Dylan, Bob - When The Ship Comes In Lyrics






Oh the time will come up
When the winds will stop
And the breeze will cease to be breathin'
Like the stillness in the wind
'Fore the hurricane begins
The hours when the ship comes ind.

And the seas will split
And the ship will hit
And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking
Then the tide will sound
And the wind will pound
And the morning will be breaking.

Oh the fishes will laugh
As they swim out of the path
And the seagulls they'll be smiling
And the rocks on the sand
Will proudly stand
The hour that the ship comes in.

And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they're spoken
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean.

A song will lift
As the mainsail shifts
And the boat drifts on to the shoreline
And the sun will respect
Every face on the deck
The hour that the ship comes in.

Then the sands will roll
Out a carpet of gold
For your weary toes to be a-touchin'
And the ship's wise men
Will remind you once again
That the whole wide world is watchin'.

Oh the foes will rise
With the sleep in their eyes
And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin'
But they'll pinch themselves and squeal
And know that it's for real
The hour that the ship comes in.

Then they'll raise their hands
Sayin' we'll meet all your demands
But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered
And like Pharaoh's tribe
They'll be drownded in the tide
And like Goliath, they'll be conquered.





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  1. B.... O....

    RIP Thomas

  2. S.... U....

    The strums and the twang take me to the Other End cafe in Greenwich Village, and leave me searching for Reynaldo & Clara.

  3. P.... E....

    Wonderful! this song looks like the scenery after the deluge

  4. M.... M....

    I sing this on my home a 34 foot sailboat.... Thanks for the beautifull wisdom in your words Bob....

  5. R.... H....

    A great song, written by Woody Guthrie. Dylan does it justice.

    R.... H....

    You might be confusing it with Guthrie’s ‘When That Great Ship Went Down’

  6. p.... ....

    N.T. Wright brought me here.

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

    It's a beautiful Melody. Bob sings so emotional. Goes Straight to my heart. Love this a lot, it's relaxing and peaceful, exactly what I/we need, in this troubled would..🌺🐈🌸🐕🌺

  8. B.... M....

    Love You bob
    before you get confused
    i am not a spammer

  9. B.... M....

    well i saw a seagull with no wings
    i picked him up and taught him
    how to fly again
    to be sincere
    you need a tear
    everyone should own one
    he flew away
    and to this day
    he was still smiling

  10. P.... C....

    Hooray its good to be alive

    P.... C....

    yes i agree and no i don't. love this comment tho.

  11. M.... W....

    This song is right up there, for me.

  12. E.... W....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmIqIVxUuKs

  13. M.... N....

    Dylan sang this with Joan Baez at the 1963 March on Washington and the words, "That the whole wide world is watching" were never more poignant.

  14. T.... B....

    Do you think that God wants perfection, or excitement? Does it like most when you smile, or scream? God could have a perfect universe and planet anytime it wanted and did for billions of years until you came along. I believe that God created you for something different than being perfect as well as itself. Like the opposite of perfection. And when it rains, when there is thunder and lightning, and floods and hurricanes that destroy lives is what sells. Not hey its a blue sky day and lets all sit on a non-barbed wire fence. For tumultuous is what God wants, and you wish to portray and what people want to consume. This is why there is war in perpetuity as well as massacres in which entire countries loose their collective minds. This is also why Martin Scorsese's films do so well. They are also unpredictable, just like God's dreams of you that it makes into reality too, and almost make you think sometimes instead of just giving whatever thought they want you to think already cut up into little bite sized pieces. Blood is always exciting. So are plot twists and turns. But really that is still a rock- our fate- that God created long ago. Just because it has weird bumps and lumps and isn't a square doesn't mean fate simply had a twist to it and you ended up doing something that wasn't planned by God. For it was all planned by God, but always a surprise to you.


    Pick up a rock, any good sized rock and imagine what the other side of the rock looks like. What color is it and what shape? Does it have flakes of other materials like feldspar in it and how many flakes are there? Is there a seam in the rock? Is it broken? Now turn over the rock. Does it look like what you imagined the other side of the rock to be? And that was right in your hand! Touching it. See, God knows exactly what that rock looks like on the other side- but you don't. Ever play the ball and cup game? It could go on and on forever because of what you don't know and don't see, not because of what you do. The person manipulating the cups has NEVER just randomly put the ball under one of them. The ball could be under none of them and in their palm. And that is also how you pull one over on people- by knowing more than what they know and keeping which cup the ball is a secret. And then when they finally find the ball after so many failures just because you want more of their money and them to keep playing, you can say it was just a simple twist of fate and they will believe you. But really its all fixed. Manipulated. Faster than the eye is God's ventriloquism too. What I say here is static as well though I may seem like a loose gun. But its just some wall full of paint that Paul Simon sung of a long time ago. God that sound of silence right here is deafening, isn't it?

  15. T.... B....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSfTdzoO4ic

  16. T.... B....

    A double cross is what my initials are, but also it is written in my DNA.

  17. R.... O....

    wonderfull.prefer the piano version though-whitmark demo

  18. T.... B....

    The ship arrived with no passengers, just their things....

    T.... B....

    I still see your occasional comments..but still cant find you Queen...

  19. T.... B....

    Women perhaps can't get a real job in much of the world, but they can always find money as a prostitute, and many men travel all the way around the world- for what? To help out other people? Do you think any of those white guys with Asian women came there because they were concerned about other people's welfare? But its amazing what men are motivated to move for and to look for and to pay for, and then you wonder why there are so many prostitutes in the world. If you never spend your money on anything but yourself, then that is what you end up with- selfish people who feed off the scraps of selfishness you throw them.


    Anyway its quite a thing to think of all those guys who God prostituted me to and the world- my insides and the future- all for a little cash today, and the parallel track there is the rest of the Asian women who all have to endure white men's big dicks. Apparently this is a thing with God and Asian women even if I'm reborn as another race. Guanyin (Kwanyin) also known as Chenrezig is the name they call me in China- https://tibetanholocaust.wordpress.com/the-hall-of-enslaved-idols/kwanyin/ Quite a long ways to travel is it not? And we have a long ways to go before home yet. I am but a rolling stone. And no I'm not Jesus. Jesus is dead and his body was stolen by his murderers. And no I'm not God. God is God. I didn't create all. I am created by God. I am trying to get some compassion for my people to save them. But there is none here. All people care about is themselves and their own races and religion. They don't realize we are all connected. They never could be taught that simple fact about life. And the hour is getting late. The theft has continued for years on end, greater now in volume though than ever before are the sales of the persecuted victims' goods whom we know not the whereabouts of. Only that their things showed up without them at the marketplace. PLEASE SOMEONE!! CAN YOU NOT SEE WITH YOUR OWN EYES THEFT IS OCCURRING? CAN YOU NOT MOVE TO HELP THESE PEOPLE INSTEAD OF GIVING MORE MONEY TO PEOPLE FOR THEIR GOODS???

  20. T.... B....

    When I was at Higuera Blanca (White Fig) on the coast of Mexico I found a marijuana grow house inside of a gated golf course community (Litbu) owned by the corporation Iberostar- of which they must have built themselves and obviously known about- and undoubtedly a major source of income for them from tourists in the Puerto Vallarta area. I walked right to it from a path on the beach, as well as an old grow area that still had lights and tarps up and also found an already dug grave. Empty. Waiting next to a road in the golf course, but just out of view. And on top of that I also found an archaeological site right there at the beach with 100's of pot shards on the surface and obsidian flakes, as well as further inland. No one has ever surveyed this area archaologically speaking, but they did put in a golf course as well as a brand new septic treatment plant right on the greatest concentration of archaeological artifacts. I tried to tell the Mexican government as well as their ministry of archaeology about the site at Higuera Blanca but I do not even think they understood what the email was about. At all. Ever. I also turned in the marijuana grow house to them since it was so obviously owned by a corporation, but after putting my life on the line to tell them about it, I don't think they got what that was all about either. I am afraid of what I will find in Ecuador. Fucked up things happen every time. Then you never listen to what I have to say about what is really going on. Ever. But its been a real eye opener for me.


    I walked of of the Museo Nacional de Antropología into a park after trying to show them some artifacts from China I had brought with me- which they insisted were fakes, sat down at the base of a tree to cry, and found a bunch of pot shards as well as flakes of obsidian- artifacts right there on their doorstep- in front of their faces literally, that they obviously couldn't care less about. Then there was also a brand new playground that had been put in recently with bulldozers that leveled part of a mound, while there were other similar low mounds closeby that had holes like someone had dug there, as well as more pot shards lying on the surface and obsidian flakes. But just goes to show what the so called "experts" see and care about, doesn't it? And right there in the playground was an old concrete shaft without a lid on it with a little kitten, half dead, meowing. They don't even have a humane society to call in Mexico, but I did inform their government and archaeological department of the poor thing along with the artifacts they never noticed, nor thought important right in front of the museum.

    T.... B....

    their days are numbered

  21. T.... B....

    I followed coyote back to where tobacco began. Many pipes came from the earth there and they still think they were smoking hallucinogenics, but the tobacco plants sprouted from every bulldozer blade and bit of plowed earth throughout the land. It was obvious, to a botanist at least, they were smoking tobacco. But the wild imagination of priests who know not the plow nor the plant, has led us here. I tried to write to the Argentinian government and their ministry of archaeology about my discovery in La Rioja, but there of course has never been any response.

  22. P.... T....

    Knew all the words to these songs back in 1970....influenced my Air Force buddies.....ya need to listen to the words!!!

    P.... T....

    Peter Terry Influenced your buddies to do what?

  23. T.... B....

    One of my earliest ancestors in America on my father's side was a cooper on the Mayflower. They were told they had some ancestor by oral tradition who came here on the Mayflower who was a carpenter, and research actually proved it to be correct.

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

    Then I will publish this fucked up book (which really proves to me why someone never told you God's honest truth before, even I am not ready for it) right before I leave to a foreign country and let my parents deal with whatever thieves may come in their geriatric age unbeknownst to them what has been published. Doesn't really help I'm the only person alive on the face of the planet with my name and any address they can find on me leads directly to their door, but Oh well. Its their damn fault for having me anyway!! And never really believing in me and taking me seriously.

  25. T.... B....

    I'm trying to have this baby right here right now honey!! On the floor in this supermarket!! In front of everyone!!! When its time its just time. God waits for no man.

  26. T.... E....

    Thank you for uploading a great Bob Dylan song. For many years I regularly checked if it was available on Youtube and was surprised that this excellent song was still not uploaded.

  27. 7.... ....

    ".....and like Goliath they'll be conquered"

  28. a.... ....

    Až se má loď zpátky vrátí - Waldemar Matuška

  29. K.... B....

    Love this one! The whole album, too.

  30. s.... v....

    well...you uploaded my fav Dylan song at my birthday, thank you man

  31. h.... a....

    Before it goes to YouTube "premium".

  32. A.... V....

    Oh, the time will come up
    When the winds will stop
    And the breeze will cease to be breathin'
    Like the stillness in the wind
    Before the hurricane begins
    The hour that the ship comes in

    And the seas will split
    And the ship will hit
    And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking
    Then the tide will sound
    And the wind will pound
    And the morning will be breaking

    Oh, the fishes will laugh
    As they swim out of the path
    And the seagulls they'll be smiling
    And the rocks on the sand
    Will proudly stand
    The hour that the ship comes in

    And the words that are used
    For to get the ship confused
    Will not be understood as they're spoken
    For the chains of the sea
    Will have busted in the night
    And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean

    A song will lift
    As the mainsail shifts
    And the boat drifts on to the shoreline
    And the sun will respect
    Every face on the deck
    The hour that the ship comes in

    Then the sands will roll
    Out a carpet of gold
    For your weary toes to be a-touchin'
    And the ship's wise men
    Will remind you once again
    That the whole wide world is watchin'

    Oh, the foes will rise
    With the sleep still in their eyes
    And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin'
    But they'll pinch themselves and squeal
    And know that it's for real
    The hour when the ship comes in

    Then they'll raise their hands
    Sayin' we'll meet all your demands
    But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered
    And like Pharaoh's tribe
    They'll be drownded in the tide
    And like Goliath, they'll be conquered

  33. A.... M....

    ♡♡♡ im here for this♡

    A.... M....

    Same for me

  34. M.... R....

    15, March 2019. Christchurch, New Zealand. Never Forget.

    M.... R....

    Never forget that it's a hoax.

    M.... R....

    Never forget 👏😊

  35. M.... ....

    "The breeze will cease to be breathing" this line alone deserves a Nobel

  36. J.... s....

    👋👋👋👋👋

  37. E.... R....

    Thanks for uploading the lyrics too.

  38. D.... B....

    always loved this one. was the only upbeat song on the album. terrific. thank you bob's people

    D.... B....

    It's wonderful.

    D.... B....

    The Times They’re Changin’ is pretty upbeat too.