Released: December 30, 1985
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Grateful Dead
[Verse 1]
Everybody's building the big ships and the boats
Some are building monuments, and some are jotting down notes
Everybody's in despair, every girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna jump for joy
[Chorus]
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
[Verse 2]
Now I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet
But guarding fumes and making haste, it ain't my cup of meat
Everybody's just standing around 'neath the trees
Feeding pigeons on a limb
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, all the pigeons gonna run to him
[Chorus]
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
[Instrumental break]
[Verse 3]
Have you do like I want you to, I can't decide in my heart
Tell me where to put it and I'll tell you who to call
Nobody can get no sleep, there's someone on everybody's toes
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna wanna doze
[Chorus]
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
[Instrumental break]
[Chorus]
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Everybody tell me, come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Everybody's building the big ships and the boats
Some are building monuments, and some are jotting down notes
Everybody's in despair, every girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna jump for joy
[Chorus]
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
[Verse 2]
Now I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet
But guarding fumes and making haste, it ain't my cup of meat
Everybody's just standing around 'neath the trees
Feeding pigeons on a limb
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, all the pigeons gonna run to him
[Chorus]
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
[Instrumental break]
[Verse 3]
Have you do like I want you to, I can't decide in my heart
Tell me where to put it and I'll tell you who to call
Nobody can get no sleep, there's someone on everybody's toes
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna wanna doze
[Chorus]
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
[Instrumental break]
[Chorus]
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Everybody tell me, come all without, come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn
Postcards of the Hanging
- Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
- Man of Peace
- Maggie’s Farm
- Queen Jane Approximately
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- All Along the Watchtower
- Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
- She Belongs to Me
- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
- Desolation Row
- When I Paint My Masterpiece (Live)
- Postcards of the Hanging (2002)
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
- All Along the Watchtower
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- Queen Jane Approximately
- Maggie’s Farm
- Man of Peace
- Gimme Some Lovin’ (Live at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY, March 26, 1990)
- When I Paint My Masterpiece (Live)
- Dear Mr. Fantasy
- Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
- Desolation Row
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
- She Belongs to Me
- When I Paint My Masterpiece (Live at Knickerbocker Arena, March 1990)
- All Along the Watchtower (Live at Knickerbocker Arena, March 1990)
- Second That Emotion (Live at Fillmore East NYC April 1971)
- Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Live at the Meadowlands, October 16, 1989)
- Tomorrow Never Knows (Live at Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, December 16, 1992)
- Gimme Some Lovin’ (Live at Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA, November 1, 1985)
- Dear Mr. Fantasy (Live at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA, March 27, 1988)
- Dear Mr. Fantasy (Live at Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, April 1, 1988)