It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (track)
by Bob Dylan
Year: 1965
From the album Bringing It All Back Home (track #10)
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It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) appears on the following album(s) by Bob Dylan:
- Bringing It All Back Home (track #10) (this album) (1965)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964 (Concert At Philharmonic Hall) (track #8) (2004)
- Bob Dylan At Budokan (track #20) (1978)
- The Original Mono Recordings (track #57) (compilation) (2010)
- The Complete Budokan 1978 (track #27) (2023)
- The Complete Budokan 1978 (track #56) (2023)
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| 01/14/2026 04:30 | AbsurdCheesecake | 1,614 | 90/100 | |
| 12/10/2025 01:35 | Exist-en-ciel | 80,738 | 70/100 | |
| 12/03/2025 21:21 | Arnio | 173 | 64/100 | |
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Hey everyone - how can Mother Nature's Son below get 8 unhelpful votes simply for stating that in their opinion the song goes on and on?
It is a great song with superb lyrics but is a bit one dimensional. It doesn't have the punch of Subterranean Homesick Blues or the melody of Mr Tambourine Man.
Don't find this comment unhelpful because there is some criticism. Are we all to think the same and hold in disregard the different views of others?
"While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred"
In my opinion, this is the most jaw dropping song in the entire Bob Dylan Canon. Lyrically, Dylan is as sharp as a knife, this song alone features many of his greatest lines, and musically it's arguably Dylan's most eerie and unsettling song. As far as i'm concerned, this song is the centrepiece of the Bringing it all back home album, not Mr. Tambourine man. It's alright ma, is one of Dylan's greatest songs. By the way, how is this not a top rated track?
Martini 10/18/2015 18:57 | #151642
Briljant song.
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
Mother Nature's Son 08/31/2013 12:27 | #84894
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