# 273 BOB DYLAN & THE DAVID BROMBERG BAND - Catskills Serenade (1992) Video

ACME RECORDING
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
JUNE 3-5, 1992
Produced by David Bromberg

Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar) backed by David Bromberg (guitar) and his band: Peter Ecklund (trumpet), John Firmin (tenor saxophone & clarinet), Curtis Linberg (trombone), Glen Lowe (guitar), Dick Fegy (fiddle & mandolin), Jeff Wisor (fiddle & mandolin), Christopher Cameron (keyboards), Robert Amiot (bass), Richard Crooks (drums).

CATSKILL SERENADE
words and music David Bromberg

Where are the men
that I used to sport with?
What has become
of my beautiful town?

Wolf, my own friend
Even you don't know me
This must be the end
My house is tumbled down

My land it was rich, but I wouldn't work it
I guess I made a shrew of my wife
My duty clear, I could always find some way to shirk it
I dreamed away the best years of my life

Seems like only this morning, I went up into the mountain
No word of warning, just her usual curse
I hated the house, with all her nagging and shouting
But to be in this strange world was a thousand times worse

Where are the men
that I used to sport with?
What has become
of my beautiful town?

Wolf, my own friend
Even you don't know me
This must be the end
My house is tumbled down

He called me by name, he bought me that cheaply
He called me by name, I didn't know what to think
I watched their loud games, and oh, I drink deeply
Though no-one had ever asked me to drink

And you know that stolen liquor, it was sweeter than whiskey
Many times quicker, just to put me to sleep
That drinking with strangers can be very risky
My sleep it was long, it was twenty years deep

Where are the men
that I used to sport with?
What has become
of my beautiful town?

Wolf, my own friend
Even you don't know me
This must be the end
My house is tumbled down

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Jolie028: wonderful!

claudieboni1: I went to the mountains today for a 7 hours walk, and this song goes on very well with the beautiful landscapes of the Mercantour Valley.