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| Bob Dylan – Lo and Behold! Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Found great gobs of Shakespeare in the Basement Tapes in general; this baby refers in multiple places to Antony and Cleopatra, e.g. punchline of "Get me out of here, my dear man" referring to Marc Antony's botched suicide, and his asking servant to help finish it. "Count up to 30" refers to 30 BC when the two died. "What's the matter with your mounds"=breasts of course, Cleopatra's, but the "matter" is the asp's poison. "San Antone" hints at Marc Antony's name, etc. "And of course I knew she WILL" (above lyrics incorrect) is not just Dylan doing a "hillbilly", it hints at Shakespeare, as does "William's Point" in "Crash on the Levee" (and mimics Shakespeare's own "will" puns--frequent!) |
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