However, a novelty song grows tiresome with repeated listening. Rainy Day Woman is a clever, amusing song.
Pretty ironic to appropriate their musical style for this song. Members of the Army refrain from alcohol, drugs, smoking, and so forth. The Salvation Army is a Christian organization that maintains a number of brass bands, not always of the highest quality, that play at its various functions. Somehow I doubt that one.Īl Kooper said producer Bob Johnston had the idea to play the song in a drunken Salvation Army band style.
RAINY DAY WOMAN LYRICS CODE
And 4:20 was teenager code for the time to meet after school to smoke a joint. The most far-out theory is that 12 * 35 = 420. And what about the numbers 12 and 35? One apocryphal story has it that a woman, age 35, and her daughter, age 12, were guests at the Blonde on Blonde recording sessions. Many have noted that a “rainy day woman” was a popular slang term for a marijuana joint in the sixties (I hadn’t heard that term used before – but see Time Magazine J– it’s true). The title of the song is rather mysterious. (Ahab is mentioned in Highway 61, and is married to Jezebel, a character in Tombstone Blues.) God finds out about the crime and destroys Ahab’s kingdom. But in The King of Kings Naboth is stoned to death unjustly by supporters of King Ahab. In most of the stories, the victim is being punished for some misdeed, unlike the innocent character in the song. A search of the King James Bible returns no less than 31 hits on the word “stoning”. There’s no doubt that Dylan intentionally wrote the lyrics so the listener could interpret the song both as a jokey “drug song” and also about someone literally being stoned to death. Spector and Dylan were surprised that a song about getting high could be played so frequently on the radio. charts and also doing well in Britain, even though it was banned from many radio stations in both countries because the lyrics celebrate the act of getting “stoned”.ĭylan biographer Robert Shelton wrote that record producer Phil Spector and Dylan had heard Ray Charles’s Let’s Go Get Stoned on a jukebox not long before the song was written. Writer(s): Brent Cobb, Andrew CombsLyrics powered by Rainy Day Woman #12 and 35 was one of Dylan’s best selling singles, reaching number two on the U.S. I′ve loved strangers Stopped deals and dangers Searching for my own little peace from the countryside to the slick city streets And I miss my hometown Been high and low down Learned every which way of the (?) Some things do and some don't change It′s safe to say that I'm still crazy over you Your love it gets me through When I'm stuck in lifes crazy gloom Ain′t it funny how a little thunder can make a man start to wonder Should he swim or just go under And ain′t it funny how you learn to pray When your blue skies turn grey When there's nothing left to say Shine on rainy day A friend once told me, he said boy You sound so lonely all these cheatin′, leavin' done me wrongs Have you ever heard of a happy song Offended I sat down my glass Smiled and let the moment pass Tabs on me if you think I′m lying Laughing ain't a pleasure til′ you know about crying Ain't it funny how a little thunder can make a man start to wonder Should he swim or just go under And ain't funny how you learn to pray When your blue skies turn grey When there′s nothing left to say Shine on rainy day Shine on rainy day
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