Bobby Goes Electric (The Day Bobbie Went Electric)
Bobby Goes Electric (The Day Bobbie Went Electric)
It might have been Dabitha,
but it could have been the coast of
Spain.
On a clapped out continental radio
I thought I heard his
name.
But I was just another hippy then
with my copy of Rolling
Stone.
In a kickback full of hashish
that I was trying to smuggle
home.
And where were you when you knew?
Where were
you when you heard?
The day that Bobbie went electric,
how did you
receive the word?
There was years of independence,
but
a meaning on the words Hard Rain.
And in a run down beach front
arcade
I heard how the times had changed.
I was thrown in jail in
Tangiers
with a couple from Montreal,
who'd been workin' their way
to London
to see the plug-in at the Albert Hall.
But
where were you when you knew?
Where were you when you heard?
The
day that Bobbie went electric,
oh, how did you receive the word?
And
where were you when you knew?
Where were you when you heard?
The
day that Bobbie went electric,
how did you receive the word?
The
day that Bobby went electric
I was struggling through my teens.
And
when he plugged in up at Newport
I was caught up in the dream.
But
where were you when you knew?
Where were you when you heard?
The
day that Bobbie went electric,
how did you receive the word?
Where
were you when you knew?
Where were you when you heard?
The day
that Bobbie went electric,
how did you receive the word?
The day
that Bobbie went electric,
how did you receive the word?
The day
that Bobbie went electric,
how did you receive the word?
Where
were you?
testo
di Bernie Taupin
(mai pubblicata, esiste però un demo, 1980)
Ispirata dalla famosa "svolta elettrica" di Bob Dylan al Festival di Newport del 1965
