3 Meanings
Add Yours
Follow
Share
Q&A
Quinn the Eskimo Lyrics
Everybody's building the big ships and the boats.
Some are building monuments, others jotting down notes.
Everybody's in despair, every girl and boy,
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here everybody's gonna jump for joy.
Come all without, come all within.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
Now I like to do just like the rest, I like my sugar sweet.
But guarding fumes and making haste, it ain't my cup of meat.
Everybody's just standing around 'neath the trees
feeding pigeons on a limb.
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, all the pigeons gonna run to him.
Come all without, come all within.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
A cat's meow and a cow's moo, I can't recite 'em all.
Just tell me where it hurts and I'll tell you who to call.
Nobody can get any sleep, there's someone on everybody's toes.
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna wanna doze.
Come all without, come all within.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
Come all without, come all within.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
Some are building monuments, others jotting down notes.
Everybody's in despair, every girl and boy,
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here everybody's gonna jump for joy.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
But guarding fumes and making haste, it ain't my cup of meat.
Everybody's just standing around 'neath the trees
feeding pigeons on a limb.
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, all the pigeons gonna run to him.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
Just tell me where it hurts and I'll tell you who to call.
Nobody can get any sleep, there's someone on everybody's toes.
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna wanna doze.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
Come all without, come all within.
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.
Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.
what the hell is this song about??
its a bob dylan song the dead just covered it.
Reality is not fixed, and certainly has never been fixed for as deep a person as Bob Dylan, as mystical person as Bob Dylan, and as serious of an artist as Bob Dylan. Is this song talking about a drug dealer, maybe...if so, it's certainly not as direct as say "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf. Is it about Jesus (or another savior figure), perhaps...is it a reference to Anthony Quinn, well of course, at least it could be. Dylan is an artist, quite complicated as a person, some of his songs are quite direct and easy to interpret, this is not one of those songs. It is a bit of an oddity in Dylan's work, though he's wrote numerous songs that tend to get "sing-along-ish", this one is very much in that vein, and very much more of a 'pop song" than most anything else he's ever done, at least in my memory. And, like many great writers, he may have intended people to draw multiple meanings, to create the meaning for themselves, and since it is so "pop" sounding, a lot of fun can be had in just enjoying the song/tune regardless of what the thing actually means. For what it's worth, I don't think so many of the 60's songs many are always claiming to be about drugs, are necessarily about drugs.