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By Tony Attwood
This to me sounds close to being one of those songs that Bob Dylan throws away and which most of the rest of the world would give up everything they own to be able to claim to have written.
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The trouble is the electric piano part and vocal is so badly recorded as to make listening to the song really hard going. And then as we are really getting into it, it just suddenly stops.
Maybe the tape ran out, but one thing is sure Bob’s ideas certainly didn’t.
Tragically we only have one version and this is it. Someone, somewhere, needs to get hold of this, work it, complete it and release because it really is a terrific piece of work which tries out playing minor chords against the major that is expected to give a really odd effect.
Looked at written down the sequence is simple, but the way Dylan works the melody around it and then clashes those minors and majors makes it something else. Try it on a piano; it is fun.
Ab, Gb Db Ab; Db E Ab
Middle section Db Ab Db Eb
As for the lyrics the writer of the haiku says
Flash drive bootable for mac. My conclusion is that the words that I yanked out of this after playing it a dozen times are about as deep as the song itself. That’s fine. It was meant to be a fun time, not a writer’s retreat.
The piece starts with an instrumental verse as the band pick up the idea and then the lyrics igo something like this…
And that is it, it stops part way through a verse, and we have no more.
OK I realise that no one else at all has picked this is a proto masterpiece, but I suspect that is because of the quality of the recording and the mishmash of the start and the sudden end, but really, this song is something special and had Dylan remembered it we’d all be screaming like mad when he played it at a gig.
As the writer of the Haiku’s says, the Basement Tape time “was meant to be a fun time, not a writer’s retreat,” and yes this is fun time, but the guys happened to strike gold, probably without knowing it (given they didn’t come back to it.)
I can say that if I was still in a band, I’d make this part of the repertoire at once. It is a great song, and of all the songs that I have found on the Basement which I didn’t know before, this is one of a small collection that really stand out to me.
Fortunately for me, although my memory of events, people’s names, people’s faces and everything like that is rubbish, my musical memory doesn’t falter and I can hear this in my head whenever I want, with all the awfulness of the recording cleared out.
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By Tony Attwood
This is, according to the record kept by my computer, article number 1000 on Untold Dylan. The very first article a review of Mississippi – one of the all time great Dylan compositions in my opinion.
Article number 1000 however doesn’t have the same pazzazz in its lyrical creation. There is no “Every step of the way, you walk the line”. No quartet of lines that just stick forever in the mind like
Got nothing for you, I had nothing before
Don’t even have anything for myself anymore
Sky full of fire, pain pourin’ down
Nothing you can sell me, I’ll see you around
No, what we have here are, well, lines that simply don’t tell me anything much. And let me emphasis at once that this is just my view – I’ll be delighted to get a deeper vision of this song if you can show me the way in.
Take the opening lines for example
There are many kinds of fish that swim in the sea
There’s others that swim in the dark
And of those troupers and trouts and dolphins and whales
The one you must watch is the shark
The reality is that Taylor Goldsmith doesn’t really have too much to work with here. (He also worked on “Kansas City,” “Liberty Street,” “When I Get My Hands on You,” “Florida Key,” and “Diamond Ring,” and performed on bass, guitar, mellotron, organ, and piano). But here there is nothing much – so full marks for having a go.
Here are the full lyrics – and if you don’t know the result of the music you might like to have a read through first to think what you might have done with this…
There are many kinds of fish that swim in the sea
There’s others that swim in the dark
And of those troupers and trouts and dolphins and whales
The one you must watch is the shark
Card shark (yes, m’am)
Get ‘m in the nose
That ol’ card shark
Now I sat me down to have some fun
I jumped in the tank for a spell
I boogalooed in the bunkhouse and saw some bandits on the run
I went down to get water from the well
Card shark (yes, m’am)
Get ‘m in the nose
That ol’ card shark
Now set ‘m up, Samba
Sit on it awhile
Toss in the towel and have a kick
Stick it in the rear and roar for a bit
And waddle down the road like a brick
Card shark (yes, m’am)
Get ‘m in the nose
That ol’ card shark
I have to say that faced with such lyrics it is hard to imagine what anyone could do with them to create a piece worthy of being on an album. Indeed one wonders if Bob actually looked at the notebook before giving permission for the band to set to work.
I mean would you want to be known for those lyrics?
So there you have it.
I am not too sure if anyone else has attempted to do a review of the song – but if so, maybe they could make more of it than I can. Anyway, there it is, article number 1000. Card Shark.
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And please do note The Bob Dylan Project, which lists every Dylan song in alphabetical order, and has links to licensed recordings and performances by Dylan and by other artists, is starting to link back to our reviews.