Joey
Dylan Bob

Dylan Bob
Desire
Joey
by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy

Born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the year of who knows when
Opened up his eyes to the tune of an accordion
Always on the outside of whatever side there was
When they asked him why it had to be that way, Well, he answered, just
because.

Larry was the oldest, Joey was next to last.
They called Joe Crazy, the baby they called Kid Blast.
Some say they lived off gambling and runnin' numbers too.
It always seemed they got caught between the mob and the men in blue.

Joey, Joey,
King of the streets, child of clay.
Joey, Joey,
What made them want to come and blow you away?

There was talk they killed their rivals, but the truth was far from that
No one ever knew for sure where they were really at.
When they tried to strangle Larry, Joey almost hit the roof.
He went out that night to seek revenge, thinkin' he was bulletproof.

The war broke out at the break of dawn, it emptied out the streets
Joey and his brothers suffered terrible defeats
Till they ventured out behind the lines and took five prisoners.
They stashed them away in a basement, called them amateurs.

The hostages were tremblin' when they heard a man exclaim,
Let's blow this place to kingdom come, let Con Edison take the blame.
But Joey stepped up, he raised his hand, said, We're not those kind of men.
It's peace and quiet that we need to go back to work again.

Joey, Joey,
King of the streets, child of clay.
Joey, Joey,
What made them want to come and blow you away?

The police department hounded him, they called him Mr. Smith
They got him on conspiracy, they were never sure who with.
What time is it? said the judge to Joey when they met
Five to ten, said Joey. The judge says, That's exactly what you get.

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich
They threw him in the hole one time for tryin' to stop a strike.
His closest friends were black men 'cause they seemed to understand
What it's like to be in society with a shackle on your hand.

When they let him out in '71 he'd lost a little weight
But he dressed like Jimmy Cagney and I swear he did look great.
He tried to find the way back into the life he left behind
To the boss he said, I have returned and now I want what's mine.

Joey, Joey,
King of the streets, child of clay.
Joey, Joey,
Why did they have to come and blow you away?

It was true that in his later years he would not carry a gun
I'm around too many children, he'd say, they should never know of one.
Yet he walked right into the clubhouse of his lifelong deadly foe,
Emptied out the register, said, Tell 'em it was Crazy Joe.

One day they blew him down in a clam bar in New York
He could see it comin' through the door as he lifted up his fork.
He pushed the table over to protect his family
Then he staggered out into the streets of Little Italy.

Joey, Joey,
King of the streets, child of clay.
Joey, Joey,
What made them want to come and blow you away?

Sister Jacqueline and Carmela and mother Mary all did weep.
I heard his best friend Frankie say, He ain't dead, he's just asleep.
Then I saw the old man's limousine head back towards the grave
I guess he had to say one last goodbye to the son that he could not save.

The sun turned cold over President Street and the town of Brooklyn mourned
They said a mass in the old church near the house where he was born.
And someday if God's in heaven overlookin' His preserve
I know the men that shot him down will get what they deserve.

Joey, Joey,
King of the streets, child of clay.
Joey, Joey,
What made them want to come and blow you away?


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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   Black Diamond Bay   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? 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  Isis   It Ain't Me, Babe   It Hurts Me Too   It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry   It's All Over Now, Baby Blue   It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)   Jack-A-Roe   Jet Pilot   Jim Jones   John Brown   John Wesley Harding   Jokerman   Just Like a Woman   Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues   Katie's Been Gone   Kingsport Town   Knockin' on Heaven's Door   Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie   Lay Down Your Weary Tune   Lay, Lady, Lay   Legionnaire's Disease   Lenny Bruce   Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat   Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat   Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat   Let It Be Me   Let Me Die in My Footsteps   Let's Keep It Between Us   Let's Stick Together   License to Kill   Like a Rolling Stone   Lily of the West   Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts   Little Maggie   Little Sadie   Living the Blues   Lo and Behold!   Lone Pilgrim   Lonesome Day Blues   Long Ago, Far Away   Long Time Gone   Long-Distance Operator   Lord Protect My Child   Love Henry   Love Is Just A Four-letter Word   Love Minus Zero / No Limit   Love Sick   Maggie's Farm   Make You Feel My Love   Mama, You Been on My Mind   Man Gave Names to All the Animals   Man in the Long Black Coat   Man of Constant Sorrow   Man of Peace   Man on the Street   Mary Ann   Masters of War   Maybe Someday   Meet Me in the Morning   Million Dollar Bash   Million Miles   Minstrel Boy   Mississippi   Mixed Up Confusion   Money Blues   Moonlight   Moonshiner   Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine   Most of the Time   Motorpsycho Nightmare   Mozambique   Mr. Bojangles   Mr. Tambourine Man   My Back Pages   Nashville Skyline Rag   Need a Woman   Neighborhood Bully   Never Gonna Be the Same Again   Never Say Goodbye   New Morning   New Pony   Night After Night   Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)   No More Auction Block   No Time to Think   Nobody 'Cept You   North Country Blues   Not Dark Yet   Nothing was Delivered   Obviously Five Believers   Odds and Ends   Oh, Sister   On a Night Like This   On the Road Again   One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)   One More Night   One More Weekend   One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)   One Too Many Mornings   Only a Hobo   Only a Pawn in Their Game   Open the Door, Homer   Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)   Outlaw Blues   Oxford Town   Paths of Victory   Peggy Day   Percy's Song   Playboys and Playgirls   Please, Mrs. Henry   Pledging My Time   Po' Boy   Political World   Poor Boy Blues   Positively 4th Street   Precious Angel   Precious Memories   Pressing On   Pretty Peggy-O   Property of Jesus   Queen Jane Approximately   Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)   Quit Your Low Down Ways   Ragged & Dirty   Rainy Day Women #12 & 35   Rambling, Gambling Willie   Rank Strangers to Me   Restless Farewell   Ring Them Bells   Rita May   River Theme   Romance in Durango   Ruben Remus   Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands   Sally Sue Brown   Santa Fe   Sara   Sarah Jane   Saved   Saving Grace   See That My Grave is Kept Clean   Seeing the Real You at Last   Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)   Series of Dreams   Seven Curses   Seven Days   She Belongs to Me   She's Your Lover Now   Shelter from the Storm   Shenandoah   Shooting Star   Shot of Love   Sign Language   Sign On The Cross   Sign on the Window   Silent Weekend   Silvio   Simple Twist of Fate   Sittin' on Top of the World   Sitting on a Barbed-Wire Fence   Slow Train   Solid Rock   Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart   Something There is About You   Something's Burning, Baby   Song to Woody   Spanish Harlem Incident   Spanish is the Loving Tongue   Stack A Lee   Stage Fright   Standing In The Doorway   Standing On The Highway   Steel Bars   Step It Up And Go   Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Agai   Subterranean Homesick Blues   Sugar Baby   Summer Days   Suze (The Cough Song)   Sweetheart Like You   T.V. 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