BOB DYLAN - ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

BOB DYLAN

Songwriter: bob dylan

Where: live in WOODSTOCK 1994

Country: u.s.a.

Album: john Wesley harding

Label: Columbia records

Genre: folk rock

Year: 1967

"All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding, and it has been included on most of Dylan's subsequent greatest hits compilations. Since the late 1970s, he has performed it in concert more than any of his other songs. Different versions appear on four of Dylan's live albums.

Covered by numerous artists in various genres, "All Along the Watchtower" is strongly identified with the interpretation Jimi Hendrix recorded for Electric Ladyland with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The Hendrix version, released six months after Dylan's original recording, became a Top 20 single in 1968 and was ranked 47th in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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

Business men they drink my wine

Plow men 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 fell 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 wild cat did growl

Two riders were approaching

The wind began to howl.