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Thread #39053   Message #552481
Posted By: catspaw49
17-Sep-01 - 02:59 PM
Thread Name: Just once (I'd like to see a troll ignored)
Subject: RE: Just once........
Hi Mrrz.....Nathan's right. I love Talkin' Blues and this has always beena favorite. Want the whole thing?

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TALKIN' WWIII BLUES........Bob Dylan

The other night a crazy dream come to me,
Dreamed I was walkin' into World War Three,
I went to the doctor the very next day
To see what kinda words he could say.
He said it was a bad dream.
Seay. "I wouldn't worry 'bout them old dreams too much though,
They're all in your head.

I said, "Hold it, Doc, a World War passed through my brain."
He said, "Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane,"
He grabbed my arm, I said "Ouch!"
As I landed on the psychiatric couch,
He said, "Tell me about it."

Well, the whole thing started at 3 o'clock fast,
It was all over by quarter past.
I was down in the sewer with some little lover
When I peeked out from a manhole cover
Wanted to see who turned the lights on.

Well, I got up and looked around
Up and down the lonesome town.
I didn't know which way to go,
So I lit a cigarette off a parking meter
And I walked on down the road.
It was a normal day.

Well, I rung the fallout shelter bell
And I leaned my head and I gave a yell,
"Give me a string bean, I'm a hungry man."
A shotgun fired and away I ran.
I don't blame them too much though,
I know I look funny.

Down at the corner by a hot-dog stand
I seen a man, I said, "Howdy friend,
I guess there's just us two."
He screamed a bit and away he flew.
Thought I was a Communist.

Well, I spied a girl and before she could leave,
"Let's go and play Adam and Eve."
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'
When she said, "Hey man, you crazy or sumpin',
You see what happened last time they started."

Well, I seen a Cadillac window uptown
And there was nobody aroun',
I got into the driver's seat
And I drove down 42nd Street
In my Cadillac.
Good car to drive...after a war.

Well, I remember seein' some ad,
So I turned on my Conelrad.
But I didn't pay my Con Ed bill,
So the radio didn't work so well.
Turned on my record player
It was Rock-A-Day, Johnny singin',
"Tell Your Ma, Tell Your Pa,
Our Loves Are Gonna Grow Ooh-wah, Ooh-wah."

I was feelin' kinda lonesome and blue,
I needed somebody to talk to.
So I called up the operator of time
Just to hear a voice of some kind.
"When you hear the beep
It will be three o'clock,"
She said that for over an hour
And I hung it up.

Well, the doc he stopped me just about then,
Says, "Hey I've been havin' that same old dream,
But mine was a little different you see.
I dreamt that the only person left after the war was me.
I didn't see you walkin' around nowhere."

Well, a lot of times gone by and now it seems
A lot more people been having them dreams.
Everybody sees themselves walkin' around with no one else.
Well, just shows you can fool all the people some of the time,
And you can fool some of the people all of the time.
But you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
"You can be in my dream....if I can be in yours,"
I said that.

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Spaw