Robert Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan)- top 5

[BeauJangles]

7 hours ago, Episcopius said:

I answered the quiz way early

I must have missed it. Perhaps you didn't use the Worthy Quote Mode? 

7 hours ago, Episcopius said:

Technical problems here, down for night

Ah! Okay. Just click on the blue box with + and next to Quote  if you wish to quote them in a post response. 

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Edited August 12, 2020 by BeauJangles

[BeauJangles]

2 hours ago, Henry_iain said:

8 hours ago, Episcopius said:

Don't think twice, it's alright.

I love the way he used double meanings. Very Shakespearean 

Peter, Paul & Mary did a decent cover of this as well. Mom and I were very fond of this famous main stream folk trio. She purchased the LP with, Leaving on a Jet Plane for me, which I believe John Denver composed? Their other hit on this album was, I Dig Rock and Roll Music. A very nice tune. Several of  some of our favorite groups are mentioned in this Top 10 Hit.  

 

1. I Dig Rock and Roll Music

   Peter, Paul and Mary

   I dig rock and roll music
   And I love to get the chance to play (and sing it)
   I figure it's about the happiest sound goin' down today

   The message may not move me
   Or mean a great deal to me
   But hey! It feels so groovy to say
   I dig the Mamas and the Papas at "the trip"
   Sunset strip in L.A.
   And they got a good thing goin'
   When the words don't get in the way
   And when they're really wailing
   Michelle and Cass are sailin'
   Hey! they really nail me to the wall

   Donovan kind of in a dream-like, tripped out way
   His crystal images tell you 'bout a brighter day
   And when the Beatles tell you
   They've got a word "love" to sell you
   They mean exactly what they say

   I dig rock and roll music
   I could really get it on in that scene.
   I think I could say somethin' if you know what I mean
   But if I really say it, the radio won't play it
   Unless I lay it between the lines
   Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa
   Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa
   Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa

[BeauJangles]

One of the songs that put Dylan officially as a "protest singer" would be this bash at just about everything and everyone associated with the so-called, "establishment". This bold and outspoken tune and lyrics are more than confrontational. It was straight from the shoulder and hit directly between the eyes. It lashes out against the common frustrations with the youth of our time, being the 1960's. And it was not only in America. They became worldwide concerns. Things such as, socio-economic equality, racial rights, and wars were raging on in the entire world. Global unrest was apparent and age had little to do with planetary dissatisfaction. 

 

1. The Times They Are A-Changin'

   Bob Dylan

   Come gather 'round, people
   Wherever you roam
   And admit that the waters
   Around you have grown
   And accept it that soon
   You'll be drenched to the bone
   If your time to you is worth savin'
   And you better start swimmin'
   Or you'll sink like a stone
   For the times they are a-changin'

   Come writers and critics
   Who prophesize with your pen
   And keep your eyes wide
   The chance won't come again
   And don't speak too soon
   For the wheel's still in spin
   And there's no tellin' who
   That it's namin'
   For the loser now
   Will be later to win
   For the times they are a-changin'

   Come senators, congressmen
   Please heed the call
   Don't stand in the doorway
   Don't block up the hall
   For he that gets hurt
   Will be he who has stalled
   The battle outside ragin'
   Will soon shake your windows
   And rattle your walls
   For the times they are a-changin'

   Come mothers and fathers
   Throughout the land
   And don't criticize
   What you can't understand
   Your sons and your daughters
   Are beyond your command
   Your old road is rapidly agin'
   Please get out of the new one
   If you can't lend your hand
   For the times they are a-changin'

   The line it is drawn
   The curse it is cast
   The slow one now
   Will later be fast
   As the present now
   Will later be past
   The order is rapidly fadin'
   And the first one now
   Will later be last
   For the times they are a-changin'

   

               Bob Dylan 

[Henry_iain]

11 minutes ago, BeauJangles said:

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'

given where we are today, do you think he is right?

[BeauJangles]

6 minutes ago, Henry_iain said:

given where we are today, do you think he is right?

He was right as the Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. 

Edited August 12, 2020 by BeauJangles

[SisterWells]

9 minutes ago, BeauJangles said:

One of the songs that put Dylan officially as a "protest singer" would be this bash at just about everything and everyone associated with the so-called, "establishment". This bold and outspoken tune and lyrics are more than confrontational. It was straight from the shoulder and hit directly between the eyes. It lashes out against the common frustrations with the youth of our time, being the 1960's. And it was not only in America. They became worldwide concerns. Things such as, socio-economic equality, racial rights, and wars were raging on in the entire world. Global unrest was apparent and age had little to do with planetary dissatisfaction. 

 

1. The Times They Are A-Changin'

 

I was first introduced to Dylan with this song. My sister sent it to me online. I'm sure I probably heard it before but never paid attention to the words. After that, I actually wrote him a letter, lol. I can't remember what it said but I think I asked him how much longer we are going to have to wait, ha! I think it was 6 or 7 years ago.

 

I am absolutely loving his new album Rough and Rowdy Ways. I've listened to it so many times. Meaning is constantly evolving in my minds eye. I just listened to, "I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" which reminds me of Henry's loyalty to LadyPear in the land of last ♡

[SisterWells]

7 minutes ago, BeauJangles said:

He was right as the Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. 

Yes, a hard rain's gonna fall. I cried many, many tears listening to this one over the years. I know about the highway, so sad.

[BeauJangles]

7 minutes ago, BeauJangles said:

He was right as the Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. 

Here are the lyrics to Dylan's rendition of Lord Randall's poem and also one of my favorites. 

 

1. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

   Bob Dylan

   Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son
   And where have you been, my darling young one
   I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
   I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
   I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
   I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
   I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
   And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
   It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

   Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son
   And what did you see, my darling young one
   I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
   I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
   I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
   I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
   I saw a white ladder all covered with water
   I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
   I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
   And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
   It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

   And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
   And what did you hear, my darling young one?
   I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warnin'
   Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
   Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
   Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
   Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
   Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
   Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
   And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
   It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

   Oh, what did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
   Who did you meet, my darling young one?
   I met a young child beside a dead pony
   I met a white man who walked a black dog
   I met a young woman whose body was burning
   I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
   I met one man who was wounded in love
   I met another man who was wounded with hatred
   And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
   It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

   And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
   And what'll you do now, my darling young one?
   I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
   I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
   Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
   Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
   Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
   And the executioner's face is always well hidden
   Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
   Where black is the color, where none is the number
   And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
   And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
   Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
   But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
   And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
   It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

   

   Bob Dylan with his son, Jakob

 

[BeauJangles]

2 minutes ago, SisterWells said:

Yes, a hard rain's gonna fall. I cried many, many tears listening to this one over the years. I know about the highway, so sad.

Indeed. I can surely understand why. While the chord structure to the this song were simplistic, the words and phrases of the lyrics went deeply into the heart of everyone listening with intent to find meaning. I think we all fully realize what an amazing individual and artist Bob Dylan was as a person and musician. 

[Henry_iain]

I riding on the mayflower when I thought i spied some land