Josh Ritter: "In Your Arms Awhile"

 "In Your Arms Awhile"

(2.013)

Magnífico el último disco de este músico de Idaho,
para mí probablemente el mejor junto a "The Animal Years",
que sigue la gran tradición de los mejores cantautores norteamericanos, 
y que suele evidenciar su afición a la literatura en sus letras.
Esta puede que no sea la mejor canción del disco
pero es una maravilla en 2 minutos.

Al parecer, lo que lo llevó a la música fue escuchar la versión de 
"Girl from the North Country" 
 de Bob Dylan, interpretada junto a Johnny Cash.

Bob Dylan: "Girl From The North Country"

"Girl From The North Country"

(1.963)

 



Bob Dylan: "I Want You"

"I Want You"

(1.966)

 

 

"The guilty undertaker sighs
The lonesome organ grinder cries
The silver saxophones say I should refuse you
The cracked bells and washed-out horns
Blow into my face with scorn
But it's not that way
I wasn't born to lose you
I want you, I want you
I want you so bad
Honey, I want you.

The drunken politician leaps
Upon the street where mothers weep
And the saviors who are fast asleep
They wait for you
And I wait for them to interrupt
Me drinkin' from my broken cup
And ask for me
Open up the gate for you
I want you, I want you
Yes, I want you so bad
Honey, I want you.

Now all my fathers they've gone down
True love they've been without it
But all their daughters put me down
'Cause I don't think about it.

Well, I return to the Queen of Spades
And talk with my chambermaid
She knows that I'm not afraid
To look at her
She is good to me
And there's nothing she doesn't see
She knows where I'd like to be
But it doesn't matter
I want you, I want you
Yes, I want you so bad
Honey, I want you.

Now your dancing child with his Chinese suit
He spoke to me, I took his flute
No, I wasn't very cute to him - Was I ?
But I did though because he lied
Because he took you for a ride
And because time was on his side
And because I ..
I want you, I want you
Yes, I want you so bad
Honey, I want you"

 

 

 

Bob Dylan: "Don´t Think Twice, It´s All Right"

 "Don´t Think Twice, It´s All Right"

(1.963)

Disco mítico donde los haya,

el segundo LP de Dylan está lleno de temas que forman parte de nuestra cultura

(no creo que exista nadie que no haya escuchado Blowin´in the Wind,

o visto esta portada).

Uno de los que más me gusta es este que recuerdo hoy.

 "It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter, anyhow
And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
When your rooster crows at the breaks of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm traveling on
Don't think twice, it's all right.

It ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talking anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right.

It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
Like you never done before
It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more
I'm a-thinking and a-wond'rin' walking down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
Don't think twice, it's all right.

So long honey, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
Goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't saying you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right."

Bob Dylan: "Just like a Woman"

♫ Just like a Woman ♫

(1.966)

Hoy tenía pensada otra entrada,

pero acabo de enterarme de que Bob Dylan, a sus 70 años, tocará en el FIB,

e inmediatamente he recordado, entre otras muchas, esta canción;

una de las grandes de su dilatada carrera,

lo que en muchas ocasiones es tanto como decir
una de las grandes de la historia de la música popular.

"Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls
She takes just like a woman, yes she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

Queen Mary, she's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That Baby can't be blessed
Till she finally sees that she's like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls
She takes just like a woman, yes she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

It's was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what's worse
Is this pain in here
I can't stay in here
Ain't it clear that.

I just can't fit
Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes you do
You make love just like a woman, yes you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl"