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The Meaning of “All Along The Watchtower,” Lyrics by Bob Dylan

The Bible

Other writers have shown that the lyrics also resemble lines from the Book of Isaiah, specifically Chapter 21, verses 5-9, which state,
“Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise ye princes, and prepare the shield./ For thus hath the Lord said unto me,
Go set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth./And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed./…And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen.
And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.”

Narrative Structure

Professor of English literature Christopher Ricks has famously commented on the odd structure of Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” noting that the song seems to essentially begin just as it ends.

Said Ricks, “At the conclusion of the last verse, it is as if the song bizarrely begins at last, and as if the myth began again.”

All along the watchtower / Princes kept the view / While all the women came and went / Barefoot servants too / Outside, in the distance / A wildcat did growl / Two riders were approaching / The wind began to howl.

Others have noted the same technique, offering that as the song ends, the listener is free to fill in the blanks of what happens next: are the joker and the thief taken, killed?
Do they survive the potential onslaught that is likely about to befall them? It’s as if Dylan sparks our imagination and then leaves us before he’s even able to say, “To be continued…”

Yet while many offer generous critiques of the track, musician and longtime Dylan associate, Dave Van Ronk, provided some measured criticism, saying of the song and its author, “That whole artistic mystique is one of the great traps of this business, because down that road lies unintelligibility.

Dylan has a lot to answer for there because after a while he discovered that he could get away with anything—he was Bob Dylan and people would take whatever he wrote on faith.
So he could do something like ‘All Along the Watchtower’, which is simply a mistake from the title on down: a watchtower is not a road or a wall, and you can’t go along it.”

Musical Composition

Musically speaking, the song is rather simple: three chords and a shrieking harmonica.
At least, in Dylan’s version, that is.
Those chords continue to repeat throughout the tune.

In Hendrix’s cover, though, the musicality is taken to another level, given the guitar player’s prowess and ability to solo and provide a general sense of distorted rock to the previously otherwise clean tones.

Hendrix released his version in September 1968, a month prior to the release of Electric Ladyland. It became a Top 20 hit and in the U.K.,
the song became the first British stereo-only single to land in the Top 5.