The Mighty Quinn Lyrics

Lyric discussion by scottyboyd 

Cover art for The Mighty Quinn lyrics by Manfred Mann

YES and NO. The name "Mighty Quinn" was the name of a dealers "car" of a mixed cocaine. and that was named after the Anthony Quinn movie reference. There was CLEARLY no religious reference and that is just Xtians wanting to "find jesus" in everything. How ignorant and "how christian of you"! (That is NEVER a compliment from me!) It is about how good you'll feel when you buy this guys coke! People are always ignorant about the drug culture of NYC and the terms used. Look for your musical religious referencing in songs from your hymnals only! You'll find VERY FEW ever in pop culture music. Also the "come on without, come all within" and "jumpin queues is saying if you are without coke come to the clubs, and the Queues are the lines outside the clubs to get in! Also "building ship and boats" was about mixing your drugs and buying drugs from more than one dealer, ships refered to a dealers shipment and boats were the black plastic bags the coke was in to get it into the clubs. So building ships and boats was getting your stock ready each day for the nights business in the clubs "tea rooms"! Thanks, Scotty

My Interpretation

@scottyboyd looking way too much into it dude...If Dob Dylan included this many hints and references he would have been writing a movie script...think more generally

@scottyboyd looking way too much into it dude...If Dob Dylan included this many hints and references he would have been writing a movie script...think more generally

@scottyboyd Yeah... Bob Dylan didn't have a huge and public conversion to Christianity which informed his music for decades or anything. I'm sure it's all just obscure references to NYC drug culture.

How "East Coast" of you. (That's NEVER a compliment from me.)