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
All that foreign oil controlling American soil.
Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.
I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.
How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?
Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.
There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.
The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.
The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.
The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.
The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.