歌曲名 Black Diamond Bay

歌手名 Bob Dylan

作词：Jacques Levy/Bob Dylan

作曲：Jacques Levy/Bob Dylan

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 nothing like that

And all of 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 calling 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 morning 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 hearing you right

And as the yellow fog is lifting

The greek is quickly heading for the second floor

She passes him on the spiral staircase

Thinking 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

Doing business with a tiny man who sells him a

Ring

Lightning strikes the lights blow out

The desk clerk wakes she 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 sgil 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 than 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 a help there's danger near

Please open up at 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

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

Well 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 sitting home alone one night in L A

Watching old cronkite on the seven o'clock news

It seems there was an earthquake that

Left nothing but a panama hat

And a pair of old greek shoes

Didn't seem like much was happening

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 nothing anyone can say

And I never did plan to go anyway

To black diamond bay