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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 6) Love Songs from ‘Desire’ (Part Two)
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 6) Love Songs from ‘Desire’ (Part Two)

EXTRACTS   (full version here) More Love Songs From Desire The basic joke behind the song is that the singer claims that, rather than admiring her physical attributes, he is interested only in her mind. This is of course a reversal of the usual approach of highly sexualised post-Elvis rockabilly material. He tells her that…You got...

PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 23) Two Bitter Love Songs from ‘Blood on the Tracks’
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 23) Two Bitter Love Songs from ‘Blood on the Tracks’

Two Bitter Love Songs from Blood on the Tracks EXTRACTS (Full text here) In the only live version on the Rolling Thunder Tour, recorded at Lakeland Florida on April 18th 1976, the lyrics are completely rewritten, now in an AABB rhyming scheme. The woman is now in ‘North Saigon’. Despite the fact that the American...

PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas SeasonThree 21) Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas SeasonThree 21) Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

  LILY, ROSEMARY AND THE JACK OF HEARTS EXTRACTS     FULL TEXT HERE This is one of Dylan’s most appealing and enigmatic songs, full of witty rhyming, various poetic devices and characteristically colloquial turns of phrase. Like The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest (its most obvious antecedent) it is a comic narrative which can...

PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 20) It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue: Take What You Have Gathered…
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 20) It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue: Take What You Have Gathered…

  Please click ‘Watch on You Tube’ and Like and subscribe  COMMENTS WELCOME   EXTRACTS   … READ FULL TEXT HERE It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue is one of Bob Dylan’s most well known songs. It has a beautiful melody, a winning chorus and lyrics that can express many different moods. Dylan has performed it...