TRACK TALK #235 The Times They Are A-Changin'

THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
ALBUM : The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964)
Recorded : 24 Octobre 1963
Released : 13 Janvier 1964

Première performance live : New York (26 Octobre 1963)
Dernière performance live : Fresno (14 Août 2009)
Total : 633 fois.



Lyrics
Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin’
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’

je me suis franchement lassé de cette chanson... et le je n'arrive pas à trouver de version marquante dans le NET même si le MTV unplugged est pas mal...

Je trouve que cette version à la Maison Blanche est superbe.
Parce que l'accompagnement piano / contrebasse la sert merveilleusement. Parce qu'il réinvente le rythme du chant sur la base des arpèges de piano.

Je réécoute cette splendide version à la Maison Blanche, et soudain comme une évidence : c'est une valse.
1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3...

Version du 22 avril 1976 :

En voici selon moi les 5 meilleures versions live :

- London 17/05/64
- Avignon 25/07/81
- Wantagh 30/06/88
- London 21/11/05
- The white house 09/02/10