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psych@diasp.org

And back to the buckets and lists....

This one, ✓

STONEHENGE AT DAWN

Not much sun to see at sunrise today, but the reason why so many say "it's a sundial" is because at sunrise & sunset there's an amazing view with various of the arches and "pointer" stones all lined up. Cosmic. Beautiful. And of course, at solstice time, stunning.

So among the buckets of long-stached bucket list items, this was a success. But for here, lots of rain gear needed as well, because "I've seen sun and I've seen rain"... and on his day I've seen...

#### Buckets of Rain
So I'm wet, but smiling. (Ah-choo!)

#myphoto #Stonehenge #monuments #photography #Fenfotos #Dylan #Buckets #BucketsOfRain #sundial #music

psych@diasp.org

And… 2/2 - Randy Newman examples

This is the other song praised by Dylan and mentioned in the article. They have a studio version in the article. This is live, just
Randy Newman and his piano. 🎶 🎹 Jazzopen Stuttgart 2006

#RandyNewman #BobDylan #musica #music #musique #Louisiana #songwriter #PopLegend #Dylan

Louisiana 1927

What has happened down here is the winds have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and it rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

The river rose all day
The river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through clear down to Plaquemines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangelne

Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tyrin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand
The President say, "Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has done
To this poor crackers land."

Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

sylviaj@joindiaspora.com

Bob Dylan ~ Political World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg29g6D0sPs

We live in a political world Love don’t have any place We’re living in times Where men commit crimes
And crime don’t have a face

We live in a political world Icicles hanging down Wedding bells ring And angels sing
And clouds cover up the ground

We live in a political world Wisdom is thrown in jail It rots in a cell Is misguided as hell
Leaving no one to pick up the trail

We live in a political world Where mercy walks the plank Life is in mirrors Death disappears
Up the steps to the nearest bank

We live in a political world Courage is a thing of the past Houses are haunted Children unwanted
The next day could be your last

We live in a political world The one we can see and feel But there’s no one to check It’s all a stacked deck
We all know for sure that it’s real

We live in a political world In the cities of lonesome fear Little by little You turn in the middle
But you’re never sure why you’re here

We live in a political world Under the microscope You can travel anywhere And hang yourself there
You always got more than enough rope

We live in a political world Turning and trashing about As soon as you’re awake You’re trained to take
What looks like the easy way out

We live in a political world Where peace is not welcome at all It’s turned away from the door To wonder some more
Or put up against the wall

We live in a political world Everything is hers and his Climb into the frame And shout God’s name
But you’re not even sure what it is

#musicvideo #bobdylan #dylan #politicalworld

psych@diasp.org

Brrr...
Temps quickly rising from 10 to 30 (F), windy... and I'm just hearing the arrival of the first expected "freezing rain" drops.

And this dropped in too. Into mind. [Note for next rainy day: "I just dropped in to see what condition..."]. Meanwhile...

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall


WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?

Oh, 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

And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?

Oh, 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

And 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, it 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

And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

Oh, who 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

Oh, what’ll you do now, my blue-eyed son?

Oh, 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

Where 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

~~

#Dylan #BobDylan #Rain #Legends #music #musica #musique #hardrain

sylviaj@joindiaspora.com

Bob Dylan ~ Highway 61 Revisited

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhrtdQ9i-A
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/how-bob-dylan-made-rock-history-on-highway-61-revisited-249576/

"Like a Rolling Stone" "Tombstone Blues" "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" "From a Buick 6" "Ballad of a Thin Man"
"Queen Jane Approximately" "Highway 61 Revisited" "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" "Desolation Row"

#Highway61Revisited is the sixth studio #album by American singer-songwriter #BobDylan, released on August 30, #1965. Having until then recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used #rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album, except for the closing track, the 11-minute ballad "Desolation Row". Critics have focused on the innovative way #Dylan combined driving, #blues-based #music with the subtlety of #poetry to create songs that captured the #political and #cultural #chaos of contemporary America. Author Michael Gray has argued that, in an important sense, the #1960s "started" with this album.
Leading with the hit song "Like a Rolling Stone", the album features songs that Dylan has continued to perform live over his long career, including "Ballad of a Thin Man" and the title track. He named the album after the major #American #highway which connected his birthplace of #Duluth, #Minnesota, to southern cities famed for their musical heritage, including St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, and the Delta blues area of Mississippi.
#musicvideo #audio

sylviaj@joindiaspora.com

Bob Dylan ~ License to Kill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRrlFYg2QkI
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylans-license-to-kill-video-infidels-footage-1237766/

'Features entire #Infidels band, including #DireStraits frontman #MarkKnopfler, former #RollingStones guitarist #MickTaylor, bassist #RobbieShakespeare, and drummer #SlyDunbar.'

'Man thinks 'cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please And if things don't change soon, he will
Oh, man has invented his doom First step was touching the moon.

Now there's a woman on my block She just sit there as the night grows still
She say who gonna take away his license to kill ?

Now, they take him and they teach him and they groom him for life And they set him on a path where he's bound to get ill
Then they bury him with stars Sell his body like they do used cars.

Now, there's a woman on my block She just sit there facing the hill
She say who gonna take away his license to kill ?

Now, he's hell-bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill
All he believe are his eyes And his eyes, they just tell him lies.

But there's a woman on my block Sitting there in a cold chill
She say who gonna take away his license to kill ?

Ya may be a noisemaker, spirit maker Heartbreaker, backbreaker Leave no stone unturned
May be an actor in a plot That might be all that you got 'Til your error you clearly learn.

Now he worships at an altar of a stagnant pool And when he sees his reflection, he's fulfilled
Oh, man is opposed to fair play He wants it all and he wants it his way.

Now, there's a woman on my blocks She just sit there as the night grows still
She say who gonna take away his license to kill ?'
#musicvideo #bobdylan #dylan #licensetokill

sylviaj@joindiaspora.com

Bobby, Eric ~ Live At Madison Square Garden 30 June1999, Part 1, 2, 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWQMI8XSMV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FShJGepmjT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4k8M9YbBpc

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right ~ It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry ~ Born In Time ~ Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat ~ Not Dark Yet ~
Crossroads ~ Sunshine Of Your Love ~ Bright Lights, Big City

#musicvideo #bobdylan #dylan #ericclapton #clapton #madisonsquaregarden #ny #concert #1999 @Alfred

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Masters of War (Witmark Demo - 1963)

Come, you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothing
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
While the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn?
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness?
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death will come soon
I will follow your casket
By the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

#BobDylan #music... @sylviaj@joindiaspora.com'n all #Dylan fans...