The curtain had been lifted and the gambling wheel shut down. Anyone with any sense had already left town, He was standing in the doorway, looking like the jack of hearts. Easily the best songwriter of my lifetime.
I saw Joan Baez do this song live in 2002 or so. It is hard to describe, on another level. I think the thing that made it so memorable for me is that she dared to do this song. It's Dylan's song, though, and there's nothing like the original. It has been one of my theme songs ever since I first heard it.
His voice was quite good at this stage,more pleasant than his very young voice. I'll listen to him at any period of his career though---there's just so much more to think about in his songs than in the average stuff on the radio,both then and now.
"She had done a lot of bad things, even once tried suicide"
that's bad alright, too bad. but i knowed a few and the girl with the scars on her wrist, she already been through enough she's more like a baby bird fallen from the nest but still alive
'desolation row"....love reading others interpretation of this ones meaning.....regardless of any deep symbolic meaning, the story itself is absolutely intriguing
Suppose its best to leave the origins of someone's creativity to the creator of it. But one can speculate or read there own interpretation of what the writer is saying. personally I believe based on the lyrics that the song is based upon a card game. Suppose ones station in life is based a bit on luck and good management. I find it strange though how my 'mind set' influences the hand I'm dealt. If I feel confident I seem to get a better hand than when I feel nervous and afraid.
Or...you know... the song could be totally interpretive, open to whatever you think it should be about. Songs, or life, really, doesn't have a set definition.
Everyone has it wrong. The song is about a game of five stud pocker. The face cards being the main characters. Jim the King of Hearts. Lily the Queen of Hearts. The Jack of Hearts.Rosemary the Queen of spades. These are the main characters. All other face cards the minor characters So its a card game unfolding in real life even though its pure fiction. Brillantly concieved,written and sung. If Bob reads this I'm sure he'll agree but not let anyone know for sure.lol
Malcolmacdo is right. If I had to spend time like Jack shi polishing my poems like raw diamonds hours in the studio,on the road,eating like a king,in the crapper like a pawn,making it with me Queen I wouldn't have enough time to ace it through the day, Bobbie
stanley....it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"....that's about all i remember from tale of two cities....it's been a long time since high school....wish i sat next to you in school though...seems like you'd be a good guy to copy from!!
Fabulous casting, camelotjs! My favorite Dylan song ever. I always though it make a great film. I pictured Val Kilmer as Jack, in the shape he was in Tombstone.
my favorite bobby d song..."lilly had already taken all of the die out of her hair. she was thinking about her father who she very rarely saw, thinking about rosemary and thinking about the law, but most of all she was thinking about the jack of hearts" genius..pure genius..
I have wondered this since the first time I heard this song...why oh why has it not been made into a movie!!! I had read somewhere there was a screenplay written but it just SCREAMS a great movie. But, then again, I doubt a movie could be more vivid than what plays in my head.
closest thing to a movie of this: DEADWOOD, the series on HBO which is now available on DVD...an absolute must see....Big Jim is played by Powers Booth, one evil dude, perhaps worse than Swearingen, the owner of the 'caberet", Swearingen's, competition for Big Jim's place
She's OK, but I don't like her changes to the lyrics and her tempo is too stationary - the whole thing has the wrong feeling if sung by anyone but dylan.
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it's the beginning of the end of his creativeness, and then he did too many shows and didn't really care for his voice, and now it sounds like Sponge-Bob. Too bad. should have stayed with the sad-eyed-lady-of-the lowlands.
Let me add that suffering being our lot in life is not a "useless" truth or something that only serves to make you depressed. You might not be able to change it for yourself, but you can sure as hell ease your children's lot by not creating said children.
Sadly, I'm going to have to counter the obvious jokes by pointing out that you can fuck without creating children, and that life being bad enough to refrain from having children doesn't necessarily mean it's bad enough to kill yourself.
I stumbled upon (Using Stumbleupon with Firefox) a website about a group called VHMENT. Voluntary human extinction movement. They're didicated to ending the human race on the long run by not having kids.
I agree that life sux too much to have kids, but not enough to kill yourself.
My favorite Dylan song. Good rhyming , story., & music. Love his harmonica. I think it would make a great movie. Also I thought he said "took a cabbage into town", haha.
Always loved this song. Made a video of it with Clint Eastwood as Jack of Hearts then threw that away and made another with President Obama as Jack of Hearts and other characters from 2008 Election. It's like Desolation Row - so many characters you could fit in to the story
this is one of dylan's most intriguing songs and one of my all time favorites of his songs....he is such an amazing storyteller...wonderful singing on this one as well
story about bankrobbers Jack of Hearts is their leader , Lilly is daughter of Rosemary , Rosemary and Lilly are Big Jim`s girlfriends, Big Jim is owner of the bank, and in the end he was killed and robbed and Jack of Hearts took money along side his company
You mean "it's crap", I think. But seriously, you have a right to your opinion. Dylan is sort of an acquired taste anyway. This sounds as if Dylan were doing a long Johnny Cash song (though I know it's not). I hated Johnny Cash years ago; after I heard "A Boy Named Sue", all of his other songs started sounding better. Then I heard this, about 10 years after it came out, and liked it right off; it's hypnotic. It might grow on you eventually.
This song is so clever, so Dylan, so great. It's his best if you ask me.This is the best line: "She fluttered her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear
"Sorry darling, that I'm late", but he didn't seem to hear
He was starring into space over at the Jack of Hearts."
I must admit ,after listening carefully again the lyrics of a song I knew from the times it ever appeared...you can't be that wrong writing what you feel and think!
This song was done in one chord, "A". A seven minute song, one chord. I don't think this will ever be duplicated. I take this opportunity to toast Bob. He is the best.
Geraldine Anderson from Cowdenbeath in Fife used to listen to this Bob Dylan track before she went out clubbing to the Kinema Ballroom in Dunfermline from the late sixties into the 1970's, she is now aged 54 lives in Oakley in Dunfermline Fife this is still her all time favourite song (lilly Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts), from the album "Blood on the Tracks" by Bob Dylan
Okay, the movie would be a trip for sure but I would want to know that approval for every scene was coming from Dylan himself lest it be screwed up by some money-grubbing Hollywood crackpot. Or how about Dylan & Baez in starring roles? Or just leave it alone and savor what we have been given?
I'm sure most of you Dylan fans know this, but for those who don't, the New York Sessions version of this song has an added stanza, check it out. It's at about the 6 minute mark.
-Lily's arms were locked around the man that she dearly loved to touch. She forgot about the man she couldn't stand, who hounded her so much. "I've missed you so," she said to him, and he felt she was sincere but just beyond the door he felt jealousy and fear. It was just another night in the life of the jack of hearts.
In the standard French practice, in which each court card is said to represent a particular historical or mythological personage. The jack of hearts in a French deck : La Hire (French warrior) Étienne de Vignolles, called La Hire, (Born 1380 - died 11 January 1443) was a French military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He fought alongside Joan of Arc in the campaigns of 1429.
Someone posted that they thought this would make a good film/movie but I think that's part of the magic of the song...visualizing what you hear. I can imagine the dust, the heavy fabrics, the expressions on their faces, the calculating chaos. Brilliant.
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Two doors down, the boys finally made it through the wall, and cleaned out the bank safe. It's said they got off with quite a haul...
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The curtain had been lifted and the gambling wheel shut down. Anyone with any sense had already left town, He was standing in the doorway, looking like the jack of hearts. Easily the best songwriter of my lifetime.
bpcarman 3 months ago
I saw Joan Baez do this song live in 2002 or so. It is hard to describe, on another level. I think the thing that made it so memorable for me is that she dared to do this song. It's Dylan's song, though, and there's nothing like the original. It has been one of my theme songs ever since I first heard it.
truegangsteroflove 3 months ago
His voice was quite good at this stage,more pleasant than his very young voice. I'll listen to him at any period of his career though---there's just so much more to think about in his songs than in the average stuff on the radio,both then and now.
CattailsandRoses 4 months ago
"She had done a lot of bad things, even once tried suicide"
that's bad alright, too bad. but i knowed a few and the girl with the scars on her wrist, she already been through enough she's more like a baby bird fallen from the nest but still alive
wsmith6079wpg 4 months ago
im glad to see youre still alive and lookin like a saint.
THEk1nslayer 1 year ago
second to "desolation row" only
faithmairee 1 year ago
this song is second only to "desolation row" which is also one of his songs
faithmairee 1 year ago
this song is second only to dylan's
'desolation row"....love reading others interpretation of this ones meaning.....regardless of any deep symbolic meaning, the story itself is absolutely intriguing
faithmairee 1 year ago
great song, great album...
meathead369 1 year ago
Suppose its best to leave the origins of someone's creativity to the creator of it. But one can speculate or read there own interpretation of what the writer is saying. personally I believe based on the lyrics that the song is based upon a card game. Suppose ones station in life is based a bit on luck and good management. I find it strange though how my 'mind set' influences the hand I'm dealt. If I feel confident I seem to get a better hand than when I feel nervous and afraid.
MALCOLMACDOO 1 year ago
I think jst to be gaii that im going to call my little boy jack cose im named
Lily Rosemary hart frame
so im gonna carryy on and call him jack
and i hate this song kinda xxxxx
we wil now be lily rosemary and the jak of HART frame x
XLily96 2 years ago
Or...you know... the song could be totally interpretive, open to whatever you think it should be about. Songs, or life, really, doesn't have a set definition.
poolparty541 2 years ago
Well put...:)
Fedora28 2 years ago
Who cares what it's really abiut - it's still the second best song ever written
grassdesigner 2 years ago
Everyone has it wrong. The song is about a game of five stud pocker. The face cards being the main characters. Jim the King of Hearts. Lily the Queen of Hearts. The Jack of Hearts.Rosemary the Queen of spades. These are the main characters. All other face cards the minor characters So its a card game unfolding in real life even though its pure fiction. Brillantly concieved,written and sung. If Bob reads this I'm sure he'll agree but not let anyone know for sure.lol
MALCOLMACDOO 2 years ago
Malcolmacdo is right. If I had to spend time like Jack shi polishing my poems like raw diamonds hours in the studio,on the road,eating like a king,in the crapper like a pawn,making it with me Queen I wouldn't have enough time to ace it through the day, Bobbie
RasMajnouni 2 years ago
brilliant as usuall
1955c 2 years ago 2
stanley....it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"....that's about all i remember from tale of two cities....it's been a long time since high school....wish i sat next to you in school though...seems like you'd be a good guy to copy from!!
skontch1 2 years ago
amazing...
MARPLERED 2 years ago
Lol i dont really like this song tbqh
but my dad loved it :s and i was named
after it :@ i dont actuaually get it ?
whats the lyrics ????
:S:S wtf the camajots or watever ?
catch ! :O
XLily96 2 years ago
@XLily96 It's a great "story tellin' song"
stanleygcollins 2 years ago
Fabulous casting, camelotjs! My favorite Dylan song ever. I always though it make a great film. I pictured Val Kilmer as Jack, in the shape he was in Tombstone.
Johnny Depp would be great!
Sharona903 2 years ago 2
@Sharona903 Totallly! "I'm your Huckleberry, that's just my game!" But who will play Diamond JIm???
stanleygcollins 2 years ago
my favorite bobby d song..."lilly had already taken all of the die out of her hair. she was thinking about her father who she very rarely saw, thinking about rosemary and thinking about the law, but most of all she was thinking about the jack of hearts" genius..pure genius..
skontch1 2 years ago 2
@skontch1 I think it's a parallel of "Tale of Two Cities" except Rosemary is Sydney, dying for the alleged 'criminals.'
stanleygcollins 2 years ago
one of dylan's better songs !!
willgonow 2 years ago
I really hope they make this a movie, it would be brilliant!
VampireObsessed09 2 years ago
This would make a great feture film.
BHC8866 2 years ago
what a gorgeous song ... bobby has been inspired from above once again...
buitoni123456789 2 years ago
For us lovers of Russian Lit...this song is gold!!!
enverpasha55 2 years ago
jack would obviosly be played by johny depp
MrMccarron 2 years ago 2
great song
789pequignot 2 years ago
yeah to everyone who has said this would make a great movie.i could not agree more.but who would play lily? rosemary/?and jack?
Sirocco97 2 years ago
Well, if Jack is Johnny Depp (perfect!), how about Kate Winslet and Scarlett Johannsen for Lily and Rosemay and James Gandolfino for Big Jim!
camelotjs 2 years ago 2
@camelotjs - nice casting!
pmfzero 2 years ago
im hearing you it would make a great movie
Sirocco97 2 years ago
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Sharona903 2 years ago
Ooohh...Guy Ritchie...Good call.
jliver69 2 years ago
if it was a made into a movie it would be perfect for guy ritche
pinkgash04 2 years ago
..bravo....Jay, ya said it all ! yep.....
VietnamDoorGunner 2 years ago
I have wondered this since the first time I heard this song...why oh why has it not been made into a movie!!! I had read somewhere there was a screenplay written but it just SCREAMS a great movie. But, then again, I doubt a movie could be more vivid than what plays in my head.
jliver69 2 years ago
closest thing to a movie of this: DEADWOOD, the series on HBO which is now available on DVD...an absolute must see....Big Jim is played by Powers Booth, one evil dude, perhaps worse than Swearingen, the owner of the 'caberet", Swearingen's, competition for Big Jim's place
wakishka10 2 years ago
my name is lily
lilymayyoung 2 years ago 2
well hot diddley damn
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tukfrompk 2 years ago
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wow listen to the harmonica its terrible. its not a bad song, not my type but the harmonica is terrible lol
Rfprimm 2 years ago
i cannot play poker without singing this song to myself
pam101dalmatians 2 years ago 7
classic bob almost 40 year old song still amazing thanks for posting man
maurlinz 2 years ago 7
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May be his but it's quite dire; Joan Baez does it does it much better..
Mairi53 2 years ago
Shut the fuck up. This is the best!
Denton91 2 years ago
lol
Vincentehautesavoie 2 years ago 2
It's only a comment and an opinion, apologies if I offend the 'dyed in the wool' type. Gosh, live YOUR life, not his.
Mairi53 2 years ago
She's OK, but I don't like her changes to the lyrics and her tempo is too stationary - the whole thing has the wrong feeling if sung by anyone but dylan.
LastAngryMan2 2 years ago
lol yeah right
runelord37 2 years ago
What a song!,be happy peeps,dont go too deep.
spd47 2 years ago
I think when you get a tattoo Jesus crys.
Gen2far 2 years ago
i feel like the jack of hearts sometimes
candymachine 2 years ago
how can u feel like a fictional character that was only observed in the story?
togapup 2 years ago
feelings dont need explanation
candymachine 2 years ago
This song is soooooooo good.
Trybalsun 2 years ago
THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST!
Quickstoptim 2 years ago 2
love this song! love this album! dos't ger much better than this!
venisfurs 2 years ago 2
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it's the beginning of the end of his creativeness, and then he did too many shows and didn't really care for his voice, and now it sounds like Sponge-Bob. Too bad. should have stayed with the sad-eyed-lady-of-the lowlands.
freewheelin62 2 years ago
I think Joan's version sucks.
Denton91 2 years ago 2
Well, ....horse racing, etc. I love her version!
4711StGermain 2 years ago
Joan Baez also does a nice version of his song.
colombecote 2 years ago 2
and a happy birthday to our birthday boy...His Bobness
long may he Bob.
NevadaBoss 2 years ago
Yeah Capitalism looks bad from your suburb in mom and dads house live a life the deicide on an economic system.Good Song
NateRiley3000 2 years ago
Capitalism is great, except that it cant last
S2Cents 2 years ago
Suffering is the only thing that lasts forever.
jadbronson 2 years ago 4
thats nice and depressing.
supersmashman666 2 years ago
well, we have to be able to count on something being constant so there you go. Suffering will always continue...it's our lot in life...
jadbronson 2 years ago
Let me add that suffering being our lot in life is not a "useless" truth or something that only serves to make you depressed. You might not be able to change it for yourself, but you can sure as hell ease your children's lot by not creating said children.
Sadly, I'm going to have to counter the obvious jokes by pointing out that you can fuck without creating children, and that life being bad enough to refrain from having children doesn't necessarily mean it's bad enough to kill yourself.
koningrobot 2 years ago
I stumbled upon (Using Stumbleupon with Firefox) a website about a group called VHMENT. Voluntary human extinction movement. They're didicated to ending the human race on the long run by not having kids.
I agree that life sux too much to have kids, but not enough to kill yourself.
madhattery341 2 years ago
My favorite Dylan song. Good rhyming , story., & music. Love his harmonica. I think it would make a great movie. Also I thought he said "took a cabbage into town", haha.
prissieminpin23 2 years ago
Too much bass imho.
mrgbennet 2 years ago
i made a video with obama too but it was "its the end of the world as we know it"
lupinthe221 2 years ago
the end of capitalism as we know it
IHGFEDCBAABCDEFGHI 2 years ago
Thank God, Capitalism is the gentlemen's slavery
walaa925 2 years ago
Gentlemen's slavery? Try Socialism. North Korea come to mind?
jhenn19630 2 years ago
Capitalism, the whole third world comes to mind.
anyways i dont want to open a political debate
walaa925 2 years ago
Always loved this song. Made a video of it with Clint Eastwood as Jack of Hearts then threw that away and made another with President Obama as Jack of Hearts and other characters from 2008 Election. It's like Desolation Row - so many characters you could fit in to the story
wildburroman 2 years ago
I can't get over the fact that "Love grows where my Rosemary goes." Is listed in the "Related Videos" column. Key word make for strange bedfellows.
lrd9999 2 years ago
Oh yea, Joan does this one with heart, she's amazing in her own right...they were lovers back in the day. She showed a young Dylan the ropes.
maryblackchurch 2 years ago
Great song,,,gives me chills everytime I hear it..I still have the album !!!!!
FINEEMAN 2 years ago
has anybody got Joan Baez singing this , its fantastic
bonbeach1 2 years ago 4
So many great individual little stories in this song. It would be impossible to get a song like this recorded today.
wobrien007 2 years ago
Yeah,only a musical genius could sing
a dozen verses like this non-stop.
When you get to that famous harmonica
riff,you KNOW it's Bob Dylan! (IF you
don't know already,LOL!!)
RonaldVaughan 2 years ago
In my opinion the BEST song Dylan ever did
buchananstreet 2 years ago
good song and very good guitar
ghu97 2 years ago
this is one of dylan's most intriguing songs and one of my all time favorites of his songs....he is such an amazing storyteller...wonderful singing on this one as well
faithmairee 2 years ago
i guess i never got that story straight.....
Denton91 2 years ago
story about bankrobbers Jack of Hearts is their leader , Lilly is daughter of Rosemary , Rosemary and Lilly are Big Jim`s girlfriends, Big Jim is owner of the bank, and in the end he was killed and robbed and Jack of Hearts took money along side his company
djole92pet 2 years ago
Anyone got a quasi clue...anyone...anyone.
zennevaeh58 2 years ago
What and you think your not?
Qu1ckmarch 2 years ago
bob dylan is a w**ker full stop
jamescas1 2 years ago
bob dylan is a wanker, but vampire weekend are ok? wow.
Tigre779 2 years ago 2
you ignorant w*anker
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tamagotchikid and taylorkiins, shut up, no one likes your comments or even likes you. If you hate this song so much, why are you here?
Qu1ckmarch 2 years ago
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taylorkiins 3 years ago
Hey taylor, im you your class too, it does suck, BAD!
tamagotchikid 2 years ago
We. can only hope.
Enigma100122 2 years ago
get fucked ya high school faggot
letsgetdrunk420 2 years ago
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I agree with Jamecas1, I thing the music is good, but the lyrics are...eh
tamagotchikid 3 years ago
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i will leave my opinion anywhere i want so f**k you
jamescas1 3 years ago
haha so u look up bad songs and call them crap ya u got a life no1 cares what u have to say this song is great
kysersosay24 3 years ago 3
this song is not as good as all of use think. i have heard better songs..... sorry but i think it,s crap.
jamescas1 3 years ago
Take your opinion elsewhere.
odinwillbeatyoudown 3 years ago
You mean "it's crap", I think. But seriously, you have a right to your opinion. Dylan is sort of an acquired taste anyway. This sounds as if Dylan were doing a long Johnny Cash song (though I know it's not). I hated Johnny Cash years ago; after I heard "A Boy Named Sue", all of his other songs started sounding better. Then I heard this, about 10 years after it came out, and liked it right off; it's hypnotic. It might grow on you eventually.
lrd9999 2 years ago
I've always gone back and forth on this one, sometimes I think Lily's secretly the Jack of Hearts, or Rosemary is.idk
JHalpert84 3 years ago
there's not enough words in webster's to explain how great this song is...
more imagery and storytelling in this one tune than in any ten pop albums of the last 20 years.
His Bobness...long may he Bob.
NevadaBoss 3 years ago
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petrosios 3 years ago
''Lily took her dress off, ballet'ed away'' pure genius
englishrover 3 years ago
In my opinion, the best Dylan song ever.
dannz2008 3 years ago
couldn't agree more , and i know people who agree too
englishrover 3 years ago
For the longest time I always thought that Rosemary took a "cabbage" into town.
Enigma100122 3 years ago 2
LMAO! I thought at first he said that too!
tallcoolslovak 3 years ago
hahaha, me too =P
Flimp 3 years ago
About my favorite Dylan song now, It hurts listening to another song because I fall in love with every next one I listen too.
sleepyduo37 3 years ago 2
This song is so clever, so Dylan, so great. It's his best if you ask me.This is the best line: "She fluttered her false eyelashes and whispered in his ear
"Sorry darling, that I'm late", but he didn't seem to hear
He was starring into space over at the Jack of Hearts."
IAmsterdammertje 3 years ago 2
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jonkoot 3 years ago
elementary my dear jonkoot
fartguerilla 3 years ago
If YOU prevent yourself from even being "the jack of hearts" you are alraedy well on your way !
lekezenman 3 years ago
i have to say something.
this has to be one of his best vocal performances he ever had on a song.
it has to be.
if u can name another song please tell.
kbjami 3 years ago
I must admit ,after listening carefully again the lyrics of a song I knew from the times it ever appeared...you can't be that wrong writing what you feel and think!
Bernard
lekezenman 3 years ago
Steal this song.
Deerogue 3 years ago
I LOVE this one, thanks for posting it!
louiseduvee 3 years ago
This song was done in one chord, "A". A seven minute song, one chord. I don't think this will ever be duplicated. I take this opportunity to toast Bob. He is the best.
Jaminexted 3 years ago 3
I love a song that tells a story , i wouldn't know a cord from a cantelope
tauto55 3 years ago
A cord is made by Honda A cantalope is two people who can't run off and get married.
fredtor 3 years ago
As far as I'm concerned, fredtor, I'm surprised two cords aren't cantalope'd.
DylanKerouac42 3 years ago
Actually, three chords. No idea where you got one from.
jealousagain38 3 years ago
MUSIC ,one chord or the Steve Morse "tomeninotes"-solo ( check it out it's here too", is appealing to you or it is not.
That's all.
lekezenman 3 years ago
Three chords is right. I, IV and V.
TheWeatherman1987 2 years ago
It's not the number of chords it's the quality , the inspiration and the words the person has in himself or not.
lekezenman 3 years ago
Geraldine Anderson from Cowdenbeath in Fife used to listen to this Bob Dylan track before she went out clubbing to the Kinema Ballroom in Dunfermline from the late sixties into the 1970's, she is now aged 54 lives in Oakley in Dunfermline Fife this is still her all time favourite song (lilly Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts), from the album "Blood on the Tracks" by Bob Dylan
rooftopking7 3 years ago 2
Okay, the movie would be a trip for sure but I would want to know that approval for every scene was coming from Dylan himself lest it be screwed up by some money-grubbing Hollywood crackpot. Or how about Dylan & Baez in starring roles? Or just leave it alone and savor what we have been given?
Pinkerton9 3 years ago
this song is amazing.
The first time i heard it, i fell in love with it, reminded me or a sort of Wild West theme of sorts. Great.
KazakageoftheSand 3 years ago 2
favorite song of all time
kligsta86 3 years ago 2
great bobby D at his best
he gives us a great story and great music, what more can you ask for
jwashing100 3 years ago
Verse within verse, meaning inside every syllable..
Once in a while the pulitzer goes to the right guy.
Congratulations MR DYLAN!
TREYOLDHIPPIE 3 years ago
Lily offed her hubby and the mistress got the rap!
MAYPOHEAD 3 years ago
It's such a hard choice. This or Good Charlotte, Fallout Boy, etc...
mustardman7 3 years ago
ugh go AWAY!
orangeskate888 3 years ago
oops
orangeskate888 3 years ago
Ever hear of sarcasm?
mustardman7 3 years ago
noo.
orangeskate888 3 years ago
yep, i haven't either.
KazakageoftheSand 3 years ago
Bob dylan is such a GREAT songwritter and singer especially this song.
Nightmastercool97 3 years ago
Wow, the best of the best. All in the chord of A. An icon.
Jaminexted 3 years ago
It brings back such memories, always loved this track from the great singer songwriter.
silverstartrucker 3 years ago
This song kicks ass of everything published after the 1980s.
Hollygon92 3 years ago
Johnny Depp named his daughter after this song, Lily-Rose melody Depp
Awesome song
CaptJackSparrow1357 3 years ago 3
and his son is John "Jack" Christopher III
SODIUMcontent 3 years ago
yes this is the best song dylan has written
gantock 3 years ago
best of dylan and dylan is the best
detain88888 3 years ago
I'm sure most of you Dylan fans know this, but for those who don't, the New York Sessions version of this song has an added stanza, check it out. It's at about the 6 minute mark.
-Lily's arms were locked around the man that she dearly loved to touch. She forgot about the man she couldn't stand, who hounded her so much. "I've missed you so," she said to him, and he felt she was sincere but just beyond the door he felt jealousy and fear. It was just another night in the life of the jack of hearts.
jjxanadu 3 years ago
In the standard French practice, in which each court card is said to represent a particular historical or mythological personage. The jack of hearts in a French deck : La Hire (French warrior) Étienne de Vignolles, called La Hire, (Born 1380 - died 11 January 1443) was a French military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He fought alongside Joan of Arc in the campaigns of 1429.
Deerogue 3 years ago
My favorite card, Jack of Hearts!
aivokallo77 3 years ago 3
I fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking love Dylan.
rijstevlaai 3 years ago 7
Hallelujah.
jammy78 3 years ago 3
Zimmerman rules
thutton67 3 years ago 4
exquisite album and song
rb306 3 years ago 4
probably one of the bests songs ever, the music is outstanding, but what amazes me about bob is his lyrics, they are simply out of this world
erkansson 3 years ago 3
The presidency was over and the boys were all planning to have a ball
Sayin' bye bye to Big Jim's administration after all the things he did
They were plannning a bonfire they were planning a parade
They were planning a band concert and spikin' the lemonade.
spinoza1111 3 years ago
good stuff from bob. my favorite poker tune
1ragman1 3 years ago
Someone posted that they thought this would make a good film/movie but I think that's part of the magic of the song...visualizing what you hear. I can imagine the dust, the heavy fabrics, the expressions on their faces, the calculating chaos. Brilliant.
Pinkerton9 3 years ago
There have been a few screenplays, but a film was never made. Agree, though...it's all about what Dylan creates in our imagination. Legend.
britishgandy 3 years ago
i still say it would make a great film if you could transpose the visualistion i grew up to this song
yeryopl 3 years ago
Man, I used to listen to this myself over and over, and over and over.
BJBlitzstein 3 years ago