I Shall Be Free Lyrics
Took me a while to notice the reference to racial segregation in the third verse. Used to think it was just playful nonsense.
that took me a while too :) bob is just brilliant. i wonder what else has gone over my head in some of his songs!
that took me a while too :) bob is just brilliant. i wonder what else has gone over my head in some of his songs!
@BraveSirRobin I thought I was alone noticing this, it's so subtle. What a great writer
@BraveSirRobin I thought I was alone noticing this, it's so subtle. What a great writer
Easily my favorite Dylan song... if it's not yours, it should be! Not that anybody's gonna read this, but... yeah, it covers the full Dylan spectrum- insightful, political, sometimes nonsensical, completely hysterical. Gotta love the noble-sounding title and the constrasting, irreverent content. I love it!
"He's eatin' bagels, he's eatin' pizza, he's eatin' chitlins" makes me grin every time :)
I figured out where the 'greasy kid stuff' line comes from. When Ted Kennedy got elected to the US senate for the first time in 1962, his older brother President Kennedy joked with him. Ted recalled: "I was down at the White House this afternoon with some suggestions for the State of the Union address, but all I got from him was, "Are you still using that greasy kid stuff on your hair?"
HAHAH you're not perverted, abel bob is! lol
i hear ya, amazing, but "don't think twice, it's alright" is my real fave
"i just along and stroll and sing i see better days and i do better things"
Right on, Jack, for transcribing the song and putting it on here. There's one correction to point out, though. "Oula Tunjee" should be "Olatunji", as in Babatunde Olatunji, the musician from Nigeria.
Is the part about Kennedy a sexual pun? You know, these beautiful women would make people "grow". Or perhaps I'm just a pervert or dude with a fertile imagination.
anyone know who the "football man" on the TV he was referring to?
Well, my telephone rang it would not stop, It's President Kennedy callin' me up. He said, 'My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?' I said, 'My friend, John, Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren.'
HAhahaha.....i love this verse....