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“Changing of the Guards" by Bob Dylan
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Lyrics:
Sixteen years
Sixteen banners united over the field
Where the good shepherd grieves
Desperate men, desperate women divided
Spreading their wings 'neath falling leaves.
Fortune calls
I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born
On midsummer's eve near the tower.
The cold-blooded moon
The captain waits above the celebration
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.
They shaved her head
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.
I stumbled to my feet
I rode past destruction in the ditches
With the stitches still mending beneath a heart-shaped tattoo
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.
The palace of mirrors
Where dog soldiers are reflected
The endless road and the wailing of chimes
The empty rooms where her memory is protected
Where the angel's voices whisper to the souls of previous times.
She wakes him up
Forty-eight hours later the sun is breaking
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks
She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.
Gentlemen, he said I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
Peace will come
With tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
Between the King and the Queen of Swords.
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@MilesJordan-om8yt Год назад

This song alone is worth a Nobel Prize. I play it whenever I need relief from the madness. So soothing, so inspiring, simply brilliant.

@pauledwards8275 Год назад

A smoke and a couple of nips of vodka works well ... but I know what you mean. The chanting voice and the reply.

@timearp1229 Год назад

@@pauledwards8275 I've just reconnected with this song after many years of not being able to play my old vinyl collection. I totally agree its genius, pure genius. The lyrics are pure poetry.

@sadderthanyou7793 Год назад

@@timearp1229 Patti Smith did a surprisingly good cover of this.

@robertshapiro3733 Год назад

This superb song is a highlight of my final years in Graduate School. When Dylan performed this song soon after the album's release, its performance hadn't yet been altered being temporally close to its conception. I was working at an upscale dept. store supporting my academics and was looking forward to taking a date, Chris McK..... and as the concert approached she kept insisting that following the concert she was not going to spend the night at my apartment, and kept insisting that very mantra. The concert must have worked magic on her, however--she did indeed spend the night with me. I just had to get over a comment she made weeks earlier that troubled me but I tried to ascribe it to her most unusual sense of humor: "You know, you look like David Berkowitz." It was a fun night and she did indeed survive.

@jeffreydowell8970 Год назад

My favorite

@allanb9709 Год назад

I thought I had a favourite Dylan song, but it's not possible. One leads to the next.

@Gethsemane956 Год назад

Haha. My sentiments exactly. I jump from Tambourine Man to Like a Rolling Stone to ALL THE REST haha

@paulgreenaway-jl6ik 4 месяца назад

So true mate as all Dylan's songs are fantastic 😊 and lyricaly he is a genius 👌

@HamiltonRb 4 месяца назад

@@paulgreenaway-jl6ik One of my best friends is black, and hasn't heard Dylan before. I told him the story of Hurricane, and played it for him. Lot of tears were shed believe me, and Bob has a new fan.

@deeday4361 4 месяца назад

Too true

@saskiafinnan4216 3 месяца назад

@@HamiltonRb Dylan brings people together from all races, all walks of life, throughout all of time. He is so beautiful that way. Music heals everything.

@thinknewideas4131 Год назад

The goodness of this song is beyond communication.

@Enneise Час назад

I'm French and I can listen to this song more than a million times. I'll never,never be tired. And in fact, it's the same for all Bob Dylan' s songs. ❤❤❤

@Suzisart 7 месяцев назад

Dylans tunes are ageless because they are channelled by spirit

@rebeccahafferkamp322 Год назад

Once again, I am listening to and absorbing this album. It is probably my favorite. A verse I find particularly intriguing........."Gentlemen, he said. I don't need your organization. I've shined your shoes and marked your cards, but Eden is burning. Either getting ready for elimination, or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guard". It's 2022 and I continue to be amazed by his lyrical genius. I'm 68 and must have a regular dose of Dylan. My list of favorites is endless, yet he has written so much more. It's so good to see that there are so many out there who appreciate z

@DerekGiesbrecht Год назад

Just as there is impressionist painting, there is impressionist prose. No one else does it like Dylan, he's the Salvador Dali of songwriters, concerned with images, impressions

@Gethsemane956 Год назад

My sentiments exactly. I listened to street legal around 1981-82 in North Carolina stationed with the Marines. Am 64 now and have my collection of over 32 Dylan albums which I still listen to. Saw Dylan in Austin, Tx in 1986 on his True Confessions Tour with Tom Petty. Ahhh the memories!!!

@stephenhunter4886 Год назад

He does that to you doesn,t he,Sometimes you just need to stop and listen to him and ya just feel so good after listening to this legend

@Philinleshed Год назад

Idk album wise Blood on the Tracks still reigns supreme for me...but damn if this isn't one of my absolute favorite Dylan songs of all time.

@WarwickFry Год назад

It's a nice comment on the English 'scene'.

@Genjo_N_Mojave 2 года назад

Lyrics: Sixteen years Sixteen banners united over the field Where the good shepherd grieves Desperate men, desperate women divided Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves Fortune calls I stepped forth from the shadows to the marketplace Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born On midsummer's eve, near the tower The cold-blooded moon The captain waits above the celebration Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid Whose ebony face is beyond communication The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid They shaved her head She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo A messenger arrived with a black nightingale I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil I stumbled to my feet I rode past destruction in the ditches With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo Renegade priests and treacherous young witches Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you The palace of mirrors Where dog soldiers are reflected The endless road and the wailing of chimes The empty rooms where her memory is protected Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times She wakes him up Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks Gentlemen, he said I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes I've moved your mountains and marked your cards But Eden is burning, either getting ready for elimination Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will offer no reward when her false idols fall And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating Between the King and the Queen of Swords (If you've read this far, to the end, then you realize what a Masterpiece of poetry Dylan has painted. What all it means is up to you, allegory or otherwise.)

@lenafay6641 2 года назад

You

@lenafay6641 2 года назад

Classic

@davidyoung Год назад

It's "but will offer no reward". Otherwise, good work. It's a fantastic piece of song-writing, isn't it?

@Genjo_N_Mojave Год назад

@@davidyoung *Thanks for the correction! I have edited the line, and appreciate your help.*

@jasonsenator6144 Год назад

Like every things good Dylan did all in one

@amaranthine4015 5 лет назад

This song is criminally underrated. 💔

@bradtrimble1728 4 года назад

Underarated by who? The critics? smh...

@antonisahajiorgis4775 4 года назад

It simply is one of his best, definitely on my top ten Dylan songs

@justsaying605 4 года назад

Read Dylan's Chronicles, it's a great book. If you're waiting for this song to be rated it won't be. It was written in 1978 lol.

@nelsonx5326 4 года назад

@@justsaying605 I read that book. It was interesting, brought Dylan down to earth. I think there's a Chronicles 2. This song, I'd play it over and over.

@remorufer5754 4 года назад

the whole record street legal is underrated. that means we can listen to it on our own. because its great.

@jeffparker8913 4 года назад

I have to agree with all who say this is his most underrated album. In 1978 I was studying for my 'A' levels, the exams that would decide whether or not I got into university, when Dylan came to play six nights in London, right in the middle of my exams. I queued for 27 hours to get the maximum four tickets, took two of my exams on three hours sleep. Never regretted it.

@mauricewalshe8234 4 года назад

I rember playing this in my 6th form class room

@robertblenkinsop2483 4 года назад

Saw him 4 times in uk 👍👍👍

@44zaydin 4 года назад

I was in that queue too. All night in Hanover Square.

@jeffparker8913 4 года назад

@@44zaydin Night of the FA Cup final I seem to recall. Lots of somewhat bemused football fans wandering about.

@oooo8493 4 года назад

Rock n roll ✌️

@jeffclement2468 5 месяцев назад

"I've worked with a couple of the greats...but Dylan takes the cake."- G.Harrison 🌹

@GrantAnderson-p6v 6 дней назад

You were one of the lucky ones in more ways than you ....all the greatest you had the privilege to work with ....not to mention ...they had the privilege to work with you ....another one of the GREATEST

@GrantAnderson-p6v 6 дней назад

I would have GIVEN you my girlfriend just for the opportunity to hang around in your shadow

@GrantAnderson-p6v 6 дней назад

I hope you know I'm talking to George...not you Jeff

@MellowMutts270 Год назад

One thing I love about Dylan is the undertones of rebelliousness. His music just speaks to my soul in a way no other artist could.

@fredlibby8518 Год назад

Yes, he speaks universally like no other.

@dvdortiz9031 Год назад

@fredlibby8518 folks, try "Van Morrison" Dylan's closest pal, named Van the Man!!!

@dvdortiz9031 Год назад

Genius

@constantwireless3290 Год назад

Not rebellious a discipel of truth. He can not help himself. He must do it. A true member of the priesthood.

@loudeedee 4 месяца назад

How many have been moved by this Genius? He Inspired a generation to open their minds. Thank you Bob Dylan

@roscoefoofoo 4 года назад

"But Eden is burning! Either get ready for elimination or your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards." When Bob is right, he's very, very right.

@space8387 3 года назад

Wow you made me think of Covid. Eden is burning it eliminating the past, need courage!!!!

@georgecoventry8441 3 года назад

"Peace will come, with tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire, but will offer no rewards when the false idols fall, and cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating between the King and the Queen of Swords." One of the greatest songs of all time, sung as only Bob can sing it!

@hodathunkit8572 3 года назад

@@georgecoventry8441 Trumps pandemic

@jacksonk.fozzbodie213 3 года назад

@@hodathunkit8572 Fuck you.

@sas6561 3 года назад

@@jacksonk.fozzbodie213 ... Stephen Miller / Marjorie Taylor Green ticket in 2024 for you???

@beverlykasahara8485 2 года назад

I've been with him on his journey and I cannot get enough. I'm 70 now.

@gregnormal5101 2 года назад

Hello!!! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan!....Stay safe!!!

@nancykargl4708 Год назад

Me too

@gregnormal5101 Год назад

@@nancykargl4708 Hey! That’s very good to know, I just can’t stop from listening to this song anytime am alone, if I may ask which of all his songs is your favorite? Have a great day… Stay Safe

@angusmount3913 Год назад

Bob was born to tell the future

@anthonyscott5612 4 месяца назад

Me too, I'm 69. I enjoy his music, but there are occasions that he's terrible live. The honest truth. He's a musical God. March 18, 2024

@paulgreenaway-jl6ik Месяц назад

For my good friend and fellow Bob Dylan fan Davy who died suddenly today 30th may 2024 on holiday 😢I will always remember you mate and never forget you 😢😢 "At peace"🙏

@divalivingston1664 Месяц назад

Sorry to hear of the passing of your friend, Davy. I’m a female and my nickname as a child was Davie. A good song to remember him by. Blessings to you and to the good memories of friends.

@cobaltblueviolet 24 дня назад

❤Hats off to Davy for having such a friend as you 💜💜💜

@avebehrendt2300 12 дней назад

Sorry for the loss of your friend❤

@jamesfallon9265 7 дней назад

Sorry for your loss.... He had fine taste in music

@NaomiNay-ei4jv 3 дня назад

Made me Cry, sorry ❤

@mfrmorrobay Год назад

Dylan acknowledged the lyrical ambiguity of this song in a 1978 interview, commenting: "It means something different every time I sing it. 'Changing of the Guards' is a thousand years old' - at another time he said 'What does it matter what a song means if it sounds good?'

@peterfangiullo2064 Год назад

I listen to this, My Back Pages, and Stuck Inside of Mobile.... about 20 minutes of music that have confounded and changing meanings for the past 40 years to me

@alancarlton8380 11 месяцев назад

If Bob said that in front of me I'd reply; of course it's important what it's about, otherwise I'd think a song was about a woman and after hearing & singing several times with enthusiasm someone might think I'm weird enjoying a song about Mugabe or the Atomic bomb🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

@gudlisner501 11 месяцев назад

Refer to that press conference when he said “Some are about 3, some are about 4 etc minutes long”

@clintressel359 11 месяцев назад

My favorite Dylan song and there are MANY!❤

@KnutHoiby 10 месяцев назад

But it does matter

@Exclusifs 3 года назад

Easily his best song.

@grahamedwards7658 2 года назад

His influence ,on the music ,is immeasurable .Not just in 60's and 70's 80's and 90's . Even today .He IS a genuine American legend . Not just in u.s.a ,but around the world

@gerardclarke1664 2 года назад

And so say all of us dear friend !!!!

@brianhiggins8603 2 года назад

Dylan is god

@sh230968 2 года назад

Very special phenomenon for 60s and 70s. Unique lyrics and huge cultural importance. But an annoying and complex person. Cannot take away his greatness from him though. Not that I am trying to.

@natestricker 2 года назад

Dylan inspired the Beatles. That’s pretty much all that needs to be said.

@cesarreyes8150 Год назад

You better believe it,,!!!! I'm from Peru....

@caroleking4095 Год назад

Lifelong Dylan fan, now aged 71, never ever tire of his amazing lyrics, absolute genius. Street Legal is one of my favourites. His early songs are just as relevant now. Blowing in the Wind and Times They Are A Changing, were prophetic. An amazing songwriter.

@ecyt4237 Год назад

My favourite are the witmark demos

@THEJR-of5tf 2 года назад

I have been a Dylan fan since 1963. I have every album he made. Changing of the guard is better than people realise.

@clay408 10 месяцев назад

I can't understand the music critics at all, who gave this album a lukewarm evaluation.

@stevenhanson6057 6 месяцев назад

Had it all going on

@milesjolly6173 3 месяца назад

Who cares what critics think? It’s only opinions. If you like it, that’s fine. If you don’t, that’s also fine.

@mikechirrick 4 года назад

One of Bobs best Albums but for some reason people dont seem to get it. Too bad! Ive been listening to Street Legal for 40 years....Love it...

@TheJazz61 4 года назад

Me too .i still have the cassette on stereo 7...!,

@johansterk354 4 года назад

@@TheJazz61 I also have the cassette, the minidisc, the 8-track and many copies of the album on vinyl, the 7' as well, that's how much I love this song. Greetings.

@senadbajrami6910 4 года назад

It's his best album. Period Who cares what people think? ✌️

@almirpaixaofreitasmachado1476 4 года назад

Brasil.

@MrThermostatic 3 года назад

Street Legal has been called underrated for so many years now, that I no longer think it qualifies as "underrated" anymore.

@brendanmorey4308 4 года назад

One of the most underrated songs of ALL TIME

@pasisalomaki6402 2 года назад

It is so fascinating how almost every sentence of this song paints a picture that one must stand in awe studying, yet still keeping the mystery of it all. I never ever get enough of it.

@jennynoone Год назад

You are right. I never thought of it.

@paddybpaddyb9940 2 месяца назад

This ain't a song, just like Desolation Row......It's cinema.

@user-jt2zc8hi9d 4 месяца назад

My dad is the man who introduced me to Bob dylan he played guitar I remember this song fuckn brilliant 👏 my early memory was blood on the tracks buckets of rain and the jack of hearts greetings from Liverpool England 🇬🇧 keep chillin with dylan folks

@robd4278 5 лет назад

Im addicted to this song 🎸🎷🥁

@mattgiles5328 4 года назад

Me, too! (Johanna)

@Mark-ix4zt 4 года назад

SAME

@lepolepo7178 4 года назад

So do I....

@georgittesingbiel219 4 года назад

Play it a few times a day. New meaning each time!

@Cap1Salvador 4 года назад

It's really Nice. I met Bob with this song

@ElnaCopper 3 года назад

" your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards."

@IrisGalaxis 3 года назад

You know it's a masterpiece when the lyrics move you without you comprehending them

@Mrpachuko13 3 года назад

16 years!

@franceleeparis37 2 года назад

You have to have lived in the time this was written…to understand the imagery 🙂

@AA-sn9lz 2 года назад

@@franceleeparis37 can you help?

@franceleeparis37 2 года назад

@@AA-sn9lz well, here’s my take: The song is about a change in the world order, of the Cold War, Vietnam , the black civil rights movement, End of colonialism… it was the best of times and the worst of times, The first verse is about the number of different nations that fought over Vietnam. The falling leaves refer to Agent Orange that desperate Americans sprayed across the jungles to de-leaf the hiding places of the Vietcong Verse 2 & 5 is about all the guys going about their normal life not really caring about the changing world Verse 3 is about some leader who is in love with his black maid, but he doesn’t join the celebrations because he know he will lose her with the civil rights movement Verse 4 is obscure but I think it about the French collaborators during the war who had their head shaved. The woman probably stopped believing God, but in the end went ahead with a traditional church wedding Verse 6 is about the French Revolution when the king was overthrown and the people took over (Palace of mirror= Versailles). The first real change in world order. Verse 7 is about the the hippies who are just living in a stupor during the tumultuous change.. Verse 8 is about the civil rights movement where the blacks have become emancipated and no longer have to do menial jobs The last verse is the coming of the messiah and Ezekiel vision of the angel of God coming in a wheel of fire to bring everlasting peace since everybody in the sixties believed that the end of the world was near

@milesjolly6173 2 года назад

I usually try to comprehend the lyrics of songs but with Bob I think it’s beyond my mental ability to figure out, so I just let his words wash over me and enjoy the melody and lyrics. The guy is the Shakespeare of our times. Respect.

@jorgejohnson451 3 года назад

This song and “Jokerman” are two underrated masterpieces.

@tjjordan9715 3 года назад

Took me the longest time to understand Jokerman. This one is still a mystery to me. Lots of Tarot in there. It matches an incident my life so closely it kinda freaked me out.

@jorgejohnson451 3 года назад

@@tjjordan9715 Question for Bob: “‘Changing of the Guards’: What’s that all about?”

@bandaigod5736 3 года назад

I also think that "Abandoned Love" is very underrated

@sas6561 3 года назад

Ah, but "Pretty Saro"???

@jualinesadler1886 3 года назад

Changing of the guards has to do with politicians. And Goverment . But this song hard to figure out ..

@stefanoparoni1098 4 года назад

supernatural song. Dylan said: "It means something different every time I sing it. 'Changing of the Guards' is a thousand years old'".

@larrylinn8589 4 года назад

great songs have many facets.

@michellefinch6177 4 года назад

My mother in law of 82 spoke those words to me. “Changing of the guards, “she said. “Take care of Bryson. “ He just turned 4. Her father, and my grandson, her great grandson were born on the same day 100 years apart. 3/7/16 Coolest woman ever!!

@joelkavanagh1464 4 года назад

readin shakespears jcesar listenig to IT ... the empty rooms ... ive shined your shoes ....

@jacksnowflake 4 года назад

What is the general consensus at to this song’s meaning? I’ve always loved it but cannot think of any historic events. Allegory?

@edited7382 4 года назад

They remixed and remastered this in the 90's after the first CD release. Sounded 100% better and you could here the lyrics perfectly and great longer instrumentals, but of course they used the original shitty version here.

@plbeckman Год назад

Such a classic. Glad to see the comments.

@nancyromero7965 3 года назад

Bob Dylan is one of the most amazing persons in my lifetime which spans two centuries... dob 1951. Thanks again Bob Dylan.... thousands of Thanks 🙏

@andrewft31 2 года назад

He was born in 1941 not 1951.

@nancyromero7965 2 года назад

@@andrewft31 I was born in 1951.

@nancyromero7965 2 года назад

@@andrewft31 first time I heard him was at 12 or 13 in Concert Miami Beach.

@nancyromero7965 2 года назад

@@andrewft31 I’m pretty old.... please cut me some slack if I’m off on the dates. I have always known Dylan was 10 years older than me.

@williamsullivan4994 3 года назад

One of Dylan's best songs both lyrically and musically. Thank you eternally Bob.

@henkhoed9635 2 года назад

bedankt Bob dylan

@pufmama 4 года назад

One of the worlds best songs. No one ever wrote such lyrics. Incredible masterpiece.

@jeffmilner8740 4 года назад

Tarot influence ?

@jeffmilner8740 4 года назад

Yes, brilliant song

@stuartparker3923 4 года назад

Street legal is an amazing album.

@F0LTRAN 4 года назад

♥️🎼🎶

@hernanyamaha 4 года назад

Sure !!!

@inverterville 4 года назад

that opening line SIXTEEN YEARS so simple and yet so powerful, even now after all these years I keep finding stuff in this song, a masterpiece

@adamchagoya6922 4 года назад

Reminds me of four score and twenty years ago

@adamchagoya6922 4 года назад

I meant seven years ago

@MichaelSmith-tp1pj 3 года назад

underrated song

@richardgenz7406 2 года назад

yeah it does hit hard "Guards" was released sixteen years after his first album

@raybosman204 2 года назад

Poet Maybe??

@paulburrows202 Год назад

Possibly my favourite song ever. I love this absolutely amazing 👏

@paddybpaddyb9940 2 года назад

I am speechless even now after hearing this in the 70s. More power to you Bob.

@morganluvsluxury 4 года назад

I can't go a day without listening to this song! Todays music just doesn't come close to Bob Dylan:)

@WallyVanRiper1 4 года назад

You need help.

@morganluvsluxury 4 года назад

@@WallyVanRiper1 I'm actually fine, Thanks. :)

@danielkokal8819 4 года назад

what is this song about ?

@morganluvsluxury 4 года назад

@@danielkokal8819 several commentators have shared their ideas on the depth and meaning in this song's lyrics. Michael Gray, author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, commented that "Changing of the Guards" is a thorough description of Bob Dylan's personal journey, from the beginning of his musical career, about sixteen years prior (the opening line is "Sixteen years"), through his marriage to and divorce from Sara Dylan, up to his conversion to Christianity, which was announced soon after this song was released. Much religious and biblical imagery is found in this work, especially apocalyptic imagery. Bob once commented: "It means something different every time I sing it. 'Changing of the Guards' is a thousand years old'". The seemingly deliberate ambiguity of the lyrics marked Street-Legal's effective abandonment of the narrative approach that dominated Dylan's previous album Desire. Like many of Bob Dylan’s songs the meaning is unclear. And there very well might not have been any meaning at all to this song when he wrote it. The meaning is for the listener to decide, but not take to seriously.

@danielkokal8819 4 года назад

@@morganluvsluxury understood. I'm 61, been a Dylan fan since forever, got to see him live once. I normally dont analyze his lyrics, I usually just go with it. Lyrically, I've never encountered his equal. The only one who comes close IMO is Leonard Cohen. who was another lyrical beast.

@AdamAndersonMusica Год назад

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 I couldn't tell you what these lyrics mean, but they make me feel things beyond communication. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@sadeyedlady Год назад

💯. Good way to word it. I've kinda made up my own meaning. I've done that with a few other Dylan songs

@zb_ych Год назад

Masterpiece. This song could go on forever , just like "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands".

@clay408 10 месяцев назад

I especially like it at the end when it is just the instruments playing and the background singers do their thing.

@jeffmccoy1700 10 месяцев назад

I think a few of Dylan's songs do go on forever - the recording means and the irritable limitations of time just sometimes get in the way.

@nancykargl4708 Год назад

I can’t describe how awesome the words to this song are?

@Carlossantanamusicinc Год назад

Hello Dear, it’s nice meeting you on here

@javiergilvidal1558 5 лет назад

Perpetual motion exists: this song could last forever and you would never tire of listening to the endless stanzas, all equal, all different....

@MBCthunderstruck 5 лет назад

Javier Gil Vidal perpetual motion in music is one of my absolute favourite techniques

@itsmeagain8604 5 лет назад

Beautifully put. thanks

@trumsolon 9 месяцев назад

This is one of the best songs I have ever heard. The lyrics take you on a journey, and the relentless repetition of the music becomes an actor in itself, immersing you in the colourful imagery. Love it!

@tizfrreecharm Год назад

"Renegade priests and treacherous young witches" - been a favorite lyric since I first heard it.

@kenbellchambers4577 3 дня назад

My God, how true - stunning. This guy is a genius.

@AntlersOfMist 19 дней назад

Finest songwriter and musician I know. Bob Dylan!

@williampatrick2971 15 дней назад

He’s the best. I own Desire and Rolling Thunder Revue. Great music

@jaddison1112 4 года назад

Oh my this Dylan song is genius !!! ...This is my first time I've ever heard it !! .... I LOVE IT !!!

@susiebevacqua2555 3 года назад

Enjoy !

@brianpack2683 2 года назад

Absolutely terrific song, up there with his best. Great arrangement.

@Steexis938 Год назад

Bob Dylan is a legend... I love your songs!

@Modforhd Год назад

Dylan writes to release the beautiful explosions in his mind. In a rock song, we get lines like "..renegade priests and treacherous young witches were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you." And ".. the empty rooms where her memory is protected, where the angels voices whisper to the souls of previous times."

@MonotoneCreeper 5 лет назад

SIXTEEN YEARS!

@roalziroalzi 5 лет назад

SIXTEEN YEARS IN MUSIC BOB DYLAN 1962 AND PRESENT.... STREET LEGAL MADE IN 1978

@jacksondemarre8057 5 лет назад

“Street Legal” seems to be Bob’s most overlooked album. Why? It’s so fantastic!

@bennyhillschineseblokechar3689 5 лет назад

's'funny, I had most of his albums(vinyl, then CD) and for years overlooked this one for unknown reasons. Finally got it 'bout a year ago, 'tis great!

@oliveeisner8964 5 лет назад

It really is. Fantastic. perhaps it wasn't promoted as much as BOTT or Desire, post Rolling Thunder tour. who knows. He was in fine form as always!

@viviandarkbloom100 5 лет назад

Truth? So much of the U.S. was coked up in Discos in '78 to bother.

@Hev61277 5 лет назад

Still play it.

@gluce 5 лет назад

It got some bad reviews but I always thought it was because so many critics like to take an artist up for awhile, then drop them for some new thing. Or maybe it's that they had him pegged and thought this album didn't match their expectations. In any case, I too think it's a fine record and indeed seriously underrated.

@ErnieCoco 3 года назад

That opening fade in just gets me so excited every time

@BackToTheBlues Год назад

One of the many things I love about this track is the way the backing singers don't always match their timing on the response vocals. It's like a musical double punch, and it really pleases my ear!

@bagua8 9 месяцев назад

I was just thinking the exact same thing!

@SuperLuis1314 8 месяцев назад

I knoow I also noticed! It's like done "wrong" in some way but It makes it so much greater.

@sandrawadsworth5173 4 месяца назад

Love the song except the background singing is off.

@joining23 5 лет назад

Dylan is timeless

@tany5924 3 года назад

Truly

@bennymalone 4 года назад

Seems like an eternal melody and we just hear a section that fades in and fades out.

@Blondie101010100 3 года назад

Wow! That's the best few words I've ever read about Dylan!

@sgolston11 3 года назад

I've always felt this song was just a snippet of a great revue that is ever ongoing.....Every listen to it yields the same yearning, for the poet to carry on and on.....

@BibleLifeMaui 3 года назад

Beautiful melody. Wonderful chord progressions. Great production balance. Tight background vocals. Horns. Excellent lyrics (a bit cryptic though). All in all another American classic. No one writes like this. Thank you Bob.

@sh230968 2 года назад

Not that I disagree with you but this song with the lyrics quality it has could have been better done without pop sounding backing vocals where the singers just repeat part of what Dylan sings. Maybe an acoustic guitar riff (like It's All Right Ma) IMHO. I am coming from my love for folk music where instrument accompaniment and chorus are not important.

@kerrybindon940 Год назад

lyrics not cryptic clear as a bell

@nancyromero7965 3 года назад

..... and say thanks for this great song.....we need a changing of the guards more now than ever...

@amyrachakorn 2 года назад

Thank you. 🥰Once someone listened to this song together, thank you from the bottom of my heart.🌹😍💓

@thomaswschaller 3 года назад

Of all the great Dylan songs, this is the one I always come back to. The lyrics are beyond belief and are just as fresh and revelatory every time.

@williamedilbertomarrufodia3292 5 месяцев назад

BEST SONG OF BOB DYLAN

@MarquisSmith 3 месяца назад

Imagine how good your regular stuff has to be to have songs like this in your back pocket.

@Staylogical 3 года назад

Dylan has the most under-rated songs of pretty much anybody.He'll make the big time some day.

@mamoon7049 5 лет назад

One of the best dylan songs,thank you so much

@chrisbowen9043 5 лет назад

Really? Which Bob Dylan songs have you NEVER listened to?

@jesuscarrenogonzalez6824 5 лет назад

BoB Me dices. Muchas cosas en tu música y GRACIAS

@janetwilhelm4435 4 года назад

It is one of the best Dylan songs because it isnt rammed down our throats.

@MrThermostatic 4 года назад

I can't believe what I just heard! This song used to fade out on the album. It's longer and actually comes to an end here. This is fantastic!

@mattgiles5328 4 года назад

I agree!

@timphelan7543 2 года назад

One of my favorite Dylan songs!

@gregnormal5101 2 года назад

Hello!!! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan!....Stay safe!!!

@gigliolaschenardi8086 3 года назад

Bob Dylan è sempre Bob Dylan!!!!!

@matiascalero 4 года назад

This song is amazing.

@itsmeagain8604 5 лет назад

My life is crap if I don`t have a Dylan singalong at least once a month. So many songs I dig.

@ivansorola1997 5 лет назад

I can relate to that ...

@itsmeagain8604 4 года назад

@David Ortiz Yes always loved the main man. my 1st Van album was Wavelength. Natalia is a beautiful love song. wow that album was released in 1978. great music never gets old.

@mogwailarusso1232 4 года назад

2day has been my Dylan non stop day

@itsmeagain8604 4 года назад

@@mogwailarusso1232 where are you ? early, mid or later Dylan. or a mix of all ?

@itsmeagain8604 4 года назад

@@ivansorola1997 ahh mate, hope you enjoy it for always. Dylan`s accuracy of language is amazing, he always delivers his words with exaggerated clarity which really delivers his story. Amazing. The only other guy that has this total command of words is the late great comedian George Carlin.

@numbat0072 3 года назад

masterpiece ! i have ABSOLUTELY no idea what the lyrics are about but it's a joy to read the poetry anyway .

@ArchilochusOfParos 3 года назад

I'm with you, I have no idea what he's talking about but I still love this song

@ArchilochusOfParos 3 года назад

I'm with you, I have no idea what he's talking about but I still love this song

@ArchilochusOfParos 3 года назад

@@imsocuteimsorich4952 Well.....not quite. This song is more a Rorschach Test than it is a clear description, heavily subject to projections from the listener as much as the ideas of Dylan. If you Google what the lyrics to this song mean, you'll quickly find that people have MANY different interpretations, so unless Dylan himself says what this song means, there may not be a singular meaning. Interpretations range from Dylan's personal journey, to the life of Christ, to slavery: The first hit says "Changing of the Guards is a thorough description of Dylan's personal journey, from the beginning of his musical career, about sixteen years prior (the opening line is "Sixteen years"), through his marriage to and divorce from Sara Dylan." The next says "The song covers the life of Christ, from before his birth to after the resurrection. Its primary concern is Christ's institution of a new order..." The next says "The song is about slavery , the slave who shined the shoes and moved the mountain yet still got lashed and the marks are still on his back."

@imsocuteimsorich4952 3 года назад

@@ArchilochusOfParos I see you did your homework 👍 to be honest I was confused about the song and read the words to it but it confused me to the point of 😱😬😦😕😭,what u said has helped me 😰😁😇🙌👌✌️thank you 👋🇮🇪

@tinetannies4637 3 года назад

@@imsocuteimsorich4952 Ha ha well...yes....I was curious. Thanks!

@shaunlowthian4234 2 года назад

My favourite Dylan track of all time and I have everything he's ever made

@sh230968 2 года назад

I have pretty much everything of Dylan in 60s and 70s. My top track would probably be Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.

@StephenS-2024 5 лет назад

Every Dylan song has a comment proclaiming it to be the most underrated Dylan song ever....

@StephenS-2024 5 лет назад

@flownet07 😁

@hokkitt 4 года назад

@flownet07 Overrated...

@thevalente8358 4 года назад

I still haven't found this comment in Blowing in the wind, true for every other Song of him

@StephenS-2024 4 года назад

@@thevalente8358 agreed.

@claudiavanderwoodsen2674 4 года назад

that's exactly what i was thinking! they never get tired of banality

@rickwagner3797 4 года назад

Its probably clear to everyone but Dylan's real power is the ability to tell a story and for the listener to really feel true emotion from it. You can just feel the soul in this song and a good test is always, "can an uptempo song bring you to tears?" and this one passes.

@st3ppin_gh0st 8 месяцев назад

Well put. Tolstoy says art is "the expression of reasonable and conscious life", and Changing of the Guards 100% fits the bill.

@grahammcbean6362 Год назад

It still blows me away how human kind can create such sublimely beautiful works of art.

@oscarmarrero6596 2 года назад

Bob is the religion. He's a God!! So many, many good songs, wonderful lyrics, different life.

@miss.ailtoncardozo8940 20 дней назад

Dilan é simplesmente um ser humano quê do pó veio, para o pó voltará! Está ficando velho como eu e você. Deus é eterno! Quê antes da fundação do mundo já sabia quê dilan iria existir através do seu grande poder. Tudo passa, mas, o grande Deus existe de eternidade há eternidade. Glórias ao grande Deus e não ao pequeno e destrutivo dilan.

@davidmarshall9263 3 года назад

First time in my life that I saw Bob live was at Earls Court, London and they opened with this. I still tremble every time I hear it.

@gordoncampbell8067 4 года назад

Just listened to this during " lockdown" this is America's greatest poet.

@hodathunkit8572 3 года назад

Hear hear

@donnacollis3824 3 года назад

America and the world ... the greatest on earth x

@jamesdonovan2468 2 года назад

I could listen to this song 10 times in a row

@johnnorth6004 2 года назад

I have !!

@deborahlauterbach6156 3 года назад

.One of a kind AMAZING Artist. So grateful to be a part of this lifetime.

@gregnormal5101 2 года назад

Hello!!! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan!....Stay safe!!

@aminekoob2109 4 года назад

I was in my mother's belly when i first heard this song and still notice something new in his songs now and then❤ Dylan is a genius!

@mohamedabdelkrim5007 3 года назад

The best song of Bob Dylan, i'm sixteen years and I still love this song.

@natalliaf6387 2 года назад

wow....since when?

@AA-sn9lz 2 года назад

@@natalliaf6387 since he was a sperm in his dad's ballsack

@loghilman5429 2 года назад

Bob Dylan worships Satan. Many famous people worship Satan.

@AA-sn9lz 2 года назад

@@loghilman5429 and why not?! Satan is so cool! Hail Satan!!

@loghilman5429 2 года назад

@@AA-sn9lz satan hates everything good that God created. So your joke doesn't really make sense. The devil is not cool. God is cool.

@shannonnonnahs6943 2 года назад

Poetry and a bit of prophesy meshed together. Timeless .

@sbindoctor6414 Год назад

I kid you not this song was stuck in my head for years without knowing what song it was. Finally I heard it again one day and a light bulb went off in my head. I'll never forget it now.

@BruceEldridge 3 месяца назад

My story is almost the same but deeper

@victorbanuelos8139 5 лет назад

Many years ago still he has the power of the poet laureate to move me to a place where I can find the truth

@Scotsgrey13 5 лет назад

One of the top Dylan songs (including "Desolation Row", "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", "Tom Thumb's Blues", "Like A Rolling Stone", "Shelter From the Storm", "If You See Her, Say Hello") Then there a million more great songs from this master.

@pabloperez4063 4 года назад

Plus "dont think 2"

@chrischasteen2720 3 года назад

Where dark soldiers are reflected the endllesroad

@michaelsteinhemingway727 Год назад

Excellent song!

@tottifrancaisco6421 2 года назад

i wonder how come people like me in Morocco for example arab muslim country far from the west and they all know and love all dylan's songs? the answer is that's what we call real art for artsake.art has no nationality and location. i ve been listening to dylan me and my familly from his first beginnings during the 60s dylan is a great man of art.hello from casablanca Morocco

@sidneibarcelos9242 Год назад

Bob Dylan the best forever

@mcfrans11 6 месяцев назад

This is the best song ever written

@shcxatter2 4 месяца назад

Seriously, does anybody come even close to this lyrical profundity? If someone knows other artists like these, please share!

@JorgeAndresPaezQ 5 лет назад

The best song of all Time!!

@samwgdavis 3 года назад

Agree, until he wrote "Murder Most foul"

@jamestaylor3460 3 года назад

Now Whooooaaaa !

@marapg3830 3 года назад

👏👏🎸🎶🎵🎺YEEESSS!!!🎵🎶🎸🎶🎵🎺

@josejavierramos7402 3 года назад

Simply beautiful.

@gregnormal5101 2 года назад

Hello!!! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan!....Stay safe!!

@nanosongs7196 Год назад

A masterpiece…to write like this, to compose like this …and to make it all work…truly singing melodic poetry…

@dietmarrosenboom7523 2 месяца назад

Masterpiece!

@chrissandoval1294 5 лет назад

Easily one of Dylan's best works

@alexandrealbertoni1840 4 года назад

_Street-Legal_ is one of my favorite albums.

@Mark-ix4zt 4 года назад

In my top 5. Masterpiece without question

@Mr.Jtea3 8 месяцев назад

I feel like my dad liked bob Dylan this is the type of music he listened to. I’ll never know. Miss you everyday my best friend. He was my number one fan and I miss that so much. Life is a great thing

@omaritcovici6205 4 года назад

"mountain laurel and rolling rocks"... pure poetry... even how the "R"s and "L"s flow within that verse... pure poetry...

@fvdp4710 4 года назад

His first album was in 1962, this one in 1978. 16 years later. And now almost 60 years later his Rough and Rowdy Ways is a great album. Lol

@matthijsschutter7031 3 года назад

Street legal was my first Dylan record, I have the vinyl and later bought it on cd, still my favorite Dylan record, very underrated.

@Rocketman10057 3 года назад

My favourite Dylan song changes everyday ,but this sure has had a day or two

@johansterk354 5 лет назад

'She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born on mid-summer's eve, near the tower'. Imaginative lyrics which lesser singer-songwriters would sacrifice their right arm for to be able to jot down. Underrated is an understatement, I feel.

@teijoniemisto4472 5 лет назад

Well, he got the Nobel prize!

@federicoalfaro7991 5 лет назад

Great way to describe his boundless imagination,been a fervent follower of his writings and interpretations.

@rolandl4782 4 года назад

Wonderful words.. I can almost smell her just by listening to the song!

@mars88812 3 года назад

Marie invited a bum on a Vancouver public beach by the ocean (tower) to a sing-a-long at the park. He showed up at the end of the show, she was more or less born, Minerva 77!

@pablobeltran3028 3 года назад

All these 'recently' uploaded AUDIO tracks of Dylan are garnering MILLIONS of viewers (?)... that's great news for me -- who at 54 still listens to Dylan's songs whenever i could... :)