He had a slight twinkle in his eye as he spoke about the song. 1 Duquesne Whistle 5:43 2 Soon After Midnight 3:27 3 Narrow Way 7:28 4 Long And Wasted Years 3:46 5 Pay In Blood 5:09 6 Scarlet Town 7:17 7 Early Roman Kings 5:14 8 Tin Angel 9:05 9 Tempest 13:54 10 Roll On John 7:25. Did you left out commenting on the music video because of the photo of John Lennon (taken on a rooftop in New York City, 1974) because "Imagine there is no heaven" doesn't fit in your world view? Still, as the lyrics on “Duquesne Whistle” proved, he was still singing about locations relevant to the working class. A chamber is a retired room, esp. That old oak tree, the one we used to climb" Here on earth this tears him apart, but in eternity this ambiguity is straightened out. For example, here is a quote from the Jelly Roll Morton page on Wikipedia: Time, on the other hand, is running out, because a ‘red light is glowing’, a red light means: STOP your way of living and think about it before it’s too late, all signals are on red, there is not much time left. Dylan isn't a "symbolist", isn't a blacksmith of meaningful metaphors ...he's carried away by pictures and feelings. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006, Vol. The woman, on the one hand the object of his desire and lust, distracting him from the road bound for glory, and on the other hand there is his quest for finding true love and partnership of a god fearing woman. an upper room used for sleeping. [11], "Duquesne Whistle" was covered by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench on his 2014 debut solo album You Should Be So Lucky. As other have noted, the song quotes from The Raven. Booklet Photography By Albert Watson & John Shearer. In an article accompanying the list, critic Justin Cober-Lake praised the song for the paradoxical way it manages to seem both ancient and modern: "By 2012, Dylan was five proper albums into yet another renaissance, and his band by now sounded less like a throwback to a mythic past and more like the current sound of Dylan’s Americana. The wreck occurred two days before Christmas. It reminds us of the 2004 CBS interview when Bradley said to Dylan: ‘It's ironic, that the way that people viewed you was just the polar opposite of the way you viewed yourself’. 51.3K 2. ‘Duquesne Whistle’ the first song on Dylan’s new album ‘Tempest’- a co-write with Robert Hunter - is yet another masterpiece. Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowing Blowing like it’s gonna sweep my world away I’m gonna stop at Carbondale and keep on going That Duquesne train gon’ rock me night and day. Although the train may be on the final run and the work is almost done, the railroad is at the same time still under construction. In the wheels of time the train now runs through another ‘no good town’ while a  whistle is blowing. ‘Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowingBlowing like she never blowed beforeBlue light blinking, red light glowingBlowing like she's at my chamber door’.When he goes on to say ‘Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowing, blowing like she never blowed before’ he dwells on the same subject. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CDr release of "Duquesne Whistle" on Discogs. The album was recorded at Jackson Browne's Groove Masters Studios in Santa Monica, California.Dylan wrote all of the songs himself with the exception of the track "Duquesne Whistle", which he co-wrote with Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead. "I hear a voice calling; it must be the Lord...."The poet hears a voice gently or ‘steadily’ calling, welcoming him home and he feels and knows for sure that it cannot be anybody else but the mother of our LORD. This looks like a trait of Roman Catholicism. . “Duquesne Whistle” belongs in a 19th century saloon, a chugging number that finds electric guitars mimicking the locomotive at focus in Dylan’s tale. That way, in the line "That Duquesne train (...)" you have a nice internal rhyme whereas with Du Quoin you haven't :-). A whistle is ‘blown’ – air is blown through the whistle and you hear a sound. Duquesne Whistle Lyrics. He is working both sides of the deal. The cover of the album ZSlow Train Coming [ may give you a clue as to what this means. ‘You’re like a time bomb in my heart’ is a metaphor describing the fact that God has planted His seed in his heart. When you are on a train station, a few seconds before the train starts moving, the station master blows a whistle. it takes a train to cry etc.). Let’s take a more detailed look at the song to see how this works out.‘Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowingBlowing like it’s gonna sweep my world awayI’m gonna stop at Carbondale, keep on goingThat Duquesne train gonna ride me night and day’.There is a place called Duquesne and Carbondale in Pennsylvania (PA), but the problem is that Dylan speaks of a ‘Duquesne train’ but these two towns appear not to have a train station. Is Bob finally seeing the oak as the link between his life and the cosmos or is he just rambling on, borrowing metaphors from anywhere and everywhere, the way he has always done? The whistle of the train is moaning and whining, howling and yowling, yet loud as hell, powerful, unstoppable (like in the video), and after all a sound for how life feels sometimes. As noted the de-industrialized town be largely Roman Catholic which helps to explain the must be the calling of ' the Mother of our Lord' reference. The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963–1965, Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan, Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine, Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine), Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again, Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love), It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Duquesne_Whistle&oldid=1011585976, Songs with lyrics by Robert Hunter (lyricist), Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Something There Is About You" / "Tough Mama", "Is Your Love In Vain?" Duquesne called it Depression. The B&O did not finish all elements of the Pittsburgh to Connellsville Railroad until around the time of the Civil War (http://www.american-rails.com/sand-patch.html) and the Duquesne Limited had only begun service about three years earlier and was employing a new high-speed engine at the time of the crash (http://www.heraldstandard.com/online_features/let-s-talk-connellsville-train-wreck-recalled/article_658af6d4-de72-5347-ae65-ea436ccad7d7.html). One day last week, Duquesne whistles shrieked, Duquesne bells clanged...”  The poet invites you to ‘Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowing’. 's 1992 Automatic for the People classic "Man on the Moon" has been in the news lately, given the recent passing of astronaut Neil Armstrong. ( Somehow I feel an allusion here to ‘Things have changed’. The only difference is that when he will return on the Latter day, every eye will see him,  like it says in Revelation 1: 7: ‘Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, everyone who pierced him’. Israel and in particular Jerusalem was the place where He was rejected and ultimately crucified, that’s why it says: ‘Blowing through another no-good town’ . Candy Man (Rev. But the word could also be read as "Carbon Dale" meaning "The Valley of Carbon". From Newport to the Ancient Empty Street in L.A. Hi, I live in Carbondale, Il (born and raised) and had the great fortune of meeting Bob Dylan in Peoria, Il last summer (7/11/2013). Yes, indeed. @Goran Gustafsson When you don't know whether you control the train or the train controls you. Sometimes it looks as if he is already on the other side; he is in and out of the train bound for glory. When we look at prophecy, both Old Testament and New Testament, it's all about Israel, the end times (I believe all times) will focus on this tiny piece of land. ), and certainly a poem from a much younger man. In this song the poet waits for and focusses on the final whistle which can be blown at any minute; this whistle when it comes proclaims that the end of times has begun and that there is no turning back. This song is really amazing; there are many thoughtful layers in it. The oak tree in lore and myth represents great symbolic meanings to the pantheons of mythology, to the druids, the faeries, and many cultures around the world." It reflects what is written in 2 Peter 3: 10: ‘But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up’. Many times in his lyrics Dylan is referencing Israel of course most obviously in the song Neighborhood Bully. were literally roasted to death. ‘Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowingBlowing like it's gonna blow my blues awayYou old rascal, I know exactly where you're goingI'll lead you there myself at the break of day’As he hears the Duquesne whistle blowing, hope is  glimmering through: ‘Blowing like it's gonna blow my blues away’, ‘the blues’ his sad melancholy mood is lifted like he expresses in ‘Highlands’’: ‘The sun is beginning to shine on me, but it’s not like the sun that used to be’. Or better: Either you SEE all the pictures in this song or you don't. Duquesne Whistle by Benmont Tench. The Holy Spirit is like a wind, a ‘ruach’ or a ‘pneuma’, a sort of inspiration that pervades everything. [3] Like much of Dylan's 21st-century output, he produced the song himself using the pseudonym Jack Frost. When this time bomb explodes at the set time – when the world explodes, it will be like Dylan wrote in the song: ‘Ye shall be changed’, ‘ye shall be changed, in a twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet blows, the dead will arise and burst out of their clothes’‘I can hear a sweet voice gently callingMust be the mother of our LORDListen to that Duquesne whistle blowingBlowing like my woman's on board’.‘‘I can hear a sweet voice gently calling’ echoes ‘A Voice From On High’ which Bob used to sing with the Larry/Charlie band. This one reminds me also rather strongly of "When the Ship Comes In". He said "sure. Although the Bible makes it clear that Jesus died on a cross made of  wood, there is some biblical  foundation for this metaphor because Galatians 3:13 says: ‘Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.". Therefore, the question why Dylan chose to spell ‘Duquesne’ instead of Du Quoin is still open. ‘Blowing like it's gonna kill me dead’ is reminiscent of a line in another song on the album ‘Tempest’: ‘Pay in Blood’ where Dylan writes: ‘the more I die, the more I live’. I' m afraid my little lover's on that boat Had Edgerton noted this, and visited those locations, rather than becoming obsessed with narrative arcs relating to domestic violence, stalking and outright murder, a more nuanced and powerful collaboration between the two may have eventuated. I have read that song is about a tornado that wiped out a large portion of Dusquense, Missouri in 2011. This week our Music Video month continues with "Duquesne Whistle" off 2012's Tempest. ‘Blowing like she ain't gon' blow no more’  may mean that  deep down inside he feels that this is the last time you can hear this whistle blow and he is just about to be called home.‘Can't you hear that Duquesne whistle blowing?Blowing like the sky's gonna blow apartyou’re the only thing alive that keeps me goingyou’re like a time bomb in my heart’This stanza takes us again to what will happen on the Latter Day. A limited edition "Record Store Day" 7" stereo single was released on November 23, 2012.[2]. On the face of it, also these final words dwell on the same thought. In this whistle the poet hears that something important and irreversible is about to happen. "Among the sacred trees in many legends, the mighty oak stands noble and tall as The Tree of Life. Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowing Blowin’ like my woman’s on board (Bob Dylan: Duquesne Whistle) In many folk tunes, wishful spiritualism and physical mortality get mixed in together with a heaping spoonful of skepticism, and a good dose of ambiguity. We have to remember that Dylan may have had Jesus in mind when he wrote in ‘If you ever go to Houston’: ‘The same way that I leave here will be the way that I came’. I thought I heard that steamboat whistle a-blowin' "I wonder if that oak tree's still standing. Even all the connections to Dylan's various train songs would be probably overdone (remember his whistling blu-uuuuuuueeeeees ... "freight train was it taught me how to cry ... lawdy mama, when the whistle blows, I gotta go ..." etc etc etc. [13], "Song Premiere: Bob Dylan, 'Duquesne Whistle, "Singles All Formats International 2010-19", "New Music: Bob Dylan - "Duquesne Whistle, "The 25 Best Bob Dylan Songs of the 21st Century", "Bob Dylan's 20 Best Songs of the '10s and Beyond", "Watch Bob Dylan's Bloody, Tarantino-Ish 'Duquesne Whistle' Video", "Watch: Bob Dylan's New Brutally Violent Clip For Duquesne Whistle", "Bob Dylan's Duquesne Whistle and the Return of Love Stalker", http://www.bluenote.com/benmont-tench-to-release-solo-debut-album-you/, "REVIEW: Girl from the North Country - Original London Cast", Live 1961–2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances, Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings, Bob Dylan: The Complete Album Collection Vol. So when it says: ‘I wonder if that old oak tree's still standing, that old oak tree, the one we used to climb’  this may be a reference to the cross at Cavalry and in this metaphor ‘to climb a tree’ would mean ‘to be nailed on the cross’. He knows that when the final whistle blows, Someone will be there to care for him. Jesus is in the wrong town: ‘This place ain’t do me any good’. [5], Spectrum Culture included the song on a list of "Bob Dylan's 20 Best Songs of the '10s and Beyond". This time it is different, ‘the blues’, his sad, melancholy mood will not come back but will be blown away for good. Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowing Blowing like she's blowing right on time’. It is as if Jesus says: ‘I know you are a sinner, I know that you’re an old rascal, but I paid in blood for you, this time my own blood, and that is why ‘I know exactly where you’re going’, you’re my property and I’ll lead you there at the break of day, you’ll be with me forever when the dawn is breaking and the night is disappearing, when the deal goes down’’. I find some of his lyrics only make sense when he's speaking from this perspective. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue, Vol. Although Dylan is not known to be associated to any church or denomination, we find this same Roman Catholic trait also in ‘Ain’t Talking’ from the album ‘Modern Times’ where it says: “They say prayer has the power to heal, so pray from the mother”. Jesus incarnated and came from heaven to live in the land of Israel and went back to heaven from the land of Israel and will come back from heaven on the Latter Day. ‘Highlands’ was a metaphor for heaven. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duquesne_(PRR). . Hope this clears up the debate a little. Really. L’inedito, è invece stato pubblicato il 28 agosto 2012. At the beginning of each verse, the narrator implores us to listen to the ‘Duquesne whistle’. The jazz historian Mark Miller described his arrival as "an extended period of itinerancy as a pianist, vaudeville performer, gambler, hustler, and, as legend would have it, pimp". Hello Kees, thank you so much for this analysis. It looks like it doesn't correspond to the lyrics. He also mentions the song's melodic similarity to "a 1930 tune ('Easy Day') by New Orleans jazz great Jelly Roll Morton". Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz We think of the prophet Zechariah who says they will look upon Me whom they pierced - of course they will recognize him next time around. The train will leave and is on a final fun and will not come back; it is high time to get on board and although on other occasions he made it clear that even when you are in that train he ‘has a hard time believing if some people will ever arrive’, he is determined to get on board and to safely reach his destination and the whistle warns you’d better listen to that last whistle blowing before it’s too late. I find it very strange. Finally he is ready, just like he wrote in ‘Ain’t Talking’, to meet ‘All his loyal and much-loved companions, they approve of me and share my code’. The song piles up evocations not to invite understanding but to situate the listener. [10], Between 2013 and 2018, Dylan played the song 379 times on the Never Ending Tour. He probably didn't paint it until 2007, but I doubt he has played in Carbondale, PA or Carbondale, CO, the other two Carbondales in the United States. Duquesne Whistle Pay in Blood ... BOOTLEG : Bob Dylan – Bonnie Beecher’s apartment, Minnesota Hotel Tape, December 1961 (CD & Covers) 01. The word holocaust means "Burnt sacrifice" which is why the Jews were put into the furnace. The deceptively jaunty Robert Hunter co-write that opens Tempest dances around all kinds of high-minded and low-down possibilities for what its central image represents without settling on an answer. ‘You’re smiling through the fence at meJust like you always smiled beforeListen to that Duquesne whistle blowingBlowing like she ain't gon' blow no more’The poet is just about to enter the place ‘that’s only one step down from here, it’s called the land of permanent  bliss’. You're like a forensic scientist. I'm flat-out spent, this woman she been driving me to tears’ and shows the wretchedness of his earthly existence which is full of tears and strain, a burden which often seems heavier than he can bear and which sometimes goes to his head. This is a holocaust song. At the same time it is a journey to the Highlands. ".... in the human body carbon is the second most abundant element by mass (about 18.5%) after oxygen. "Duquesne Whistle" is a song written by Bob Dylan and Robert Hunter that appears as the opening track on Dylan's 2012 studio album Tempest. As … The feeling comes close to what Dylan wrote in ‘Rolling and Tumbling’: ‘Well, I did all I know just to keep you off my mind, well, I paid and I paid and my suffering heart is always on the line. You will know him as the guy who used to go through Dylan's garbage. I'd love for him to visit us again and let me tour him around town. In 'church' English the word 'Tree' has been a reference for the cross since ages. There is however a place called Carbondale in the south of Illinois which does have a train station. ‘Blue light blinking’, in railway language a blue signal signifies that workmen are on, under, or between rolling equipment. So even if they do not want to recognize Him, they will be forced to recognize Him on that day. On the one hand he hears in this whistle the agony and the pain of his earthly existence, this feels like ‘it’s gonna kill me dead’, on the other hand, the pain and the agony is at the same time a learning process which will lead to life in abundance. Like Bob is doing a phone ad song, and the director is doing a Sundance lo-fi Korean remake.” True say, Steve, but the world may be a better place for having this song in it—the chorus and thick, dirty riff are just joyous. Some resolve this issue by stating that ‘Duquesne’’ in Pennsylvania is meant here. 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