sexta-feira, 4 de julho de 2008

PlayList II - Optimus Alive

Seis dias.
O dia estava choroso e pedia uma música assim. Bob Dylan actuará no dia 11 de Julho, nos festival Optimus Alive. Para miúdos e graúdos, recomenda-se.

Bob Dylan com "Blind Willie McTell". Palavras para quê.



Seen the arrow on the doorpost
Saying, "This land is condemned
All the way from New Orleans

To Jerusalem."
I traveled through East Texas
Where many martyrs fell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

Well, I heard the hoot owl singing

As they were taking down the tents
The stars above the barren trees
Were 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

(And) see the ghosts of slavery ships
I can hear them tribes a-moaning
(I can) hear the undertaker's bell
(Yeah), nobody 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
Bootlegged 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

Well, God is in 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 the St. James Hotel
And I know no one can sing the blues

Like Blind Willie McTell


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