Released: June 20, 1974
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Dylan & The Band
“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief
“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth”
“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late”
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl
“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth”
“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late”
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl
more tracks from the album
Before the Flood
- Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) [Before the Flood]
- Like a Rolling Stone [Before the Flood]
- Highway 61 Revisited [Before the Flood]
- All Along the Watchtower [Before the Flood]
- It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) [Before the Flood]
- Just Like a Woman [Before the Flood]
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right [Before the Flood]
- I Shall Be Released [Before the Flood]
- Ballad of a Thin Man [Before the Flood]
- It Ain’t Me, Babe [Before the Flood]
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door [Before the Flood]
- Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 [Before the Flood]
- Lay Lady Lay [Before the Flood]
- Blowin’ in the Wind [Before the Flood]
From the album
- Before the Flood (1974)
Bob Dylan & The Band popular songs
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- This Wheel’s on Fire
- Tears of Rage
- Katie’s Been Gone
- Yazoo Street Scandal
- Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)
- Bessie Smith
- Long Distance Operator
- Ruben Remus
- Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)
- Odds and Ends
- Million Dollar Bash
- Goin’ to Acapulco
- Lo and Behold!
- Clothes Line Saga
- Apple Suckling Tree
- Please, Mrs. Henry
- Too Much of Nothing
- Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
- Ain’t No More Cane
- Tiny Montgomery
- Don’t Ya Tell Henry
- Nothing Was Delivered
- Open the Door, Homer