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RAY7654321
Listening to Mr Dylan's 3rd album "The times they are a-changin'" released January 13, 1964 two months after Kennedy was assassinated. From the Only Solitaire Review: Apparently, Mr. Zimmerman was experiencing lots of indirect pressure from his folk music colleagues (and folks down at the record company as well) who wanted to have him put forth a real protest song album - you know, no obscure metaphorical shite like 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall', too artsy and indirect to be appreciated by those whoe believed in music as a political instrument. Bobbie, then, who was writing songs at a dozen per cigarette and already had a good batch of protest songs in store at the time of release of Freewheelin', was quite willing to oblige. And that's exactly what you get - ten protest songs with straightahead, generic, unsophisticated (by Bob's own standards of 1964) lyrics.
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illusionvalley
Oh, and for anyone interested: I recommend you search up Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Robert Levon Been's beautiful cover of this. He covers Dylan so, so well. He alters his voice but it isn't a cheap imitation.
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illusionvalley
One of my all-time favourite Dylan songs. Such a tragic story but told so beautifully. Only Dylan, with his intrinsic passion for righteousness and boundless insight, can draw on a simple newspaper article and create an ode this emotional from it; a character so strikingly tangible, a heartbreaking story so seemingly personal. It's as if he knows Hattie; as if the listener now knows her too.
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roadsidesbloom
Since it has been mentioned, I don't get why some people cite the "..table" lines as being bad songwriting. They are one of my favourite lyrics, because it isn't about rhyme (and I'm sure Dylan could have easily fit one in) it is about demonstrating the repetitive monotony of the life of this poor woman. Love it.
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BillyIdolsHair
You're not going to get any closer to rhyming with "table" than...well..."table".
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skipspence
According to that article Hattie Carroll died of a stroke an hour after being hit by the cane of Zantzinger, and not as a direct result of the strike itself as the Dylan song suggests, making his indignation over the sentence somewhat less justified. Zantzinger was surely an arse though.
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CopperKettle
When he rhymes table with table it does not sound as a bad style, more like a poetic move. Like "and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep" is used to underscore the mood.
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mercurymouth
this is one of my favorite songs ever. his outrage is apparent and his restraint amazing.
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turnturnturn
When I hear this, I bury the rag deep in my face, because then is the time for my tears. Can you dig it? x
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