" I'm old-fashioned. I like two sexes! And another thing, all of a sudden I don't like being married to what is known as a 'new woman'. I want a wife, not a competitor. Competitor! Competitor!" - Spencer Tracy in 'Adam's Rib' (1949)
Art thou every retard among us related to thine uncle or mistress by way of moral or illegitimate rendezvous? Thus, we are one side of the other's coin by luck or pluck. - Jimmyz
Dr. Who (06-21-2018)
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
That is the cool thing about song lyrics which are basically sung poems. Every listener takes away what they get out of it. There is no only one or correct opinion. I remember this song and many folk songs being directly aimed toward protest. Well, when I was born years after its release anyway. True story, I drew a picture of Nixon and asked him to bring our boys home. I still have the reply letter and glossy WH hand-out. I was in Kindergarten in 1972. It probably was a terrible rendition of him lol
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" I'm old-fashioned. I like two sexes! And another thing, all of a sudden I don't like being married to what is known as a 'new woman'. I want a wife, not a competitor. Competitor! Competitor!" - Spencer Tracy in 'Adam's Rib' (1949)
Art thou every retard among us related to thine uncle or mistress by way of moral or illegitimate rendezvous? Thus, we are one side of the other's coin by luck or pluck. - Jimmyz
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
BLOWIN' IN THE WIND by BOB DYLANDylan claims that he wrote this song in about 10 minutes one afternoon. He put words to the melody of an old slave song called "No More Auction Block," which he might have learned from Carter family records. In the evening, Dylan took the song to the nightclub Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village, where he was due to play a set. Before playing it, he announced, "This here ain't no protest song or anything like that, 'cause I don't write no protest songs." During this first performance, Dylan couldn't read some of his own handwriting and made up some of the lyrics as he went along.
BOB DYLAN – BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND (LYRICS REVIEW & SONG MEANING)There ain’t too much I can say about this song except that the answer is blowing in the wind. It ain’t in no book or movie or TV show or discussion group. Man, it’s in the wind – and it’s blowing in the wind. Too many of these hip people are telling me where the answer is but oh I won’t believe that. I still say it’s in the wind and just like a restless piece of paper it’s got to come down some …But the only trouble is that no one picks up the answer when it comes down so not too many people get to see and know . . . and then it flies away. I still say that some of the biggest criminals are those that turn their heads away when they see wrong and know it’s wrong. I’m only 21 years old and I know that there’s been too many . . . You people over 21, you’re older and smarter.
Dylan's songs are music. There's no message.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Captdon (06-22-2018)
Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
MisterVeritis (06-22-2018)
Again you say something that isn't true. We had a handful of Green berets there in 1952. The next year we sent 15,000 Marines to guard two bases. They did no fighting. In 1965 LBJ went to war.
God, if you could only google. I don't expect you to actually read a book but you could Google. I was 15 at the time and in a military family and it must have got past me. You know, the fighting and all.
Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.