Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylanis an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest, although Dylan repudiated suggestions from journalists that he was a spokesman for his generation. Nevertheless, early songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. After he left...
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth24 May 1941
CityDuluth, MN
Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.
I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?
I fought with my twin, the enemy within.
Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.
Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.
You’re a cow Give me some milk Or else go home
Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.
I'm one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.
Don't think twice, it's alright.
A noble truth is a sacred creed.
They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.
It's sundown on the Union and what's made in the USA, sure was a good idea, until greed got in the way.