Intro To What's The Story Mr. Blue - Live at The 2nd Fret, Philadelphia, PA, 11/1966
The other day I was reading in a magazine that, ah
Bob Dylan had written one of his songs by taking left-over lines from dozens of songs he'd never finished
And I decided, well, "By golly, I've got about 15 unfinished songs at home
And what I'm gonna do with them, I'm gonna take the lines I like out of each one of them
And I'm gonna kind of cram them all together into a mulligan stew kind of song"
But the thing was that, all of the songs were on very, very different topics
And, so, to put them into one song, I had to develop them 'round a very basic plot
And a rock-and-roll beat
It goes
Now the plot goes like this: There was a fella named Mr. Blue
Who's no relation to David Blue at all
He's Mr. Blue because he's kind of sad
And he had a girlfriend, who he treated very badly
And, so she left him, and it serves him right
That's the plot
"What's The Story Mr. Blue?"
Bob Dylan had written one of his songs by taking left-over lines from dozens of songs he'd never finished
And I decided, well, "By golly, I've got about 15 unfinished songs at home
And what I'm gonna do with them, I'm gonna take the lines I like out of each one of them
And I'm gonna kind of cram them all together into a mulligan stew kind of song"
But the thing was that, all of the songs were on very, very different topics
And, so, to put them into one song, I had to develop them 'round a very basic plot
And a rock-and-roll beat
It goes
Now the plot goes like this: There was a fella named Mr. Blue
Who's no relation to David Blue at all
He's Mr. Blue because he's kind of sad
And he had a girlfriend, who he treated very badly
And, so she left him, and it serves him right
That's the plot
"What's The Story Mr. Blue?"
Credits
Writer(s): Joni Mitchell
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