Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylanis an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest, although Dylan repudiated suggestions from journalists that he was a spokesman for his generation. Nevertheless, early songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. After he left...
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth24 May 1941
CityDuluth, MN
For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.
The cards are no good that your are holding unless you're from another world.
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.
The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.
You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.
He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.
Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.
Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.
Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.
Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.
She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.
One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.