Joan Baez - I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine Lyrics

Dylan wrote a song about St Augustine?! I thought he was a Red Sea pedestrian.

the beauty of folk music is that it can mean anything and nothing at all.
I can picture my departed father as St Augustine . "I dreamed I was amongst the ones who put him out to death" resembles the hell I put him through as a rebellious teen..

Sing it JOAN BAEZ forever on YouTube.
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Joan Baez can manage to ruin any song

Beautiful. A great Bob Dylan song. I think he was talking about his own youthful idealism, and how he himself lost and destroyed it....so he *was* Saint Augustine in this song and he was among the ones who put Saint Augustine to death. I think most of Bob's songs are really about his own internal battle with himself "I fought with my twin, that enemy within, till both of us fell by the way"...and they're about the people (usually the women) that he's been closest to. Joan does it wonderfully. She always clearly got the value in his songs.

Augustine of Hippo (Latin: Aurelius Augustinus), or St. Augustine, born in the Province of Africa in the municipality of Tagaste (now Souk Ahras, Algeria) 354 13 November and died 28 August 430 at Hippo (now Annaba, Algeria ) is a philosopher and Roman Christian theologian of the wealthy class, with Berber origins
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I'M BERBER (NOT ARABIC) FROM NORTH AFRICA !!

Augustine saved the souls of the rich. I don't know if it worked but I suppose they were comforted by it.

@Taiette Miller St. Augustine says, "YOU HAVE MADE US FOR YOURSELF O GOD AND OUR HEARTS ARE RESTLESS UNTIL THEY REST IN THEE." All the cash in this world and what this cash can buy simply cannot fill the emptiness our restless hearts!

With great money , comes great responsibility!!

@Jack Black Limbo is not a hell it is a place with out change. The Caitiffs live their also. Those who can't commit to either good or evil. Neither heaven or hell wants them

+Jack Black No doubt you have read all the works of St. Augustine before you made THIS ENLIGHTENING REMARK!!!

+Jack Black no I wasn't quoting St Augustine . I was describing the churches conception of limbo , and Dantes experience in book three of La Inferno.

Augustine of Hippo ? Or Cantaberry ?

hmmmmmm gee I don't know neither were martyred.

I think it is Dylan who was (almost?) martyred if you think about it

+Sean Collins what kind of martyrdom did Dylan suffer ?

If we were to have died in the motorcycle crash, I would have considered Dylan the martyr of the rock and roll/60s movement.

+Sean Collins there are many other things to think about!

Skilled with the tongue of a lawyer and willed to preach with it.

St. Augustine prayed " O Lord make me  chaste, but not just yet.."

"I put my fingers against the glass and bowed my head and cried". It's a prayer. Thank you Bob and Joan.

"I wish there were more Dylan originals on Youtube too ... but Joan is just magic..."

I don't think he will allow any of his material on youtube, I don't know why ...

Dylan's music is on YouTube NOW, thank heaven. Guess he just wanted to ensure they did it right. (Unlike Don Henley, who is adamant about keeping HIS material off the internet in any form. Sigh)

Ótimo muito bom!!!

Augustine did not originate the idea of Limbo. Among Christian thinkers it goes back at least to Clement of Alexandria, who died about 140 years before Augustine was born. Nor did Augustine declare that the world was flat. Most scholars of his work think he shared the view of his educated contemporaries that the world was spherical. Do your research, people.

By declaring the world was flat, this moron set back astronomy about 1,200 years. Especially as Eratosthenes had conclusively proved the Earth was a sphere in the 2nd century BC.

"Augustinian nonsense"
"solution to a nonexistent problem"

You clearly not know of what you speak of.

Augustine's teaching regarding limbo is an answer to the various passages that talk about souls going elsewhere before ascending. The following passages raised the question: Ephesians 4:9, 1 Peter 3:18-20. The "Bosom of Abraham" is also thought to be purgatory. Augustine is merely being honest with the logic. Even if he's wrong, it's not a poor position to hold because "MUH FEELINGS."

"You're wrong"
No I'm not. Limbo: St. Augustine’s solution to a non-existent problem. Over the centuries this pseudo intellectual put the parents of dead unbaptised children through a mental hell thinking their child would never go to heaven.
Recently however the Vatican has rescinded that piece of Augustine stupidity.
Good song, though.

Your wrong

Bob Dylan sang this song mispronouncing St. Augustine's name, & others singing it after him followed suit. The correct pronunciation sounds like Aw-GUST-in, with the second syllable emphasized, & "ine" sounding like "in". Instead, Bob makes the Saint sound like the FLA city, which gives the Roman (i.e. Italian) Saint a name that sounds rather Jewish, as in AuguSTEIN . Oy vey!

ermmm? its a song, try singing it your way and you'll understand why.

Yeah, but in my opinion the song's really about Bob Dylan himself, not about the historical St. Augustine. He can pronounce the name any way he wants, because it's symbolic. It's a metaphor for a time in his own life. Consider this that I posted above: Beautiful. A great Bob Dylan song. I think he was talking about his own youthful idealism, and how he himself lost and destroyed it....so he *was* Saint Augustine in this song and he was among the ones who put Saint Augustine to death. I think most of Bob's songs are really about his own internal battle with himself "I fought with my twin, that enemy within, till both of us fell by the way"...and they're about the people (usually the women) that he's been closest to. Joan does it wonderfully. She always clearly got the value in his songs.

BS...St. Augustine would be an English version of the word. Dingy!

Wrong. The "tine" at the end makes it au-gus-TINE.

That's not the significance of this song at all. It's a parody of "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill".

It was no doubt partly inspired BY the song "Joe Hill", but it's no parody. It's a very serious comment Dylan is making about the loss of his own youthful idealism, the destruction of who he was when he was young and full of fresh ideals, and the "Saint Augustine" in the dream is the young Bob Dylan, destroyed by himself, success, the music business, and those all around him. That's basically what pretty much the whole album "John Wesley Harding" is about.

The clown that dreamed up Limbo.

Well, actually Augustine was never martyrized nor executed...

Dylan would, of course, have known about Saint Augustine, and would have been inspired by him. He's well aware of stuff like that, and you can find Biblical and religious references all through his songs. But the person the song is really about is the young Bob Dylan. His is the "voice without restraint" that cries "Arise!" That young self eventually perishes, as happens with all of us as we get older. He weeps at the end in regret for having helped cause the death of his youthful self.

And who are the "kings and queens" who hear his sad complaint? They are the audience. His fans. Those who listen. Those who don't. He says "No martyr is amongst you now whom you can call your own"...because he's not going to fullfill that role for them, he's not going to be their martyr. But he is sad about what he lost in the process of getting to where he got. You might be sad too, if it had happened to you. Would you do it again if you had the chance?

I think that this song, like all the other songs on John Wesley Harding, is a parable about Bob Dylan's own life. He uses Saint Augustine not literally, but as a symbol of his own youthful self who wrote extraordinary songs protesting war and segregation, went forth bravely to preach like the saint in the song....but at a later stage Bob Dylan himself joined in the very forces that brought death to that youthful idealism. He mourns that death in the song. It's a song of personal regret.

I wish there were more Dylan originals on Youtube too ... but Joan is just magic...

I love this ....

I'm really I struggling to find the dylan original, youtube seems to be full of covers. No disrespect to Joan Baez of course, she's one of my favourite voices.

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he was the emporoer of Rome that welcomed Christianity

Dylan Wrote this and I think there is more than religious meaning behind it. The martydom of Augustine was used and perhaps the turmoil of the times was blended into to it also. BAEZ didnt write this.

the tune is the classic union song (i dreamed i saw) 'joe hill'. dylan translated, rehashed, or otherwise borrowed the tune to tell the story of the martyred augustine with the improbable twist at it's end that the king's & queens who executed him were somehow sad about having to do such a thing to such a nice guy.