Lyr Req: Farewell Angelina (Bob Dylan)

Subject: Farewell Angelina???????Oh Yeahhhh
From:
Date: 06 Jan 99 - 08:38 PM

I wanted to print the lyrics from this old Bob Dylan song and found it on the site. However, the words are so poorly transcribed that they are laughable. I invite you all to go to the site and tell me how many errors you find. The chuck and the queen? Geez.

Subject: Lyr Add: FAREWELL ANGELINA (Bob Dylan)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 04:39 AM

I guess I have to admit the lyrics in the database are a bit sloppy, but that's what happens with the volunteer labor disck has to work with. I wonder if the writer was volunteering to post a perfect version. Here's what I found at a Bob Dylan site. anybody care to make corrections? I couldn't find a printed source - it wasn't in my Joan Baez Songbook.
-Joe Offer-

FAREWELL ANGELINA
Words and Music by Bob Dylan
1965, 1966 Warner Bros. Music Inc

Farewell Angelina
The bells of the crown
Are being stolen by bandits
I must follow the sound
The triangle tingles
And the trumpet play slow
Farewell Angelina
The sky is on fire
And I must go.

There's no need for anger
There's no need for blame
There's nothing to prove
Ev'rything's still the same
Just a table standing empty
By the edge of the sea
Farewell Angelina
The sky is trembling
And I must leave.

The jacks and queens
Have forsaked the courtyard
Fifty-two gypsies
Now file past the guards
In the space where the deuce
And the ace once ran wild
Farewell Angelina
The sky is folding
I'll see you in a while.

See the cross-eyed pirates sitting
Perched in the sun
Shooting tin cans
With a sawed-off shotgun
And the neighbors they clap
And they cheer with each blast
Farewell Angelina
The sky's changing color
And I must leave fast.

King Kong, little elves
On the rooftoops they dance
Valentino-type tangos
While the make-up man's hands
Shut the eyes of the dead
Not to embarrass anyone
Farewell Angelina
The sky is embarrassed
And I must be gone.

The machine guns are roaring
The puppets heave rocks
The fiends nail time bombs
To the hands of the clocks
Call me any name you like
I will never deny it
Farewell Angelina
The sky is erupting
I must go where it's quiet.

Subject: RE: Farewell Angelina???????Oh Yeahhhh
From: Reta
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 12:54 PM

Joe, they are the same words that I have, taken from Joan

Baez album of same name. I think the are a good as it's gonna get.

Blessings Reta

Subject: RE: Farewell Angelina???????Oh Yeahhhh
From: Chloe
Date: 07 Jan 99 - 03:50 PM

Thanks. Found the lyrics on a Bob Dylan site, and they seem to be accurate.

Subject: RE: Farewell Angelina???????Oh Yeahhhh
From: Jenny
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 12:19 AM

Now, why have I thought all these years that Richard Farina wrote Farewell Angelina? jenny

Subject: RE: Farewell Angelina???????Oh Yeahhhh
From: Ferrara
Date: 27 Feb 99 - 04:56 AM

Joe, I'm not sure it's quite right. Have only the infamous Ferrara memory to go by, though. I remember the lines in the first verse as "... the bells of the town / Have been stolen by outlaws, I must follow the sound."

I'll check the album tomorrow. "bells of the town" makes more sense, but I don't suppose Dylan's intention was to make sense.

Subject: RE: Farewell Angelina???????Oh Yeahhhh
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 27 Feb 99 - 07:57 AM

Ferrara,

My copy of Lyrics 1962 - 1985 by Bob Dylan (an authoritative source on Bob Dylan lyrics) concurs 100% with Joe's post. This is the type of song I don't much care for. If it makes sense to you, fine, but don't explain it to me.

As our memories fade, I look forward to the time when I can hide my own Easter eggs.

Roger in Baltimore