Blind Willie McTell Lyrics

The song Blind Willie McTell is performed by Bob Dylan in the album named Essential Bob Dylan in the year 2002 .



Seen the arrow on the door post
Saying, "This land is condemned
All the way from New Orleans to Jerusalem"
I traveled through East Texas where many martyrs fell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

Well, I heard that hoot owl singing
As they were taking down the tents
The stars above the barren trees
Were his only audience

Them charcoal gypsy maidens
Can strut their feathers well
But nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

See them big plantations burning
Hear the cracking of the whips
Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
See the ghosts of slavery ships

I can hear them tribes moaning
Hear the undertaker's bell
Nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

There's a woman by the river
With some fine young handsome man
He's dressed up like a squire
Bootlegged whiskey in his hand

There's a chain gang on the highway
I can hear them rebels yell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell

Well, God is in Heaven
And we all want what's His
But power and greed and corruptible seed
Seem to be all that there is

I'm gazing out the window
Of the St. James Hotel
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell



Bob Dylan - Essential Bob Dylan

Jul 2002

  1. Blowin' in the Wind
  2. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
  3. Times They Are A-Changin'
  4. It Ain't Me Babe
  5. Maggie's Farm
  6. It's All over Now, Baby Blue
  7. Mr. Tambourine Man
  8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
  9. Like a Rolling Stone
  10. Positively 4th Street
  11. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
  12. I Want You
  13. Just Like a Woman
  14. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
  15. All Along the Watchtower
  16. Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)
  17. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
  18. Lay Lady Lay
  19. If Not for You
  20. I Shall Be Released
  21. You Ain't Going Nowhere
  22. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
  23. Forever Young
  24. Tangled Up in Blue
  25. Shelter from the Storm
  26. Hurricane
  27. Changing of the Guards
  28. Gotta Serve Somebody
  29. Blind Willie McTell
  30. Jokerman
  31. Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love?)
  32. Silvio
  33. Everything Is Broken
  34. Dignity [Original Version]
  35. Not Dark Yet
  36. Things Have Changed

Blind Willie McTell