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Patti Smith performs 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' by absent Literature prize winner Bob Dylan during the awardings of the Nobel Prizes in medicine, economics, physics and chemistry on December 10, 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden. Nobel laureates are honoured every year on December 10 -- the anniversary of the death of prize's founder Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist, inventor and philanthropist. / AFP PHOTO / TT News Agency / JESSICA GOW / Sweden OUTJESSICA GOW/AFP/Getty Images ORIG FILE ID: AFP_IZ5LB (Photo: JESSICA GOW, AFP/Getty Images)
oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)and got almost no response. I thought I was the only one who was moved by it, so glad you reposted. Thanks!
bigtree
(86,013 posts)...trying to recover. Very emotional, though I'm not sure why.
I'm madly in love with Patti Smith's performances and music, so it was easy to tune in, but I didn't expect such a transference of Bob's spirit into the song. The crowd was also brilliant and generous which made it all the more special.
Definitely something to watch!
oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)watching the end of democracy in this country, and this performance just killed me.
bigtree
(86,013 posts)...my wife thinks the international crowd was sad for our country, as well, listening to the song so beautifully and poignantly sung.
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son
And where have you been, my darling young one
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son
And what did you see, my darling young one
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warnin'
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, what did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded with hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
And what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
And the executioner's face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
I completely agree with your wife.
davekriss
(4,633 posts)Ever since her first album, Horses, came out in 1976.
If you're a fan, I highly recommend patti's audiobook Just Kids. Terrific. Luv her south Jersey accent, "piana" she says! It remind me about how bold her heart is, how high she flies.
democrank
(11,112 posts)Some of those words are like glass shards.
treestar
(82,383 posts)...he sent a statement and Patti Smith, instead.
bigtree
(86,013 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 11, 2016, 12:08 PM - Edit history (1)
Democracy Now! @democracynow 20m20 minutes agoWatch legendary singer, poet and author Patti Smith perform "Peaceable Kingdom" & "People Have the Power" https://t.co/UhWmRyZtSx