We remember another Bob Dylan birthday. He will turn 69 tomorrow!
Dylan was a great composer. He wrote some of the best songs of our generation. His songs are a bit part of the soundtrack of the last 50 years!
Joan Baez recorded many Dylan tunes. This is Joan singing 3 of my favorite Dylan songs: "Blowing in the wind", "Love is just a four letter word" and "Boots of Spanish leather":
"How many roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she can sleep in the sand?
And how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
And How many years must a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea?
And how many years must some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?
And 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
How many times can a man look up
Before he can really see the sky?
And how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
And 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"
"Seems like only yesterday I left my mind behind
Down in the Gypsy Cafe With a friend of a friend of mine
She sat with a baby heavy on her knee
Yet spoke of life most free from slavery
With eyes that showed no trace of misery
A phrase in connection first with she
occurred That love is just a four-letter word
Outside a rattling store-front window
Cats meowed to the break of day
Me, I kept my mouth shut
To you I had no words to say
My experience was limited and underfed
You were talking while I hid
To the one who was the father of your kid
You probably didn't think I did,
but I heard You say
that love is just a four-letter word
I said goodbye unnoticed
Pushed towards things in my own games
Drifting in and out of lifetimes
Unmentionable by name
Searching for my double, looking for
Complete evaporation to the core
Though I tried and failed at finding any door
I must have thought that there was nothing more
Absurd than that love is just a four-letter word
Though I never knew just what you meant
When you were speaking to your man
I can only think in terms of me
And now I understand
After waking enough times to think I see
The Holy Kiss that's supposed to last eternity
Blow up in smoke, its destiny
Falls on strangers, travels free
Yes, I know now, traps are only set by me
And I do not really need to be
Assured that love is just a four-letter word
Strange it is to be beside you
Many years and tables turned
You'd probably not believe me
If I told you all I've learned
And it is very, very weird indeed
To hear words like forever plead
Those ships run through my mind, I cannot cheat
It's like looking in the teacher's face complete
I can say nothing to you but repeat
what I heard
That love is just a four-letter word..."
"Well I'm sailin away my own true love.
I'm sailin' away in the mornin'
Is there something I can send you from across the sea,
From the place that I'll be landin'?
No, there's nothing you can send me
my own true love.
There's nothing I'm wishing to be ownin'.
Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled
from across that lonesome ocean.
Well I just though
you might want something fine
made of silver or of golden
either from the mountains of Madrid
or the coast of Barcelona.
If I had the stars from the darkest night
and the diamonds from the deepest ocean,
I'd foresake them all for your sweet kiss,
for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'
That I might be gone a long old time,
and it's only that I'm askin'.
Is there something
I can send you to remember me by,
To make your time more easy passin'?
Oh how can, how can you ask me again?
It only brings me sorrow.
For the same thing I would want from you today
I would want again tomorrow.
Well I got a letter on a lonesome day.
It was from her ship a'sailin'.
Sayin' "I don't know when
I'll be comin' back again.
It depends on how I'm feelin'."
So take heed, take heed of the Western wind.
Take heed of stormy weather.
And yes, there's something you can send back to me..
spanish boots of spanish leather".
