Talkin' World War III Blues

Talkin' World War III Blues Lyrics

Song Talkin' World War III Blues
Artist Bob Dylan
Album The Bob Dylan 60's Collection
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[00:20.70] One time ago a crazy dream came to me
[00:22.77] I dreamt I was walkin' into World War Three
[00:26.64] Went to the doctor the very next day
[00:28.52] To see what kinda words he could say
[00:30.33] He said, "It was a bad dream"
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[00:34.42] I wouldn't worry 'bout it none, though
[00:35.43] They were my own dreams
[00:36.49] Were only in your head
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[00:49.06] I said, "Hold it Doc, a World War
[00:50.50] passed through my brain"
[00:51.87] He said, "Nurse, get your pad, the boy's insane"
[00:56.63]
[00:57.56] He grabbed my arm, I said, "Ouch!"
[00:59.32] As I landed on the psychiatric couch
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[01:02.03] He said, "Tell me about it"
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[01:12.59] Well, the whole thing started at three o'clock fast
[01:14.91] It was all over by quarter past
[01:18.59] I was down in the sewer with some little lover
[01:20.72] When I peeked out from a manhole cover
[01:24.28] Wondering who turned the lights on us
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[01:36.03] Well, I got up and I walked around
[01:38.15] Up and down the lonesome town
[01:41.84]
[01:43.78] I stood on wondering which way to go
[01:45.79] I lit a cigarette on a parking meter
[01:47.91] And walked on down the road, it was a normal day
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[02:03.14] Well, I rung me fallout shelter bell
[02:05.26] And I leaned my head and I gave a yell
[02:08.50] Give me a string bean, I'm a hungry man
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[02:11.13] Shotgun fired and away I ran
[02:14.70] I don't blame them too much though,
[02:16.44] they didn't know me
[02:19.76]
[02:27.97] Down the corner by the hot-dog stand
[02:30.39] I seen a man, I said, Howdy friend
[02:33.77] I guess there's just us two
[02:35.71] He screamed a bit and away he flew
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[02:39.20] Thought I was a Communist
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[03:00.68] Well, I spied me a girl before she could leave
[03:02.77] I said, Let's go play Adam and Eve
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[03:06.59] I took her by the my hand heart and was thumpin'
[03:08.45] When she said, Hey man, you crazy or something
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[03:14.08] You seen what happened last time they started
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[03:33.71] Well, I seen me a Cadillac window uptown
[03:36.29] There was nobody around
[03:38.98] I got into the driver's seat
[03:40.79] And I drove down 42nd street in my Cadillac
[03:46.64] Good car to drive after a war
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[04:03.96] Well, I remember seein' some ad
[04:06.02] So I turned on my Conelrad
[04:07.90] but I didn't pay the Con Ed bill
[04:10.52] So the radio didn't work so well,
[04:13.91] turned on my record player
[04:17.64] It was Rock-A-Day, Johnny singin',
[04:19.83] Tell your ma, tell your pa
[04:22.83] Our loves are gonna grow ooh wah, ooh wah
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[04:39.72] I was feelin' kinda lonesome and blue
[04:41.42] I needed somebody to talk to
[04:44.54] So I called up the operator of time just
[04:47.11] to hear a voice of some kind
[04:52.07] When you hear the beep it will be three o'clock
[04:55.83] She said that for over an hour and I hung up
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[05:11.15] Well, the doctor interrupted me just about then
[05:13.52] Sayin', "Hey I've been havin' the same old dreams
[05:17.65] But mine was a little different you see
[05:20.34] I dreamt the only person left after the war was me
[05:24.63] I didn't see you around
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[05:34.39] Well, now time passed and now it seems
[05:37.20] Everybody's having them dreams
[05:40.95] Everybody sees their self walkin' around with no one else
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[05:48.46] Half the people can be part right all of the time and
[05:53.58] Some of the people can be all right part of the time but
[05:57.40] All the people can't be all alright all of the time
[06:01.53] I think Abraham Lincoln said that
[06:06.27] I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
[06:08.89] I said that
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