Dylan, Bob - Rainy Day Woman # 12 & 35 Lyrics






Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good
They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home
Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone ya when you're walkin' 'long the street
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to keep your seat
They'll stone ya when you're walkin' on the floor
They'll stone ya when you're walkin' to the door
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned.

They'll stone ya when you're at the breakfast table
They'll stone ya when you are young and able
They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to make a buck
They'll stone ya and then they'll say "good luck"
Tell ya what, I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, They'll stone you and say that it's the end
Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again
They'll stone you when you're riding in your car
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar
Yes, but I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned.

Well, they'll stone you when you walk all alone
They'll stone you when you are walking home
They'll stone you and then say you are brave
They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned.





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  1. T.... W....

    I got"STONED"and I missed it !

  2. t.... ....

    The greatest album of the 60's. Your search is over.

  3. 1.... u....

    I could never find Bob Dylan 'Everybody must get stoned' i didn't know it was called rainy day women # s whatever!!!
    I never heard the dj announce the name of the song. So glad I finally found it!!!🙃🤩

  4. M.... C....

    I love the idea of using the word "stoned" with its two meanings. There're obviously two different ways of understanding this song and both of them complement each other: you can see this song as a way of saying "you can have a good time by getting high anytime and forget your everyday problems" but also as a way of saying "We having drugs because "they" (the police, the society ect) literally "stone" us with their violence and their intolerance: they're always there trying to destroy us, but it's ok because, us, young people, are together and forgetting our troubles due to this society with drugs." Just playing with the world "stoned" and its different meanings. The title goes in this sense too: the "woman" is the drug you take when your days are grey and sad (rainy days) and that you can't stand the authority outside trying to "stone" you all the time.
    (I'm aware that most of Dylan's songs shouldn't be explained because their goal is not to make sense but to creat art, but I feel like this one isn't made as a huge nonsense, particularly because of the seriousness of the title)

    M.... C....

    Nice take, professor

  5. S.... G....

    Why is Doctor Who (Tom Baker version) in that image?

  6. M.... S....

    They're coming to take me away, ha-haaaa...


    wait wrong song.

  7. l.... c....

    Loved Bob Dylan way back when and love him now. Still listening to his songs.
    This one is one of my favs

  8. D.... M....

    Bobbies' Harmonica always sounded stoned.

  9. A.... M....

    Charlie McCoy...trumpet

  10. S.... B....

    HighAsFuck

  11. M.... ....

    Everybody please rise, for the National Anthem of the United Arabic Empire.

  12. M.... G....

    Alcohol + pot = what I hope it feels like in the afterlife...part of the time. Because you need being sober and suffering for a while to = a contrast. Because if you are always high, you can't appreciate how getting high makes you feel good. https://www.google.com/search?q=Rock+Hall+Fan+Vote

  13. M.... S....

    Hey Bob, why don't you be a more smart? I think you can be it... someone must get stoned more than someone else. Ain't it a logic consequence of freedom and illicit behaviours? Ain't it?

  14. A.... ....

    When your state legalizes

  15. s.... j....

    THE NUTS

  16. H.... D....

    "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be stoned" Leviticus 20,13

    H.... D....

    Always found hypocrite the language of Bible. Why they don't simply say: "Hey fag! Don't shake that ass under my nose. It's disgusting!" It's strict to the point, more sincere and it could have helped a lot with the fight against self censoring and fanatic politically correct.

    H.... D....

    Herzeleydt Diesentrüb I hope it’s Girl Scout cookies that’s a good strain.

    H.... D....

    @Clark Kent Hey Soup, aren't you tired of flying around with that tight suit, instead of firing some laser beam? How's your husbandry going?

  17. F.... S....

    So everybody Legalize it deschedule it smoke it homegrow it 420 =)

  18. D.... B....

    I LOVE how stoned The Band sounds, in the background!

  19. i.... g....

    When I first heard this I didn't understand what getting stoned was.Fast forward 12 years and ok,everybody must get stoned.

  20. T.... T....

    One more week until I can smoke some decent weed again! I'm pretty excited about that and passing out in my quiet house in a quiet neighborhood on a quiet street in a quiet town where all the young people move away from as soon as they can. Course there are two young families right next door but they don't really count since they have children with actual bedtimes. Latin America lacks these for their children, no matter how old nor young.

    I also almost lost an eye today- I bought some pulque at a Mexican bar and drank it for Thanksgiving instead of spending it with my family and to say "adios" to Latin America, but I only drank half of it last night. Today when I went to open the plastic water bottle they poured it into and start drinking at noon, I wasn't paying much attention to the build-up of pressure inside and the cap when loosened sounded like a gun shot and flew into the ceiling, just missing my face by an inch or two. Smoking weed is far less dangerous.

  21. N.... 3....

    thank you

  22. P.... J....

    Its thanksgiving and i hope you all get stoned and have the munchies

  23. P.... J....

    Everybody must get stoned

  24. J.... W....

    Best line in the song:


    "They're stone you and then they'll say, "Good luck!"


    Many times in my life I have been yentzed over in one way or another, and after the yentzing the one who did the yentzign will wish me the best of luck.

    J.... W....

    Whoa, I read this just as that lyric got sung!

  25. b.... g....

    A just spent 10 minutes trying to trace this song from my childhood- turned out 10 year old me thought it was everybody must get stolen

    b.... g....

    Great thing google guesses well. Have had similar experiences :)

  26. r.... ....

    The cover image should be the flag of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  27. I.... p....

    Takes me back to the 70s when me and my buddies would party together . Good times.

  28. M.... G....

    Accordion accordion

  29. M.... G....

    accordingly

  30. A.... ....

    So... #youtube is this video for adults only?

  31. K.... J....

    i am not stoned i have hert of stone which is dancing wheen you are near bob honey kiss kiss

  32. P.... K....

    They were so stoned, they became stones.

  33. P.... J....

    off of brick chip stone

  34. N.... 3....

    thank you

  35. R.... C....

    The funniest song ever written.

  36. I.... L....

    Blonde On Blonde

  37. T.... C....

    🎷 🎸 😎 🚬 🍺 🍺 🍺 🎸 🎷 💃 🍷 🍺 🍷 🍺 😎 🚬 🎸 🎷 🍷 🍺 🍷 🍺 💃 😎 🚬 🎸 🎷 🍷 🍺 💃 😎 🎸 🎷 🔥🌙

  38. L.... P....

    Dylan is clever.

  39. S.... M....

    Schönes Wochenende ..))) Mit DIESEM Lied......GENAU

  40. M.... B....

    https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/10/24/boy-from-the-north-country-bob-dylan Minnesota's own.

  41. y.... i....

    Wow what a cool song

  42. G.... G....

    Gone's the prohibition

  43. M.... C....

    They said they would...

  44. m.... z....

    Here it is! The greatest album ever produced. Period.

  45. C.... B....

    Everybody must get stoned...

    C.... B....

    Catherine Brunner that’s right! Ha ha ha.

  46. G.... B....

    I remember seeing Sammy Hagar many years ago and he opened the show with this classic. Y&T and Greg Rollie opened the show. Good fucking times!

  47. p.... ....

    🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️💕🤣😂😂😂😂💕😊❤️💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕🎶💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

    p.... ....

    😊❤️💕💕💕💕💕

    p.... ....

    🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️💕🤣😂😂😂😂😂💕😊❤️💕👋🏻💕💕💕💕💕🤗💕💕💕💕

  48. R.... R....

    Dig the intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fn36l_z3WY
    Was Bob messing with us?

  49. A.... L....

    Bob missed the opportunity for this line: "They'll stone you when you're trying to get stoned."

  50. J.... W....

    Thanks Bob mucho much
    For sub titles ...partially deaf in left ear...measles took away..
    So i make paint with easels..
    and paint ..and and take and listen ..
    Ato Sub ha ha a subterrainian home sick blues anyway..........most days...

    J.... W....

    Tis fine song....inspire of..write with paint ..make for me do songs🎵🎶🎵🌻💜
    Thankyou Bob ..💜

  51. o.... ....

    EVERY BODY MUST GET STONED !!!

  52. A.... D....

    Satanic jewish music

  53. R.... C....

    My bud and i streaked three bars on st pattys day this song was onthe juke boxwe had a strut to the beat tipping our green derbys we ended up in jail it in 74

  54. T.... D....

    Life got interesting when Bobby reached adolescence. He had been a quiet, introspective boy; Beatty says she expected him to become an English teacher. But at ten he started playing the guitar and soon Bob Dylan—he renamed himself for Dylan Thomas—was carrying his guitar from college campus to college campus, where he found both an audience and a reason to avoid going to high school. His mother was alternately angry and admiring. “There were lots of times when he was ready to come back to Minnesota,” Beatty recalls. “But he stuck with it. No one helped Bobby—they shut doors in his face, but no one helped him.” She watched his progress from afar—“and then, when he was ready for Carnegie Hall, he called us.” "'Everybody must get stoned' is like when you go against the tide....you might in different times find yourself in an unfortunate situation and so to do what you believe in sometimes.... some people they just take offence to that. You can look through history and find that people have taken offence to people who come out with a different viewpoint on things." "Dylan was 'being stoned' by audiences around the world for moving to Rock from Folk," wrote Muir, who also suggested the seemingly nonsensical verses of "Rainy Day

  55. B.... Z....

    Un fenómeno...los premios dicen siempre algo...

  56. S.... G....

    The one and only! A legend in his own time. 😘

  57. E.... P....

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/edlis.cafe/permalink/2159318394106681/?comment_id=2544334318938418

    EDLIS Café

    http://www.edlis.org/cafe

  58. S.... ....

    AT 75 THIS IS MY LIFE STORY.

  59. G.... P....

    Songs back then had MEANING, not like the POOP in today's music.

  60. G.... G....

    Canzone PIETRE di ANTOINE Festival di San Remo 1967 !!!

  61. e.... ....

    The guy in the background always make laugh! yes he does!!

    e.... ....

    AAAAHAAAA

  62. H.... ....

    Where's Obviously Five Believers?

  63. L.... M....

    In one take.

  64. J.... P....

    California, here I come so I will not feel so all alone!

    J.... P....

    Welcome, traveler!

  65. O.... E....

    I'll always remember smoking weed with Mr Dylan in Oakland C.A. just because I knew the title to this wonderful wonderful song. Mr Dylan and I should do a music video for this song but the condition is I'm doing karaoke while him and I are smoking some Callie chronic

  66. K.... L....

    finally the version of the song im familiar w is uploaded.

  67. D.... J....

    This song gargles balls

  68. D.... M....

    This only proves that obscurity is forever. The man was completely different than everyone in his field.


    edit: fucking goosebumps

  69. w.... ....

    Now we know why women's purses are so heavy, they're filled with rocks! Fact of life: you will get stoned!

  70. D.... v....

    Een junkie met een Nobel prijs.

  71. C.... G....

    Need more of this music and less of the braindead violent trash that passes off as racket, I'm getting old I guess, Snoop Dogg and Cypress hill was my shit back in the 90s and it is making it's way to the oldies station,

  72. K.... ....

    Bourbon Streeet crusin music

  73. M.... S....

    Why is it called Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 though?

    M.... S....

    12*35=420
    Everybody must get stoned

    M.... S....

    @Jackson Hall Hmm was 420 used in that way in the 60's? At least could be a nice coincidence :p

    M.... S....

    @Melody Starr It's either an odd coincidence. Or Bob is a Mystic Time Traveler

    M.... S....

    @viviandarkbloom100 I would like to believe in the second option

    M.... S....

    Time travellin' Bob Dylan.

  74. h.... h....

    8/11/2019. 🤘👍

  75. a.... g....

    I love this song and I don't get stoned lol

  76. D.... K....

    3:40 řekl tam někdo vážně: "To je debil"? :D

  77. M.... C....

    They said they would, and they did. In Bible days if you got caught sinning you were to be stoned, who will cast the first stone?

  78. J.... L....

    Great song man. A1

  79. S.... D....

    It's 2019...and this song still works for me.

  80. J.... B....

    Idiotic comments reside here.

  81. K.... H....

    Stop commenting on my comments

  82. M.... ....

    imagine the music video for this

  83. A.... H....

    This ain't about weed. It's about accepting that life is suffering.

    A.... H....

    It's about weed. Grow up.

  84. S.... ....

    "Everybody must get Stoned" Bob has spoken!

    S.... ....

    And snoop answered

  85. l.... ....

    Interesting song about women's moods during Aunty Flo's visits.

  86. K.... B....

    Oh Mary Jane
    I love you so much
    😄😄😄
    😄😄😄
    😂😂😂
    😂😂😂

  87. G.... B....

    The harmonica is off tune for about 90% of the song

    G.... B....

    That's the best part

  88. M.... ....

    Dylan responded to the controversy by announcing, during his May 27, 1966, performance at the Royal Albert Hall, London, "I never have and never will write a drug song."[8] According to Dylan critic Clinton Heylin, Dylan was determined to use a "fairly lame pun"—the idea of being physically stoned for committing a sin, as opposed to being stoned on "powerful medicine"—to avoid being banned on the radio. Given its Old Testament connotations, Heylin argued that the Salvation Army band backing becomes more appropriate. Heylin further suggested that the song's title is a Biblical reference, taken from the Book of Proverbs, "which contains a huge number of edicts for which one could genuinely get stoned". He suggested that the title "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" refers to chapter 27, verse 15 (in the King James Bible): "A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike."[1]

    Dylan critic Andrew Muir suggested that the sense of paranoia suggested by the recurring phrase "they'll stone you" is a reference to the hostile reaction of Dylan's audience to his new sound. "Dylan was 'being stoned' by audiences around the world for moving to Rock from Folk," wrote Muir, who also suggested the seemingly nonsensical verses of "Rainy Day Women" can be heard as allusions to social and political conflicts in the United States. For Muir, "They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin’ to keep your seat" evokes the refusal of black people to move to the back of the busduring the civil rights struggle. For Muir, "They’ll stone you and then say you are brave / They’ll stone you when you are set down in your grave" reminds listeners that Dylan also wrote "Masters of War" and other "anti-militarism songs that mourned the waste of young men being sent off to be maimed or killed".[9]

    Muir quoted a comment Dylan made to New York radio host Bob Fass in 1986: "'Everybody must get stoned' is like when you go against the tide....you might in different times find yourself in an unfortunate situation and so to do what you believe in sometimes.... some people they just take offence to that. You can look through history and find that people have taken offence to people who come out with a different viewpoint on things."[9]

    M.... ....

    Bullshit for straights, you bought it then? All these people who think they can interpret Dylan for others are who he meant with Ballad of a Thin Man, 'you know something's happening, but you don't know what it is, do you Mister Jones'. Muir was one of those strights, a poser, BHob was pestered with them constantly, asking inane questions, trying to pin him down. He often gave then nonsense answers just to screw with their little minds.

  89. G.... B....

    The marching band sounds drunk but he sounds stoned af

    G.... B....

    Actually rumour is they were all actually off their heads drunk and stoned when they recorded this

    G.... B....

    They were in character

    G.... B....

    When music was music!!!

    G.... B....

    Couple Dylan songs where I can tell he sniffed a fat line of coke before recording.

    G.... B....

    @insanityisawesome97 I think actual story is he got them stoned because he wanted them to SOUND stoned.

  90. M.... R....

    This one is for my dad!

  91. E.... L....

    "◔ ◔¨ * "◔ v ◔¨ * ..everybody must get "::"stoned":"::": {{"::":" Bob Dylan :"';:';'}}
    v 伸びすぎた猫草とねこ。- Cat grasses which grew too much and Maru&Hana.- "◔ v ◔¨ *

  92. E.... L....

    "◔ ◔¨ * "◔ v ◔¨ *
    v "◔ x ◔¨ *

  93. D.... F....

    Yeah, I am 70 now, lived thru all that and really don't remember much of the 60's and some of the 70's, because I WAS stoned, so technically I should only be 50, right ?

    D.... F....

    Yo did everything right. Enjoy and wait till heaven or till FBI knocks

    D.... F....

    I've always thought of this song about being ostracized

    D.... F....

    My dad got to hang out with Dylan in the studio while this song was being recorded. He was a pretty popular DJ back then. He and Bob were both so stoned when they shook hands that it took them three tries to get their hands together.

    D.... F....

    We're the same age.

    D.... F....

    @Andreia Reminiec Exactly. It's so obnoxious when people take it so literal.

  94. C.... D....

    "Everybody Must Get Stoned"

  95. K.... J....

    i have heart of stone make me warm again and good luck lucky luke you are owner of my heart

  96. K.... J....

    I AM SINGING IN THE RAIN WHAT GLORIOUS FFELOING I FELL HAPPY AGAIN thankyou gene

  97. N.... C....

    A woman and her daughter sought refuge from the rain in Dylan's studio as he was recording. Dylan asked how old they were. Therefore #12 & 35

    N.... C....

    That's interesting. I thought they were take numbers like Take #12 and Take #35.

  98. G.... B....

    How high you think these guys were when recording this song

    G.... B....

    Very very very high....lol

    G.... B....

    High as crow cock.
    High as a karate kick.

    G.... B....

    All the band member were drunk or stoned ..bob told them they gonna make A song but before that everyone must get stoned