Blind Willie McTell

Song Blind Willie McTell
Artist Bob Dylan
Album Music & Photos

Lyrics

[00:17.400] Seen the arrow on the doopost
[00:23.580] Saying, "This land is condemned“
[00:31.400] All the way from New Orleans
[00:37.400] To Jerusalem"
[00:42.580] I traveled through East Texas
[00:49.580] Where many martyrs fell
[00:55.400] And I know no one can sing the blues
[01:00.580] Like Blind Willie McTell
[01:10.400] Well, I heard that hoot owl singing
[01:17.580] As they were taking down the tents
[01:24.400] The stars above the barren trees
[01:29.400] Were his only audience
[01:35.400] Them charcoal gypsy maidens
[01:42.400] Can strut their feathers well
[01:48.400] But nobody can sing the blues
[01:53.400] Like Blind Wwllie McTell
[02:03.400] See them big plantations burning
[02:09.400] Hear the cracking of the whips
[02:15.400] Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
[02:20.400] See the ghosts of slavery ships
[02:26.400] I can hear them tribes a-moaning
[02:34.400] Hear that undertaker's bell
[02:40.400] Nobody can sing the blues
[02:45.400] Like Blind Willie McTell
[02:51.400] There's a woman by the river
[02:57.400] With some fine young handsome man
[03:03.400] He's dressed up like a squire
[03:10.400] Bootlegged whiskey in his hand
[03:15.400] There's a chain gang on the highway
[03:22.400] I can hear them rebels yell
[03:27.580] And I know no one can sing the blues
[03:33.500] Like Blind Willie McTell
[04:06.400] Well, God is in His heaven
[04:14.400] And we all want what's his
[04:20.400] But power and greed and corruptible seed
[04:25.400] Seem to be all that there is
[04:31.400] I'm gazing out the window
[04:38.400] Of the St.james Hotel
[04:44.400] And I know no one can sing the blues
[04:50.400] Like Blind willie McTell

Pinyin

[00:17.400] Seen the arrow on the doopost
[00:23.580] Saying, " This land is condemned"
[00:31.400] All the way from New Orleans
[00:37.400] To Jerusalem"
[00:42.580] I traveled through East Texas
[00:49.580] Where many martyrs fell
[00:55.400] And I know no one can sing the blues
[01:00.580] Like Blind Willie McTell
[01:10.400] Well, I heard that hoot owl singing
[01:17.580] As they were taking down the tents
[01:24.400] The stars above the barren trees
[01:29.400] Were his only audience
[01:35.400] Them charcoal gypsy maidens
[01:42.400] Can strut their feathers well
[01:48.400] But nobody can sing the blues
[01:53.400] Like Blind Wwllie McTell
[02:03.400] See them big plantations burning
[02:09.400] Hear the cracking of the whips
[02:15.400] Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
[02:20.400] See the ghosts of slavery ships
[02:26.400] I can hear them tribes amoaning
[02:34.400] Hear that undertaker' s bell
[02:40.400] Nobody can sing the blues
[02:45.400] Like Blind Willie McTell
[02:51.400] There' s a woman by the river
[02:57.400] With some fine young handsome man
[03:03.400] He' s dressed up like a squire
[03:10.400] Bootlegged whiskey in his hand
[03:15.400] There' s a chain gang on the highway
[03:22.400] I can hear them rebels yell
[03:27.580] And I know no one can sing the blues
[03:33.500] Like Blind Willie McTell
[04:06.400] Well, God is in His heaven
[04:14.400] And we all want what' s his
[04:20.400] But power and greed and corruptible seed
[04:25.400] Seem to be all that there is
[04:31.400] I' m gazing out the window
[04:38.400] Of the St. james Hotel
[04:44.400] And I know no one can sing the blues
[04:50.400] Like Blind willie McTell