TRACK TALK #486 Catskill Serenade

CATSKILL SERENADE
Recorded : Juin 1992

Un morceau enregistré en 1992 alors que Dylan préparait un album avec David Bromberg.
L'album ne verra jamais le jour et mis à part "Miss the Mississippi" (publié sur le "Bootleg Series Vol.8"), la session restera dans les coffres.
"Catskill Serenade" fait partie des rares morceaux tombés dans les mains des bootleggers.
Aucune performance live n'existe à ce jour.



Lyrics
Where are the men
that I used to sport with?
What has become
of my beautiful town?

Wolf, my own friend
Even you don't know me
This must be the end
My house is tumbled down

My land it was rich, but I wouldn't work it
I guess I made a shrew of my wife
My duty clear, I could always find some way to shirk it
I dreamed away the best years of my life

Seems like only this morning, I went up into the mountain
No word of warning, just her usual curse
I hated the house, with all her nagging and shouting
But to be in this strange world was a thousand times worse
Where are the men
that I used to sport with?
What has become
of my beautiful town?

Wolf, my own friend
Even you don't know me
This must be the end
My house is tumbled down

[instr.]
He called me by name, he bought me that cheaply
He called me by name, I didn't know what to think
I watched their loud games, and oh, I drink deeply
Though no-one had ever asked me to drink

And you know that stolen liquor, it was sweeter than whiskey
Many times quicker, just to put me to sleep
That drinking with strangers can be very risky
My sleep it was long, it was twenty years deep
Where are the men
that I used to sport with?
What has become
of my beautiful town?

Wolf, my own friend
Even you don't know me
This must be the end
My house is tumbled down

Jamais écouté cette chanson ni même entendu parlé d'un soit disant album avec David Bromberg?

Je ne savais pas non plus que Miss the Mississippi provenait de ces séances (toujours cru que c'était un bootleg de Time out of Mind)

Merci pour le partage !