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"Joey" is a song from Bob Dylan's 1976 album ''Desire''. It was written by Dylan and Jacques Levy, who collaborated with Dylan on most of the songs on the album. In a 2009 interview with Bill Flanagan, Dylan claimed that Levy wrote all the words to this song.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bobdylan.com/sites/www.bobdylan.com/themes/zen/dylan/pdf/conversation-6.pdf )〕 Like another long song on the album, "Hurricane", "Joey" is biographical. The song is about the life and death of mobster Joey Gallo, who had been killed on his birthday at Umberto's Clam House in Little Italy, on April 7, 1972. == Meaning == The song treats Gallo sympathetically, despite his violent history.〔〔 Gallo had been accused of at least two murders and had been convicted of several felonies.〔 But in the song he is given credit for distrusting guns, being reluctant to kill hostages and for shielding his family when he was being killed, and makes him appear to be an unwilling participant in the crimes of his henchmen, thus not deserving his fate.〔〔 As a result of the sympathetic treatment, critics such as Lester Bangs harshly criticized Dylan and the song. Bangs described it as "repellent romanticist bullshit."〔 However, Dylan claims that he always thought of Gallo as a kind of hero and an underdog fighting against the elements. Besides his status as an outsider, Dylan was likely also drawn to the fact that Gallo's best friends in prison were black men. In addition Gallo was able to gain sympathy in artistic circles by passing himself off as a cultured person victimized by the "system".〔 The song has been described as including a demonstration of "the weak view of providence" in Dylan's songs.〔 That is, a view that God usually allows humans to act as they want, but occasionally intervenes when a grave injustice has been done or a special plan needs to be carried out.〔 In "Joey", this is demonstrated in the lines: :''And someday if God's in heaven, overlookin' His preserve'' :''I know the men that shot him down, will get what they deserve''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joey (Bob Dylan song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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