Bob Dylan - Black Diamond Bay Lyrics
Up on the white veranda
She wears a necktie and a Panama hat
Her passport shows a face
From another time and place
She looks nothing like that
And all of the remnants of her recent past
Are scattered in the wild wind
She walks across the marble floor
Where a voice from the gambling room is calling her to come on in
She smiles, walks the other way
As the last ship sails and the moon fades away
From Black Diamond Bay.
As the morning light breaks open
And a pen that will write
"Pardon monsieur" the desk clerk says
Carefully removes his fez
"Am I hearing you right?"
And as the yellow fog is lifting
The Greek is quickly heading for the second floor
She passes him on the spiral staircase
Thinking he's the Soviet Ambassador
She starts to speak, but he walks away
As the storm clouds rise and the palm branches sway
On Black Diamond Bay.
A soldier sits beneath the fan
Doing business with a tiny man
Who sells him a ring
Lightning strikes, the lights blow out
The desk clerk wakes and begins to shout,
"Can you see anything?"
Then the Greek appears on the second floor
In his bare feet with a rope around his neck
While a loser in the gambling room lights up a candle
Says, "Open up another deck."
But the dealer says, "Attendez-vous, s'il vous plaît."
As the rain beats down and the cranes fly away
From Black Diamond Bay.
The desk clerk heard the woman laugh
As he looked around in the aftermath
And the soldier got tough
He tried to grab the woman's hand
Said, "Here's a ring it cost a grand."
She said, "That ain't enough."
Then she ran upstairs to pack her bags
While a horse-drawn taxi waited at the curb
She passed the door that the Greek had locked
Where a handwritten sign read "Do Not Disturb"
She knocked upon it anyway
As the sun went down and the music did play
On Black Diamond Bay.
"I've got to talk to someone quick!"
But the Greek said, "Go away," and he kicked the chair to the floor
He hung there from the chandelier
She cried, "Help there's danger near!
Please open up a-the door."
Then the volcano erupted
And the lava flowed down from the mountain high above
The soldier and the tiny man
Were crouched in the corner thinking of forbidden love
But the desk clerk said, "It happens every day."
As the stars fell down and the fields burned away
On Black Diamond Bay.
As the island slowly sank
The loser finally broke the bank
In the gambling room
The dealer said, "It's too late now.
You can take your money, but I don't know how
You'll spend it in the tomb."
The tiny man bit the soldier's ear
As the floor caved in
And the boiler in the basement blew
While she's out on the balcony where a stranger tells her,
"My darling je vous aime beaucoup."
She sheds a tear and then begins to pray
As the fire burns on and the smoke drifts away
From Black Diamond Bay.
I was sitting home alone one night
In LA watching old Cronkite
On the seven o'clock news
It seems there was an earthquake that
Left nothing but a Panama hat
And a pair of Greek shoes
Didn't seem like much was happening
So I turned it off and went to grab another beer
Seems like every time you turn around
There's another hard-luck story that you're gonna hear
And there's really nothing anyone can say
And I never did plan to go anyway
To Black Diamond Bay.
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Bob Dylan Black Diamond Bay Comments
Para aquellos interesados en la tremenda letra de esta canción y les interese una versión en castellano les dejo la versión de 1984 de María José Cantilo completamente en castellano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLfzAEK7sho
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For those who are intresting in hearing an spanish version of this song I let this link to a version made in 1981 by Maria Jose Cantilo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLfzAEK7sho
bruh he said the n word
Loved him for 4 decades since I was a kid. Dylan is part of my life.
Bobee -we LOVE you.
There was once a time when finding any bob dylan songs on youtube was almost an impossible task but I'm glad things have changed.
hi 2020!
Bob Dylan, simplesmente genial. O violino é maravilhoso.
HEURECA!!!
Alguém em 2020? Hahaha
Eu tô assistindo no ultimo dia de 2019 pqp isso é som
Como não amar este cara é sua obra ..
Salve Bob Dylan ...
Bom Dylan só existe um: maravilhoso!
Bod Dylan> god
Inefável!!
Magnificent.....
Is this anybody else's fav Dylan track?
Ruben Carter the man convicted and released twice Bob Dylan and Mohammed Ali all fought to realise him. True story about a triple murder in 1966
My chemistry teacher in high school told us the story and played us the song for no reason thanks Mr. Poindexter you were all around badass!
LOL cherie,advantage to life is living,bobs music is a bonus to us like all music,but cant take it away from him,genius muscian
Was soll man noch zu Klo Fleisch sagen Ringo
Why you cry in this song Bob??? So Greek rythm.. PAOK GATE 4 ATHENS ANTIFA MIKROS.... (πες τους Νέο Υορκεζους θα τους κόψουμε τα χέρια και τα δάχτυλα αν ξαναπειραξουν Παοκτζηδες ή Παοκια (Ένας Παοκτζης αν και ο άλλος είναι Παοκτζης μπορεί να τον αποκαλέσει Παοκι.. Είσαι Παοκι Bob. Τέλος. Μikros!)
Do not forget that you are "mentally ill" - Robert Anton Wilson "How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a light bulb?" - Ask the British Columbia Review Board and the RCMP! - Indian Act = Mental Health Act - justice is just a game! And those playing the game do not know that they do not know that they do not know!
この曲をひっさげて行ったローリング・サンダー・レビューの頃がロックしていて、一番好きです‼️のぶ😘
Excuse the n word
Missing my dad
Total masterpiece. Was listening to this in a supermarket and couldn't fight back the tears. How does he evoke such an emotion. such a gut-wrenching story told and performed masterfully by such an incredible artist.
How? Because he is Bob Dylan
He was blamed because he was a champion not just because he was black.
He kept it real
Bob is a national treasure
Springsteen never got it ... right....lmmao
I love this
A true American treasure!!
As this is in a way that I do it.as I ♡ the song as the documentary. so this then was a story once she couldn't believe suçh butchery and to see her Kreditcard no the not shown debit card you see as I am German citizen and for a me not a reason but why have they done this my story about my Sparkasse Darmstadt Germany Debitcard showed without an allowance a Debitcard. but you see in almighty America they want you Google to pay even so I done no not that I one no Debitcard shown info given by post not so we go before this law where all of these greats did threats. now we will see.as I swear I have not done .oh well this American politics and company you German you we do not sure give a shit.all you out there obey than u-tube premium as GOOGLE makes you pay not so we hijack EU laws and the USA president aa and hate up the anti German league yes Oh yes they did so please note write with hope to Canada.you might as lawyers get famously.yes that it be or was yours KARIN
That by far is the utmost right as best Bob did ever write to remind me what America was and more is.as ever all these songs till one gets in a way right so that itchy rolling stone. as that he thought his way was .as with a so greater understanding of Joan's understand. Diamonds and Rust. now s.times are the truth of all that is not about money him all that such as And Pat Garrett is about the influence that kind of tale of the American West which still ALIVE flew flows help us we are losing but Hurricane is as rolling stone as The songs that we know so we shouldn't Datastealing no all cool no one saw it shall wait for Bob to do a song about laws.EU and almighty u-tube as G.pay great as photograph of the same as sending it in.KARIN
Bob Dylan about the Story of Boxer Ruben "Hurricane" Carter(R.I.P.).
FOR EVER
Re-election theme song!!!
Respect
Dylan a disaster..
.
As a singer:0
As musician :0
Go home poet of my ....
What a song
Bob can tell a story.
🖊🎮💪✅
Pohaaa essa música é do caralho
Kd o Brasil aí meu povo
Santos, SP.
Assistam o filme, é emocionante!
Qual o nome?
@Thayla MENEZES Bom dia! Hurricane, com Denzel Washington.
@natanael vieira Silva obrigada,
Bom dia.
@Thayla MENEZES de nada! abraço...
Could'a been... Could'a been are the scariest two words in the English language.
Clássico sir bob Dylan
POTENTI MEZZI AMPLIFICATI
Too bad Rubin Carter did it.
Mike McGomer This is a biased reporter, stating that it’s their belief. If you’ve actually read ANYTHING non biased, the “witnesses” came clean while Carter was in prison and stated that what they said wasn’t real
@sharkfin I spoke to the prosecutor in the second trial myself...
Mike McGomer You have literally no proof to back up your claim
@sharkfin I don't need to give you proof. The man was found guilty by two juries that weren't all white as the song says... Dylan just believed him at face value.
He got off because of the violation of his procedural rights. Looking into it in depth ruined my favorite song quite a bit. That belt I'm holding is, in fact, the middleweight W.B.A. world championship belt my sparring partner and roomie won, Davey Hilton and Matthew Hilton who won the middle weight I.B.F. crown, so the song had meaning to me.
Carter failed a lie detector test and was offered another and told if he passed he could go free and he refused. Artis failed a test also. The truth is harsher. Carter had lost seven of his last 15 fights before the murders. He no longer was a contender. Omitted from the script was that Carter was separated from the Army for “unfitness” in 1956 after four courts-martial. He went to prison the following year for snatching a woman’s purse and for assaulting two men in different cases. All this occurred before he was 21.
When Carter was pulled over he was hiding in the back seat laying down.
Mike McGomer You are so dumb, you keep changing your stories, bringing up irrelevant points that don’t need to be brought up, and everything you said can literally be searched up within seconds proving your false story. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/19/archives/report-says-rubin-carter-passed-liedetector-test.html . This NY Times link proves the story that Carter, did in fact, PASS a lie detector test HOURS after the murders. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Carter . This whole page dedicated to Carter shows how even though there were guns in his car, they carried different bullets then the ones found at the bar, and that he wasn’t lying down when they were driving. You
Rubin Carter controlled himself, he was falsely accused of a triple homicides. He was angry, but he chose not to rage, but instead he spent all that time in jail studying. When he came out, he resume living like a regular citizen, he wasn't being held back by the prison, he wasn't held back by any obstacles.
wtf? i was then listening about 20 years ago. so no anymore...
Rubin Carter was guilty as fuck. Good song, but total nonsense.
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https://youtu.be/qK3-kDfSl3U
Dylan!!!
Would love to see Charlie Day cover this 😂
Did they clear his name? Well, I guess his story will live on forever then...
Yes, Ruben was finally cleared of the false charges in tyre 90s.
I’m going play this at the company Christmas party. Sure to get things to rolling in there.
And when it's over, make sure you point out the fucker was guilty.
Let us know how it plays out
Pussy. Transcribe the lyrics as they were written or don't bother doing so at all. Bet you couldn't sing this at karaoke. Oh well. Grow a pair and do the art as it was intended to be presented.
Mi juventud. Lindo
Peut être que dieu est noir méfiez-vous.
Pauvre homme avoir perdu autant de temps en prison parce que il était noir putain si dieu existe j'espère qu'il réserve un châtiment horrible à ces gens qui sont raciste et qu'il le paieront le prix fort😔
Muito bom!!!!
came here right after watching the movie
Im watching it now !!
FODA !!!!
beruntung sebelum ajal menjemput, sempat mendengarkan lagu ini.
terima kasih Bob.
Buenisimooo.....
And wer still going thru shit like this today not enough to take a mans freedom away and discriminate us they want it all man
Can't help seeing Stewie Griffin in my mind.
que guai ets el millo
Bob Dylan é com uma estrada cheia de obstáculos, mas com a certeza do chegar.
Hurricane carter
what an awesome job..wonderful!!
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Remember when my uncle Ed & my father, explained this song to me. Ed was from Cleveland, visiting NJ.
Ed passed away with an autoimmune diseases.
But I thank God , for that memory. It's inspirational in how to adapt to America Society, being an African-American.
True folk. He's making a poetic musical story of the real-life of the Hurricane.
Yeah thanks for the clarification, we would have never thought of that before you have said this.
To be on the same planet as Bob Dylan is an honor.
Amo muitoooo
People just like me, talk just mouth talk some good will emereg, hopfully or not, so what the shit.
Id have staved the cop at the beginning of ya boys first round
Great song.👌🏾
Confessions
Un grande no muy reconosido
The good musician and gooooood music
How much longer until leftist insanity censors this song from youtube as well.
Self-proclaimed Leftist here: This song is awesome. It deeply criticizes the corrupt American justice system, which needs vast reforms so that people like Rubin Carter are never falsely convicted for crimes they didn't commit. Black people back then (Even now) are subjected to more scrutiny than white people when it comes to criminal convictions. Rubin Carter (The Hurricane in this song) lost 20 years of his life because the Police just assumed he did it because he was black (The perpetrators were black men, but Rubin was not the man who did it)
@Branflakes, Bold new taste I'm not talking about the political message I'm saying based on recent trends of "the left" trying to whitewash (no pun intended) "bad things" irregardless of the context (take Robert e Lee statue)
Dylan says that unfortunate word and it's only a matter of time before youtube just takes the song off or some moral crusader flags the video.
Simplesmente maravilhosa....🌷🌷🌷
Simplesmente maravilhosa....🌷🌷🌷
Bob Dylan respect for you👏👏👏
masterpiece
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Patty valentine is my grandma and she tells me this story all the time it’s honestly insane and apart of my families history good or bad I wil never forget
I'm gonna need to see some proof
So why did she file a suit for using her name? Justice is a game!$!$
So why did she file a suit for using her name?$$!!
Patty Valentine is a lying blowhard. N that's your Grandmother!!!
No offense intended for the N word
love this song
No wonder he's the only musician with an Oscar and a Pulitzer prize.
2020 bvb food us vfc out
And a literature Nobel prize
Bob Dylan himself said there ain't not Austinian straights so you better walk what's normal in Austin.
Black American people took possession of that word decades ago. Dylan used the word with poetic license.