"All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song initially appeared on his 1967 album JohnWesleyHarding, and it has been Read More Dec. 27, 1967 1 viewer 474.9K views 102 Contributors All Along the Watchtower Lyrics [Verse 1] "There must be some way out of here" Said the joker to the thief "There's too much Jimi Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower. From the moment Hendrix starts his version of All Along the Watchtower, it sounds like a different song. The tempo between Dylan and Hendrix's version of the song is about the same, but Hendrix's version is much more rock-oriented than the folk-based original. Thu 21 September 2023 9:00, UK Crafting the perfect cover is a difficult thing to achieve. It's not as simple as performing the notes and singing the lyrics on the page in front of you, or even as easy as paying homage to the track's originator in an unusual way. Share. Tools. A comparison of recordings of Bob Dylan's "All along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix offers a vivid case study of what Samuel Floyd characterizes as "the complementary oppositions of African- and European-derived musical processes and events." The 1968 song by the Jimi Hendrix Experience is such a definitive Hendrix classic that it's easy to forget it's a cover song: "All Along the Watchtower" was originally written by Bob Dylan, which, come to think of it, explains the lyrics. But how did Hendrix discover the song, and how on earth did he decide to cover the much more subdued Dylan .

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