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Stuck Inside of Mobile, With The Memphis Blues Again.
I had never heard of Bob Dylan. Never heard even one song. I discovered him while I was sitting on the floor inside an old bookstore in Mobile, Alabama. The used books were in the basement. This book was on a bottom shelf. I read pages and pages of the lyrics of his songs. I was knocked over. I bought the book. And then I read about him at a local Mobile public library. I never cared for folk music. At the time he was popular I was too busy trying to survive, and didn't care about hippies or politics. I didn't have a radio, a TV or a stereo system. Never read newspapers or magazines. I didn't go to concerts, nor did I have a gang of friends to party with. I had a mattress on the floor, a wind up alarm clock, and one pair of shoes, with duct tape on the soles to hold them together. But I did have books. The first Dylan song I heard, and I knew the lyrics, was 'Lay Lady Lay.'
Then, I began working for a progressive FM radio station in Mobile. I went to my first concert with the Music Program Director. He was also a DJ . It was a Bob Dylan concert in a small auditorium with a stage. I sat on the floor with hundreds of other people. Dylan had my attention. He only had three musicians with him. I can truthfully say, he is the only man I ever sat on a floor to listen to, or sat on a floor to read a book he had written.

steelnomad@diasp.org

The Damned - Life Goes On

Life goes on and on and on
If you think it's all gone wrong
Go on and on and on

Life's a con a con a con
If you think you can't go on
Go on and on and on

But always remember
This is the happiest day of your life

Life goes on and on and on
If you think it's all gone wrong
Go on and on and on

Life's a con a con a con
If you think you can't go on
Go on and on and on

And as the years they move along
I see it now, there's something wrong
'Cos life is for always
Take your time
Who cares what fools say
I don't mind
'Cos this is my day
I'll live it my way
Today, there's just today

Life goes on and on and on
If you think it's all gone wrong
Go on and on and on

Life's a con a con a con
If you think you can't go on
Go on and on and on

-The Damned-

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