The Last Waltz Page #2

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

Argh!

Arrrgh!

Arrrrrrgh!

Arrrggghhh!

Thank you, Ronnie!

The Hawk!

And the week went on

and it was a little depressing.

And it was especially depressing cos we

didn't have any money at all. No dough.

At one point,

we had no more food money.

It got to the point where, coming from

Canada, we had these overcoats,

big overcoats with pockets and

everything, and we had a little routine.

We'd go to the shopping centre,

all together.

- But I stayed home, right?

- No, you didn't.

I got the cigarettes.

I turned the cigarette machine upside

down and got everybody some cigarettes.

- Yeah, but that was on the...

- You got me some baloney.

We'd go to the supermarket

and a couple of people would buy

a couple of loaves of bread,

cos that was about

the cheapest thing you could get.

And the rest of us would be carousing

the aisles, stuffing baloney.

It'd be time to leave, the guy with

the loaves would go to the checkout

and we'd say "We'll meet you

at the car. You take the bread out. "

- Ya'll come back!

- And with these overcoats...

' And it makes no difference where I turn

' I can't get over you

and the flame still burns

' And it makes no difference, night or day

' The shadow never seems to fade away

' And the sun don't shine any more

' And the rains fall down on my door

' Well, these old love letters

' Well, I just can't keep them

' Cos, like the gambler says

' Read 'em and weep

' And the dawn don't rescue me no more

' Without your love I have nothing at all

' Like an empty hall, it's a lonely fall

' Since you've been gone,

it's a losing battle

' Stampeding cattle they rattle the walls

' And the sun don't shine any more

' And the rains fall down on my door

' Well, I love you so much

' And it's all I can do

' Just to keep myself from telling you

' That I never felt so alone before

Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,

And smale foweles maken melodye,

That slepen al the nyght with open eye-

So priketh hem Nature in hir corages;

Thanne longen folk to goon

on pilgrimages

To ferne halwes,

kowthe in sondry londes;

And specially from every shires ende

Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,

The hooly blisful martir for the seke

That hem hath holpen,

whan that they were seeke

Michael McClure!

You all know Doctor John?

Mac Rebennack. Come on, Mac.

In thankfulness to The Band

and all the fellas.

Two, three, four, one...

' Such a night

' Such a night

' Sweet confusion

' under the moonlight

' Such a night

' Such a night

' Got to steal away

' The time seems right

' When your eyes met mine

' At a glance

' You let me know

' This was my chance

' You came in with my best friend Jim

' See I aim da-da-da

to steal you away from him

' Oh, baby, if I don't do it,

somebody else will

' If I don't do it, somebody else will

' If I don't do it, somebody else will

' If I don't do it, somebody else will

' Such a night

' Such a night

' Sweet confusion

' under the moonlight

' Such a night

' Such a night

' Got to steal away

' The time seems right

' Baby, I couldn't believe my ears

' My heart just skipped a little beat

' You told me we could slip away

' Down the dark end of the street

' Baby, you came in

with my best friend Jim

' See, I aim da-da-da

to steal you away from him, baby

' If I don't do it, somebody else will

' If I don't do it,

you know somebody else will

' If I don't do it, somebody else will

' If I don't do it, somebody else will

Hey!

The Doctor!

Everybody knows him.

You know this guy, I bet.

- Thank you, man, for letting me do this.

- Oh, sh*t. Are you kidding?

Are you kidding?

I'd just like to say before I start

that it's one of the pleasures of my life

to be able to be on the stage

with these people tonight.

They got it now, Robbie.

' There is a town in north Ontario

' With dream-comfort memories to spare

' In my mind I still need a place to go

' All my changes were there

' Blue, blue windows behind the stars

' Yellow moon on the rise

' The big birds flying across the sky

' They were throwing

shadows on our eyes

' Leave us

' Helpless, helpless, helpless

' You make me feel so helpless

' Well, baby, can you hear me now?

' I can hear you now

' The chains are locked

and tied across my door

' But, baby, baby, sing with me somehow

' Blue, blue windows behind the stars

' Yellow moon on the rise

' The big birds flying across the sky

' They're throwing shadows on our eyes

' Leave us

' Helpless, helpless, helpless

' Helpless, helpless, helpless

' Helpless, helpless, helpless

' Baby, can you hear me now?

' Helpless, helpless, helpless

' Helpless, helpless, helpless

' Helpless, helpless, helpless

' Chains are locked and tied

' Helpless, helpless, helpless

' Baby, baby, baby,

sing with me somehow

- ' Helpless, helpless, helpless

- ' With me somehow

' Helpless, helpless, helpless

Neil Young!

I don't know what it is. Maybe

the years connect or it's coincidence,

but it seems like that's it.

That's what The Last Waltz is.

I mean, 16 years on the road.

The numbers start to scare you.

I couldn't live with 20 years on the road.

I don't think I could even discuss it.

' Now deep in the heart of a lonely kid

' Who suffered so much for what he did

' They gave this poor boy

his fortune and fame

' Since that day he ain't been the same

' See the man with the stage fright

' Just standing up there

to give it all his might

' He got caught in the spotlight

' But when we get to the end

' He wants to start all over again

' I've got firewater right on my breath

' And the doctor warned me

I might catch a death

' He said "You can make it

in your disguise"

' "Just never show the fear in your eyes"

' See the man with the stage fright

' Just standing up there

to give it all his might

' He got caught in the spotlight

' But when we get to the end

' He wants to start all over again

' Now when he says that he's afraid

' Won't you take him at his word?

' And for the price that

the poor boy has paid

' Well, he gets to sing just like a bird

' Oooh oooh oooh-oooh

' My brow is sweating

and my mouth gets dry

' The fancy people go drifting by

' Well, the moment of truth

is right at hand

' Just one more nightmare you can stand

' See the man with the stage fright

' Just standing up there

to give it all his might

' And he got caught in the spotlight

' But when we get to the end

' Well, he wants to start

all over again, no, no, no

' That's right, make him start

' Just let him take it from the top

Well, we were The Hawks.

Everything was fine.

We were sailing along.

And all of a sudden, one day, The Hawks

meant something else altogether.

It was right in the middle

of that whole psychedelia.

"Chocolate Subway". "Marshmallow

Overcoat". Those kind of names.

When we were working with Bob Dylan

and we moved to Woodstock,

everybody referred to us as The Band.

He called us The Band. Our friends

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