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Related: About this forumPatti Smith - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan's Nobel 2016 Ceremony)
Published on Dec 10, 2016
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)dhol82
(9,352 posts)Don't think I have ever heard all the verses before.
Beautiful.
Eom
brucefan
(1,549 posts)To see a seasoned performer so humbled by it all
rainy
(6,091 posts)One of the greatest. Congratulations to him!
longship
(40,416 posts)She could not get through it. The power of the event, and the power of Bob Dylan's words overwhelmed her, with the Swedish royalty looking on, and listening.
That is a performance moment that will live on.
I have to watch it again. Tears in my eyes. As there was in Patti's.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)That was embarrassing.
mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)she's quite human. No embarrassment in that. A moving and memorable performance, in my opinion.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)The whole point is honoring Dylan for his lyrics and she didn't bother to learn them.
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)Shit away my brown eyed son.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)This is not some kid performing in front of an audience for the first time in her life. Patti Smith is a seasoned veteran who has been performing live for decades.
I think it would behoove the person paying tribute to make sure they know those lyrics.
ancianita
(36,023 posts)Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
Ive stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
Ive walked and Ive crawled on six crooked highways
Ive stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
Ive been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
Ive been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And its a hard, and its a hard, its a hard, and its a hard
And its a hard rains a-gonna fall
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, 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 its a hard, and its a hard, its a hard, its a hard
And its a hard rains 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
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin
Heard ten thousand whisperin and nobody listenin
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And its a hard, and its a hard, its a hard, its a hard
And its a hard rains a-gonna fall
Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
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 with hatred
And its a hard, its a hard, its a hard, its a hard
Its a hard rains 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 black 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 souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then 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, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)that was a great choice. i'm actually in tears.
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bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)japple
(9,822 posts)n/t