“All Along the Watchtower” is one of the most famous songs of the 20th century, written and recorded by Bob Dylan. It first appeared on Dylan’s eighth studio album, John Wesley Harding, released in 1967.
However, the song is more strongly identified with the interpretation recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, for the album Electric Ladyland (1968). Hendrix created an electrifying rock classic, hailed by The Telegraph and Rolling Stone as the greatest cover of all time:
I thought it would be fun to rework the lyrics for Trump times: “All Along the Trump Tower.”
All Along the Trump Tower
There must be some kind of way outta here
Said his staffers in their grief
There’s too much confusion
We can’t get no relief
CNN report his crimes
They dig to unearth
All of them along the line
Know what only counts is facts first
Hey! Hey!
No reason to get excited
The chief, he blindly spoke
The many alt-right among us
Who feel my life is to provoke
But you and I, we’ve been through that
And this is not my fate
So let us keep talkin’ falsely now
The hour is getting late
Hey!
(Guitar Solo)
Hey!
All along the Trump Tower
Grifters kept the view
While all the Russians came and went
Barefoot lawyers, too
Outside in the cold distance
A trumpet did sound
Two riders were approaching
And his heart began to pound
Hey!
All along the Trump Tower
All along the Trump Tower
David Buckna, Kelowna