ❤
As I play this song today, I join your spirit of of thought and emotion. The chords being played intertwine with the words spoken give flight once again to this American Anthem.
Pure genius
Dylan told Ed Bradley he doesn't know how he wrote the songs and it was as if it was a magical force. When asked why he thinks he could not write anymore, in true Dylan style he quietly said "Nothing lasts forever." There will never ever be another like him . . EVER
Great line....
It’s not just a song. It is a recitation of a poem.
Nobel Prize
“Strange how people who suffer together
Have stronger connections
Than people who are most content
I don’t have any regrets,
They can talk about me plenty when I’m gone
You always said
People don’t do what they believe in,
They just do what’s most convenient,
Then they repent
And I always said, Hang on to me, baby
And let’s hope that the roof stays on.”
Dylan . Sam Shepard
Brownsville Girl
My go to song when I’m down & broken
And need to find my way again.
From the first time I heard it in maybe 1986 or maybe 1987
And this song always delivers me back to the world
… with one more day once again in my tank again .
Really moves the heart, don't it. Don't understand exactly why Dylan's music heals me the way it does.... Something about the combination of the exquisite beauty and the unfathomable mystery of it that always reassures me that there is still hope for redemption down the road. This song, in particular has a way of grabbing my heart/soul and taking me on the sweetest of trips. Liked your comment, man. Peace.
The Dylan Genius....."During the recording, Bob said he was short a verse," Ingber added. "I said, 'Let's come back to it tomorrow or whenever you finish it.' He said, 'wait a second.' He took out this impossibly small pen or pencil-like, maybe an inch and half long - and this tiny scrap of paper. He went off into the corner of the studio, and we're waiting maybe five or 10 minutes. He comes back and says, 'OK, let's go.' We start playing the song again, and all of sudden here comes this new verse that he'd written, and it was breathtaking. At that very moment, I remember thinking: 'That's why he's Bob Dylan. That's what the guy does. We all looked at each other and we were thinking, well - this is one for the ages."
You mean he only had a million verses until he wrote the last one.
The one about Henry porter
The only thing we knew about Henry Porter is that his name wasn't Henry Porter.
@@dandiego7298 YES!!!
He didn't know whether to duck or write a new verse so he wrote a new verse.
Listening to this song IS like watching a movie.
Wonderful, Bob.
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
Super😂
This is the kind of song that earns you a Nobel prize.
Poetry and Literature. = Nobel laureate.
Song is a masterpiece...... but the album cover is not.
Not with that awful production
@@curly_wyn He didn't get the Nobel for Production.
Sweet Jesus! Can't get enough of this absolute masterpiece. What a great story by a master story teller. The whole thing just lands so deep in my soul/heart/mind and gut. Fucking bliss. God bless the poets, one and all. ❤
Great tune, fantastic movie.
Most people will say "Eh?"
Agree! I listen to it about 2-3 times in a row. Bob can take an erratic word sequence and make it flow, even without rhyme! Wow!
I love this song. I’m actually from Brownsville, Texas. I sometimes think I’m the girl in this song. ❤
you are anything and everything you ever want to be, especially if this song hits you deep inside peace and love
Why did you pick that particular place to meet?
I looked for you in Brownsville.
God bless you. Bob's music is beautiful in the way one can project one's own reality onto his lyrics.
❤
To those who say Dylan can't sing I dare them to sing this song like he does. What an unforggetable tune.
2:43 is freaking fast
@@stevenn33 Sam Shepard said he told Dylan he wont be able to fit those word in and Dylan said "don't worry".
{Best heard as delivered by the existential anarchist in the film Dr. Zhivago} "They're idiots."
Only IDIOTS say the great Bob Dylan can't sing.
@@trevalyngayle2857 Your absolutely right.
Bobby D nails his epic song to the wall…will stay on the wall forever…Bobby D knows nails and all…
Bob should have won a Nobel pizza with his Nobel prize as a bonus just for this song.
The only thing we knew about Henry Porter is that his name wasn’t Henry Porter. Laugh every time ❤
I know every line of this song by heart, they are just so memorable
Its like a dream come true... Feel the feelings....💞👍‼
Wish I did......🙂👍
I get lost in it, I wonder why it makes me feel so much, but never get to the bottom of it.
Amen. Me too. ♥️
So what
My Mom introduced me to this song when I was 11. On a 4-hour drive through the grey skies of Pennsylvania. Thanks, Mom. 30 years later it is still a memory that I will never forget.
Bob Dylan's 200th masterpiece
The year 2024 and I've only just heard this.I am totally blown away. This alone was a pure heavenly experience. ...Beautiful
Been listening to Dylan for 40 plus years and just now truly heard this song and grasped what a masterpiece it is. Everything about it is perfect-- the prose, his delivery, the music and the vocals. What a gem from the 80s!
Bob at his cinematic best. No artist I can think of paints on a canvas this wide.
really some of the credit goers to Sam Shepherd, the co writer. Nonetheless it is my favourite among many
I've listened to this particular song more than any other song in my entire life. Finding your all-time favorite song at the age of nearly 40 years old, was quite the delightful surprise. What an incredibly spectacular song. Thanks so much for creating this, Bob. Pure magic.
Same.
@@MrGregFrancis ditto
When did you discover it?
@@edited7382 well I was born in 1953 and I believe the album came out in '86 so a few years younger than Mr McMahan but similar to him in regards to my ditto on the subject it was great to discover the ''song of my life" at that age of about 33 and I have been listening and enjoying it for more than 33 years since. Now ain't life grand. Thank you, and you,Mr McMahan and Mr Dylan.
I know exactly what you mean. My exact experience
one of the most epic songs ever recorded ever the story is pure fiction but complete truth the imagery is so full of life it's as if you can see every act, every character and feel the feeling of every member of the cast this is more than a song it is a tribute to America, the beautiful forgotten people who struggle to make ends meet, the unrelenting love that remains a dream from the past and the journey to return to simpler times that were not so simple but in fact complicated by youth, dreams and the reality that life will never be as perfect as the heroes depicted on the silver screen who is the Brownsville Girl ... the girl you loved but never even spoke to the dream from your youth the romance that can never be captured but exists eternally
That's close enough for me.
you're the kind of friend I was searching for all my life ..
I agree with you, My Friend!
passion is the most felt ruin
I bet your like me, tears in the eyes when Gregory Peck get shot in the back by the young squirt Skip Homeier, song and movie though a few years apart really complement each other.
Knowing that Bob Dylan with his songs is out there somewhere makes life better.....
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
I first watched "The Gunfighter" because of this song. Thanks for the tip, Bob!
Fantastic song. I remember when I was 14 years old, tried to sleep and discovered the song. Imagined that "Ruby" came to me as a painted desert with a busted down Ford and her platform heels.
Let us remember it was co-written by Sam Sheppard, and remains one of the greatest ballads ever
My wife & I are watching “The Gunfighter” with Gregory Peck now & I kept thinking of this song & how it opens. This has to be the movie. 1950, a classic. It’s great like a Billy Wilder film. 1/2 way through & had to hear this tune. Thinking about Phil Lesh today too. We lost him yesterday. Thank you Bob for everything!!! ❤️🇺🇸‼️
Probably the greatest story song ever recorded. One of Bob's greatest.
Close, but I think Lily Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts beats it out.
Brownsville girl and desolation row masterpieces
"Highlands", too. Also "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". I think that mode -- long, but not one wasted note -- was where Dylan always truly shone.
I just watched Gregory Peck in "The Gunfighter". I kept on saying to myself, "Why did I miss this movie. It is so good." Then I listened to this song and I understood both the song and the feeling of the movie better.
For some reason, this is the most difficult song of Dylans for me to remember the lyrics to. Ive listened to it 100s of times and still...😂
Thank you, Sam Shepard, for putting your head together with Dylan on this one.
Every now and then i get in the mood to listen to some Bob,
Brownsville girl,
Heart's in the Highlands
are two that i can put on repeat.
try to explain...cannot. but we GET IT...dont we.
And Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.
So :
Lowlands
and
Highlands!
I love the way he goes from talking to singing and back again. Beautiful.
Yes, I'm also always amazed how effortless Bob switches between those two states here.
Have you listened to the predecessor of this song (i.e. 'New Danville Girl') on Bob's newest bootleg 'Springtime in New York' yet? To me, the transitions from talking to singing (and vice versa) sound even better on the earlier recording...
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Talking is just a relaxed way of singing.
Well, the marshal, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp
As the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath.
👏 Dylan channelize things. His lyrics always sound like Psalms that surely he read a lot: u take what u can at that moment. Like he wrote in a booklet of an old record in homage to Guthrie, " we're ali links in a chain" . Great line " strange how things never end in the way we had planned..." ❤
I would be glad to extend some simple words that encumbrances the true unbridled genius ofmr Bob Dylan ,but I just dumbstruck and in awe.
Exactly.
all my powers of expression and thoughts so sublime could never do it justice in reason or rhyme
I've never been able to imagine how good he really is
I love the way Dylan’s narrative flows from one scenario to another and takes the listener on the journey! Yet the chorus always brings us back to his intimate connection with the Brownsville Girl-but they aren’t together now, so he keeps us wondering about what happened. A lot of his songs are like that….the mystery keeps me wondering what happened and how the story ends. Oh yeah, the melody and backup singers also keep me hooked! What a genius! Thanks, Bob for the precious gifts you bring to us each day!
I discovered Dylan when I was around 15 years old, mid-eighties. I stopped into Virgin records every other Friday evening on my way home from work (Payday). Discovering a new album every few weeks and rushing home to play it was like Christmas morning for a kid.
Me to..this my first bob album in real time...
Me to early 80's
Nashville Skyline first album
Infidels second and blew me away for the next 40 years
The important thing is you discovered him.
This song really hits a spot deep inside, just can't get enough of it. Everything is perfect.
Have you heard Neighborhood Bully yet?
You want to try watching the movie Bob's singing about, brings tears to grown man eyes!!
@@trevalyngayle2857 what’s the movie?
He makes you want more, the guy knows music
@@Schnids1655 The Gunfighter
"And sun is coming up over the Rockies..."
This song came on the radio once when I was 17 and by great good fortune I just happened to hit record at the beginning! I went on a journey listening to this and have never forgotten it.
thats my favorite part too and the next few lines...
You may be the luckiest person in the entire world! What a way to finish your youth and roll on in to adulthood. You are hero in my eyes. peace and love
@@tomzanica8871 lol
@@robertdegiro peace and love
You must have found the only decent radio station left in the country...congrats! Henry Porter
Tout simplement un génie.
Chapeau bien bas mister dylan.
This ist the best song...
Next to all the others best songs of Bob Dylan.
indeed
you got it can't be moh bettah Sam Shepard and Bob Dylan, Double Genius equals this
Bob's most underrated album in my opinion. Love every song.
This album is one of his worst. This song is its saving grace
It's an awful album, apart from this track, a re-write of Danville Girl. Give it another half point for Precious Memories.
@@tynebar That's your opinion. I quite enjoy this album moreso than the others from this decade.
@@fightclubdurden That's your opinion. I quite enjoy alot of songs from here. Maybe you need a re-listen without preconceived expectations.
@@tynebar I wanna Ramble is a killer track for example. If you heard that song playing in a supermarket and had no idea who it was I bet you would be banging your head. There's alot of lil fun catchy songs like that that's why I like it but to each their own.
Love, love, love this tune. What a picture Bobby paints.
You know Dylan's visual art is getting a lot of (justified) attention these days. You might want to give it a look if you haven't already. Peace.
I never heard this song until now. As always, Dylan is superb. A genius. What a duo he and Joan Baez were back in the day. Tragic love...
one of mr zimmerman's finest ~~ minnesota be proud of your very-own nobel laureate ~~ have loved you, bob, for all-my-life & have sung your stuff all over the world to prove it for all-my-life-in-musjc ~~ say hey to fish-kill for me, hahahaha xxoo mb &) ;-) .
Wow. You know the secret knowledge of Bob's original name, and that he comes from Minnesota!
one of many many songs that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, what legendary artist and singer.
And when I saw you break down in front of the judge and cry real tears. Fuknell Bob 😂😂😂😂 what a line boys and girls. Reminds me of, I waited for you on the running boards by the cypress trees as the spring time turned, slowllllyyyyyy into autumn. Setting me a picture. Anyway, I’m stoned, gngb people 🙏97
Pick this up at 8:00 minutes, turn it up loud! & ride that sax until 8:25 UNREAL!
I like the New Danesville/Brownsville Story, it rolls on like a Hollywood movie...
Fair to say, I have never been big into Bob Dylan, but I stumbled across this song this morning and listened 2x in a row and now another 2x. The magic is in the narrative, and the lyric, but the composition is outstanding. (Esp backing singers)
I do recommend that you use headphones or a hi-fi system, pour a coffee, close your eyes and go on a journey, of lost love, human pain and the overwhelming belief in love... Spoiler alert, it's 11 minutes long. This line
"Oh if there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now
yeah, you've got it.
Listening to bob is like trying to get those magic eye images.
you either get them or you dont.
Then you are a Dylan fan. Give a chances to his other masterpieces!
I think we are all getting it are we not?
Listen to Street Legal.
Oh!
I was a kid when I first hear that.
Forget everything else.
(I was at Blackbushe).
When's that album coming out.
1978.
27 years ago I discovered B.Dylan. Now that I'm approaching 50 years old I can't stop listening to him and maturing his songs. For me, this song is at the top of the unsurpassed by this genius and poet named Dylan.
Glad that you are now a Bob Dylan aficionado. Welcome!
@@robertj.acheson5368 DYLAN transcribes access to higher states of consciousness, and does it with panache.
Hi Daniel. I have listened to Dylan since I was 16, I am now 63, will listen to him till the day I die, a beautiful mind. Take care.
Yo desde los 10 añitos soy Dylaniano y moriré con ello mis venas tienen Glóbulos Dylanitas .
For those who ever bite down on Dylan, regardless of their age, they spend the remainder of their life growing through his work and seeing it through more experienced eyes and feeling its beats with a more experienced heart.
I always thought of this as one of Dylan's best songs.
hey are all so beautiful and deep that it is difficult to say which is the most beautiful. I don't know, they are high-level poems anyway
You guys are uploading a whole bunch of BOB DYLAN songs lately, IT'S ABOUT BLOODY TIME YOU'VE UPLOADED THIS GREAT TUNE!!!
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He just sold his entire catalog.. You could thank the new owner$! 🤑
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IS THE NEW OWNER - SAM FISHER OR FISCHER. IT COME UP EVERY TIME I STREAMING THE GREAT BOB DYLAN SONGS.
That’s no shit👍
Well, there was this movie I seen one time
About a man riding 'cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck
He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself
The townspeople wanted to crush that
Kid down and string him up by the neck
Well, the marshal, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp
As the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath
Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square
I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death
Well, I keep seeing this stuff and it just comes a-rolling in
And you know it blows right through me like a ball and chain
You know I can't believe we've
Lived so long and are still so far apart
The memory of you keeps callin' after me like a rollin' train
I can still see the day that you came to me on the painted desert
In your busted down Ford and your platform heels
I could never figure out why you chose that particular place to meet
Ah, but you were right, it was perfect as I got in behind the wheel
Well, we drove that car all night into San Anton'
And we slept near the Alamo, your skin was so tender and soft
Way down in Mexico you went out to
Find a doctor and you never came back
I would have gone on after you but I
Didn't feel like letting my head get blown off
Well, we're drivin' this car and
The sun is comin' up over the Rockies
Now I know she ain't you but she's here
And she's got that dark rhythm in her soul
But I'm too over the edge and I ain't in
The mood anymore to remember the times when
I was your only man
And she don't want to remind me
She knows this car would go out of control
Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
Moon above
Brownsville girl
Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey
Love
Well, we crossed the panhandle and then we headed towards Amarillo
We pulled up where Henry Porter used to live
He owned a wreckin' lot outside of
Town about a mile
Ruby was in the backyard hanging
Clothes, she had her red hair tied back
She saw us come rolling up in a trail of dust
She says, "Henry ain't here but you can
Come on in, he'll be back in a little while."
Then she told us how times were tough
And about how she was thinkin' of bummin' a
Ride back to from where she started
But she changes subject every time money came up
She said, "Welcome to the land of the living dead."
But you can tell she was so broken-hearted
She said, "Even the swap meets
Around here are getting pretty corrupt."
"How far are y'all going?" Ruby asked us with a sigh
"We're going all the way 'til the wheels fall off and burn
'Til the sun peels the paint and the seat
Covers fade and the water moccasin dies."
Ruby just smiled and said, "Ah, you know some babies never learn."
Something about that movie though
Well I just can't get it out of my head
But I can't remember why I was in it
Or what part I was supposed to play
All I remember about it was Gregory Peck and the way people moved
And a lot of them seemed to be lookin' my way
Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
Moon above
Brownsville girl
If you show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey
Love
Well, they were looking for somebody with a pompadour
I was crossin' the street when shots rang out
I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran
"We got him cornered in the churchyard, " I heard somebody shout
Well, you saw my picture in the Corpus
Christi Tribune. Underneath it, it said, "A
Man with no alibi."
You went out on a limb to testify for me, you said I was with you
Then when I saw you break down in
Front of the judge and cry real tears
It was the best acting I saw anybody do
Now I've always been the kind of person
That doesn't like to trespass but sometimes
You just find yourself over the line
Oh if there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now
You know, I feel pretty good
But that ain't sayin' much. I could feel a whole lot
Better
If you were just here by my side to show me how
Well, I'm standin' in line in the
Rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck
Yeah, but you know it's not the one that I had in mind
He's got a new one out now, I don't even know what it's about
But I'll see him in anything so I'll stand in line
Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
Moon above
Brownsville girl
Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey
Love
You know, it's funny how things never
Turn out the way you had 'em planned
The only thing we knew for sure about
Henry Porter is that his name wasn't Henry
Porter
And you know there was somethin' about
You baby that I liked that was always too
Good for this world Just like you always said there was
Something about me you liked that I left behind
In the French Quarter
Strange how people who suffer together
Have stronger connections than people who
Are most content
I don't have any regrets, they can talk about me plenty when I'm gone
You always said people don't do what they
Believe in, they just do what's most convenient
Then they repent
And I always said, "Hang on to me
Baby, and let's hope that the roof stays on."
There was a movie I seen one time, I think I sat through it twice
I don't remember who I was or where I was bound
All I remember about it was it starred
Gregory Peck, he wore a gun and he was shot
In the back
Seems like a long time ago, long before the stars were torn down
Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
Moon above
Brownsville girl
Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey
Love
Genius
Bod didnt write the words. But he sire sang it BEYOND GREAT
Dylan wrote this with Sam Shepard, who was married to Jessica Lange, who played a part in Masked And Anonymous. Epic song.
* until we got into San Anton'
@@mortimerzilch9437 He wrote a lot of the words.
Yes man...what a tune ..nearly 12 minutes of perfection..! ..great song..
one of the best songs ever written , only Bob Dylan could do it , masterpiece , he's done so many , but this was an absolute gem
Laughing Len came close.
We're going all the way 'til the wheels fall off and burn. Thanks so much.
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
Real genius! Bob Dylan shakes our mind to free our soul!
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
Another masterpiece from the great Bob Dylan. Love to listen to this man.
I have always loved Bob Dylan but I had never listened to this enchanting song !
I love B. Dylan. 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶
I bought the album in 86 just as I started a job truck driving and being away for days at a time. Couldn't wait to get home just to hear Brownsville Girl. Don't know what it was but it just blew me away. 36 years have slipped passed and to this day it still does." You went out to find a doctor and you never came back"
Have you worked out why she needed a doctor? Why was he so scared of getting his head blown off if he went after her. Sounds like he wasn't man enough for her. Why didn't she come back? I think she must be a pretty racy chick in that busted down Ford and those platform heels so maybe she went to Mexico for a back street abortion, (they did sleep out by The Alamo} or to meet her supplier, or....she just had a headache. That pesky Mr Dylan, I love how he makes a fool of me.
About time this was made available
Can't agree more .... never performed once (Danville ain't this) so it gives me hope one day I'll see him do it. Once is more than enough for me RIP Sam
are the swap meets still corrupt? you know the only thing I know about you is that your name really isn't Henry Porter :-)) peace and love
I love this song, so poetic. If you suggest it to someone, tell him/her to listen to it alone and in an altered state.
Story-telling at great level..second-hand life in a mirror mirrored
True Dylan. Fantastic.
What a great song. Bought this tape at the.time. saw Bob n Tom London Wembley must've been 87
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
i first saw him when he was 28 (iow)
There is a paited desert in arizona, and a shirt. This is dylan!😢😮😅😊
This song, and changing of the guard are my two favorite dylan songs for sure
Mine too
there are 200 others
at 2:41: "But I'm too over the edge and I ain't in
The mood anymore to remember the times when
I was your only man"
My God, that delivery always blows my mind.
Everytime I watch The Gunfighter this song just come straight to my head. Thank you Bob.
Another great story by the MASTER himself
Lou Reed sent me here. Hypnotic
I love him ❤
Hello dear, it’s nice meeting you on here
One of my all-time Dylan favorites. 👏👏
Trying to find somebody to fix my roof today....and a few hours later this came up in my FB feed. I'm hanging on to Bob.
"Brownsville Girl" by Bob Dylan:
"We're going all the way 'till the wheels fall off and burn
'Til the sun peels the paint and the seat covers fade and the water moccasin dies"
Ruby just smiled and said, "Ah, you know some babies never learn"
My favorite part.
Dylan is the Alpha and the Omega of great Lyrics. Also great melodies and a unique voice. God bless him.
🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼
The Staples Singers always blow me away. Best version on greatest hits
The Staple Singers aren't on it.
They are The Queens of Rhythym which included;
Madelyn Quebec - former Raelette and future Dylan mother-in-law.
Carolyn Dennis - Madelyn's daughter and future wife.
Debra Byrd
Elescia Wright
Great gospel harmony and Madelyn brings the Raelette sound. Check them out on Knockin' of Heaven's Door from Dylan's tour of Australia in 1986 with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Pure genius.
Co- written with Sam Shepard. I had this on cassette way back in the 80's Who else could do anything at all like this except Dylan.
This is an absolute genius of a song. Thank you, Jamieson Richard Wilson.
Thank you,. I can't turn on the Heart ❤️ sign. But then again, I did it.
Favorite song ever
Wow🤩
What A Genius. Only The Chosen One Can Memorize And Sing Such A Long Lyric. Best Regards From Jakarta Indonesia.
This song is truly a gift, from Dylan and Sam Sheppard... two of my all-time heroes. Life's soundtrack
Hi Dean. Wonderful poetic lyrics.
I can tell. I will be addictive to this.
I was right.
A song lasting the test of time.... Like Dylan usually does...
Masterpiece form an otherwise lacklustre platter!
That's very true -- between *Blood on the Tracks* and *Time Out of Mind,* Dylan consistently produced one album after another that was a buffet of pure meh -- but every time with at least one true gem in the mix.
I'll never forget entering record store and the last musician I was thinking of was Dylan and I was blown away by his stunning lyrics equal to American genius Steinbeck and better than Whitman possibly with full charge tour de force of the gospel girls putting an end to critics slamming their inclusion in the stunning concerts with Tom Petty in the 1980's! Just when I had relinquished that rambling mumbling Jew he came right back at me with a double whammy which again he did with time out of mind which like other stolen lines Dylan seemingly adds layers to it's meaning never imagined before! Now I never ever dismiss any of his latest contributions without listening to every track and album backwards even if I think most of the album contains songs that simply fill the album but it's hard to produce other epic poems like ain't talkin/ Brownsville girl /scarlet town/ forgetful heart/ jokerman and man in a long black coat on a single album while continuing the operman effort that was the never ending tour! Most artists rest on the laurels of previous material not up the anti with stunning contributions that probably even had Leonard Cohen reeling from the bloom!
Been a Dylan since I was 17. First time I hear this song - awesome backup choir!
Amazing choir! I agree
Gregory Peck loved this song.
...he just write lyrics so naturally..how does he do it? Did he met with the devil at the crossroads? The grear Bob D.
An absolute masterpiece. Some thoughts I wrote about it while introducing it to others: "I dislike the word "Epic". This may not be epic. But it is long, and it COULD be epic. It's a great read on its own. You'll either love or hate the recording because it sounds like somebody kidnapped Bob Dylan and held him in an abandoned warehouse along with Gladys Knight and the Pips:
Amazing story
Gee whizz Wally! Dylan just keeps letting everyone know how great and intelligent he is!!!!❤
WE'RE GOING ALL THE WAY
TILL THE WHEELS FALL OFF AND BURN
Hang on to me, baby, and let's hope that the roof stays on
Dylan is always telling my story.
A magical song!!!
The only thing Dylan can't do with a pen is balance it on the head of a pin. ❤
Wrong! If angles can ballance on a pin, SO CAN DYLAN!!!!
Bob Dylan: "Challenge accepted."