| Lyrics: | by Bob Dylan
Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can't jump it
Sometimes it
gets so hard, you see
I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet
With all these promises
you left for me
But where are you tonight, sweet Marie?
Well, I waited for you when
I was half sick
Yes, I waited for you when you hated me
Well, I waited for you inside of
the frozen traffic
When you knew I had some other place to be
Now, where are you tonight,
sweet Marie?
Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously
But then, now again, not
too many can be like you, fortunately.
Well, six white horses that you did
promise
Were fin'lly delivered down to the penitentiary
But to live outside the law, you
must be honest
I know you always say that you agree
But where are you tonight, sweet
Marie?
Well, I don't know how it happened
But the river-boat captain, he knows my
fate
But ev'rybody else, even yourself
They're just gonna have to wait.
Well, I
got the fever down in my pockets
The Persian drunkard, he follows me
Yes, I can take him
to your house but I can't unlock it
You see, you forgot to leave me with the key
Oh, where
are you tonight, sweet Marie?
Now, I been in jail when all my mail showed
That a man
can't give his address out to bad company
And now I stand here lookin' at your yellow
railroad
In the ruins of your balcony
Wond'ring where you are tonight, sweet Marie |
