Jerrald Eldridge: WHAT? Jerrald, the music you've missed. You can pick at any stage of Pete's life and career and you'll be rewarded with this American treasure.
there are a lot of episodes of his educational roots music program Rainbow Quest on here. the one with Johnny and June Carter Cash takes some fortitude, Johnny is all messed up on pills. It's still worth watching, just be prepared to see a great man at a low low.
You could clearly see by the faces of the audience they were very uncomfortable, confused and not ready for the depth of darkness in this song. Yet when he was done they all clapped enthusiastically, I think because they knew they had just witnessed a profound moment even if they didn't really understand it!
Also, audiences didn't have mosh pits then. This looks like a college audience from in the day where you sat quietly at a performance until the song ended. Lots of stuffy professor types. 😆 This is the same audience that went insane and murderous when Dylan broke out the fender at the folk festival. 🤣
I’ll respectfully disagree. On all the videos I watched of Dylan and others at Newport and other folk festivals during this period, the audience is almost completely still and silent throughout the song. While that’s a bit foreign to us, it seemed perfectly normal in that setting. I think they really were studying and pondering each word. (The Beatles’ fan base would drop a nuclear bomb on any such reserved model of concertgoer, just a year or two later, lol. Couldn’t hear a single word of their singing over the interminable shrieking, which is what led the Beatles to quit playing live and focus on creating masterpieces in the studio.)
Wow, Seeger adds one line to the song that really hits home (at 3:12): "...heard the sound of one person who cried he was human..." Considering the context of the 60's civil rights movement just emerging, that's a beautiful lyrical addition to this great song.
In that era, it was normal. The incompetent did not go on stage, so you can often see how guitarists tune during a concert. Not like today's guitarists who sit with electronic tuners...
I forgot how beautiful his voice was. What a story. What story tellers - Dylan & Seeger. I am the blue-eyed son and I've walked the paths the song describes. But then, haven't we all...
Arguably Dylan's greatest song. He said every line was the start of a new song. He put them all together as one because it was the height of the Cold War and he didn't think he'd have enough time to write them all.
Pete Seeger was one of the people who brought up the problems in our society and wrote and sang the stories about them. He was the greatest and most respectful folk singer of his time. We need to heed his words before this 2024 election.
Pete Seeger is one of the most important Americans ever - up there with MLK, Dylan, JFK. Thank God we had Pete Seeger, because he nudged Dylan, who nudged a British band called the Beatles, The Byrds, Burrito Bros, Judy Collins, Neil Young, CSNY, etc
I had tears of homesickness for those times when the rains seemed gone for so long. Now the tears are for all those young people being old and gone from life now.
I am fortunate to have wonderful memories of hearing Pete Seeger performing in the Melbourne Town Hall in September 1963, 58 years on, listening to this again is heart warming.
Wow!!!! Never heard Pete Seeger cover this song. Always so used to only Pete singing with his banjo. Love his singing and playing the guitar here. I don't always get into the banjo sometimes.
Pete singing this made a younger Billy Connolly cry and decide to become a musician. 'I became a different man' - but still me, he said. He was still moved to tears describing it decades later.
At the age of 77 I still perform every week. I have covered many of Bob's songs but never this one. Sometimes I need to see an interpretation like this to inspire me. Some weeks ago I watched an aged Pete sing "Forever Young". i was at University with Bryan Ferry and liked his rocked up version of this song (athough he only covers three verses). From that I got the idea to perform a rocked up version of "Masters of War" with my rock band through the nineties. Now back solo gigs only, I follow the slow pattern.
I've seen nothing to indicate that we, as a species, have learned anything from Dylan's apocalyptic vision. A hard rain's not a-gonna fall; it's falling now.
For all Dylan's amazingly prescient visions of the present apocalypse,... he himself seems blithely aloof and unaware,...... Pete on the other hand remained steadfastly strong against this plague of idiocy until his end... In so doing he lives on and still gives us a little hope in humanity and some kind of future....
It is time that we are going to ask ourselves the question what the message of the Lord to us, citicens of the world, is. Since the rain is so hard that we cannot gather to celebrate easter.
The hard rain is still falling, many oceans ARE dead, there are at least 7 sad forests, more than 6 crooked highways & not enough people are getting the point! This is Bob Dylan's most prophetic song.
Y'all are right, and that's the song Bob had Patti sing at his Nobel prize acceptance celebration (he having other engagements). Its a hard one, but Patti and Pete they managed to slip only once or twice! ruclips.net/video/941PHEJHCwU/видео.html&ab_channel=NobelPrize This one with Baez harmonizing is quite the moment too :) ruclips.net/video/hFv33g79q_g/видео.html&ab_channel=fairbayer
@@phyaide Patti's brain freeze and the responding encouragement from the audience (mainly royalty) made her performance even more powerful. At least in my opinion.
Plus jeune je ne comprenais trop le sens de ces paroles , je le regrette même si c'est trop tard. Dommage . Rip der Pete, bon voyage dans ce temps infini.
Cualquier audiencia que escuchamos esta hermosa canción no importa si fue hace 50 años o en la ceremonia del premio novel de literatura nos arranca las de cocodrilo. .te amo Bob
In 1963 Bob Dylan was a young man who sang this song with an edge reflecting his youth. This 1963 version has Pete Seeger as a middle age man singing with the same depth of feeling, the feeling with which he sings is just as deep, but is more mature. I appreciate the fact that Pete Seeger knew in 1963 how important Dylan was to the protest movement and to the development of folk music. Of course a few years later he pulled Dylan's plug at the Newport Folk Festival . . . . .
+Kevin Scudder Pete claimed he never pulled the plug and was probably telling the truth because as far as I know he never hid anything. Probably one of those good stories someone made up but gain credibility by being retold so often!
+Arkybark Thanks for the note. Interesting for me to use google to search the story. Thank you for pointing out that version of history is not correct. Wikipedia has an interesting entry on that history, which shows that human recollection is never going to be consistent. All I know is that I was not there and will stop passing on that version of the story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Dylan_controversy
Arkybark Yeah, in an NPR interview he said that he actually appreciated his musical transition. The problem Pete had was that he ruined beauty of a guitar with horrible distortion. And he apparently went to the sound guy asked him to fix it, the dude said no. So Pete said "If I had an axe right now, I'd cut these wires!!"
la música, la poesía y la la literatura reflejará la triste humanidad desde los principios de los tiempos. La belleza universal les da dones a muchos que se adelantan a la realidad y a Dios gracias que personas como esas existieron y existirán.
recién hoy conocí y le presté atención a la obra de Pete Seeger. Que belleza. Lo conocí por un gran programa de radio Universidad de la Universidad más antigua de américa que se encuentra en Córdoba. El programa se llama GPS y lo conduce Víctor Pintos una persona que conoce mucho de músicos estilos y personas muy comprometidas con causas nobles. Gracias por subir estos temas que son himnos de paz.
Nothing compares to driving through WV over into Ohio via 50 as the suns coming up listening to some pete seeger. wonderful music with wonderful mountains of trees... the best.. even better when he's covering dylan!!
Un músic i persona íntegre. No va renunciar mai a les seves idees. Un músico y persona íntegra. No renunció nunca a sus ideas. La caza de brujas no pudo con él. Ojalá que este gran país, EE UU. encuentre el camino a la verdadera democracia y la paz. Todos dependemos de ello.
Pete Seeger always sang the greatest version of this song. He sang with all of his being, in complete earnest, all of the time. He deserved and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for all he did for humanity.
@@stevenmeyer9674 I couldn't agree more! Every time I hear Pete singing this song, I get chills all over my body...and that's true of many songs he sang.
One of the most prophetic songs written by one who wrote what we felt and sung here by one who felt it more intensely than most of us, and through his interpretation made us feel it again in our current times. Where has this vision in music gone? I just hope it's not forever.
It was the late 70s. Prior to Pete Seeger performing at Sonoma State, I suggested that he visit a protest site where Sonoma Springs Dam was to be built. He went there and I was told he was tired at the evening concert. I felt sad about this... and more so when the dam was built anyway.
Perhaps it was this particular version they didn't like. Myself, though I adore Pete Seeger, I prefer Dylan's version and also the one Patti Smith did at the Nobels.
how wonderfully this man sings, how valuable are his songs. and take a look at the people their souls are reflected. thank god and ask him that we get comforting songs into the world again that we humans need so much.
People can sit quietly to listen, and dress fairly smartly, but have the most revolutionary of spirit, and take part in protests, and totally comprehend a lyric. Students were often at the forefront of the protests, along with lecturers.
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? And where have you been, my darling young one? I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? And what did you see, my darling young one? I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin' I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin' I saw a white ladder all covered with water I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son? And what did you hear, my darling young one? I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin' I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin' I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin' I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin' I heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall Oh, what did you meet, my blue-eyed son? And who did you meet, my darling young one? I met a young child beside a dead pony I met a white man who walked a black dog I met a young woman whose body was burning I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow I met one man who was wounded in love I met another man who was wounded in hatred And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall And, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son? And, what'll you do now, my darling young one? I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin' I'll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest Where the people are many and their hands are all empty Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison And the executioner's face is always well hidden Where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten Where black is the color, where none is the number And I'll tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin' But I'll know my song well before I start singin' And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
I've watched three of Seegers' songs in this Aussie crowd. What a wooden crowd, it was a real long uphill road to get any animation out of any of them.
I wonder if these two giants of music have ever met or performed together? RIP Pete, what will happen when Dylan is the next to pass away. Music will never be the same again
They have met, many times. They both were part of the scene in Greenwich Village during the height of the folk era and both appeared at the Newport Folk festivals. They more or less parted ways after Dylan went electric.
"I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children." That has come so true in recent years. Then there is "Where pellets of poison are flooding the waters." The audience looks like "What the hell am I hearing?" Fortunately, they seemed to be trying to understand. Maybe the shock of hearing the truth made them more aware.
Never heard of Pete Seeger until 11 minutes ago, I now have a new obsession.
He was alive btw some years ago.
Jerrald Eldridge: WHAT? Jerrald, the music you've missed. You can pick at any stage of Pete's life and
career and you'll be rewarded with this American treasure.
there are a lot of episodes of his educational roots music program Rainbow Quest on here. the one with Johnny and June Carter Cash takes some fortitude, Johnny is all messed up on pills. It's still worth watching, just be prepared to see a great man at a low low.
Welcome 🤗
I’m so happy for you.
Pete brings another dimension to this song, a sense of urgency. He makes it an anthem, a call to battle.
Too bad he didn't know his song well before he started singing.
What battle? Good vs. Evil? And just who is good? And who is the evil?
@@oreally8605 The battle of metaphors vs. similes
@@edited7382 Maybe it's you who doesn't know the song.
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You could clearly see by the faces of the audience they were very uncomfortable, confused and not ready for the depth of darkness in this song. Yet when he was done they all clapped enthusiastically, I think because they knew they had just witnessed a profound moment even if they didn't really understand it!
I think they were getting the message and it frightened them . sadly it would havegone right over today's teenagers heads .
What a preformance amazing
Also, audiences didn't have mosh pits then. This looks like a college audience from in the day where you sat quietly at a performance until the song ended. Lots of stuffy professor types. 😆
This is the same audience that went insane and murderous when Dylan broke out the fender at the folk festival. 🤣
I’ll respectfully disagree. On all the videos I watched of Dylan and others at Newport and other folk festivals during this period, the audience is almost completely still and silent throughout the song. While that’s a bit foreign to us, it seemed perfectly normal in that setting. I think they really were studying and pondering each word. (The Beatles’ fan base would drop a nuclear bomb on any such reserved model of concertgoer, just a year or two later, lol. Couldn’t hear a single word of their singing over the interminable shrieking, which is what led the Beatles to quit playing live and focus on creating masterpieces in the studio.)
Bob wrote this during the Cuban misile crisis ....the hard rain was the close possibility of nuclear war over the ego of america
They knew the song was right
Wow, Seeger adds one line to the song that really hits home (at 3:12):
"...heard the sound of one person who cried he was human..."
Considering the context of the 60's civil rights movement just emerging, that's a beautiful lyrical addition to this great song.
So lmpressive!!!
Tuning a 12 string on stage in front of an audience? That dude's got some balls!
In that era, it was normal. The incompetent did not go on stage, so you can often see how guitarists tune during a concert.
Not like today's guitarists who sit with electronic tuners...
I was so happy he did that. I thought "wow, that guitar is really out of tune" then he retuned by ear in about 5 seconds!
Look at those eyes. Eyes of minding people
Leo Kottke said that with a 12 string guitar you spend half your time tuning it and the other half of the time play it out of tune!😊
No not at all follow the story.
I forgot how beautiful his voice was. What a story. What story tellers - Dylan & Seeger. I am the blue-eyed son and I've walked the paths the song describes. But then, haven't we all...
Only discovered this recently and it’s blown me away , took a Dylan song and I think it’s better than Dylan’s and I’m a mega Dylan fan
Alot world leaders need to listen to words of this song ......
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Why what do that mean?
Billy Connolly brought me here
This song brought him to tears ❤️
Muito linda a canção do grande Bob Dylan, tão perfeitamente interpretada por Pete Seeger!
RIP Pete.
We always knew which side you were on.
Love this man, he spoke his heart.
Thank you for these words: So true to who the man was and still is to those who remember him, personally.
Arguably Dylan's greatest song. He said every line was the start of a new song. He put them all together as one because it was the height of the Cold War and he didn't think he'd have enough time to write them all.
... "where black is the colour and none is the number." That line always gets me.
Pete Seeger was one of the people who brought up the problems in our society and wrote and sang the stories about them. He was the greatest and most respectful folk singer of his time. We need to heed his words before this 2024 election.
Yeah he was also an apologist for Stalin while he’s was murdering and starving millions of people.
@@bobsmith-ji2uhWhich he later backed away a from and apologized for these stances after learning of the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union.
@@JohnMuir231 yes later after the Cold War he mildly denounced Stalin in his 93 book. He still supported communism.
The man never changed from day one, he was who he was, and never changed, but he did indeed change so many others.....
Manchi all'umanità PETER SEEGER. (2023)
One of the preachers of real folk music. Great man who influenced guys like Dylan, Cash and Springsteen.
Pete Seeger is one of the most important Americans ever - up there with MLK, Dylan, JFK. Thank God we had Pete Seeger, because he nudged Dylan, who nudged a British band called the Beatles, The Byrds, Burrito Bros, Judy Collins, Neil Young, CSNY, etc
Dylan wrote this song.
Still one of the best performances of this song. And no disrespect to Bob Dylan, but with Pete singing you can actually clearly understand every word.
Listening with tears...
I had tears of homesickness for those times when the rains seemed gone for so long. Now the tears are for all those young people being old and gone from life now.
One of the most powerful songs written in the history;tribute by one legend to another!
Hello,how are you doing,how is the weather?
A great song from Bob Dylan. This guy just makes the song even greater.
the best troubadour there ever was... RIP Pete. we can still here you singing ...way out there.
c-record after Bob Dylan . Well, Pete asisted Spanish war, not Dylan , but Dylan wasn't still born
hear him
I miss ya Pete, You were an honorable loving man...a treasure.
I am fortunate to have wonderful memories of hearing Pete Seeger performing in the Melbourne Town Hall in September 1963, 58 years on, listening to this again is heart warming.
That's awesome.
Hello,how are you doing,how is the weather?
Sooo lucky indeed
the "Young fellow" has just won the nobel prize :)
and this old fellow was a great one
Pete Seeger wrote 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' and many others. The man was absolutely EPIC.
LearnItalian WithRiccardo Really , and he was worth Pete sang his song
And when this young fellow made his speech for the prize , he mentioned Woody Guthrie and Pete
@@TheGruntski no, it was written by Ewan McColl - who as it happens was married to PEGGY Seeger!
What can one say, a master at work. Integrity, honesty and talent. We were blessed to have these recordings.
Wow!!!! Never heard Pete Seeger cover this song. Always so used to only Pete singing with his banjo. Love his singing and playing the guitar here.
I don't always get into the banjo sometimes.
Who would have thought the young fellow would end up being the greatest songwriter the world as ever seen,God bless Bob Dylan.
Possibly one of the greatest songs ever written
A magnetic performance. Pete Seeger is a master.
I loved the great Pete Seeger...
❤
The MAN
Much respected HERE
Greetings from Dublin Ireland brothers and sisters ...
It's a rare human being who cannot respect this man. He's surely had his share of enemies. His sensitivity and kindness continues, unmistaken.
When he plays a song it's like there's a world of experience behind it I'll never know.
...and a wholly spiritual experience was shared by the artist and the audience
Jason Feingold He was an action man, sindicalist
Pete singing this made a younger Billy Connolly cry and decide to become a musician. 'I became a different man' - but still me, he said. He was still moved to tears describing it decades later.
God bless the day Pete Seeger was born. A great man!
Love Pete Seeger. My father's music. Takes me home again.
Pete Seegar und Bob Dylan 😍
So wonderful to listen to him singing this great Dylan's song.
Hello,how are you doing,how is the weather?
can't get over this song/performance. a priceless moment in music and history. thanks for sharing
At the age of 77 I still perform every week. I have covered many of Bob's songs but never this one. Sometimes I need to see an interpretation like this to inspire me. Some weeks ago I watched an aged Pete sing "Forever Young". i was at University with Bryan Ferry and liked his rocked up version of this song (athough he only covers three verses). From that I got the idea to perform a rocked up version of "Masters of War" with my rock band through the nineties. Now back solo gigs only, I follow the slow pattern.
I've seen nothing to indicate that we, as a species, have learned anything from Dylan's apocalyptic vision. A hard rain's not a-gonna fall; it's falling now.
You are damned right. It's falling now.
For all Dylan's amazingly prescient visions of the present apocalypse,... he himself seems blithely aloof and unaware,...... Pete on the other hand remained steadfastly strong against this plague of idiocy until his end... In so doing he lives on and still gives us a little hope in humanity and some kind of future....
Two years later from when you wrote this ... no idea how hard now...
It is time that we are going to ask ourselves the question what the message of the Lord to us, citicens of the world, is. Since the rain is so hard that we cannot gather to celebrate easter.
Keep on raining!! It beats indifferent nothingness.
Pete & Bob
gracias por todo Peter. .
Brilliant
Pete sang this with much more fervor!
A rare and inspirational talent.
the kids in the audience are having their minds blown
In that time, they were listening and thinking. Not like today.
@@c.danjou7343 I don't know about that... Pete's ideas are making a comeback
they all look so squarezo haha
@@nickkkyyy I agree! Even though it was 1963, they were still out of place listening to Seeger. I hope they learned something.
This song of Bob Dylan in the voice of Pete Seeger is a gift of God to us...
Hello,how are you doing,how is the weather?
OMG what a performance! What an audience!
The hard rain is still falling, many oceans ARE dead, there are at least 7 sad forests, more than 6 crooked highways & not enough people are getting the point! This is Bob Dylan's most prophetic song.
1962 Bob gave us a warning and this is it!... Did anyone hear?.. Did it make a difference?......
Sad😔😪😒
Y'all are right, and that's the song Bob had Patti sing at his Nobel prize acceptance celebration (he having other engagements). Its a hard one, but Patti and Pete they managed to slip only once or twice! ruclips.net/video/941PHEJHCwU/видео.html&ab_channel=NobelPrize
This one with Baez harmonizing is quite the moment too :)
ruclips.net/video/hFv33g79q_g/видео.html&ab_channel=fairbayer
And its just getting worse and worse! God help us!!
@@phyaide Patti's brain freeze and the responding encouragement from the audience (mainly royalty) made her performance even more powerful. At least in my opinion.
@@stevenmeyer9674 i totally agree ;)
What a beautiful voice, articulate, confident, on key, a troubadour paying tribute...
Plus jeune je ne comprenais trop le sens de ces paroles , je le regrette même si c'est trop tard. Dommage . Rip der Pete, bon voyage dans ce temps infini.
I miss Pete he did a great with Dylan song.
Cualquier audiencia que escuchamos esta hermosa canción no importa si fue hace 50 años o en la ceremonia del premio novel de literatura nos arranca las de cocodrilo.
.te amo Bob
In 1963 Bob Dylan was a young man who sang this song with an edge reflecting his youth. This 1963 version has Pete Seeger as a middle age man singing with the same depth of feeling, the feeling with which he sings is just as deep, but is more mature. I appreciate the fact that Pete Seeger knew in 1963 how important Dylan was to the protest movement and to the development of folk music. Of course a few years later he pulled Dylan's plug at the Newport Folk Festival . . . . .
+Kevin Scudder Pete claimed he never pulled the plug and was probably telling the truth because as far as I know he never hid anything. Probably one of those good stories someone made up but gain credibility by being retold so often!
+Arkybark Thanks for the note. Interesting for me to use google to search the story. Thank you for pointing out that version of history is not correct. Wikipedia has an interesting entry on that history, which shows that human recollection is never going to be consistent. All I know is that I was not there and will stop passing on that version of the story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Dylan_controversy
+Arkybark I saw an interview where swear admitted to pulling the plug
And I saw one in which he swore he didn't. I wasn't there, so......
Arkybark Yeah, in an NPR interview he said that he actually appreciated his musical transition. The problem Pete had was that he ruined beauty of a guitar with horrible distortion. And he apparently went to the sound guy asked him to fix it, the dude said no. So Pete said "If I had an axe right now, I'd cut these wires!!"
la música, la poesía y la la literatura reflejará la triste humanidad desde los principios de los tiempos. La belleza universal les da dones a muchos que se adelantan a la realidad y a Dios gracias que personas como esas existieron y existirán.
Beautiful
recién hoy conocí y le presté atención a la obra de Pete Seeger. Que belleza. Lo conocí por un gran programa de radio Universidad de la Universidad más antigua de américa que se encuentra en Córdoba. El programa se llama GPS y lo conduce Víctor Pintos una persona que conoce mucho de músicos estilos y personas muy comprometidas con causas nobles. Gracias por subir estos temas que son himnos de paz.
Nothing compares to driving through WV over into Ohio via 50 as the suns coming up listening to some pete seeger. wonderful music with wonderful mountains of trees... the best.. even better when he's covering dylan!!
Were you there at Ma Lai 😢😮😮
Un músic i persona íntegre. No va renunciar mai a les seves idees. Un músico y persona íntegra. No renunció nunca a sus ideas. La caza de brujas no pudo con él. Ojalá que este gran país, EE UU. encuentre el camino a la verdadera democracia y la paz. Todos dependemos de ello.
Pete Seeger always sang the greatest version of this song. He sang with all of his being, in complete earnest, all of the time. He deserved and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for all he did for humanity.
Every song Pete sung was the best version. A true American treasure.
@@stevenmeyer9674 I couldn't agree more! Every time I hear Pete singing this song, I get chills all over my body...and that's true of many songs he sang.
One of the most prophetic songs written by one who wrote what we felt and sung here by one who felt it more intensely than most of us, and through his interpretation made us feel it again in our current times. Where has this vision in music gone? I just hope it's not forever.
Brutal…. Just raw and you have to accept it.
Amazing that Pete could remember all the lyrics. I'm even amazed that Bob could.
he almost lost it at the end of the first verse lol
Patty Smith would agree.
Words can be forgotten... Wars will be remembered
It was the late 70s. Prior to Pete Seeger performing at Sonoma State, I suggested that he visit a protest site where Sonoma Springs Dam was to be built. He went there and I was told he was tired at the evening concert.
I felt sad about this... and more so when the dam was built anyway.
The fact that even 5 people disliked this makes me lose just a bit more faith in humanity.
Perhaps it was this particular version they didn't like. Myself, though I adore Pete Seeger, I prefer Dylan's version and also the one Patti Smith did at the Nobels.
true jane
micasaverde This cover is good enough
Not Humanity just 5 F***its. Oh by the way now 17. Go Figure.
May be this version they don't like. I prefer the one on my record from his 1963 Carnigie (sp)?Hall concert. I wouldn't thumb down this though!
pete was so above
Important to face then and right now in all we can see and go to the mountain and embrace all with love!😢❤Dr Darryl Luke Pokea, Musician/Psychologist
classic historic moment recorded here....this song sadly has resonance for us all in todays crisis.
how wonderfully this man sings, how valuable are his songs.
and take a look at the people
their souls are reflected.
thank god and ask him that we get comforting songs into the world again that we humans need so much.
My flame can fight the lightning 😮
Gracias.
Listening to Pete with Dylan 's melody
People can sit quietly to listen, and dress fairly smartly, but have the most revolutionary of spirit, and take part in protests, and totally comprehend a lyric. Students were often at the forefront of the protests, along with lecturers.
"An another yong fellow, by the name of Bob Dylan, wrote the next song" Ahahahahahahahahahaha It is wonderfull!!!!!!
What a respectful audience
Um cantor esquecido em Portugal .Merecia mais atenção. Peter Seeger para sempre
Thanks a lot for posting!
Pete was as Punk as Fuck before anyone even knew what Punk was!
Legend!
It’s great to seem Pete in his prime!
so touching when arlo visits his dad and pete seeger respecting woody in Aro's Restaurant.
I had never seen this video. I love, love it.
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
I heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, what did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
And who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
And, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
And the executioner's face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I'll tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it
And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
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I've watched three of Seegers' songs in this Aussie crowd. What a wooden crowd, it was a real long uphill road to get any animation out of any of them.
It was painful to watch them! Hahaha
I love it
Bernadette s. so do I
2024 is more now than ever before
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Gracias, muchas gracias por subir ese vídeo con tan alta calidad... Que Dios te bendiga.
Lovely! Thank you!
Pete Seeger was the best singer/entertainer!
18 Need to get a life, I am Aussie, have huge respect for this Man.
Great BOB**
Fantastic interpretation; utterly convincing
I wonder if these two giants of music have ever met or performed together? RIP Pete, what will happen when Dylan is the next to pass away. Music will never be the same again
They have met, many times. They both were part of the scene in Greenwich Village during the height of the folk era and both appeared at the Newport Folk festivals. They more or less parted ways after Dylan went electric.
Maravilloso!!!! 🙌
Great song and Great singer
"I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children." That has come so true in recent years. Then there is "Where pellets of poison are flooding the waters." The audience looks like "What the hell am I hearing?" Fortunately, they seemed to be trying to understand. Maybe the shock of hearing the truth made them more aware.
Dylan wrote some great stuff.
Thank you.
Hello there,how are you doing,how is the weather?
Que gran artista pete, junto con joan baez, irremplazables.
Great Pete🍀🌷🙏