Dylan, Bob - The Ballad Of Ira Hayes Lyrics

Anybody knows what mark hat he is wearing

Wonderful. xx

My rez is awesome

That’s my uncle at 0:48 and my great grandmother at 1:12. And at 2:13 if you look behind his left shoulder you can see my mom ❤️

Yes. She is sitting. Her name was Gertrude Chew.

@Liz Smegelsky i will have to tell him that..my family name is mtpleasant james is my dad

I am the kid in the white coat

Kristi Bolis I know your mom. Is she Jeri? I used to work with her. I grew up on the Rez but haven’t lived there since I was like 15. I think you were a few years ahead of me In school.

@Liz Smegelsky yes it is.

That's my husband at 1:03 ... The little boy in the striped shirt!

Sarah Patterson No kidding! That’s so cool :)

Unbelievable ! So he has Seen the True Lord of OUR TIMES ! Do you know by any chance what happenned to that beadded Medal............... ? You live in Canada ?

me, my mom and sister are at 1:11

A Jew singing about whites repressing minorities. Now that’s rich

I never saw a face filled with so much life and spirit.bob dylan is utterly beautiful.

Dialectic ? Kubistic ? Caleideascooped approach to history ? 1:56 Fuses over 200 of years history to one moment in time, now, then , in the past ..... in absurdity .............. ( still i wonder were that medal is now ??)

Not that easy to play walking around while holding your guitar without a strap. I hope he was gracious and gave that medal back.

I doubt it. Bob now owns Manhattan lol

and offend the Indian?

Maybe. Just my POV. Sometimes I think you have to push back on excessive generosity - but it's just my mindset.

@Paul Judd Good one! But sometimes a good deed never goes unpunished, does it? Perhaps, the person receiving the gift doesn't want a symbol of the military industrial complex to remind them of the horrors they experienced while serving their country. A medal isn't a very good reward for risking your life while politicians,' industry leaders,' CEOs,' and other powerful individuals' children let the poor do their dirty work and get rich off of the blood of others sacrifices as they go to college or live off of their family's wealth.

giving back a gift is offensive. Bob is a good man

G C /b Am
Gather round me, people, and a story I will tell
D G
About a brave young Indian you should remember well
C /b Am
From the tribe of Pima Indians, a proud and a peaceful band,
D G
They farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land.

Down their ditches for a thousand years the sparkling water rushed,
Till the white man stole their water rights and the running water hushed.
Now Ira's folks were hungry, and their farms grew crops of weeds.
But when war came, he volunteered and forgot the white man's greed.
G /f# G7/f
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
C /b Am
He won't answer anymore,
D
Not the whiskey-drinking Indian
C/g G
Or the Marine who went to war.
G /f# G7/f
Yes, call him drunken Ira Hayes
C /b Am
He won't answer anymore,
D
Not the whiskey-drinking Indian
C/g G
Or the Marine who went to war.
They started up Iwo Jima hill, two hundred and fifty men,
But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down that hill again.
And when the fight was over and Old Glory raised
One of the men who held it high was the Indian, Ira Hayes.
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore,
Not the whiskey-drinking Indian
Or the Marine who went to war.
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore,
Not the whiskey-drinking Indian
Or the Marine who went to war.
Now, Ira returned a hero, celebrated throughout the land
He was wined and speeched and honored, everybody shook his hand.
But he was just a Pima Indian - no money, no crops, no chance -
And at home nobody cared what Ira'd done, and when do the Indians dance?
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore,
Not the whiskey-drinking Indian
Or the Marine who went to war.
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore,
Not the whiskey-drinking Indian
Or the Marine who went to war.
Then Ira started drinking hard, jail was often his home.
They let him raise the flag there and lower it like you'd throw a dog a bone.
He died drunk early one morning, alone in the land he'd fought to save.
Two inches of water in a lonely ditch was the grave for Ira Hayes.
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore,
Not the whiskey-drinking Indian
Or the Marine who went to war.
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore,
Not the whiskey-drinking Indian
Or the Marine who went to war.
Yes, call him drunken Ira Hayes, but his land is still as dry,
And his ghost is lying thirsty In the ditch where Ira died.
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore,
Not the whiskey-drinking Indian
Or the Marine who went to war.

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so condesending it is disgracful.
using these people to feed there coked out egos
I love Bob, but this is lame

Ck T Can you explain a bit more?

Ck T ur a goof

@Swingin’ Pig he is using these people to market himself in a positive light. what has he done for these people? this is not helping them.

Ck T It looks like he’s making them very happy actually. You wouldn’t like a pop star playing for you? He didn’t have to do this. He was invited to play here, and this footage wasn’t even released in the original movie this was for! It was only released this year, so he’s certainly not using these people to look good haha. I’d do it. It’s a beautiful way to get together and love one another. But it isn’t fair to accuse someone of this when all they’re doing is playing for a crowd of people. You have no idea what his intentions were. They appreciated Dylan, and Dylan definitely appreciated them.

Step 1, tune guitar.

Maybe Dylan is tone deaf or the guitar was in open tuning. Old strings and cheap guitars sometimes don't sound too good like a scorned woman who just wants to hurl abuse at her old man.

Why? He is the greatest ever and his ears do better work than yours i think haha

Nothing like from the 1973 album Dylan

Swingin´Pig has done it again ! Thanks a lot

Good one SP.

My friend Bob is a real and veritable trobadour! You have my greetings!

Thank you Swingin'
Bob's performances are my favorite part of the RTR Story. He often starts a performance with a hesitation, getting mentally ready ? He did the same on The World of John Hammond performance.

I'd love to see all parts of his interviews that were left on cutting room floor, I'm sure they're locked up safety somewhere !!
Can you even imagine?? I can't 😉
Hope you're having a great Sunday.

PS: Lovin' the album on Spotify ♡♡♡

Oh! Boy what's the news Today? Friend of Expectingrain short list! Good vibration on the air of this hot & Sunny Sunday! 🌈🌈🌈🍀

swingin' pig strikes again!! :D

Why'd you delete your song?

Nice, could you please post the piano version of Simple Twist Of Fate from the Rolling Thunder Revue?

As if we didn't already know...Bob Dylan is on a whole other level. Rolling Thunder was a trip!

phenomenal gift thanks and i wish you a fantastic WE ♥♥♥

What a interesting footage you have !
Who are you ?
It's interesting　too !!!

by the way, i am a 70 years japanese man.

I’m a 20 year-old who lives in San Francisco! Thanks for listening to my channel :)

@Swingin’ Pig I'm 20 too, good to see Dylan's poetry is still being listened to by our generation of washed out chart music

I was very surprised to know that you are 20 years old who lives in San Francisco.
I guess that you maybe same generation to me and you maybe a English Gentleman.
Uuuuuuum!!!
This is the one of reasons that Japan was defeated in The War.

Dylan probably didn't know the true story when he covered this song in The Basement Tapes sessions (Columbia released in '' Dylan '' 1973) if my memory not fail . The history was pure US goverment propaganda , although was true that some marines raised that flag , the famous photo was a fake , all began taking 6 marines days after finished the Iwo Jima's battle to take that photo . Three of them had never stepped on a battlefield . Peter La Farge was also an indian , adopted by a white  family. He and Dylan met in the days of Greenwich Village. Johny Cash recorded his Bitter Tears álbum almost exclusively with Peter's songs . It's a good time to see Clint Eastwood's ''The flag of our fathers'' but I prefer the 1961 Der Aussenseiter (the outsider) with Tony Curtis .

Have you ever heard of the U.S. Army's massacre and rape of Colorado Natives under the direction of Colonel Chivington in the late nineteenth century? This massacre precipitated a violent response by Native Americans against the American forces later at the Battle of Custer. The massacre and rape innocent women and killing Native American children in Colorado was really brutal and should be classified as a crime against Humanity but a lot of American history has been suppressed due to the controversial nature of the subject matter and is not deemed important enough to study.

"Oh the cavalry charged/ the indians fell/
The cavalry charged the indians died/ but the Country was young & God on its side/
A Nation built over a giant & hidden genocide! Bob Knows It very well .
One of the turning point of the whole project called RTR! Another poignant & evocative flash from Scorsese outstanding mockumentary.
Swingin' you're a young man/but your widsom & your artistic sensitivity don't stop to surprising me!
Chapeau again!
I Wish you & all the Bob listeners a very wonderful & Sunny weekend!👏✌️☀️🎼🌈🐞😎☺️⛱️🏊🎶🎸🍀🌅💓🤗

Those Indians could give Sweet FA.....

It's hard to tell what people are thinking in that setting. Some of them look stoic or inscrutable but that doesn't mean they don't appreciate the music but perhaps they don't either. One never knows. They could be thinking 'who does this freak think he is and how does his singing help my family get out of poverty?' I don't know...

SITTING BULL

NOT A WHISKEY DRINKING VOILA

I AM WHITE BUFFALLO

YEAH BOB

Seems a bit awkward

Surprisingly flat performance for a peak time in his career.

hard thing to do

I don’t think it’s flat at all haha. I kinda like the casual style. The way he walks around addressing each person in the room is mesmerizing and reminiscent of an older time when the bard would walk around telling stories and spreading the wise word. Very interesting to see Dylan doing this so blatantly.

Swingin’ Pig
yes!

@mario7frankielee

Mario
dear mario
he had no strap

@mario7frankielee totally agree!

Let's all; thank SCORCESE or we would never ever have seen this!! Bob lives in the NOW. he wasnt going to spend the time on his own to restore old film.

Thank Paul goldsmith for filming it. This scene existed with or without Scorcese. He didn't do much except edit some outtakes from another movie together.

If he lives in the now whiles he is constantly recycling and replaying his old songs at every concert and not releasing any new songs? He is almost 75 years old! Maybe, he is living in the past somewhat these days like most people in this era of social anxiety, hard times, and cultural apathy and despair. The footage of the song, "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" was probably part of the Renaldo and Clara film which was supposed to be a movie celebrating the Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975. Renaldo and Clara was never critically acclaimed since the film was four or five hours long and didn't have much of a plot or story, so not too many people ever watched it.

That's Wallace Mad Bear Anderson with Dylan

Loved that scene, my respect and love for Dylan grew bigger as if that was possible. Keep uploading all this Dylan related videos they are simply fantastic. Greetings from Costa Rica (:
Me encantó esa escena y aunque no parezca posible mi respeto y amor por Dylan creció aun más cuando vi esto. Seguí subiendo videos así de buenos, son sencillamente fantásticos. Saludos desde Costa Rica 👊

This scene, and this whole movie, is mesmerizing

One of the highlights from the new film - very cool.