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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Hey Bob Dylan, they wrote you these songs (sort of)


Happy Birthday Bob Dylan, born Robert Alan Zimmerman, May 24, 1941.
Five Bob Dylan (*by name) mentions in song:

1-Mr Jones and Me-Counting Crows
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women "She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me." I want to be Bob Dylan
2-The Seeker-The Who
I asked Bobby Dylan I asked The Beatles I asked Timothy Leary But he couldn't help me either
3-I Came to Dance-Nils Lofgren
I Ain't Bob Dylan, but, I never miss a beat.

4-Give Peace a Chance-John Lennon
Ev'rybody's talking about John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper,Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,Hare, Hare Krishna

5- ?

* Don't have a # 5. Would add "Diamonds and Rust" by Joan Baez - certainly about Bob Dylan without mentioning him by name. Would accept anything similar.

DIAMONDS AND RUST (Words and Music by Joan Baez)
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)

Ira,
The fifth one is A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission) by Simon and Garfunkel. (Ya Gotta Serve Somebody...).
Donny


hey ira,
yola reminded me of a 1966 release by the Mamas & Papas which has the lyric
"McGuinn and MacGuire kept getting higher" and also mentions Mr. D by name. (GS)

We overlooked this one by Bowie:

SONG FOR BOB DYLAN from Hunky Dory -nonkinsense

posted by NONKINSENSE @ 11:32 PM


If you're as big a Dylan fan as I, you should check out this incredible book I just read A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties.

Amazing - and quite the insight.  


"Song for Bob Dylan" by David Bowie.  


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