The Duhks "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding"

Everyday, the main page of mvyradio.com has The Lyric Of The Day. It's something we've been doing for years on our site. Just giving you a little thought, as you load up our page, explore the archives, see what's new.

I'm usually the one who posts the lyric, and, like so many things in life, doing the first several was really easy. We all have our favorites. But putting up a thoughtful, insightful and/or relevant lyric, every day, can be a challenge. You always keep your ears open for a great line. Especially if it's something that makes you hear the song differently, or that is hard to hear in the context of the song, but is potent on the page.

Today's lyric was written by Bob Dylan. Bless those Dylanophiles---his website contains every lyric he has ever published, and you can search by key word. So you can now answer the burning question, "How many songs by Bob Dylan, use the word chicken?" Three!

I was thinking of this song a couple of weeks back, when President Obama was visiting Martha's Vineyard. I always try to pick a lyric that relates to something that's happening in our world. A lyric from The Album Of The Week. A lyric relating to the weather or the holiday.

There's a great line in "It's Alright, Ma" that goes "But even The President Of The United States must sometimes have to stand naked." It's a pithy lyric about how, at the end of the day, we're all just fallible humans.

I thought about putting that line up, during the Obama visit, but I worried that, out of context, it sounds a little weird. Creepy even. Asking you to picture something you maybe weren't planning on picturing during your visit to mvyradio.com. So I skipped it.

But this past weekend at the Rhythm & Roots Festival, The Duhks did a fantastic version of it, so I had to go back to the original lyrics, and post a line from this tremendous song, for Wednesday's lyric of the day.

Was I too prudish, to hold back on the nude President line?

Hear The Duhks version "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding," recorded at Rhythm & Roots 2009.

Hear the whole set from The Duhks, plus other sets from Rhythm & Roots 2009, in mvyradio's Archives

See young Dylan perform the song, here