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[Ya-ta Boy]

You might also enjoy this song of Joan Baez's about a phone call she received from Dylan years after their affair ended.

Diamonds and Rust

Well I'll be damned
Here comes your ghost again
But that's not unusual
It's just that the moon is full
And you happened to call
And here I sit
Hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I'd known
A couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall

As I remember your eyes
Were bluer than robin's eggs
My poetry was lousy you said
Where are you calling from?
A booth in the midwest
Ten years ago
I bought you some cufflinks
You brought me something
We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust

Well you burst on the scene
Already a legend
The unwashed phenomenon
The original vagabond
You strayed into my arms
And there you stayed
Temporarily lost at sea
The Madonna was yours for free
Yes the girl on the half-shell
Would keep you unharmed

Now I see you standing
With brown leaves falling around
And snow in your hair
Now you're smiling out the window
Of that crummy hotel
Over Washington Square
Our breath comes out white clouds
Mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
We both could have died then and there

Now you're telling me
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
Because I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid

� 1975 Chandos Music (ASCAP)

[Rteacher]

Besides "All Along the Watchtower" (by Jimi Hendrix) I think some of the most notable covers of Dylan were "My Back Pages" (and "Mr. Tambourine Man") by the Byrds, "All I Really Want To Do" (Sonny and Cher), "It Ain't Me, Babe" (Turtles), "Forever Young" (Rod Stewart), "If Not For You" (George Harrison), "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (Guns and Roses), "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (Al Kooper, Steve Stills, Mike Bloomfield : Super Session), "Just Like a Woman" (Richie Havens), "Mighty Quinn" (Manfred Mann), "A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall" (Edie Brikell and the New Bohemians) and, of course, "Blowin' In the Wind" - and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Peter, Paul and Mary...)

[cj1976]

Bob Dylan is far better to read than to listen to. Lyrically fantastic but vocally challenged. His songs always sound better when someone else sings them.

[jajdude]

Did he really write this one?
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Love Henry

"Get down, get down, Love Henry," she cried.
"And stay all night with me.
I have gold chains, and the finest I have
I'll apply them all to thee."

2. "I can't get down and I shan't get down,
Or stay all night with thee.
Some pretty little girl in Cornersville
I love far better than thee."

3. He layed his head on a pillow of down.
Kisses she gave him three.
With a penny knife that she held in her hand
She murdered mortal he.

Instrumental

4. "Get well, get well, Love Henry, " She cried,
"Get well, get well," said she.
"Oh don't you see my own heart's blood
Come flowin' down so free?"

5. She took him by his long yellow hair,
And also by his feet.
She plunged him into well water, where
It runs both cold and deep.

6. "Lie there, lie there, Love Henry," she cried,
"Til the flesh rots off your bones.
Some pretty little girl in Cornersville
Will mourn for your return."

Instrumental

7. "Hush up, hush up, my parrot," she cried,
"And light on my right knee.
The doors to your cage shall be decked with gold
And hung on a willow tree."

9. "I won't fly down, I can't fly down
And light on your right knee.
A girl who would murder her own true love
Would kill a little birdlike me."
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Is there a more depressing song?

[jajdude]

[jajdude]

He was born: May 24, 1941

Bob is 66. Wow.

[cwemory]

The University of Minnesota just finished a major symposium on Dylans' work. Would have loved to been there.

[The Bobster]

"Tangled Up in Blue" hasn't been mentioned often enough. Gotta fix that.

Early one mornin' the sun was shinin',
I was layin' in bed
Wond'rin' if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red.
Her folks they said our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like Mama's homemade dress
Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough.
And I was standin' on the side of the road
Rain fallin' on my shoes
Heading out for the East Coast
Lord knows I've paid some dues gettin' through,
Tangled up in blue.

She was married when we first met
Soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a jam, I guess,
But I used a little too much force.
We drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out West
Split up on a dark sad night
Both agreeing it was best.
She turned around to look at me
As I was walkin' away
I heard her say over my shoulder,
"We'll meet again someday on the avenue,"
Tangled up in blue.

I had a job in the great north woods
Working as a cook for a spell
But I never did like it all that much
And one day the ax just fell.
So I drifted down to New Orleans
Where I happened to be employed
Workin' for a while on a fishin' boat
Right outside of Delacroix.
But all the while I was alone
The past was close behind,
I seen a lot of women
But she never escaped my mind, and I just grew
Tangled up in blue.

She was workin' in a topless place
And I stopped in for a beer,
I just kept lookin' at the side of her face
In the spotlight so clear.
And later on as the crowd thinned out
I's just about to do the same,
She was standing there in back of my chair
Said to me, "Don't I know your name?"
I muttered somethin' underneath my breath,
She studied the lines on my face.
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe,
Tangled up in blue.

She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe
"I thought you'd never say hello," she said
"You look like the silent type."
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century.
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you,
Tangled up in blue.

I lived with them on Montague Street
In a basement down the stairs,
There was music in the cafes at night
And revolution in the air.
Then he started into dealing with slaves
And something inside of him died.
She had to sell everything she owned
And froze up inside.
And when finally the bottom fell out
I became withdrawn,
The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew,
Tangled up in blue.

So now I'm goin' back again,
I got to get to her somehow.
All the people we used to know
They're an illusion to me now.
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenter's wives.
Don't know how it all got started,
I don't know what they're doin' with their lives.
But me, I'm still on the road
Headin' for another joint
We always did feel the same,
We just saw it from a different point of view,
Tangled up in blue.



Copyright � 1974 Ram's Horn Music

[Tiger Beer]

Youth and being a part of the times. Songwriting was an explored art at the time as well.

[PBRstreetgang21]

I don't know that Dylan still has another "Blood On The Tracks" or "Blonde on Blonde" in him, but he still churns out amazing work. His latest "Modern Times" has some truly good numbers in there, and I thought "Love and Theft" had some really greats songs as well. We'll see what his new album does when it hits shelves next week.

Yet one of the things that makes Dylan carry on it that he really has a way of making his songs relevant for ALL time. There are a number that are dated, but even more (especially the great one's) that are not.

30yrs from now (or even today) You'd have to explain to someone why Subterianean Homesick Blues is a great song. You will never have to explain to someone why "Tangled Up in Blue" is an amazing song, or "Blowin' In The Wind" for that matter. He writes songs about the most basic human emotions and concepts, and that is truly Timeless.

Part of why he has such a following and IS so beloved is because he writes about very simple basic everyday feelings in a extraordinarily lucid lines. He brings the most simple, mundae aspects of existence with a color and texture many song-writers and even poets and writers seem to struggle their whole lives and never do.

Im sure there were people in 1700s going (I wonder if 300yrs from now Shakespeare will be nothing more than a footnote?) He is certainly not.

2030? Wait till 2200, Bob Dylan will have his own Academic Journal published at Harvard.

The man shaped music in ways unimagined at his time, and I think at some level shapes music today. One of the greatest poets since Wallace Stevens and truly one of the most important America cultural figures since Walt Whitman.

[runlikegump]

Dylan is a poet, no doubt, but he's no Leonard Cohen.

[eamo]

I would always listen to the opinion of other noted musicians on whether a guy is overated or not. They tend to have an informed opinion. They're in the business and they know how hard it is to write good songs.

The list of venerable names who rate Dylan as the best is very long indeed.

Although, for me personally, Van Morrison was better. But that's because I love soul music. Dylan never did soul.

Plus, Van made good albums right through the late 70's and 80's. Dylan didn't. Dylan has only recovered his form lately. Unfortunately, Van hasn't made a decent album since 1987. But his form up to then was better than Dylan's.

[PBRstreetgang21]

eh he did have a drought there in the early 80s but that was largely because he realesed three born-again christian albums. I think that had a significant dampering effect.

Infidels in 83 was not bad by Dylan standards, and not bad by Dylan standards is better than most artists pretty good.

In 89 with Oh Mercy he got his groove back. His drought period was rough but is over played. He didnt release a number of truly good albums (with the exception of Oh Mercy) but even his bad albums had some real gems. Brownsville Girl on Knocked out and Loaded (1986) was one of the best songs he ever wrote, and Jockerman was on infidels in 83. Plus Slow Train coming in 79 could be played in the states today and its social commentary would probably ring even MORE true than it did in 79.

It was certainly the lowest point of his career but it wasnt as bad as everyone makes it out to be.

[schwa]

Dylan's new album Tell Tale Signs is streaming for free on www.npr.com until this tuesday coming.

Two discs of outtakes & bootlegs spanning the last 20 years. Some great stuff.