Old School Dylan

[Statalyzer]

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must Boomer Sooner play
Before the band is forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind

How many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
And how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
And how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
Well OU, my friend, is sucking in the wind
The Sooners are sucking in the wind

 

[Statalyzer]

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 paperclip cap
By 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 tiptoes
Don’t try “No-Doze”
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don’t need a weatherman
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 Sooners are cheaters
And big-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
Switzer and his scandals
Don’t wanna be a bum
You better chew gum
The pump don’t work
’Cause the Land Thieves took the handles

 

[WorsterMan]

Before the term was coined, Dylan was "counterculture" in 1964. He wrote & sang a lot of dynamic & iconoclastic music.

His folk rock influenced many IMHO: CSNY, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and especially The Byrds. Maybe others I cannot recall.

 

[SabreHorn]

Worster,

Back my freshman year there were not enough freshman English classes, so kids were sitting around the English Dept table in Gregory Gym waiting on the possibility that new classes would be created. After a day or so, a small class was created and to meet on the fifth floor (???) of the BEB. The guy teaching it was in his 30s. He wanted to teach us to write and express ourselves rather than concentrate on grammar and punctuation.

He repeatedly told us that Bob Dylan was the "new Willie Shakespeare".

Sidebar - I took the first half of Freshman English in the BEB and the second half in Taylor Hall (Engineering Building). I consider that year the beginning of the "Great Faculty War" from which the school will never recover.

 

[WorsterMan]

Worster,

Back my freshman year there were not enough freshman English classes, so kids were sitting around the English Dept table in Gregory Gym waiting on the possibility that new classes would be created. After a day or so, a small class was created and to meet on the fifth floor (???) of the BEB. The guy teaching it was in his 30s. He wanted to teach us to write and express ourselves rather than concentrate on grammar and punctuation.

He repeatedly told us that Bob Dylan was the "new Willie Shakespeare".

Sidebar - I took the first half of Freshman English in the BEB and the second half in Taylor Hall (Engineering Building). I consider that year the beginning of the "Great Faculty War" from which the school will never recover.

Well my friend, that gathering / class was a foundation that certainly and obviously helped you "express" yourself in life!!

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

I wonder if @SabreHorn sounds like Dylan when he sings.

 

[SabreHorn]

In my mind - Roy Orbison

In reality - Roy Rogers horse Trigger

 

[Chop]

Bob Dylan said that Townes Van Zandt was the greatest folk musician (then) alive.

 

[erbutch]

The suns not yellow its chicken

 

[erbutch]

Got some old folks remember Dylan

 

[SabreHorn]

Butch,

I never agreed with my English prof. I thought Brian Wilson was the new Shakespeare, then Jim Morrison broke on the scene

 

[erbutch]

Sabre,I would have thought Dylan was closer to Shakespeare than Brian Wilson or Morrison.

 

[nashhorn]

Haha I heard Jackson brown was the RnR poet laureate and believed it way back when. At least till I heard he hit/abused Linda Ronstadt, then I hated him. Although after she went all liberal on me I changed my opinion of her too. Dang it, all my old heroes have changed. Ok not all but most.

 

[SabreHorn]

butch,

True, but it was more about who I wanted to hear.