Bob Dylan Lyrics

Hot chilli peppers in the blistering sun

Dust on my face and my cape

Me and Magdalena on the run

I think this time we shall escape.

Sold my guitar to the baker's son

For a few crumbs and a place to hide

But I can get another one

And I'll play for Magdalena as we ride.

No llores mi querida

Dios nos vigila

Soon the horse will take us to Durango

Agarrame mi vida

Soon the desert will be gone

Soon you will be dancing the fandango.

Past the Aztec ruins and the ghosts of our people

Hoofbeats like castanets on stone

At night I dream of bells in the village steeple

Then I see the bloody face of Ramona.

Was it me that shot him down in the cantina

Was it my hand that held the gun ?

Come let us fly my Magdalena

The dogs are barking and what's done is done.

No llores mi querida

Dios nos vigila

Soon the horse will take us to Durango

Agarrame mi vida

Soon the desert will be gone

Soon you will be dancing the fandango.

At the corrida we'll sit in the shade

And watch the young torero stand alone

We'll drink tequila where our grandfathers stayed

When they rode with Villa into Torre6n.

Then the padre will recite the prayers of old

In the little church this side of town

I will wear new boots and an earring of gold

You'll shine with diamonds in your wedding gown.

The way is long but the end is near

Already the fiesta has begun

The face of God will appear

With His serpent eyes of obsidian.

No llores mi querida

Dios nos vigila

Soon the horse will take us to Durango

Agarrame mi vida

Soon the desert will be gone

Soon you will be dancing the fandango.

Was that the thunder that I heard

My head is vibrating, I feel a sharp pain

Come sit by me don't say a word

Oh can it be that I am slain ?

Quick, Magdalena, take my gun

Look up in the hills that flash of light

Aim well my little one

We may not make it through the night.

No llores mi querida

Dios nos vigila

Soon the horse will take us to Durango

Agarrame mi vida

Soon the desert will be gone

Soon you will be dancing the fandango.

Up on the white veranda

She wears a necktie and a Panama hat

Her passport shows a face

From another time and place

She looks nothing like that

And all of the remnants of her recent past

Are scattered in the wild wind

She walks across the marble floor

Where a voice from the gambling room is calling her to come on in

She smiles, walks the other way

As the last ship sails and the moon fades away

From Black Diamond Bay.

As the morning light breaks open

The Greek comes down and he asks for a rope

And a pen that will write

"Pardon monsieur" the desk clerk says

Carefully removes his fez

"Am I hearing you right?"

And as the yellow fog is lifting

The Greek is quickly heading for the second floor

She passes him on the spiral staircase

Thinking he's the Soviet Ambassador

She starts to speak, but he walks away

As the storm clouds rise and the palm branches sway

On Black Diamond Bay.

A soldier sits beneath the fan

Doing business with a tiny man

Who sells him a ring

Lightning strikes, the lights blow out

The desk clerk wakes and begins to shout,

"Can you see anything?"

Then the Greek appears on the second floor

In his bare feet with a rope around his neck

While a loser in the gambling room lights up a candle

Says, "Open up another deck."

But the dealer says, "Attendez-vous, s'il vous plaît."

As the rain beats down and the cranes fly away

From Black Diamond Bay.

The desk clerk heard the woman laugh

As he looked around in the aftermath

And the soldier got tough

He tried to grab the woman's hand

Said, "Here's a ring it cost a grand."

She said, "That ain't enough."

Then she ran upstairs to pack her bags

While a horse-drawn taxi waited at the curb

She passed the door that the Greek had locked

Where a handwritten sign read "Do Not Disturb"

She knocked upon it anyway

As the sun went down and the music did play

On Black Diamond Bay.

"I've got to talk to someone quick!"

But the Greek said, "Go away," and he kicked the chair to the floor

He hung there from the chandelier

She cried, "Help there's danger near!

Please open up a-the door."

Then the volcano erupted

And the lava flowed down from the mountain high above

The soldier and the tiny man

Were crouched in the corner thinking of forbidden love

But the desk clerk said, "It happens every day."

As the stars fell down and the fields burned away

On Black Diamond Bay.

As the island slowly sank

The loser finally broke the bank

In the gambling room

The dealer said, "It's too late now.

You can take your money, but I don't know how

You'll spend it in the tomb."

The tiny man bit the soldier's ear

As the floor caved in

And the boiler in the basement blew

While she's out on the balcony where a stranger tells her,

"My darling je vous aime beaucoup."

She sheds a tear and then begins to pray

As the fire burns on and the smoke drifts away

From Black Diamond Bay.

I was sitting home alone one night

In LA watching old Cronkite

On the seven o'clock news

It seems there was an earthquake that

Left nothing but a Panama hat

And a pair of Greek shoes

Didn't seem like much was happening

So I turned it off and went to grab another beer

Seems like every time you turn around

There's another hard-luck story that you're gonna hear

And there's really nothing anyone can say

And I never did plan to go anyway

To Black Diamond Bay.

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"Isis"

I married Isis on the fifth day of May

But I could not hold on to her very long

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away

For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong

I came to a high place of darkness and light

The dividing line ran through the center of town

I hitched up my pony to a post on the right

Went into a laundry to wash my clothes down

A man in the corner approached me for a match

I knew right away he was not ordinary

He said "Are you looking for something easy to catch?"

I said "I got no money." He said "That ain't necessary."

We set out that night for the cold in the North

I gave him a blanket, and he gave me his word

I said "Where are we going?" He said "We'll be back by the fourth."

I said "That's the best news that I've ever heard."

I was thinking about turquoise I was thinking about gold

I was thinking about diamonds and the world's biggest necklace

As we rode through the canyons through the devilish cold

I was thinking about Isis how she thought I was so reckless

How she told me that one day we would meet up again

And things would be different the next time we wed

If I only could hang on and just be her friend

I still can't remember all the best things she said

We came to the pyramids all embedded in ice

He said "There's a body I'm trying to find

If I carry it out it'll bring a good price"

It was then that I knew what he had on his mind

The wind it was a-howling and the snow was outrageous

We chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn

When he died I was hoping that it wasn't contagious

But I made up my mind that I had to go on

I broke into the tomb but the casket was empty

There was no jewels no nothing I felt I'd been had

When I saw that my partner was just being friendly

When I took up his offer I must-a been mad

I picked up his body and I dragged him inside

Threw him down in the hole and I put back the cover

I said a quick prayer and I felt satisfied

Then I rode back to find Isis just to tell her I love her

She was there in the meadow where the creek used to rise

Blinded by sleep and in need of a bed

I came in from the East with the sun in my eyes

I cursed her one time then I rode on ahead

She said "Where ya been?" I said "No place special"

She said "You look different" I said "Well, I guess"

She said "You been gone" I said "That's only natural"

She said "You gonna stay?" I said "If you want me to, yes."

Isis oh Isis you're a mystical child

What drives me to you is what drives me insane

I still can remember the way that you smiled

On the fifth day of May in the drizzling rain