Subterranean Homesick Blues - Em 65 Dylan revoluciona com guitarra

Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says hes got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But youre doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten

Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phones tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early may
Orders from the D. A.
Look out kid
Dont matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Dont try no doz
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows

Get sick, get well
Hang around an ink well
Ring bell, hard to tell
If anything is goin' to sell
Try hard, get barred
Get back, write braille
Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
Youre gonna get hit
But losers, cheaters
Six-time users
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
Dont follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters

Ah get born, keep warm
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
Try to be a success
Please her, please him, buy gifts
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift
Look out kid
They keep it all hid
Better jump down a manhole
Light yourself a candle
Don't wear sandals
Try to avoid the scandals
Dont wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump dont work
cause the vandals took the handles

Hoje trouxe um segmento do filme "Don't Look Back", documentrário feito por D. A. Pennebaker, sobre a turnê de Bob Dylan na Ingleterra, em 1965. Na sequência de Subterranean Homesick Blues, Dylan segura placas para a audiência com palavras da música escritas. É interessante observar que há erros propositais ao longo do vídeo, como quando ele canta "eleven dollar bills" e o poster mostra "20 dollars". O vídeo foi rodado numa viela atrás do Hotel Savoy, em Londres e, no final, o poeta Allen Ginsberg, um dos papas da contracultura hippie faz uma aparição. Dividido em um lado acústico e outro elétrico, disco contém alguns clássicos como "Maggie's Farm", "Mr. Tambourine Man", "It's Allright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" e "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". Este foi o quinto disco de Dylan e teve convidados como John H. Hammond Jr. e John Sebastian e, por gravar com guitarras elétricas, distanciou o artista de seus pares da música folk. Neste período também ocorreu o famoso encontro de Dylan com os Beatles, sobre o qual pretendo falar em breve.