Song title: I want You
(Dylan) by Bob Dylan (Columbia 43683), 1966
I want You
The guilty undertaker sighs
The lonesome organ grinder cries
The silver saxophone says
I should refuse you
The cracked bells and washed out horns
Blow into my face with scorn
But it ain’t that way
I wasn’t born to lose you
I want you oh I want you
Oh I want you baby so bad
Honey I want you....
The drunken politician leaps
Upon the streets where mothers weep
And the saviors who are fast asleep
They wait for you
And I wait for them to interrupt
Me drinking from my broken cup
And ask me to open up
The gate for you
Honey I want you ....
Now all the fathers
They’ve gone down
True love, they’ve been without it
But all their daughters
Put me down
‘Cause I don’t think
I don’t think about it
And talk with my chamber maid
Well I return to the queen of spades
You know that I’m not afraid to look at her
She is good to me and there’s
Nothing she doesn’t see
She knows where I wanna be
But it don’t matter
Oh I want you....
Now your dancing child with the chinese suit
He spoke to me I took his flute
No I wasn’t very cute to him
Was I
But I did it because he lied
Because he took you for a ride
And because time was on his side
And because I want you Notes:
Surely one of the greatest Bruce cover ever.
This song has never been published on any official release.
Very few performances of this songs are known (to me, at least!):
- 29/11/1974 War Memorial Building, Trenton,NJ ,USA during the Pre-BTR gigs
- 06/12/1974 State Theatre, New Brunswick,NJ ,USA during the Pre-BTR gigs
- 07/12/1974 Hobart College, Geneva,NY ,USA during the Pre-BTR gigs
- 08/12/1974 University Of Vermont, Burlington,VT ,USA during the Pre-BTR gigs
- 05/02/1975 The Main Point, Bryn Mawr,PA ,USA during the Pre-BTR gigs
- 07/02/1975 Widener College, Chester,PA ,USA during the Pre-BTR gigs
- 23/02/1975 Westbury Music Fair, Westbury, NY ,USA during the Pre-BTR gigs
- 07/03/1975 Painters Mill Music Fair, Owing Mills,MD ,USA during the Pre-BTR gigs
- 08/03/1975 Constitution Hall, Washington,DC ,USA during the Pre-BTR gigs
- 09/03/1975 Constitution Hall, Washington,DC ,USA during the Pre-BTR gigs
Data from the www.brucespringsteen.it database
First known live performance: 29/11/1974 War Memorial Building, Trenton,NJ ,USA
Last known live performance: 09/03/1975 Constitution Hall, Washington,DC ,USA
Song 'history':
Played live 10 time(s) during the gigs preceeding the official Born To Run Tour.
Keep in mind that only a small amount of the setlists of these years has surfaced, so it may have been played a lot more.
Data from the www.brucespringsteen.it database