Maybe my music teaching Mom gave me an “appreciation gene” if not a drop of talent.
I noticed the new Pope thinks Bob Dylan is a “false prophet.” I don’t remem- ber Bob claiming deity. I asked “Country” who he thought the new Pope would be? “Probably be another Catholic,” he reassured.
People tell me “I can’t understand what Dylan is saying” or “I don’t get it.” Maybe you get him or you don’t.
I know during rehab from several surgeries I read his lyrics book closely. An
updated one goes through 2002.
If you’re interested in this wealth of work read the lyrics along with the music.
I’m a Dylan fan, not a “Dylanologist.” Over 5000 courses are taught in Dylan
throughout academia.
Two Dylan poems hold up with the “greats”: (1) Forever Young and (2) Every
Grain of Sand. Read number one for your children, number two for your faith. If these don’t affect you, read no further in this chapter. (Pages 181-182)
Ray Charles once suggested, “ you may not like all I play, but hang on, I’ll find you.”

Here’s a recording of a recent talk I gave at my alma mater, Barton College.

I shared two video clips at the talk:

Enjoy!

Tom Parham, Winning Tennis Coach, Author, and Bob Dylan Fan to Speak at Hackney Library

DYLAN QUOTE TEST

MATCH QUOTATIONS WITH SONG TITLES

QUOTES

1._____”If God is on our side, He’ll stop the next war.

2._____”And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

3._____”All right—where do you want this killing done?”

4._____”Is your money that good? Will it buy forgiveness? Do you think that it could?

5._____”Things are breaking up out there, high water everywhere.

6._____”Let’s disconnect the cables overturn the tables. This place just don’t make         sense to me no more. Can you tell me what we are waiting for, Senor?”

7_____”May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift.”

8_____”But you and I have been through that, and this is not our fate so let us not talk falsely the hour is getting late.”

9_____”I gaze into the doorway of temptations angry flames. And every time I pass that way I always hear my name.”

10. ___”Happiness is just a state of mind. Anytime you wish you can cross the state line.”

11_____”Before the sky there are no fences facing”

12_____”Something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is”

13_____”Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now”

14_____” strike another match, go start anew.”

15____”You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”

16____”For he gets hurt will be he who has stalled”

17___”But to live outside the law, you must be honest”

18____”And I’ll tell it, and think it, and speak it and breathe it”

19_____”But it’s not that way, I wasn’t born to loose you.”

20_____”Kick your shoes off, do not fear, bring that bottle over here.”

21____”I’d just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear as someone who has had you on his mind”

22_____”Goodbye is too good a word girl”

23_____”So many roads, so much at stake so many dead ends, sometimes I wonder what it’s going to take to find dignity”

24______”It’s only other peoples games you got to dodge”

25____”Just remember when you are out there trying to heal the sick, that you must first forgive them.”

26_____”You’d know what a drag it is to see you.

27_____”You went to the finest school all right Miss Lonely. But you only used to get juiced in it”

28_____”I got sidetracked in El Paso, stopped to get myself a map, went the wrong way into Juarez with Juanita on my lap. Then I went to sleep in Shreveport, woke up in Abilene wondering why the hell I’m wanted at some town halfway between.”

29____”Bury the rag deep in your face, for now is the time for your tears”

30_____”That long black cloud is coming down. “

Jennifer Fulmer played on my Women’s tennis team at Elon University. One day the AUSTIN TEXAS senior wore a “Dylan Days” tee shirt to practice. She told me that they played Dylan all day long in Austin every  year on that day.
Mr. Dylan just won the Nobel Prize for Literature, having just played the desert concert along with the ‘stones, Paul McCartney, the Who, Neil Young,etc. Quite a week.
Tonight he plays on tour in Durham,NC.

“,,,roses are red and violets are blue,
and time is beginning to crawl.
I just might have to come see you,
where teardrops fall.”

“There’s a big gaping hole in my chest where my heart was,
and a hole in the sky where God used to be.
My American dream fell apart at the seams.
You tell me what it means. You tell me what it means.”
Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson

MARCH
22
2018
Bob Dylan Setlist
at Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal
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Things Have Changed

It Ain’t Me, Babe

Highway 61 Revisited

Simple Twist of Fate

Summer Days

Make You Feel My Love

Honest With Me

Tryin’ to Get to Heaven

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Pay in Blood

Tangled Up in Blue

Soon After Midnight

Early Roman Kings

Desolation Row

Spirit on the Water

Thunder on the Mountain

Why Try to Change Me Now
(Cy Coleman Jazz Trio cover)

Love Sick

Encore:
Blowin’ in the Wind

Ballad of a Thin Man

Suggested Songs (Dylan) for certain topics:
Poverty: Race: Academia: The Bizarre: Dignity: Pride:
War:
“Hollis Brown”
“Blind Willie McTell”, “Emmett Till” “Day of the Locusts”
“Desolation Row”
“Dignity”
“Foot of Pride”
“Masters of War”
“Blowin’ in the Wind”
“Its Alright , Ma”
“With God on Our side”
“John Brown”
“All Along the Watchtower
“Senor’”
“High Water (Charlie Patton)
“Going, Going, gone”
“Girl from the North Country” “Maggie’s Farm”
“Stuck Inside of Mobile”
“I’ll Remember You”
“Love Minus Zero/No Limit”
“She belongs to Me”
“Forever Young”
“Lord Protect My Child”
“Most of the Time”
“Sara”
“Hard Rain”
“Lay, Lady, Lay”
“If Not For You”
“Tight Connection to My Heart” “Love is Just a Four Letter Word” “Tangled Up in Blue”
Isis”
“Lily, Rosemary, & the Jack of Hearts” “Brownsville Girl”
“Hurricane”
“Political World”
Depression: Home: Capitalism: Alienation: Friendship: Art:
Children: Lost Love:
Ecology: Love:
Storytelling: “
Politics: 250
Play Is Where Life Is
Best “Covers”
1. All Along the Watch Tower 2. Mr. Tambourine Man
3. Blowin’ in the Wind
4. License to Kill
5. Most of the Time
Jimi Hendrix
The Byrds
Peter, Paul, and Mary
Tom Petty
From “Masked and Anonymous”

EARLY LISTS OF MINE INCLUDE FAVORITE MUSIC. THE LIST BELOW INCLUDES SOME NOT EVERYONE IS AWARE OF. SOME ARE DYLAN.SOME ARE REPEATS. AND MAYBE A FEW YOU WILL LIKE AS I DO:

• 1.  CLEO’S MOOD—jr. walker and the all stars

• 2. THESE ARMS OF MINE…odis redding

• 3. INTO THE MYSTIC—van morrison

• 4. FIRE LAKE—bob seger

• 5. DIAMONDS AND RUST…joan baez

• 6. FOREVER YOUNG…cover by joan baez

• 7. PROMISES —eric clapton

• 8. EVANGELINE—the band with emmylou harris

• 9. OPHELIA–the band

• 10. LADY SOUL…the temptations

• 11. I’M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY—cover by keb mo

• 11. DON’T DROP IT—wilbert harrison

• 12. I DON’T HURT ANY MORE—hank snow

• 13. L.A. COUNTY—lyle lovett

• 14. FAMILY RESERVE—” “

• 15. IF I HAD A BOAT—” “

• 16. HOLD IT —part 2, bill dogett

• 17. OVER THE RAINBOW—cover by jerry lee lewis

• 18. WHITER SHADE OF PALE—procol harum

• 19, ALL FALL DOWN —george jones and emmylou harris

20. COLD COLD HEART—hank williams

DYLAN FAVORITES 1. TELL OL’BILL, 2. THINGS HAVE CHANGED, 3. RED RIVER SHORE, 4. WHERE TEARDROPS FALL, 5. WHEN THE DEAL GOES DOWN, 5. ROLL ON JOHN, 7. HIGH WATER, 8. I’LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT, 9. HUCK’S TUNE, 10. NETTIE MOORE, 11. ACROSS THE GREEN MOUNTAIN, 12. END OF THE LINE ( TRAVELLING WILBURYS) 13. LONG AND WASTED YEARS, 14. DUNCAN AND JIMMY, 15. TIGHT CONNECTION TO MY HEART, 16. LOVE IS JUST A FOUR LETTER WORD, 17. TALK THINGS OVER 18. SHE BELONGS TO ME, 19. ITS ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE, 20. HEARTLAND (WITH WILLIE NELSON).