Joe Scott (Austin Scott) and the cast of Girl From The North Country performs Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane.”
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Behind the Curtain: "Girl from the North Country"
Go behind the curtain of the Tony-winning "Girl from the North Country."
"Like A Rolling Stone" from "Girl From The North Country"
The cast of Girl From The North Country performs "Like A Rolling Stone."
Girl from the North Country
Experience this musical by Conor McPherson featuring the music of Bob Dylan set in 1934 Minnesota.
TRANSCRIPT
♪♪ ♪ Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night ♪ ♪ Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall ♪ ♪ She sees the bartender in a pool of blood ♪ ♪ Cries out “My God, they killed them all!” ♪ ♪ Here comes the story of the Hurricane ♪ ♪ The man the authorities came to blame ♪ ♪ For somethin that he never done ♪ ♪ Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been ♪ ♪ The champion of the world ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Three bodies lyin there does Patty see ♪ ♪ And another man named Bello, ♪ ♪ Movin around mysteriously ♪ ♪ “I didnt do it,” he says, and he throws up his hands ♪ ♪ “I was only robbin the register, I hope you understand ♪ I saw them leavin,” he says, and he stops ♪ ♪ “One of us had better call up the cops” ♪ ♪ And so Patty calls the cops ♪ ♪ And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin ♪ ♪ In the hot New Jersey night.
♪ ♪♪ ♪ All along the watchtower Princes kept the view ♪ ♪ While the women came and went.
Barefoot servants too.
♪ ♪ Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl ♪ ♪ Two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl.
♪ ♪ When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road ♪ ♪ Just like the time before and the time before that ♪ ♪ In Paterson thats just the way things go ♪ ♪ If youre black you might as well not show up on the street ♪ ♪ Less you wanna draw the heat ♪ ♪♪
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