Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell (live 2012)

@bestuurdvsgroningen3603 @bestuurdvsgroningen3603 Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell (live 2012).

And I know no one can sing the blues like... A very special performance in honor of Martin Scorsese.

Dylan's performance here is magnificent. So, too, is what the performance represents. It is one great artist (Dylan) showing his respect for another (Martin Scorcese). Enjoy!

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LYRICS

I seen the arrow on the doorpost
Saying this land is condemned
All the way from New Orleans
To Jerusalem
Well, I travel through east Texas
Where many martyrs fell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Wille McTell
Mmm, I heard that hoot owl singing
As they were taking down the tents
The stars above the barren trees
Was his only audience
Them charcoal gypsy maidens
Can strut their feathers well
But nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
See them big plantations burning
Hear the cracking of the whips
Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
See the ghosts of slavery ships
I can hear them tribes a moaning
Hear that undertaker's bell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
There's a woman by the river
With some fine young handsome man
He's dressed up like a squire
Bootleg whiskey in his hand
There's a chain gang on the highway
I can hear them rebels yell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
God is in His heaven
And we all want what's His
But power and greed and corruptible seed
Seem to be all that there is
I'm gazing out the window
Of that old Saint James Hotel
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

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comments

@bestuurdvsgroningen3603 wrote:
'excellent! Love to hear his changes to the lyrics. I summed them up in case you'd like to change the lyrics below the video:
He sings 'from new orleans to new jerusalem' instead of just 'jerusalem'
also:
"I can tell you one thing, no one can sing the blues like ..' everytime the line comes up
"You know them charcoal gypsy maidens.. "
"there's a chain gang out on the highway"

And he skips the third verse'