"This Wheel's on Fire" is a song by Bob Dylan & The Band, recorded in 1967 and included on their studio album The Basement Tapes (1975), as well as The Band's studio album Music from Big Pink (1968).
Background and release[]
A version was recorded by Julie Driscoll in 1968, which reached the top 5 in the UK. Driscoll re-recorded the track in the early 1990s, as the theme to BBC comedy series Absolutely Fabulous. In 2016, Kylie Minogue recorded a cover of the song as the official theme song for Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
This cover was released as a promotional single in June 2016.
Lyrics[]
If your memory serves you well
We were going to meet again and wait
So I’m gonna unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late
No man alive will come to you
With another tale to tell
But you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well
This wheel’s on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode
If your memory serves you well
I was going to confiscate my lace
And wrap it up in a sailor’s knot
And hide it in your case
If I knew for sure that it was yours
But it was oh so hard to tell
But you knew that we would meet again
If your memory serves you well
This wheel’s on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode
If your memory serves you well
You’ll remember you’re the one
That called on me to call on them
To get you your favours done
And after every plan had failed
And there was nothing more to tell
You knew that we would meet again
If your memory served you well
This wheel’s on fire
Rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode