Title: When the Ship Comes In (with Joan Baez, Lincoln Memorial, March on Washington, 8-28-63)
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: 50th Anniversary Collection: 1963 (Track #5)
Duration: 03:17
Label:
Oh the time will come up
When the winds will stop
And the breeze will cease to be breathin'.
Like the stillness in the wind
'Fore the hurricane begins,
The hour when the ship comes in.
Oh the seas will split
And the ship will hit
And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking.
Then the tide will sound
And the wind will pound
And the morning will be breaking.
Oh the fishes will laugh
As they swim out of the path
And the seagulls they'll be smiling.
And the rocks on the sand
Will proudly stand,
The hour that the ship comes in.
And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they're spoken.
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean.
A song will lift
As the mainsail shifts
And the boat drifts on to the shoreline.
And the sun will respect
Every face on the deck,
The hour that the ship comes in.
Then the sands will roll
Out a carpet of gold
For your weary toes to be a-touchin'.
And the ship's wise men
Will remind you once again
That the whole wide world is watchin'.
Oh the foes will rise
With the sleep still in their eyes
And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin'.
But they'll pinch themselves and squeal
And know that it's for real,
The hour when the ship comes in.
Then they'll raise their hands,
Sayin' we'll meet all your demands,
But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered.
And like Pharaoh's tribe,
They'll be drownded in the tide,
And like Goliath, they'll be conquered.
The 50th Anniversary Collection 1963 is the second Bob Dylan collection released by Sony Music to prevent the recordings from legally entering the public domain in Europe. Released on vinyl only in November 2013 only 100 copies of the six-LP set were produced.
Track listing
LP 1 Side A
Eternal Circle (Take 4)
Percys Song (Take 1)
Thats All Right, Mama/Sally Free and Easy (Take 1)
Hero Blues (Take 3)
East Laredo Blues (Take 1)
Bob Dylans New Orleans Rag (Take 2)
tracks 1 & 4 recorded 12 August 1963, tracks 2, 3 & 5 recorded 23 October, track 6 recorded 24 October during The Times They Are a-Changin sessions
LP 1 Side B The Banjo Tape
Lonesome River Edge
Back Door Blues
Bob Dylans Dream
You Can Get Her
Farewell
All Over You
Instrumental in Gerdes Basement/Jam
Keep Your Hands Off Her (Leadbelly)
Honey Babe
Goin Back To Rome
Stealin'
all tracks recorded 2 August 1963 at the Basement of Gerdes Folk City. Tracks 7, 9, 12 with Happy Traum, track 12 with Gil Turner
LP 2 Side C
Ballad of Hollis Brown
recorded for the Folk Songs and More Folk Songs TV Special, 3 March 1963
Girl from the North Country
Only A Hobo
tracks 2 & 3 recorded for the Oscar Brand Show/World of Folk Music, March 1963
Ramblin Down Through the World
Bob Dylans Dream
Talkin New York
Hiding Too Long
LP 2 Side D
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Walls of Red Wing
All Over You
Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues
Boots of Spanish Leather
LP 3 Side E
Hero Blues
John Brown
A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall
Dusty Old Fairgrounds
Who Killed Davey Moore?
LP 3 Side F
Seven Curses
Highway 51?
Pretty Peggy-O
Bob Dylans New Orleans Rag
Dont Think Twice, Its All Right
With God On Our Side
tracks 47, side C and sides D-F recorded at the Town Hall, New York City, 12 April 1963
LP 4 Side G
James Alley Blues
Long Time Gone
Only a Hobo
Untitled Blues Jam
A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall
tracks 15 recorded at the home of Eve and Mac McKenzie, 18 April 1963
Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance
Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues
LP 4 Side H
Bob Dylans Dream
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Talkin World War III Blues
A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall
With God on Our Side
tracks 67, side G and side H recorded at The Bear folk club, Chicago, 25 April 1963
LP 5 Side I
Farewell
A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall
Bob Dylans Dream
Boots of Spanish Leather
John Brown
LP 5 Side J
Who Killed Davey Moore?
Blowin in the Wind
Tracks 1 & 2, side J recorded for the Studs Terkel Wax Museum radio show, Chicago, 26 April 1963
Blowin in the Wind
Only a Pawn in Their Game
tracks 3 & 4 recorded for the Songs of Freedom TV show, New York City, 30 July 1963
When the Ship Comes In
Only a Pawn in Their Game
tracks 5 & 6 recorded at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, 28 August 1963. Track 5 with Joan Baez
LP 6 Side K
Blowin in the Wind
Percys Song
Seven Curses
Walls of Red Wing
LP 6 Side L
Talkin World War III Blues
Dont Think Twice, Its All Right
Only a Pawn in Their Game
Masters of War
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
sides K & L recorded at Carnegie Hall, New York City, 26 October 1963