Bob Dylan - Jokerman Lyrics






Standing on the water, casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing
Distant ships sailing into the mist
You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing
Freedom just around the corner for you
But with truth so far off, what good will it do.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

So swiftly the sun sets in the sky
You rise up and say goodbye to no one
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Both of their futures, so full of dread, you don't show one
Shedding off one more layer of skin
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

You're a man of the mountains, you can walk on the clouds
Manipulator of crowds, you're a dream twister
You're going to Sodom and Gomorrah
But what do you care ? Ain't nobody there would want marry your sister
Friend to the martyr, a friend to the woman of shame
You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

Well, the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy
The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers
In the smoke of the twilight on a milk-white steed
Michelangelo indeed could've carved out your features
Resting in the fields, far from the turbulent space
Half asleep near the stars with a small dog licking your face.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

Well, the rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame
Preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain
Nightsticks and water cannons, tear gas, padlocks
Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain
False-hearted judges dying in the webs that they spin
Only a matter of time 'til the night comes stepping in.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery gray
A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet
He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat
Take the motherless children off the street
And place them at the feet of a harlot
Oh, Jokerman, you know what he wants
Oh, Jokerman, you don't show any response.

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune
Bird fly high by the light of the moon
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.





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  1. a.... d....

    Fantastico bob!! In questo pezzo mi ricordi Bruce!!!😕🤔😄😍😍😍😘😘🎸🌟🌲⛄🗽

  2. K.... J....

    yes bob

  3. K.... J....

    i have already baken my bread

  4. T.... M....

    Caetano Veloso fez uma versão foda dessa canção.

  5. A.... S....

    Best song evaaaaaar!!!

  6. A.... S....

    This song is literally my church.

  7. B.... B....

    420Man Dylan! 🌲💚🌲💚🌲💚🌲💚

  8. V.... S....

    I'm hearing this song in loop not less than ten times per day. Am I sick?

    V.... S....

    Nope, you’re just awake ;)

    V.... S....

    Vinz Six no you are healing, medicine sometimes needs high dose

    V.... S....

    @THE RAP TAMIZHA So true my brother!

    V.... S....

    I listen to Dylan everyday

  9. m.... ....

    I don't know what it is, or what it does to me but it does .

  10. m.... E....

    Mind blowing.

  11. A.... ....

    Beautiful and obscure lyrics...and such imagery.....

  12. K.... J....

    am sculptor bob i would like do your portrait kissing each your wrimkle bob honey

  13. K.... J....

    yeah i baked a bread and eat it with onion listening you and rolling cigaretes yes i saw nightingale sings just for me

  14. K.... J....

    loke munch scream was my life horror ad humiliaions but i am not so perfect baby cant be blessed till realize it is like all the rest i anm certainly not

  15. K.... J....

    yeah i m going to bake bread and cut myself a big warm slice to long foreniger heand me slices they were so thin and humiliatedand i am loud and proud rather hunger than kiss somebody s ass ass is for sitting said sitting bull and i am white buffalo yeah coming in name of peace

  16. W.... L....

    ❤️ 😊😘never really heard this song by You just great 🤗💋

  17. J.... A....

    ¡! :)

  18. K.... J....

    yeah bob take me to galleries i know all masterpieces but from books i wuuld like with you walk and talk i am artist too bob i have master degree of art and i am sculptor painter poet and boxer not anymore heavy category i have lost a lot of my weight i am 170 m high and 73 kiloa weight so we can wear your clothes only i need my own shoes i cant stand in yours bob honey

  19. M.... R....

    Beautiful video interpretation btw. Well done!

  20. M.... R....

    "Freedom, just around the corner for you... But with truth so far off, what good will it do?" Fuck, that's us. Right now! Fuck!

  21. P.... L....

    Life wouldn't be worth it without art. Let us bless geniuses, like Bob Dylan, who can grasp the beauty that lives hidden in our plain sight.

  22. J.... M....

    I'd love to just hear a single mic version of this

  23. D.... D....

    why don't any of my heroes make news? stand up! ...just the false idols and useless fools-book crowd 24/7...so sad

  24. B.... T....

    He/She is the Jokerman/ woman. Total and complete fraud. Seek the Kingdom within, not the kingdom

  25. K.... J....

    william blake was good poet too and who wrote the ode to nghtingele i am sculptor painter poet and boxer left home when was16 rumbling and sucrifize my youngdom for art live in hunger and solitude so i am now loud and proud marry me bob we should goto look david by micheangello

  26. K.... J....

    there is nightingale and fool moon and where are you bob i am jokerman having card under my hat and heart on the palm of my hand sotake me or leave me anyway i am munch silenent scream bob honey it is me your destiny

  27. C.... C....

    🇧🇷

  28. G.... F....

    lfc on there way to the premier leauge title bob dylan told me so bobs never wrong luv you bob

  29. M.... A....

    Canção lindíssima.....🌷🌷🌷

  30. m.... ....

    Jajajaa es verdad el parecido de adam sandler

  31. M.... S....

    Love this song! Had been trying to find out the name for years

    M.... S....

    Really?

    M.... S....

    @Trish McLemore yea. Only found out the name thanks to the 'Shazam!' music app

  32. G.... ....

    0:05 the scariest thing you're going to see in your life.

  33. G.... C....

    What a line:
    Well, the Book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy,
    The law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.
    Made for and Atheist, like me.....(buggars)

    G.... C....

    Yeah me too , !

  34. F.... ....

    He is such a bad singer

  35. Z.... P....

    Love his music been to see him twice?? 😉 but check him out throwing up all the illuminatti Gang sighns? ?😲 sorry Jokerman don't shoot the messanger? 😆 there all at it?? The Cheif commander of this world and the one we can't see??😈 peace people from Sunny England? 😉

  36. C.... D....

    I love that comforting tone.

  37. B.... P....

    As an amateur Dylan scholar, this easily ranks in his top ten. The lyrics are biblical as heck, the music timeless, the vibe written in eternity. Please play this at my wake when I turn 100! Thank you Bob ❤️

    B.... P....

    If you'll be turning 100 you won't be at your wake.

    B.... P....

    @MrThermostatic Ah but I will be there in spirit, right?

  38. D.... R....

    I 'll finally be able to watch and listen to you live...I booked my ticket, booked my flight and hotel...that was incredibly difficult because even though I managed to purchase great Concert tickets, most of the hotels were booked solid all around The Beacon Theatre...I ended up much further from the venue than I would like but it's alright... Thanks for the music Bob Dylan...

  39. Z.... ....

    Funny story, I randomly had this on tape and randomly pitched it up to D major or so (many older tape players were able to pitch up and down) and Dylan sounded EXACTLY like Eric Cartman. NOT. EVEN. KIDDING.

  40. S.... I....

    High school 85 to gas plant 2019..

  41. L.... 8....

    SPANISH ART, LIKE ALWAYS, BE THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF ART.

  42. r.... d....

    This albumn ... my fav.My boss became my best friend because of our tastes in music.This sealed the deal.He's gone now but not when I listen to this.

  43. D.... C....

    You know what I love most about Bob Dylan? It's the fact that with nearly all the songs I listen to of his for the first time I love, but some songs (this being one) I initially disliked for some reason and wouldn't bother finishing the song, then I'd fully listen to it and sure enough I find out it's an amazing song.

  44. A.... V....

    https://imgur.com/gallery/vq47TNG

  45. D.... B....

    How anybody can dislike bob Dylans music, based on this masterpiece, is a mystery. It's poetry set to music. Lyrics are beautiful , indicative of the world at large, and righteous. Bird fly high by the light of the moon. That glorious harmonica and pressed steel words, a troubadour like I, like him, are few and far between. Oh bird fly high by the light of the moon. Bird fly high by the light of the same moon that we all see. I've seen him play gigs twice and both times were an almost religious experience.

  46. K.... J....

    i am your new historylet usstart love on full moon and hightingale

  47. S.... ....

    The greatest poet of our times. God bless you, Bob! ❤️

  48. M.... f....

    para mim essa é a melhor música do disco INFIDELS de 1983 , eu tinha ele .

  49. d.... y....

    the religious period ,good music , yet lyrics leave peadofiles enabled to wreck kids ,

  50. J.... L....

    Adan Sandler is great on these one!

  51. T.... E....

    Bow bb?

  52. T.... E....

    dyl An ... jelly bobby... Where are We Brother?

  53. R.... U....

    national treasure / song pertinent even NOW

  54. P.... D....

    Dylan is by far the greatest songwriter the world has produced. But his head is also packed with the most amazing fluff and flotsam imaginable. Anyone who takes the bible as literally as he does has serious problems with reality.

  55. W.... B....

    Mark Knoffler playing Lead guitar

  56. c.... c....

    brilliant

  57. A.... V....

    Don't worry, it grows on you. It gets stuck in your head and before you know it you're back here every single morning

  58. C.... C....

    Wowhat a great ...p.s.What's a song about? It's the shortest way to the truth ...

  59. M.... C....

    I am making this promise now: I will never buy a Grammarly product. I don't even believe that Grammarly Executives raped all those babies at that team-building weekend getaway.

  60. G.... ....

    Great, great Dylan song......nice video....I hope they do a Bootleg series on Infidels.......

  61. P.... L....

    In my top ten Dylan songs!!!!

  62. S.... S....

    im beginning undertsand and like his songs now...

  63. K.... B....

    The Absolute Best Song Writer on the Planet we'll Never see another like him......

  64. s.... h....

    OH , RBERT ZIMMY, ....and AVE...?? XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  65. J.... A....

    Ahhh vício bom. É bob Dylan 😍😍😍

    J.... A....

    UM VÍCIO MUITO BOM NÉ

  66. B.... ....

    I remember getting this album when it first came out - combining Dylan with my guitar hero, Knofler. I was blown away by this album. It still holds up well.

  67. A.... T....

    Never gets old

  68. T.... E....

    can Ewes get Me'S an ticket to your commercials destination?thanks bob. .

  69. W.... W....

    Google management are stopping the songs on here please get there license removed from here

  70. T.... C....

    💖🎶💚💫☀⚡💙🎵🎶💖

  71. L.... C....

    Masterpiece!

  72. N.... D....

    Dedicase a mes filles wendy jayne et caly omaha jayne mum 💋 🇫🇷

  73. l.... ....

    One of my favorite Dylan songs...scratch that..its my fav

  74. s.... p....

    This should been the soundtrack of Joker 2019

  75. T.... E....

    that Jesus Christ be the only name ever given ... all the letters lead to that name . . we think it was her secrets of her secrets ... perhaps the confusion of the soul has an vagina ... ghow far could we be mistaken in the depths of misunu . another question what do you think that g really means .. bet we can cross our legs tighter than yours ... Prove it ... Sheckle Woman.

  76. K.... J....

    on history of art i develope memorize each picture i have vincents eyes colours hurts me on one eye i am daltonist litle cross eyes only for you bob i have sight it will be love on first sight i promise no regret just marry me is so simple

  77. K.... J....

    i t is not true you can learn art you are artist or not

  78. K.... J....

    albrecht durer could as child draw completely realistic talent is by birth no from education

  79. K.... J....

    kiss kiss bob true love of mine

  80. K.... J....

    ekcesarion head is hidden yeah

  81. K.... J....

    whatta handsome dude you was bob i love you sow senn and heard a nightingale in mornig dawn

  82. K.... J....

    i have no idols i am idol too

  83. v.... k....

    Who the fuck disliked this

  84. J.... T....

    I could see Arthur Fleck dancing to this

  85. D.... B....

    You're going to Sodom and Gomorrah. But what do you care ? Ain't nobody there would want marry your sister.

  86. K.... J....

    yeah bob

  87. E.... I....

    Wow! I love this! I love his tone so much!

  88. O.... C....

    DIEU EST L'AMI DU SILENCE je cite mère Thérèsa......dylan? Very good !

  89. S.... S....

    Shedding off one more layer of skin.

  90. P.... ....

    I remember seeing this when I was a teen... I couldn't believe it was Really that guy they called "Bob Dylan."

  91. g.... a....

    The Joker by Alan Watts brought me here. Birds fly high by the light of the moon 🕊

  92. K.... J....

    wenes on hand of david by micheangelo are the hends like mine but most important is pieta and saint teresa by cheliny yeah bob take me to gallerias

  93. h.... y....

    Bob Dylan super--stars

    h.... y....

    vraiment c'est un super stars

  94. R.... C....

    Dylan , o filósofo!!!!!!

  95. L.... S....

    Durer Hurricane Man, joke

  96. E.... G....

    4:44 ISN'T A SCREAMING MAN...IT'S A SPRINGER SPANIEL!!!

  97. l.... ....

    Knopfler guitar is magic...

  98. R.... S....

    Nobody else gets close - best wordsmith ever ✌🏻🎶