Bob Dylan - With God on Our Side (Official Audio) 

This song will be relevant as long as people wander the earth.

@@henriklarsson5221They're working on a plan to curtail them wanderings.

That thought just entered my mind as i was listening to this prophetic song ❤

Theres the argument that without Judas, Jesus wouldn't have been cruzified and wihout his cruzification Jesus wouldnt have died for the sins of humanity.

@@hanzfranz7739 Yes, but that's only the superficial answer.... The real answer has an immense depth and comes only after one has proven for real that one was willing to disengage from the Ego thought system of retaliation altogether to become the living Christ... I am sure that Dylan understood it somehow and "left it for us to decide...." Because it can't be taught by the Mind of Ego but only experienced by going through a process of constant TOTAL Surrender to GOD to give up all attack and retaliation and to constantly forgive everyone everything allways regardless of what one's own EgoMind tells & yells one to think, feel & do to the contrary, nothing less...that only a tiniest fraction of the so called BeLIEvers in Christ are ever willing to go fully through.... But yes, a truly brilliant Song of Dylan...no wonder he felt weary as hell....and his lines about Judas Iscariot are the doorway to the real spiritual Depth of it ....👌🙏

@@hanzfranz7739Yes, but if Judas hadn't betrayed him, he still would have been executed eventually. He chose a side, and well, as Dylan said "I can't think for you".

Hi, I came here today with such a need deep in my heart to hear this song and was so grateful to find your post. Thank-You. I don't know what gave me more tears, your post or the song. One thing I can't agree with you though is the sad fact that the moment has Always been. Not just in the now due to what's going on in our sad situation in 2022. The moment never ended. Seems like to me it always was and always sadly may be. Most of my people fled Ukraine for freedoms of all different kinds and to think of their journey to freedom and the torture, rape, murder and horrors they faced and saw to get here and that there are those still living through these things, not just there but in Many countries around the world, like I said, the moments never seem to end. I remember at reunion picnics, cousin club meetings and such when the old ones sat in circles speaking in their languages so the younger one's wouldn't understand. I can't imagine and it blows my mind that my sweet little aunt Goldie, sitting there knitting shawls, was in charge of making sure the brothers and sisters had guns for the journey! And yet we were still raised with some pride in being Russian from Ukraine. Not proud of what was done to us or how we were treated or which ones were on Stalin's top 5 red death list. We came for the freedom of religion. My parents were older than Bob but also had Duck and Cover practice in school. I've always wondered for him in this song, how hard it must have been to be taught to hate the Russians with Russian blood flowing through his veins too? All these modern day wars, all these new fears so, so Damn real! Divide and Conquer is the name of their games and they're waging wars on love and hatred serves no-one!

I will not accept it.. neither bravely nor foolishly

The song brought tears and we're living in a scary time right now again. I agree with "The moment has always been." "Why can't we all just get along?"

Unfortunately Putin does not listen to this song.

@@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017 .. How do you know? They love the Beatles in Russia so I'm guessing they know Bob Dylan.

Unfortunately they're too bloody busy singing Ed bleedin' Sheeran songs.

@@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017 We should not let such things stop us. Blessings to you n yours.

The greatest idea yet.

It's too late now. The world has already got God on their side.

@@asmodeo5756 The *Russian world has already got God on their side. Whole that the rest of the world left with is hate, as they're now on Judas Iscariot's side.

'I was taught to hate the Russians for all of my life. If another war comes, it's them we must fight. To hate them, to fear them...to run and to hide. But to bear it all bravely...with God on our side.'

That's a piercing statement. We'll done Bob. ❤

Or maybe with nearly everyone having solved out to the devil for the Devil doesn't come to you with horns and a pitchfork tail he comes to you as what it is you mostly want deep inside but as with everything there's a price you must pay if it were up to me I'd let all the devils soldiers kill themselves and I'd save my chosen few not that God chose but that have chosen God and have been faithful and true ! I can't tell you how many people that didn't believe in God but let their children fall ill or someone they truly love be in a life threatening position and all of a sudden they are praying 🙏 to God like they'd always been faithful never fails I died once and came back and I remember what I saw it's your call but Hell ain't no place anyone would wanna be!

Spoilers: he won't.

@@artes.impiasThanks a lot, wanted to see how it worked out.

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What a lie.

Why I fell in love in love w/Zimmy after that it just deepened year after year by 5he time we got to Slow Train I was in deep ❤️🇨🇦👣🤫🎶👏🏻👏🏻🥂🍾🎟

@@grahamsymonds2489 Haha. Yes, maybe. He said it, btw, at a press conference in SF in 1966, a long video of which you can see here on YT. (Reading your reply, I immediately thought of Tony Montana, played by Al Pacino in Scarface: "I always tell the truth. Even when I lie, I tell the truth.")

He is more of the legends of legendary. So full of truth so much pain so soothing Live long bob Zimmerman Dylan. God on your side

I’m a dance and song man

@Bob Dylan That’s a piss poor Dylan impersonation.

Thank you for Appreciating my Music, I'm grateful for your support, Much Love❤❤❤

@@bobdylan4687 thank you

me too.

@@bobdylan4687 inspired me to be a poet and a writer through the musics profundity when i first heard it at 21. Pulled me out of psychosis from the dishevelled state of a majority neohippies in nsw australia. Idk if this is just fragments of sentimentality, like, it just was so mottled with grit and truth and realness, it managed to persuade my quote unquote "demons" to quit. Idk if this is actually dylan, but cheers mate, truly.

A few of his earlier songs are like that, masters of war for example

He's a living legend and EXCELLENT poet. I've been a fan since the early Sixties CLASS ACT! POIGNANT CLASSIC!

There have been a lot of covers of this song. I still prefer Bob's original though.

@@luckydave328 I have to confess that until today I believed that the Neville Brothers wrote this. Oh shame on me. Bitter truth in this song. But I am with C. Hitchens here anyway, so...

@@thedandelion157 Me too. In many ways this is also a song against religion. 'God' never stops war.

Very true my. Friend

Muchly agree. 60 years and we the people still haven't heard the words. Might be his most important words. The moral is we should be trying to be on God's side, not the other way around. (apologies to Arlo Guthrie)

Dope ❤🎉

Bob has written some of the the best songs ever, but for me this is the best. It's timeless. ❤

Exactly...just listening as I observe how individual & collective (self-) destructive Ego cycles still through Humanity everywhere.....😖

True very much true to bone.world war 3 is going to end the human race from the earth.sin is control

I really hope that we're finally tired of war.

'It's in your nature to destroy yourselves' Terminator 2 Judgement Day

Change is inevitable, though often slow, sometimes almost imperceptibly so...& comes mostly at a cost. As CSN said in their "Cost Of Freedom" ("Ohio") --" find the cost of freedom buried in the ground...mother earth will swallow you....lay your bodies down"--- perhaps that can evolve to..... " --- Lay your... weapons... down---" ( for good! )

So, so true. Like so many of Dylan's lyrics, we should have listened fifty years ago and it would have been a better world today.

Hmm tasty

My favorite Bob Dylan song, surprisingly.

@@davedeckwa5309 it did get better for a time. We did have some disarmament for a while but it's up to each and every succeeding generation to carry the baton. I suppose it's the continuity bit that we're not very good at.

This song is pretty straight forward prose. It's actually not much of a poem. But it strength is its simplicity - set to a to a likewise fairly simple melody. And it does help that it is telling the truth.

Man bob Zimmerman is a legend god gifted in story telling but only the truth nothing else but the truth. Long live bob mr.bob.

One n only 1.Mr bob Zimmerman Dylan. Master of words. Like the sun he always shines. Respect regards to u bob.

During a Crusade rampage, the Bishop said, kill them all, God will sort them out.

Keep on trucking buddy.

THERE'S A LONG SLOW TRAIN ACOMIN' 'ROUND THE BEND​@@meowmeow-cr5sn

God bless you

That's the only line in the song I don't agree with. Heh I'm Gnostic.. so I just don't think it works that way.

Maggie thewolfstar How could you disagree? This song, I don’t think is really religious. God is merely a stand-in for ultimate goodness. In this line, God is opposed to war, and is in favor only of peace. This line, I think, really just says that war is morally wrong, and that taking part in war in morally wrong because peace is a moral good

@@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158Ok. I wasn't looking at it like that but what you say makes sense.

​@@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158 I don't think Dylan here meant God as good throughout the whole song, but rather an allegory used by hypocrites to justify their misdeeds. Even though Dylan was never affiliated to atheism, many a times he questioned the presence or rather in-activity of God. He also ends this song in despair, If God----------------next war, knowing for sure that not only next war but many many next wars even to the extent of a third world war is inevitable !!!

​@@gomessylvester205​yeah I think 'God' was getting confused here by the young Dylan. Throughout the song he was talking about people's mistaken belief that their war crimes were cool because they thought they were supported by their God. But then in the end he threw a kind of atheistic POV that God should stop the war.... but then lol that isn't right either. Never mind I'm too sleepy and brain dead right now to make any sense. I dunno.

IdiotWind, he is still very much alive.🤣

@@jerrygarciaisgod4409 ⚡🌹😁 and touring

A lot of good music from the mid 60s through the late 70s is still relevant today, which scares the shit out of me because that was 60 years ago and we STILL haven't improved enough as a society to render these songs irrelevant. Still dealing with the same old shit even as technology exponentially increases. We're going to blow ourselves up if we can't grow past these age old issues.

@@erich1394 It seems as if an exponential increase in technology only leads to an exponential increase in death and cruelty. I can’t help but feel as if the Domesday Clock is about to strike midnight. 🕛 I would love to be wrong though because they have thrown the worst fear that can ever be hurled - fear to bring children into this world.

@@oleggorky906 I think it's quality versus quantity - do we want more people or do we want happier people? Until we figure our shit out as a species, I certainly am unwilling to bring children into this world. I didn't ask to be here, but I'll make the most of it and try to improve things while I'm here. Some technology is good! Sewers, indoor plumbing, electricity.. I feel like, for a while, technology really did improve our lives. It still does. That being said - there does seem to be an exponentially growing preponderance of tech that doesn't serve us very well.. new bombs, new and insidious forms of propaganda, new ways to fuck up the environment to get more shit to burn out of the ground, cell phone garbage giving people cancer as they process through it for scraps of precious metals... it is scary. I agree. It's dystopian. I think that a brighter future involves fixing our corrupt power structures and keeping everyone accountable for how they affect the world around them. Especially large corporations and wealthy oligarchs who make ends-justify-the-means decisions without giving those affected a chance to vote on them. I don't think that we're inherently incapable of a better society, but I do think that human power structures are inherently unstable - they tend to collect more and more power at the top until they collapse and the cycle repeats. I'm optimistic because I choose to be. Even if the human world were ending, maybe we can have a decent last act as a species. I guess I'd feel strangely privileged to see it all go down in my lifetime, but my heart wants peace and healing, not destruction. I choose to see the shittyness of the world as growing pains on our way to becoming a more enlightened species. We're having an existential crisis on a societal level. This last century has pretty much been the first time humanity ever truly believed it could be wiped out by its own hand. I'm curious as to how we will process this moving forward. Hopefully with reverence for life and a renewed sense of urgency for self preservation!

yes they are

metal is yesterday

Well said.

Exactly. Humans just don't learn.

I can't believe that the mind that created this song and this album, one day became a s.c. _"born-again Christian"._ Not that this song is a critique of religion or Christianity. Rather how faith is abused. He just seems to intelligent to buy into a man-made religion. It even ask a theological question. If I were a Christian, I'd ask myself the same question and I never got why the Catholic church is condemning Judas that much. Didn't he play a major part in God's plan to absolve mankind from sin.

@@yannick245 "Vengeance is mine" sayeth the Lord. Pity those that profess Christianity have forgotten the Words of its namesake!

@yannick - I don't think that being "born again" is at all incompatible with questioning, wondering, and searching. The religion professed by many people who believe themselves to be Christian has absolutely nothing to do with the words of Jesus in the Gospels - "Do unto others as you would have them do to you," for example. (I'm Lutheran - and Martin Luther was *incredibly* antisemitic. So... we have to look beyond ourselves.) This album came out when I was in grade school, during the height of the backlash against the Civil Rights movement. This song really made me think. That's still true.

Thankyou for posting the lyrics to this song. I didn't know about this song ,but it seems to be so relevant .

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@@user-pl1zl3gn4c This is Victoria Nuland's song, as it resonates the most with her hate filled heart, she as well as Bob being on Judas Iscariot's side.

God has empowered humans to stop the violence and given us tools to resolve conflicts more humanely. It seems that the culture of warfare is very ingrained in people with the promotion of seductive mythology of the glory of nationalistic gladiatorial contests between nations. Ethical thinking people who have an awareness of the consequences of bloody destructive behaviours do know better. It is imperative that we all speak truth to power and reevaluate habitual behaviours.

@@maxryder995 ... i get it ...

Listening to the song I felt the Goosebumps Rising

Today s world as well as the past. It all has already been written. Dylan was definitely ahead of his time. Love all his music.

Same here

Still wonderful!!

The best songs are always timeless... and this is one of them

Right before Vietnam.

No words to describe this poem. Great greatest grand.painful truth. Long live mr.bob Zimmerman.

And that unrefined voice of his!

I was having a difficult time with my songwriting. It was 2004. Down at Moe’s books in Berkeley, there was a huge biography in Bob. It explained that he « copied all his tunes » from old Irish and English ballads. I was stunned! Crazy!!

He is a master of interpretation - old English ballad Lord Randall turned into A Hard Rains

Still I like Irish whiskey..Jameson. same with bob Dylan Zimmerman.

He did whatever he had to do, to survive. This is his job. Writing songs. That's how he was able to make himself a dinner, to buy new shoes, to make a living. Period.

@@bsnf-5 I don’t understand your comment. I wasn’t questioning how he made his money, just pointing out where the tune came from. Jeez!

Woody Guthrie and his friend Pete Seeger inspired Bob and Woody’s son Arlo Guthrie. I thank God for them all

Lucky you!

While the rest of us were just beginning to dip our toes in the River Of Decent Bob Dylan was already on the other side drying off

You must have put on one hell of a school nativity play that year.😀

I agree completely. BEST album

couldn't agree more, in my opinion it is one of the top 10 albums of all time. I was 14 at the time it was released and my older sister brought it home and i was spellbound

Perfect!!

I say it.

I'm almost positive everyone thought that. Did you see the reaction he got in the mid 60s when he wasn't playing this kind of stuff anymore? People openly booed and berated him for it.

Now you've got god on your side.

He's got a thousand of them.

I've been singing it nonstop the past few weeks

Last thoughts on woody Guthrie Love Minus Zero Visions of Johanna Girl from the North Country It's alright ma I'm only bleeding Tambourine man Hurricane Gates of Eden There's just a small place to start. Just listen to the album's in order. That first one I listed is spoken word, you should definitely check that out because I'm not sure the album its on, one of countless performances. I've listened to it once a month at least the last 30 years. This album actually doesn't have a bad song, neither do the next few

You really never heard him until your little brother played him for you? How old are you and how old is your little brother?🤔

Mr.bob Zimmerman deserves Another noble if possible. What u say..

That's because the tune is far older than Dylan (The merry month of May) and Dylan lifted it after hearing it adapted to The patriot game.

@@kij100 So, the same traditional tune was 'adapted' for "The Patriot Game" but 'lifted' for "With God on Our Side"? Could you please elaborate?

Oui, en effet, c'est aussi un écrivain tout à fait compétant. Pour une fois le prix Nobel fût correctement attribué.

It sounds a bit like two English folk songs ‘The Nightingale’ first printed in 1698 and ‘The merry month of May’ printed in 1656,both from Southern England with references to Nightingales.

Astonishing

Bob is an old soul. He always was..

The Cabal (Elites; Khazarians; Annunaki; Illuminati; fallen angels; Canaanites - they have many names. These are 12 bloodline families that rule the World. They start all wars for profit and population reduction. Covid was their ‘pet project’ as they own big Pharma and made billions (and poisoned us). These Annunaki appear human but they carry the blue blood - more copper than carbon (always RH negative). They are extremely intelligent but have no compassion, OnEarth, they report to the Black Pope and the Black Sun..and sacrifice children for adrenochrome. Their off-World God is Marduk (also called Lucifer, Baal, Moloch). These are end times. We Adamites will win this War of the Heavens with our true Creator (Source) and not the Annunaki God of the Old Testament). UNITED NETWORK NEWS - Kim Goguen.

Then cry for peace, for Christ's sake it is not yet forbidden .

I'm not worried about it till it happens.

No point

​@@davidlabrosse9661YOU CAN'T YANK A TANK OUT OF QUICKSAND IF YOU ARE THE DRIVER

He is the god of music. Soulful painful truth pure truth spoken out in a poem. Live long Bob Zimmerman Dylan.

same but from usa

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I am 19 years old. I find myself still relating to everything he is speaking. It’s rather sad.

@@LifeofLatimer live your life, seek happiness and peace. Don't dwell on the bad. It will come anyhow when you are old..Get your beauty out of this life..

Hm so was the drone-dropping Obama and the guy who invented torture chambers for the mentally ill so that may not be a good thing.

@@thewolfstar Obama got the peace prize. Dylan got the literature prize.

@@dylanthompson8511 yes well the people who get the Nobel Peace Prizes are distinctly unpeaceful.. like Obama for instance. So does that make Dylan's prize the Unliterature Prize?

@@dylanthompson8511 The peace prize committee is different from the other Nobel prizes. They sit in Norway.

@@yannick245 why are you telling me this, that's what I'm trying to tell him lol

You'd better believe it. If another war comes, it's the Russians we will most surely fight.

This song has been relevant since the dawn of religion. It's preeminently relevant for all human history.

no sh1t sherlock

@@stardust86x Ditto

@@stardust86x Yes! Bob is very much alive!!

i first heard it at gerde's on 42nd in new york

Yes. . I love songs like "shelter from the storm", "chimes of freedom" or "hard times". They show his big compassion, too.

Bob IS, not WAS. It’ll be a truly dark day when he’s gone

There will be a resurgence of these songs...which are being heard once again, now. It has already begun

Not sure you quite understand the point of the song.

@@stellasara4315 he sure does, allegiance to God not country is the theme of the song. Bob Dylan was and is a believer in higher power although now no longer Christian and at the time of the song he was a evangelical Christian

Hi Stella. You were right in a way. I do not believe in people killing, pillaging, places and persons in the name of God. Eternity is when we all live as we desire and enjoy wishing people a good morning, even if it is not. Thank you for helping in my growing process. Happiness always to you and yours.

We live in a world where people use music only for distraction without listening to it carefully.

@@deliapanescu6548 so true, to find good music you have to search for it now, just like how they like to hide the truth. When did this world lost the ability to question life or just anything?

You totally missed the point

@@dennissneed2162 please explain.

@@dennissneed2162 that is true, politicians, people in power use the name Of God to do evil and people have been programmed to believe that if God is on your side your in the right like it says in the song. It’s easy to blame God for the deaths and murders, than to blame our selfs... mankind.

The truth has a way don't it.

As a German the lines hit me hard.

@@yannick245 me too...but it's simply truth....

Masters of war comes to mind

Only because we where thought to hate the Russians

No, cause he obviously doesn't exist

WE do not know how lucky we are to have Dylan in our lives but it is inevitable that his power will be challenged and denigrated by those followers of he establishment who wish us to be denied the truth. Bob spoke about things that should always matter and for that he will not be forgiven by those who want us to believe in what is shit!!!!

Yes they do

@@iamjesuschristintheflesh5866 No they don't

Especially to Finland now after joining Nato, nothing learned from history of centuries. As a tiny neighbourgh of Russia.

No, the planners of that conflict won't let them stop. Those evil schemers would love the Russians and Ukrainians exterminate each other so they could take control of Russia's natural resources. Get it?

God bless U

@@Taz690 It's an invasion. The war would be over tomorrow if Russia would just leave. You don't "unite" nations by murdering the civilians of one of them and taking over its territory.

So nice 😊

I see that God did some great work.