BOB DYLAN Song Lyrics MURDER MOST FOUL English Text + Video

 

 

 

Bob Dylan
Murder most foul

(2020)

 

 

Song lyrics

Original english text

 

 

Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize for Literature, is an American songwriter, composer, musician and poet. and is one of the greatest contemporary artists and singers.

“Murder Most Foul” is Bob Dylan’s new song, released on surprise on March 27, 2020, eight years after Dylan’s last unreleased track (the 2012 album “Tempest”).

Bob Dylan’s new song “Murder most foul” is a 17 minute long song in which, starting from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dylan recounts what was the 1960s in the United States.

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Bob Dylan
Murder most foul

 

Song lyrics

English text

 

 

[Verse 1] 

It was a dark day in Dallas, November ’63

A day that will live on in infamy

President Kennedy was a-ridin’ high

Good day to be livin’ and a good day to die

 

Being led to the slaughter like a sacrificial lamb

He said, “Wait a minute, boys, you know who I am?”

“Of course we do, we know who you are!”

Then they blew off his head while he was still in the car

 

Shot down like a dog in broad daylight

Was a matter of timing and the timing was right

You got unpaid debts,

we’ve come to collect

 

We’re gonna kill you with hatred,

without any respect

We’ll mock you and shock you

and we’ll put it in your face

 

We’ve already got someone here to take your place

The day they blew out the brains of the king

Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing

It happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise

 

Right there in front of everyone’s eyes

Greatest magic trick ever under the sun

Perfectly executed, skillfully done

Wolfman, oh wolfman, oh wolfman howl

Rub-a-dub-dub, it’s a murder most foul

 

 

[Verse 2]

Hush, little children, you’ll understand

The Beatles are comin’, they’re gonna hold your hand

Slide down the banister, go get your coat

Ferry ‘cross the Mersey and go for the throat

 

There’s three bums comin’ all dressed in rags

Pick up the pieces and lower the flags

I’m goin’ to Woodstock, it’s the Aquarian Age

Then I’ll go to Altamont and sit near the stage

 

Put your head out the window,

let the good times roll

There’s a party going on

behind the Grassy Knoll

 

Stack up the bricks, pour the cement

Don’t say Dallas don’t love you, Mr. President

Put your foot in the tank

and then step on the gas

 

Try to make it to the triple underpass

Blackface singer, whiteface clown

Better not show your faces

after the sun goes down

 

Up in the red light district,

they’ve got cop on the beat

Living in a nightmare on Elm Street

When you’re down on Deep Ellum,

put your money in your shoe

 

Don’t ask what your country can do for you

Cash on the ballot, money to burn

Dealey Plaza, make a left-hand turn

I’m going down to the crossroads, gonna flag a ride

 

The place where faith, hope, and charity lie

Shoot him while he runs, boy,

shoot him while you can

See if you can shoot the invisible man

 

Goodbye, Charlie!

Goodbye, Uncle Sam!

Frankly, Miss Scarlett, I don’t give a damn

What is the truth, and where did it go?

 

Ask Oswald and Ruby, they oughta know

“Shut your mouth,” said a wise old owl

Business is business,

and it’s a murder most foul

 

 

[Verse 3]

Tommy, can you hear me?

I’m the Acid Queen

I’m riding in a long,

black Lincoln limousine

 

Ridin’ in the backseat next to my wife

Headed straight on in to the afterlife

I’m leaning to the left, I got my head in her lap

Hold on, I’ve been led into some kind of a trap

 

Where we ask no quarter,

and no quarter do we give

We’re right down the street,

from the street where you live

 

They mutilated his body

and they took out his brain

What more could they do?

They piled on the pain

 

But his soul was not there

where it was supposed to be at

For the last fifty years

they’ve been searchin’ for that

 

Freedom, oh freedom,

freedom over me

I hate to tell you, mister,

but only dead men are free

 

Send me some lovin’, then tell me no lie

Throw the gun in the gutter and walk on by

Wake up, little Susie, let’s go for a drive

Cross the Trinity River, let’s keep hope alive

 

Turn the radio on,

don’t touch the dials

Parkland hospital, only six more miles

You got me dizzy, Miss Lizzy,

you filled me with lead

 

That magic bullet of yours has gone to my head

I’m just a patsy like Patsy Cline

Never shot anyone from in front or behind

I’ve blood in my eye, got blood in my ear

I’m never gonna make it to the new frontier

 

Zapruder’s film I seen night before

Seen it thirty-three times, maybe more

It’s vile and deceitful, it’s cruel and it’s mean

Ugliest thing that you ever have seen

 

They killed him once

and they killed him twice

Killed him like a human sacrifice

 

The day that they killed him,

someone said to me, “Son

The age of the Antichrist has just only begun”

Air Force One comin’ in through the gate

 

Johnson sworn in at 2:38

Let me know when you decide

to throw in the towel

It is what it is, and it’s murder most foul

 

 

[Verse 4]

What’s new, pussycat?

What’d I say?

I said the soul

of a nation been torn away

 

And it’s beginning

to go into a slow decay

And that it’s thirty-six hours past Judgment Day

 

Wolfman Jack, he’s speaking in tongues

He’s going on and on at the top of his lungs

Play me a song, Mr. Wolfman Jack

Play it for me in my long Cadillac

 

Play me that “Only the Good Die Young”

Take me to the place Tom Dooley was hung

Play “St. James Infirmary”

and the Court of King James

 

If you want to remember,

you better write down the names

Play Etta James, too, play “I’d Rather Go Blind”

Play it for the man with the telepathic mind

 

Play John Lee Hooker, play “Scratch My Back”

Play it for that strip club owner named Jack

Guitar Slim going down slow

Play it for me and for Marilyn Monroe

 

 

[Verse 5] 

Play “Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”

Play it for the First Lady, she ain’t feeling any good

Play Don Henley,

play Glenn Frey

 

Take it to the limit and let it go by

Play it for Carl Wilson, too Looking far,

far away down Gower Avenue

Play tragedy, play “Twilight Time”

 

Take me back to Tulsa to the scene of the crime

Play another one and “Another One Bites the Dust”

Play “The Old Rugged Cross” and “In God We Trust”

Ride the pink horse down that long, lonesome road

 

Stand there and wait for his head to explode

Play “Mystery Train” for Mr. Mystery

The man who fell down dead

like a rootless tree

 

Play it for the reverend, play it for the pastor

Play it for the dog that got no master

Play Oscar Peterson, play Stan Getz

Play “Blue Sky,” play Dickey Betts

 

Play Art Pepper, Thelonious Monk

Charlie Parker and all that junk

All that junk and “All That Jazz”

Play something for the Birdman of Alcatraz

 

Play Buster Keaton, play Harold Lloyd

Play Bugsy Siegel, play Pretty Boy Floyd

Play the numbers, play the odds

Play “Cry Me A River” for the Lord of the gods

 

Play Number nine, play Number six

Play it for Lindsey and Stevie Nicks

Play Nat King Cole, play “Nature Boy”

Play “Down In The Boondocks” for Terry Malloy

 

Play “It Happened One Night” and “One Night of Sin”

There’s twelve million souls that are listening in

Play “Merchant of Venice”, play “Merchants of Death”

Play “Stella by Starlight” for Lady Macbeth

 

Don’t worry, Mr. President,

help’s on the way

Your brothers are comin’,

there’ll be hell to pay

 

Brothers? What brothers?

What’s this about hell?

Tell them, “We’re waiting, keep coming,”

we’ll get them as well

 

Love Field is where his plane touched down

But it never did get back up off the ground

Was a hard act to follow, second to none

They killed him on the altar of the rising sun

 

Play “Misty” for me and “That Old Devil Moon”

Play “Anything Goes” and “Memphis in June”

Play “Lonely At the Top” and “Lonely Are the Brave”

Play it for Houdini spinning around his grave

 

Play Jelly Roll Morton, play “Lucille”

Play “Deep In a Dream”, and play “Driving Wheel”

Play “Moonlight Sonata” in F-sharp

And “A Key to the Highway” for the king on the harp

 

Play “Marching Through Georgia” and “Dumbarton’s Drums”

Play darkness and death will come when it comes

Play “Love Me Or Leave Me” by the great Bud Powell

Play “The Blood-stained Banner”, play “Murder Most Foul”

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Bob Dylan – Murder most foul

Song lyrics, original english text, 2020

 

 

 

Bob Dylan All Songs Lyrics > here

 

 

 

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Bob Dylan – Murder Most Foul

 

 

 

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