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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 06:00 AM
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Bob Dylan Earworm (the man is a freaken poet)
Edited on Mon Jan-22-07 06:04 AM by GoPsUx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clR3_u83ZVE
works now
WORKINGMAN'S BLUES #2

There's an evenin' haze settlin' over town
Starlight by the edge of the creek
The buyin' power of the proletariat's gone down
Money's gettin' shallow and weak
Well, the place I love best is a sweet memory
It's a new path that we trod
They say low wages are a reality
If we want to compete abroad

My cruel weapons have been put on the shelf
Come sit down on my knee
You are dearer to me than myself
As you yourself can see
While I'm listening to the steel rails hum
Got both eyes tight shut
Just sitting here trying to keep the hunger from
Creeping it's way into my gut


Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind
Bring me my boots and shoes
You can hang back or fight your best on the frontline
Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues

Well, I'm sailin' on back, ready for the long haul
Tossed by the winds and the seas
I'll drag 'em all down to hell and I'll stand 'em at the wall
I'll sell 'em to their enemies
I'm tryin' to feed my soul with thought
Gonna sleep off the rest of the day
Sometimes no one wants what we got
Sometimes you can't give it away

Now the place is ringed with countless foes
Some of them may be deaf and dumb
No man, no woman knows
The hour that sorrow will come
In the dark I hear the night birds call
I can feel a lover's breath
I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall
Sleep is like a temporary death



Well, they burned my barn, and they stole my horse
I can't save a dime
I got to be careful, I don't want to be forced
Into a life of continual crime
I can see for myself that the sun is sinking
How I wish you were here to see
Tell me now, am I wrong in thinking
That you have forgotten me?

Now they worry and they hurry and they fuss and they fret
They waste your nights and days
Them I will forget
But you I'll remember always
Old memories of you to me have clung
You've wounded me with your words
Gonna have to straighten out your tongue
It's all true, everything you've heard



In you, my friend, I find no blame
Wanna look in my eyes, please do
No one can ever claim
That I took up arms against you
All across the peaceful sacred fields
They will lay you low
They'll break your horns and slash you with steel
I say it so it must be so

Now I'm down on my luck and I'm black and blue
Gonna give you another chance
I'm all alone and I'm expecting you
To lead me off in a cheerful dance
I got a brand new suit and a brand new wife
I can live on rice and beans
Some people never worked a day in their life
Don't know what work even means

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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 06:10 AM
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1. Agree. I'm diggin' this very cynical Dylan tune lately:
Hi, my friend! :hug:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCJCV35MYUs

Things Have Changed
A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
There's a woman on my lap and she's drinking champagne
Got white skin, got assassin's eyes
I'm looking up into the sapphire tinted skies
I'm well dressed, waiting on the last train

Bridge #1:
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loose

Chorus
People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed

This place ain't doing me any good
I'm in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons do the jitterbug rag
Ain't no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he's got anything to prove

Bridge #2
Lot of water under the bridge, Lot of other stuff too
Don't get up gentlemen, I'm only passing through

(chorus)

I've been walking forty miles of bad road
If the bible is right, the world will explode
I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
Some things are too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You can't win with a losing hand

Bridge #3
Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet
Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street

(chorus)

I hurt easy, I just don't show it
You can hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me

Bridge #4
Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake
I'm not that eager to make a mistake

(chorus)

Copyright © 1999 Special Rider Music
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 06:14 AM
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2. Good morning Heidi
I am doing good.
Considering it's monday And I have to go to work :mad:
:hug:
It's nice to hear from you
I hope all is well with you :)
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 06:18 AM
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3. Rainy and yuck here,
but I have a cup of Chai tea and a sleepy cat, and CMW's around here someplace, so all is well. Big hug to you, GoPxUx! :hug:
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 06:24 AM
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4. It's snowey and ugly here
Big Hugs in return :hug:
I am drinking instant folgiers coffee(I bet your tea taste tons better) :)
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buddhamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 07:21 AM
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5. i have been playing this one a lot the past couple of days
in honor of The New Haven Coliseum, which was torn down on Saturday. I spent countless hours inside the Coliseum. :(



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlgB08SHrN4

Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble
Ancient footprints are everywhere
Well you can almost think that you're seein' double
On a cold dark night on the Spanish Stairs
Got to hurry on back to my hotel room
Where I've got me a date with Botticelli's niece
She promised she'd be right there with me
When I paint my masterpiece

Oh, the hours I've spent inside the Coliseum
Dodging lions and wastin' time
Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle
I can hardly stand to see 'em
Well, it sure has been a long hard ride
Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory
When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese
Someday, life will be sweet like a rhapsody
When I paint my masterpiece

Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola
Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola

I left Rome and landed in Brussels
On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried
Clergymen in uniform and young girls pullin' muscles
Everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside
Newspapermen eating candy
Had to be held down by big police
Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece

Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece
When I paint my masterpiece

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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-22-07 07:30 AM
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6. I like it buddhamama
Sorry about the coliseum.
:hug:
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