just like tom thumb's blues

• aslen "just like tom thumb's blues" olan dylan $arkisi..
  when you're lost in the rain in juarez
  and it's eastertime too
  and your gravity fails
  and negativity don't pull you through
  don't put on any airs
  when you're down on rue morgue avenue
  they got some hungry women there
  and they really make a mess outa you
  
  now if you see saint annie
  please tell her thanks a lot
  i cannot move
  my fingers are all in a knot
  i don't have the strength
  to get up and take another shot
  and my best friend, my doctor
  won't even say what it is i've got
  
  sweet melinda
  the peasants call her the goddess of gloom
  she speaks good english
  and she invites you up into her room
  and you're so kind
  and careful not to go to her too soon
  and she takes your voice
  and leaves you howling at the moon
  
  up on housing project hill
  it's either fortune or fame
  you must pick up one or the other
  though neither of them are to be what they claim
  if you're lookin' to get silly
  you better go back to from where you came
  because the cops don't need you
  and man they expect the same
  
  now all the authorities
  they just stand around and boast
  how they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms
  into leaving his post
  and picking up angel who
  just arrived here from the coast
  who looked so fine at first
  but left looking just like a ghost
  
  i started out on burgundy
  but soon hit the harder stuff
  everybody said they'd stand behind me
  when the game got rough
  but the joke was on me
  there was nobody even there to call my bluff
  i'm going back to new york city
  i do believe i've had enough
  
  (bkz: highway 61 revisited)
• son yayınlanan bootleg series vol. 7de muazzam çalınmış şarkı.
• kelimelerin kifayetsiz kaldığı güzellikte bir nina simone yorumu da bulunmaktadır.
• son beyiti, finger lickin good'un sonunda da, bir vuruş yaparak so what'cha want'a bağlar bizi.
• dinlerken insanin mizika olasi geliyor. nba spikeri agziyla soylersek "unbelievable", gultepe cocugu agziyla soylersek "on numara amina koyam."
• mükemmel ve ötesi,ne tatlı bir kliptir o öyle...
• şarkının yazımında dylan'ın ciudad juarez deneyimi nirengi noktasıdır. kriminolojik öğelerin (yolsuzluk, fuhuş, cinayet vb.) varlığı şarkı sözlerine yansımıştır.