Black Diamond Bay
Dylan Bob

Dylan Bob
Desire
Black Diamond Bay
by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy

Up on the white veranda
She wears a necktie and a Panama hat.
Her passport shows a face
From another time and place
She looks nothin' like that.
And all the remnants of her recent past
Are scattered in the wild wind.
She walks across the marble floor
Where a voice from the gambling room is callin' her to come on in.
She smiles, walks the other way
As the last ship sails and the moon fades away
From Black Diamond Bay.

As the mornin' light breaks open, the Greek comes down
And he asks for a rope and a pen that will write.
Pardon, monsieur, the desk clerk says,
Carefully removes his fez,
Am I hearin' you right?
And as the yellow fog is liftin'
The Greek is quickly headin' for the second floor.
She passes him on the spiral staircase
Thinkin' he's the Soviet Ambassador,
She starts to speak, but he walks away
As the storm clouds rise and the palm branches sway
On Black Diamond Bay.

A soldier sits beneath the fan
Doin' business with a tiny man who sells him a ring.
Lightning strikes, the lights blow out.
The desk clerk wakes and begins to shout,
Can you see anything?
Then the Greek appears on the second floor
In his bare feet with a rope around his neck,
While a loser in the gambling room lights up a candle,
Says, Open up another deck.
But the dealer says, Attendez-vous, s'il vous plait,''
As the rain beats down and the cranes fly away
From Black Diamond Bay.

The desk clerk heard the woman laugh
As he looked around the aftermath and the soldier got tough.
He tried to grab the woman's hand,
Said, Here's a ring, it cost a grand.
She said, That ain't enough.
Then she ran upstairs to pack her bags
While a horse-drawn taxi waited at the curb.
She passed the door that the Greek had locked,
Where a handwritten sign read, Do Not Disturb.
She knocked upon it anyway
As the sun went down and the music did play
On Black Diamond Bay.

I've got to talk to someone quick!
But the Greek said, Go away, and he kicked the chair to the floor.
He hung there from the chandelier.
She cried, Help, there's danger near
Please open up the door!
Then the volcano erupted
And the lava flowed down from the mountain high above.
The soldier and the tiny man were crouched in the corner
Thinking of forbidden love.
But the desk clerk said, It happens every day,
As the stars fell down and the fields burned away
On Black Diamond Bay.

As the island slowly sank
The loser finally broke the bank in the gambling room.
The dealer said, It's too late now.
You can take your money, but I don't know how
You'll spend it in the tomb.
The tiny man bit the soldier's ear
As the floor caved in and the boiler in the basement blew,
While she's out on the balcony, where a stranger tells her,
My darling, je vous aime beaucoup.
She sheds a tear and then begins to pray
As the fire burns on and the smoke drifts away
From Black Diamond Bay.

I was sittin' home alone one night in L.A.,
Watchin' old Cronkite on the seven o'clock news.
It seems there was an earthquake that
Left nothin' but a Panama hat
And a pair of old Greek shoes.
Didn't seem like much was happenin',
So I turned it off and went to grab another beer.
Seems like every time you turn around
There's another hard-luck story that you're gonna hear
And there's really nothin' anyone can say
And I never did plan to go anyway
To Black Diamond Bay.


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  10,000 Men   2 x 2   4th Time Around   A Fool Such as I   A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall   A Satisfied Mind   Abandoned Love   Absolutely Sweet Marie   Ain't A-Gonna Grieve   Ain't No Man Righteous (No Not One)   Ain't No More Cane   Alberta #1   Alberta #2   All Along the Watchtower   All I Really Want to Do   All Over You   All the Tired Horses   Angelina   Apple Suckling Tree   Are You Ready?   Arthur McBride   As I Went Out One Morning   Baby, I'm in the Mood for You   Baby, Let Me Follow You Down   Baby, Stop Crying   Ballad For A Friend   Ballad in Plain D   Ballad of a Thin Man   Ballad Of Donald White   Ballad of Hollis Brown   Belle Isle   Bessie Smith   Big Yellow Taxi   Billy (Main Title Theme)   Billy 1   Billy 4   Billy 7   Black Crow Blues   Blackjack Davey   Blind Willie McTell   Blood in My Eyes   Blowin' in the Wind   Blue Moon   Bob Dylan's 115th Dream   Bob Dylan's Blues   Bob Dylan's Dream   Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag   Boots of Spanish Leather   Born in Time   Broke Down Engine   Brownsville Girl   Buckets of Rain   Bunkhouse Theme   Bye and Bye   California   Call Letter Blues   Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?   Can't Help Falling in Love   Can't Wait   Canadee-i-o   Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law)   Caribbean Wind   Caribbean Wind   Caribbean Wind   Cat's in the Well   Catfish   Changing of the Guards   Chimes of Freedom   Clean-Cut Kid   Clothes Line   Cold Irons Bound   Coming From The Heart (The Road Is Long)   Copper Kettle   Corrina, Corrina   Country Pie   Covenant Woman   Cry A While   Dark Eyes   Day of the Locusts   Days of 49   Dead Man, Dead Man   Dear Landlord   Death is Not the End   Delia   Denise   Desolation Row   Diamond Joe   Dignity   Dirge   Dirt Road Blues   Disease of Conceit   Do Right to Me Baby   Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight   Don't Think Twice, It's All Right   Don't Ya Tell Henry   Down Along the Cove   Down in the Flood   Down the Highway   Drifter's Escape   Driftin' Too Far from Shore   Dusty Old Fairgrounds   Early Mornin' Rain   Emotionally Yours   Endless Highway   Eternal Circle   Every Grain of Sand   Everything is Broken   Farewell   Farewell Angelina   Father of Night   Final Theme   Fixin' to Die   Floater (Too Much To Ask)   Foot of Pride   Forever Young   Frankie & Albert   Freight Train Blues   Froggie Went a Courtin'   From a Buick 6   Gates of Eden   George Jackson   Get Your Rocks Off!   Girl of the North Country   Go 'Way Little Boy   God Knows   Goin' to Acapulco   Going, Going, Gone   Golden Loom   Gonna Change My Way of Thinking   Gospel Plow   Got My Mind Made Up   Gotta Serve Somebody   Gotta Travel On   Guess I'm Doin' Fine   Gypsy Lou   Had a Dream About You, Baby   Handy Dandy   Hard Times   Hard Times in New York Town   Hazel   He Was a Friend of Mine   Heart of Mine   Heartland   Hero Blues   High Water (For Charlie Patton)   Highlands   Highway 51 Blues   Highway 61 Revisited   Honest With Me   Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance   House Carpenter   House of the Rising Sun   Hurricane   I Am a Lonesome Hobo   I and I   I Believe in You   I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have M   I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine   I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know   I Pity the Poor Immigrant   I Shall Be Free   I Shall Be Free No.10   I Shall Be Released   I Threw It All Away   I Wanna Be Your Lover   I Want You   I Was Young When I Left Home   I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day   I'd Have You Any Time   I'll Be Your Baby Tonight   I'll Keep It with Mine   I'll Remember You   Idiot Wind   If Dogs Run Free   If I Don't Be There By Morning   If Not for You   If You Gotta Go, Go Now   If You See Her, Say Hello   In My Time of Dyin'   In Search of Little Sadie   In the Garden   In the Summertime   Is Your Love in Vain? 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