[Vision2020] Moscow's new radio station:Hendrix/Dylan/Baez

[Tom Hansen]

Yes.  You are very right.  Bob Dylan, the master of vocal activism.

 

My all time greatest is Dylan's "Subteranean Homesick Blues"

 

"Johnny's in the basement

Mixing up the medicine

I'm on the pavement

Thinking about the government

The man in the trench coat

Badge out, laid off

Says he's got a bad cough

Wants to get it paid off

Look out kid

It's somethin' you did

God knows when

But you're doin' it again

You better duck down the alley way

Lookin' for a new friend

The man in the coon-skin cap

In the big pen

Wants eleven dollar bills

You only got ten

 

Maggie comes fleet foot

Face full of black soot

Talkin' that the heat put

Plants in the bed but

The phone's tapped anyway

Maggie says that many say

They must bust in early May

Orders from the D. A.

Look out kid

Don't matter what you did

Walk on your tip toes

Don't try "No Doz"

Better stay away from those

That carry around a fire hose

Keep a clean nose

Watch the plain clothes

You don't need a weather man

To know which way the wind blows

 

Get sick, get well

Hang around a ink well

Ring bell, hard to tell

If anything is goin' to sell

Try hard, get barred

Get back, write braille

Get jailed, jump bail

Join the army if you fail

Look out kid

You're gonna get hit

But cheaters, boosers

Six-time losers

Hang around the theaters

Girl by the whirlpool

Lookin' for a new fool

Don't follow leaders

Watch the parkin' meters

 

Ah get born, keep warm

Short pants, romance, learn to dance

Get dressed, get blessed

Try to be a success

Please her, please him, buy gifts

Don't steal, don't lift

Twenty years of schoolin'

And they put you on the day shift

Look out kid

They keep it all hid

Better jump down a manhole

Light yourself a candle

Don't wear sandals

Try to avoid the scandals

Don't wanna be a bum

You better chew gum

The pump don't work

'Cause the vandals took the handles"

 

Take care,

 

Tom

 

 

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 

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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Moscow's new radio station:Hendrix/Dylan/Baez

 


Tom:

Indeed, the lyrics you posted, from the song "All Along The Watchtower,"
which Jimi Hendrix recorded and released on his masterpiece, "Electric
Ladyland," deserve thanks.  However, though Bob Dylan said Hendrix's version
of this song is better than his, the song IS by Bob Dylan.

Many of Dylan's songs are better done by other artists than by Dylan.  Joan
Baez does an especially fantastic job with Dylan's songs, and I recommend
highly the albums "Any Day Now" or "Baez Sings Dylan," though they have many
of the same songs in common, so pick one or the other, for an amazing song
after awesome song experience.  Baez gives her all in these interpretations
of Dylan's work.

"Any Day Now" has Baez's version of the song "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"
and "Baez Sings Dylan" does not, so maybe "Any Day Now" is the one to go
for.

Rumor has it Dylan and Baez were lovers at one time.

How come I remember all this stuff with ease, yet I can't keep track of what
day of the week it is?

Is it OK to say "lovers?"  I mean just think of the images this might
suggest in the impure mind!  

Ted Moffett

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