I am 65 years old. I bought this album in high school, and at that time it reminded me of me and my closest pals, who just a couple years earlier had hung out in a tiny cabin/ apartment place where one of my friends lived. We all played guitars, smoked , and tripped there, and essentially grew up fast together, sharing our souls. Even two years later when I heard this song it seemed somewhat nostalgic. Now almost 50 years later, almost every one of those friends has passed away. The hairs on the back of my neck stand up when I hear this song now. 10 thousand dollars at the drop of a hat. I'd give it all gladly if my life could be like that.
Wow..I feel exactly the same. I’m re-listening to all his early stuff. This song is so, almost disturbing, because of what it meant to me in my long life. It really brings tears to my eyes. It’s like my favorite new Dylan song of course along with many other favorites.
Yeah me too. I'm 41 and each time I hear this over the last 20 years that feeling gets stronger. I'm much richer now but i have so much responsibility and I miss those careless penniless days where we would stay up all night getting wasted with good friends.
I'm only in my mid 30s, but I had a good time as a teenager getting together with a group of friends and playing music in the bedroom of an old mobile home at least two or three times a week. I knew this song well, and some nights when I drove back home I'd have this song in my head and I would tear up with the understanding that it wasn't going to last forever. It made me want to appreciate every moment we had together. I did, and I still do, but I miss those days so so very much.
I learned that song when I was 18 and actually saw the wisdom in his foretelling. I’m now 73 and singing it with more feeling that ever. “I wish we could sit simply in that room again.”
But to think that a kid of 21 could have the prophetic insight and foresight to write a nostalgia type song like that. Guess that's what creative genius is all about.
My birthday is comming along ... and, as I look back at my life, every note of this poem hits me deep inside my soul. Cannot re-live those moments of bliss I came upon in all these years ... but nowadays I enjoy it more and more to observe other people's moments of happyness with ever-growing affective empathy!
You got that right! I’m be 75 next month, was in the Village the day that album came out. Took a train in and later back to CT. It’s so special that we older folk have such amazing memories of the times in our lives plus that going through whatever we did, we can reflect on it today. Many youth today including my kids in their 40’s and 20’s, missed that completely. What that means for the future, I’m almost afraid to ask. Don’t forget Phil Oches too, another great, sadly overcome with alcohol and depression, left us too soon. Things to ponder, for sure.
I am also 73 and I first heard this song at about 18-19 years old. His sense of premature nostalgia is uncanny. An older soul is speaking through a very young person. Joni Mitchell had the same foresight in "The Circle Game."
thats really the type of music dylan creates, and ive always said that. im convinced its why some people just totally dont get him. they are probably not alone too often and dont realize thats rly the only time his music works its truest magic
@@elultimosonador3958 when we and my mates were all about 16-17 about 35 odd years ago, we stumbled across blonde on blonde, we were all hooked!! Everybody else are age at that time was listening to hip hop and rap, we just wasn't interested in that..... We used to have Dylan nights, 5 of us cramped into my bedroom, listening to basement tapes, bringing it all back home, another side of Dylan, virtually every Dylan album no later than slow train coming...... But I must admit it is hard listening to Dylan with people who don't get it, or are not bothered..... Thankfully all my mates from yesteryear were Dylan nuts...
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Dylan's Dream one of the best looking back nostalgic songs. We've all been there in that room at the beginning just about to finish our adolescence, just beginning to move into the first stage of adulthood with various types of friends, some steadfast,, some revolving door, coming and going in and out our life. Gone too soon.. The memories of that short time tattooed forever. And Dylan's Dream brings it all back whenever we listen to it. Now at the beginning of a career, earning real money, moving off to a new stage, knowing we've left that room, the song hits one hard.
I heard this when I was 15, 1972, and made me think long and hard, as I am sentimental by nature...to me, it's a capture of that reflective golden era of youth, friends, that has been a part of my life since that moment in '72.
We listened to this and other Dylan songs while in medic training in TX, 1968. "Heads" they called us - but we knew better than to smoke anything there. Inked peace symbols on our helmet covers in Vietnam. Too many of my classmates never made it past their youth to reminisce about a n y t h i n g.
Thomas I’ve wondered this with just about every Dylan song. It’s truly incredible. Even with as much credit as he’s gotten I still believe he’s so underrated.
I think of all my friends back then in Dave’s garage in San Francisco with our ‘band’ in 1966-67. Bob, Mike, Mick, Glenn. Dianne, Karen, Rose, Marilyn, Alex, Henry, John, JV, Phil, Danny and Sam. Those were some of the happiest days of my life. 😊
I was so fortunate to learn to play guitar in 62 by a guy considered a nerd. He was my vehicle to folk music and ultimately Dylan. What incredible insight this guy had, light years ahead of everyone else I knew. Thanks Dave!
Thank you. Sir, for sharing all this old Bob" songs that we more of 60's love. Here we can hear Bob because you give us this chance, with your effort and love. Thanks..🙏🙏🌻🌻😘😘
Yes, like many of my fellow posters I loved this song from Day One. But 50 years later, it means everything to me. Some of my friends are no longer with us. I cling to the others, even though we live thousands of miles apart. Let us always be grateful that we breathed the same air as Bob. Like Mandela and Ché, an inspiration.
@@jeanaccoh8663 Absolutely right. "Don't Think Twice It's All Right", "A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall", "Blowin' in the Wind" ... that's why a song like this fades into the background. As a teenager, I studied ALL the songs on this album, meaning I learned to play them on the guitar. Great album.
[Verse 1] While riding on a train going west I fell asleep for to take my rest I dreamed a dream that made me sad Concerning myself and the first few friends I had [Verse 2] With half-damp eyes I stared to the room Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon Where we together weathered many a storm Laughin and singin till the early hours of the morn [Verse 3] By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung Our words was told, our songs was sung Where we longed for nothing and were satisfied Jokin' and talkin' about the world outside [Verse 4] With hungry hearts through the heat and cold We never much thought we could get very old We thought we could sit forever in fun And our chances really was a million to one [Instrument Break] [Verse 5] As easy it was to tell black from white It was all that easy to tell wrong from right And our choices, they were few so the thought never hit That the one road we traveled would ever shatter or split [Verse 6] How many a year has passed and gone Many a gamble has been lost and won And many a road taken by many a first friend And each one I’ve never seen again [Instrument Break] [Verse 7] I wish, I wish, I wish in vain That we could sit simply in that room again Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat And I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that
How come I never heard this magnificent song! It carries the deepest poem that I've never wondered I'd find dressed by Music. I"ll have to read this lyrics three or four times to absorb some of the senses it gives me. Bob Dylan can't stop surprising us.
@@monicatolipan3238 so true I mean some songs are so underrated…I haven’t heard a better friendship song that hits home so hard and you can literally reminisce the setting and nostalgia… It’s these songs which are seldom heard but are amazing which help you connect with the artist even more
@Mrunal Vora thanks for your kind and clever answer. It's so recent my deep research Bob Dylan"s work. I thought I knew it but l was completely wrong. I had no idea of the real enormous dimension his production had taken. It has been a great and rich study!
the most poignant song i ever heard. touches so close to my young life. brings a tear to the eye. thanks for posting it. we never thought we would get much old.... well, i did,
As of today, 23 people gave this the thumbs down. If you need to forget this kind of sentiment, I raise a glass to you and wish you well, I'm sorry for your loss.
Yeah, those people are dumb turds. Starting in november 1965 I have seen dylan 35 times. I met him july 1991 in cleveland he was walking by himself. I looked up and saw him walking towards me. I stood still and put out my hand and he came up to me and shook my hand.
Felix, I was probably sixteen when I first heard this song. It was as meaningful to me then as it is now. ( I'm 71 now). Dylan was only about 21 or 22 when he wrote it. Glad you are appreciating it!
This song...embodies that same feeling any close group feels when their fellowship has broken, and one thinks back wistfully on the fun and comradery they had. Make me miss my friends from college.
I live this song its so poignantly real fir me!! I lost a lifelong friend last yr at the age of 47 to cancer and to sit in that room again I'd give it all gladly if only life could be like that ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat I'd give it all gladly if only our lives could be like that 😢
My late husband was a true Dylan fan. We had All the LP's (even the awful 'Planet Waves') and he/we went to concerts wherever possible. Including the Free Trade Hall. He (Dylan) (I felt) was/is a usurper of other people's music/stories, but in a good way. I don't mind :) Where are they now? (the Lp's?) Somebody took them from our shelves, sometime! I am lucky enough to have a friend, still, from my schooldays (we met when we were 11) and correspond at least weekly. Ain't that lucky? :) I'm 73.
As a college student, I played this 78 album nite after nite in the Frat house until I wore it out. 50+ yrs later, it reminds me of my entire life & so many friends 'I never saw again". The Genius Poet lives on with my Favorite song...
Grand voice and Grand singin’ too.... Yea thats 2 diff things🌺❤️🌞🌹👌 Harrrpppp and guitar All I hear is GOOOOOOD❤️Laughing and joking till the early hours ... Laying open the life of young people... then we were💃🕺🌷💫👌💥Thanks DearDylan🌺🌷
I only discovered this song at the end of last year.. I love Bob Dylan. I used to listen to him Freewheelin' with my best friend. My bestie died last year aged 56 along with another good friend and 2 neighbours and I was diagnosed with severe heart failure.. I am only sad because I didn't find the time to listen to more Bob Dylan. 😢❤😂
This song has haunted me. I had a close knit group of friends I see no more, all of us scattered to the wind. This is one of my favorites. Its like Poor Rutebeuf.
back again 3 yrs later---same friend sent this same song---i did not remember---i do not remember--old age is wild. 10k at a drop of a hat>> to be what i//we used to be.
back again 3 yrs later---same friend sent this same song---i did not remember---i do not remember--old age is wild. 10k at a drop of a hat>> to be what i//we used to be.
I went to the University of Minnesota and I remember in the mens room in Lind Hall, someone wrote in big letters, Bob Dylan's Dreams behind the toilet with an arrow pointing to the pipe. It was there for a number of years.
@@Kodaigon72 Unfortunately I've never been able to find someone playing the original melody, which is known as 'Cailín Óg a Stór' which is strange due to how many popular songs use the tune
Bob, you ain’t from around these parts methinks. Makes me wonder how you got here, giving so much love to us, teaching us, guiding us. If there is any way to repay you just walk up behind me and tell me what I will do for you. Bob, you and the rest of the row pulled me out of Edmonton when I was a teenager looking to understand the insight. I’m fiddy eight now, seen most of it and I’m more confused than ever about your ability to reach into my heart. If thanking you here is all I can do then consider it done, otherwise I will see you across that fits. Peace.
2:57 "As easy it was to tell black from white It was all that easy to tell wrong from right And our choices they was few so the thought never hit That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split"
While riding on a train goin' west I fell asleep for to take my rest I dreamed a dream that made me sad Concerning myself and the first few friends I had With half-damp eyes, I stared to the room Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon Where we together weathered many a storm Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn By the old wooden stove our hats was hung Our words was told, our songs was sung Where we longed for nothin' and were satisfied Jokin' and talkin' about the world outside With hungry hearts through the heat and cold We never much thought we could get very old We thought we could sit forever in fun And our chances really was a million to one As easy, it was to tell black from white It was all that easy to tell wrong from right And our choices there was few So the thought never hit At the one road we travelled, we ever shatter or split How many a year has passed and gone? Many a gamble has been lost and won And many a road taken by many a first friend And each one I've never seen again I wish, I wish, I wish in vain That we could sit simply in that room again Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that
Gentlemen - I can tell by the comments that this song touched people deeply. If interested, there is a book by Alain de Botton, a French-Canadian philosopher, called “How Proust Can Change Your Life.” Reading Proust, one can learn how to cultivate poignant nostalgic remembrances which touch the heart and make life even more deeply moving, as this song does. Bernard Berenson thought that the point of studying paintings is to learn how to SEE beauty in the world, e.g., no one would think of traveling on muddy roads in the provinces, amid illiterate peasants, until Dutch landscape painters showed how to see beauty there. Worth checking out.
I am 65 years old. I bought this album in high school, and at that time it reminded me of me and my closest pals, who just a couple years earlier had hung out in a tiny cabin/ apartment place where one of my friends lived. We all played guitars, smoked , and tripped there, and essentially grew up fast together, sharing our souls. Even two years later when I heard this song it seemed somewhat nostalgic. Now almost 50 years later, almost every one of those friends has passed away. The hairs on the back of my neck stand up when I hear this song now. 10 thousand dollars at the drop of a hat. I'd give it all gladly if my life could be like that.
Wow..I feel exactly the same. I’m re-listening to all his early stuff. This song is so, almost disturbing, because of what it meant to me in my long life. It really brings tears to my eyes. It’s like my favorite new Dylan song of course along with many other favorites.
Yeah me too. I'm 41 and each time I hear this over the last 20 years that feeling gets stronger. I'm much richer now but i have so much responsibility and I miss those careless penniless days where we would stay up all night getting wasted with good friends.
I know exactly what you mean.....
I ridin that same train friend , love this song 50 years on , the magic and the memories still livin on , Zimmy forever .
I'm only in my mid 30s, but I had a good time as a teenager getting together with a group of friends and playing music in the bedroom of an old mobile home at least two or three times a week. I knew this song well, and some nights when I drove back home I'd have this song in my head and I would tear up with the understanding that it wasn't going to last forever. It made me want to appreciate every moment we had together. I did, and I still do, but I miss those days so so very much.
My Favorite Dylan song along with 50 or more others, you know what I mean
Steve Walker stunning isn't it. So relatable.
Sure do lol
True, 100 others!
Yes exactly
It's impossible to pick just one.
I learned that song when I was 18 and actually saw the wisdom in his foretelling. I’m now 73 and singing it with more feeling that ever. “I wish we could sit simply in that room again.”
But to think that a kid of 21 could have the prophetic insight and foresight to write a nostalgia type song like that. Guess that's what creative genius is all about.
My birthday is comming along ... and, as I look back at my life, every note of this poem hits me deep inside my soul.
Cannot re-live those moments of bliss I came upon in all these years ... but nowadays I enjoy it more and more to observe other people's moments of happyness with ever-growing affective empathy!
I am 75. Liked this song by the Silkie. Dylan was the best.
You got that right! I’m be 75 next month, was in the Village the day that album came out. Took a train in and later back to CT. It’s so special that we older folk have such amazing memories of the times in our lives plus that going through whatever we did, we can reflect on it today. Many youth today including my kids in their 40’s and 20’s, missed that completely. What that means for the future, I’m almost afraid to ask.
Don’t forget Phil Oches too, another great, sadly overcome with alcohol and depression, left us too soon.
Things to ponder, for sure.
I am also 73 and I first heard this song at about 18-19 years old. His sense of premature nostalgia is uncanny. An older soul is speaking through a very young person. Joni Mitchell had the same foresight in "The Circle Game."
One of Bob Dylan's best songs. Absolute masterpiece.
You could say that statement about any of Dylan's songs and it would be true.
@@Jra7o15 there’s some truth to that
It’s few people that realize that this song was one of his best ever . I’m a huge Dylan fan, but I always wondered where was the love for this tune.
A masterpiece of a genius ☮️
It's relevant even now
You know when a song is so well written that it evokes memories of a time and place in your life that never really happened.
Bought this album at school I'm now 74 every word he spoke is still true today
We’re the same age and I did the same thing.
Underrated song. Great nostalgia for long-lost friendship and idealism.
Yep Jack you are right a song of friendship and hope 😊🌈🎶 a timeless classic so to speak
rachel lee great song great guy the best
@Robert Sinclair I hope to find a record of that
Underrated by who? For me is one of the best song ever written
I can't even listen to this song with other people. I need to be totally alone with a little whiskey and then choose to listen to it.
thats really the type of music dylan creates, and ive always said that. im convinced its why some people just totally dont get him. they are probably not alone too often and dont realize thats rly the only time his music works its truest magic
@@elultimosonador3958 when we and my mates were all about 16-17 about 35 odd years ago, we stumbled across blonde on blonde, we were all hooked!! Everybody else are age at that time was listening to hip hop and rap, we just wasn't interested in that..... We used to have Dylan nights, 5 of us cramped into my bedroom, listening to basement tapes, bringing it all back home, another side of Dylan, virtually every Dylan album no later than slow train coming...... But I must admit it is hard listening to Dylan with people who don't get it, or are not bothered..... Thankfully all my mates from yesteryear were Dylan nuts...
@@elultimosonador3958 there was a lot of dope smoked during those Dylan nights as well...... Good memories
Same
Thats the way i use to listen all the music i love...
One of the first albums I ever bought as a teenager. All of these songs have aged well.
Bob dylan singing above the passing of time in his early 20s shows you how mature his song writing was at such a early age
He wrote a song for looking back yet he was only starting out.
Genius
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Dylan's Dream one of the best looking back nostalgic songs.
We've all been there in that room at the beginning just about to finish our adolescence, just beginning to move into the first stage of adulthood with various types of friends, some steadfast,, some revolving door, coming and going in and out our life.
Gone too soon.. The memories of that short time tattooed forever. And Dylan's Dream brings it all back whenever we listen to it.
Now at the beginning of a career, earning real money, moving off to a new stage, knowing we've left that room, the song hits one hard.
I heard this when I was 15, 1972, and made me think long and hard, as I am sentimental by nature...to me, it's a capture of that reflective golden era of youth, friends, that has been a part of my life since that moment in '72.
Such a terrible feeling when the good times pass and you can’t relive those memories.
I am 77, got all the albums. We called 'em LPs back then. I liked Masters of War and Gospel Plow. See what you think!?
This is the song for the many people who trod outside the tracks of everyone else. I love Bob Dylan.. Real life sung about😘😬🙄🙏😭❤️
We listened to this and other Dylan songs while in medic training in TX, 1968. "Heads" they called us - but we knew better than to smoke anything there. Inked peace symbols on our helmet covers in Vietnam. Too many of my classmates never made it past their youth to reminisce about a n y t h i n g.
Sorry for the friends you lost in Vietnam.
It's interesting how even the words echo the ballad of Lord Franklin, from which this comes. It deserves to be better known.
The man gave his life for his country a valiant sacrifice, rest easy Sir John!
One of my favorite songs of all time. I can see every thing he says in this song!
Deep nostalgia for my teenage years in the 1960s. It's still magical!
How in the world did a 21 year old man write this song? How many centuries has Dylan lived?
It's the rhythm and phrasing and no I don't know how to do it.
Thomas I’ve wondered this with just about every Dylan song. It’s truly incredible. Even with as much credit as he’s gotten I still believe he’s so underrated.
@19PsychoBates60 could be all the unfiltered cigarettes!
A conduit for some otherworldly intelligence? No one will ever know ~ not even the man himself! (-:
It's like Stephen Crane... old Civil War vets swore they'd served with him after reading "The Red Badge of Courage"--yet Crane was born after the war.
I think of all my friends back then in Dave’s garage in San Francisco with our ‘band’ in 1966-67. Bob, Mike, Mick, Glenn. Dianne, Karen, Rose, Marilyn, Alex, Henry, John, JV, Phil, Danny and Sam. Those were some of the happiest days of my life. 😊
I was so fortunate to learn to play guitar in 62 by a guy considered a nerd. He was my vehicle to folk music and ultimately Dylan. What incredible insight this guy had, light years ahead of everyone else I knew. Thanks Dave!
Thank you. Sir, for sharing all this old Bob" songs that we more of 60's love. Here we can hear Bob because you give us this chance, with your effort and love. Thanks..🙏🙏🌻🌻😘😘
Yes, like many of my fellow posters I loved this song from Day One. But 50 years later, it means everything to me. Some of my friends are no longer with us. I cling to the others, even though we live thousands of miles apart. Let us always be grateful that we breathed the same air as Bob. Like Mandela and Ché, an inspiration.
I love this reply. He won't be with us forever. Drink it in.
Why does this song not have more views?
This is an incredible song.
Prolly my favorite on the album.
They sure don't write songs like this nowadays.
Because this song has 57 years, but it's not a dinosaur 's song
because the album has so many heavyweights that some songs are lost in the crossfire.
@@jeanaccoh8663 Absolutely right. "Don't Think Twice It's All Right", "A Hard Rain's A-gonna Fall", "Blowin' in the Wind" ... that's why a song like this fades into the background. As a teenager, I studied ALL the songs on this album, meaning I learned to play them on the guitar. Great album.
Can't listen to this song without crying. 😪 What a beautiful & sad song. Very underated
"They" don't write songs like this at all! Only Bob does. Genius!
[Verse 1]
While riding on a train going west
I fell asleep for to take my rest
I dreamed a dream that made me sad
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had
[Verse 2]
With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon
Where we together weathered many a storm
Laughin and singin till the early hours of the morn
[Verse 3]
By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung
Our words was told, our songs was sung
Where we longed for nothing and were satisfied
Jokin' and talkin' about the world outside
[Verse 4]
With hungry hearts through the heat and cold
We never much thought we could get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
And our chances really was a million to one
[Instrument Break]
[Verse 5]
As easy it was to tell black from white
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
And our choices, they were few so the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter or split
[Verse 6]
How many a year has passed and gone
Many a gamble has been lost and won
And many a road taken by many a first friend
And each one I’ve never seen again
[Instrument Break]
[Verse 7]
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
That we could sit simply in that room again
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
And I’d give it all gladly if our lives could be like that
Mruna Voral thanks🌷💫
@@0otee :) Thank Dylan man, just copy pasted it
How come I never heard this magnificent song! It carries the deepest poem that I've never wondered I'd find dressed by Music.
I"ll have to read this lyrics three or four times to absorb some of the senses it gives me. Bob Dylan can't stop surprising us.
@@monicatolipan3238 so true I mean some songs are so underrated…I haven’t heard a better friendship song that hits home so hard and you can literally reminisce the setting and nostalgia…
It’s these songs which are seldom heard but are amazing which help you connect with the artist even more
@Mrunal Vora thanks for your kind and clever answer. It's so recent my deep research Bob Dylan"s work. I thought I knew it but l was completely wrong. I had no idea of the real enormous dimension his production had taken. It has been a great and rich study!
the most poignant song i ever heard. touches so close to my young life. brings a tear to the eye. thanks for posting it.
we never thought we would get much old.... well, i did,
So did I.
Yeah, I still don't know how I got so old so fast. Love his songs.
As of today, 23 people gave this the thumbs down. If you need to forget this kind of sentiment, I raise a glass to you and wish you well, I'm sorry for your loss.
Yeah, those people are dumb turds. Starting in november 1965 I have seen dylan 35 times. I met him july 1991 in cleveland he was walking by himself. I looked up and saw him walking towards me. I stood still and put out my hand and he came up to me and shook my hand.
This song always makes me choke up, but I just can't stop listening to it!
I m only 17 livin’ these times, when i ll get old i ll be here thinkin bout all the memories and wish we could sit simply in that room again..
you dont know when it hits. Im only 26 and lost a best friend, who I would trade anything to sit with again.
Felix, I was probably sixteen when I first heard this song. It was as meaningful to me then as it is now. ( I'm 71 now). Dylan was only about 21 or 22 when he wrote it. Glad you are appreciating it!
Felix, go and have fun. Don't worry about this song for now.
enjoy every minute of it you will be old like me (77) before you know it
Time goes by fast. A lifetime is a short time.
This song...embodies that same feeling any close group feels when their fellowship has broken, and one thinks back wistfully on the fun and comradery they had.
Make me miss my friends from college.
This is the best song on his best album. Bought it in 1965.
Thank God for Bob Dylan
I am 82 and it is amazing that BD wrote that song at age 20 and I just realized that now
He is amazing ☮️☮️
This song sums up my youth perfectly, simple and carefree, happy memories.😃
I think it was 1964 or thereabouts when I fell in love with this song. And every now and then I come back to it, and fall in love with it once again
We thought we could sit forever in fun
Listening in 2024 at the age 69.
Outliving many dear friends!
It's just pure poetry
Bob’s Dream + Lady Franklin’s Lament = 🎶
Just a kid and he wrote,and sang this so we could listen and learn from that dream.
Oh my goodness that was too close to the heart.
That song was planted right in the middle of your heart brother the song eventually reaches us all
Definitely the best album cover of all time!
We cant go back his words were and still are brilliant ..A tear is shed every time I play this track about how true it became .Such is life
I live this song its so poignantly real fir me!! I lost a lifelong friend last yr at the age of 47 to cancer and to sit in that room again I'd give it all gladly if only life could be like that ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat I'd give it all gladly if only our lives could be like that 😢
My late husband was a true Dylan fan. We had All the LP's (even the awful 'Planet Waves') and he/we went to concerts wherever possible. Including the Free Trade Hall. He (Dylan) (I felt) was/is a usurper of other people's music/stories, but in a good way. I don't mind :) Where are they now? (the Lp's?) Somebody took them from our shelves, sometime!
I am lucky enough to have a friend, still, from my schooldays (we met when we were 11) and correspond at least weekly. Ain't that lucky? :) I'm 73.
As a college student, I played this 78 album nite after nite in the Frat house until I wore it out. 50+ yrs later, it reminds me of my entire life & so many friends 'I never saw again". The Genius Poet lives on with my Favorite song...
It's a 33 1/3.
Soothsayer of our times
Just the best ever .. Brings back those days .. a tear to my eye and smile to my face 🌼🙏🌼
So beautiful... thank you Bob from the heart
It almost described the time and memories that i spent with my friends when i was doing undergraduate.
The great old time waw ! Bob You're a precious piece of diamond
Overwhelming. Stops you dead in your tracks.
never gets old...
@Bob Dylan Vancouver, Washington
@Bob Dylan no, I grew up on your music
"We thought we could sit forever in fun" How wrong we were!
I have always loved this song❤
Me too.
i love Bob Dylans work!!!! a favorite of mine " you gotta serve somebody"!!!!
Grand voice and Grand singin’ too.... Yea thats 2 diff things🌺❤️🌞🌹👌 Harrrpppp and guitar All I hear is GOOOOOOD❤️Laughing and joking till the early hours ... Laying open the life of young people... then we were💃🕺🌷💫👌💥Thanks DearDylan🌺🌷
Gunna miss you brother. Miguel alaniz. Was truely a legend. Love you always. We will miss you til our end.
Here's to friends who moved on without us.
AETERNAL HAILZ. Check out Miguel's 2 vids on youtube. Audition vids to long beach poly college. He was accepted before he passed. miguel alaniz.
I first heard this song when I was about 15, I loved it, I hear it better now I'm 71.
I only discovered this song at the end of last year.. I love Bob Dylan. I used to listen to him Freewheelin' with my best friend. My bestie died last year aged 56 along with another good friend and 2 neighbours and I was diagnosed with severe heart failure.. I am only sad because I didn't find the time to listen to more Bob Dylan. 😢❤😂
I have this album, purchased when released, and I will have this song played at my funeral. Mr Dylan deserved his Nobel prize.
Damn . Has it really been half a century since I heard this ??
My favorite
This song has haunted me. I had a close knit group of friends I see no more, all of us scattered to the wind. This is one of my favorites. Its like Poor Rutebeuf.
I am blessed with the best friends a friend could ever have... thank you, my friends...
Go tell it, Bob. One of my favorites.
Gr8 Lyrics fm Bob which are telling a story about changing with the times.
Gives me thrills all over my body...
back again 3 yrs later---same friend sent this same song---i did not remember---i do not remember--old age is wild. 10k at a drop of a hat>> to be what i//we used to be.
This song is way underrated 👀
ONE OFF HIS BEST
Superb.
This song stuck a cord when I was 16,
I’m now 72
O cara é um monstro!
Escreve muito!!!
Chega a doer o coração...
Beautiful
his greatest recording ever
You have Great taste, Sir.
@@bill28104 thank you..😊
He was a young man when he wrote this song but it's like some middle age guy looking back in his past that's the beauty dylan's song writing
Buon Compleanno mister BOB DYLAN 2022...
Love this. Bryan Ferry does fab cover on Chimes of Freedom Amnesty Four pack!!!
i know Dylan since 1964 pretty well--my good friend just sent this to me--i never heard it--wow--crazy---ya gotta go to Lilly and the Jack of Hearts
back again 3 yrs later---same friend sent this same song---i did not remember---i do not remember--old age is wild. 10k at a drop of a hat>> to be what i//we used to be.
amazing!
So very true. Bon Voyage my dear Bruce Campbell....
Holly shit what a clear mind!
I went to the University of Minnesota and I remember in the mens room in Lind Hall, someone wrote in big letters, Bob Dylan's Dreams behind the toilet with an arrow pointing to the pipe.
It was there for a number of years.
Where we longed for nothin’ and were quite satisfied
Talkin’ and a-jokin’ about the world outside
The best definition of what "enough" means.
Melody goes all the way back to a 16th century tune composed by a Gaelic harpist in Ireland
Do you have a video of someone playing the melody? I’m curious.
@@Kodaigon72 Unfortunately I've never been able to find someone playing the original melody, which is known as 'Cailín Óg a Stór' which is strange due to how many popular songs use the tune
74 now and been there and now here.
Bob, you ain’t from around these parts methinks. Makes me wonder how you got here, giving so much love to us, teaching us, guiding us. If there is any way to repay you just walk up behind me and tell me what I will do for you. Bob, you and the rest of the row pulled me out of Edmonton when I was a teenager looking to understand the insight. I’m fiddy eight now, seen most of it and I’m more confused than ever about your ability to reach into my heart. If thanking you here is all I can do then consider it done, otherwise I will see you across that fits. Peace.
Genius; my life exactly
I'd give it all gladly
2:57 "As easy it was to tell black from white
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
And our choices they was few so the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split"
While riding on a train goin' west
I fell asleep for to take my rest
I dreamed a dream that made me sad
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had
With half-damp eyes, I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon
Where we together weathered many a storm
Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn
By the old wooden stove our hats was hung
Our words was told, our songs was sung
Where we longed for nothin' and were satisfied
Jokin' and talkin' about the world outside
With hungry hearts through the heat and cold
We never much thought we could get very old
We thought we could sit forever in fun
And our chances really was a million to one
As easy, it was to tell black from white
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right
And our choices there was few
So the thought never hit
At the one road we travelled, we ever shatter or split
How many a year has passed and gone?
Many a gamble has been lost and won
And many a road taken by many a first friend
And each one I've never seen again
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
That we could sit simply in that room again
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that
Exactly
To all my friends. Love you all, here or gone
Im passing my classes because of Bob Dylan.
I'm reminded of a line from Stephen King. "I never had friends again like I did when we were twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
It's rare people have friends at any age or that's what I've observed.
Gentlemen - I can tell by the comments that this song touched people deeply. If interested, there is a book by Alain de Botton, a French-Canadian philosopher, called “How Proust Can Change Your Life.” Reading Proust, one can learn how to cultivate poignant nostalgic remembrances which touch the heart and make life even more deeply moving, as this song does. Bernard Berenson thought that the point of studying paintings is to learn how to SEE beauty in the world, e.g., no one would think of traveling on muddy roads in the provinces, amid illiterate peasants, until Dutch landscape painters showed how to see beauty there. Worth checking out.
Art is better than leaving the house. Gotta go have a cake about to bake.
...still bone-chilling