"Come gather 'round people... The times they are a-changin' "(listen)

[Breeze54]

The times they are a-changin'

By Bob Dylan

Listen to short Mp3 clip: http://bobdylan.com/audio/albumtracks/WindowsMedia/56/times_times.asx

YouTube - Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changin ...
from unreleased Hard Rain Show - 22 April 1976 -Clearwater ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ_XwLSN45I

Views: 36,358

http://bobdylan.com/songs/times.html


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Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'

[Breeze54]

1. Come senators, congressmen; Please heed the call !

Don't stand in the doorway; Don't block up the hall



Come mothers and fathers, Your old road is Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one; If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'

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[Annces]

2. The answer is blowin in the wind

[Breeze54]

3. Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?

"Blowin' in the Wind"

http://bobdylan.com/songs/blowin.html

Bob Dylan & Joan Baez ~ 'Blowing in the wind' - 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f01UehWq3v8

Views: 191,603

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How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

[msedano]

4. this goes out to all the GIs who want to be home for Xmas

I'm Gonna Mail Myself to You
(Woody Guthrie)

I'm gonna wrap myself in paper
I'm gonna dot myself with glue
Stick some stamps on top of my head
I'm gonna mail myself to you

I'm gonna tie me up in a red string
I'm gonna tie a blue ribbon too
Climb up inside my mailbox
I'm gonna mail myself to you

When you find me in your mailbox
Cut the string and let me out
Wash the glue from off my fingers
Stick some bubblegum in my mouth

When you find me in your mailbox
Wash the glue from off my head
Fill me up with ice cream sodas
Tuck me into a nice warm bed.

I'm gonna wrap myself in paper
I'm gonna dot myself with glue
Stick some stamps on top of my head
I'm gonna mail myself to you

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Copyright Storm King Music

[Breeze54]

5. That brings a smile and a tear to my eye...remembering

Dec. '05 and waiting for my son to arrive at the airport from Iraq...

... for Xmas leave R & R after not seeing him for a year... :cry:

We were sooo happy and excited. So was he! :D

Good choice! :hug:

[Breeze54]

6. 'With God On Our Side' .....

'With God On Our Side'

By Bob dylan

http://bobdylan.com/songs/withgod.html

Listen: http://bobdylan.com/audio/albumtracks/WindowsMedia/56/withgod_times.asx

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Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.

Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.

Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.

Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.

I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.

But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

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[Breeze54]

7. 'Masters of War' ... You build to destroy ~~

'Masters of War'

By Bob Dylan

Listen: http://bobdylan.com/audio/albumtracks/WindowsMedia/56/masters_freewheelin.asx

Bob Dylan - Masters Of War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muQRIUVd6Aw

Views: 74,917


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Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big 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 nothin'
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 the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As 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
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'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

What's changed?

[msedano]

8. do we hope that "they" die, or that they grow a Soul?

come on , all you big strong men and women,
uncle sam your help again
he's got us all in a terrible jam
way down yonder in iraq & afghanistan...

only the words have been changed to assault the innocent.

http://www.countryjoe.com/feelmus.htm

[bdamomma]

9. history does repeat itself.

unfortunately.