Delolation Row

[meadow]

someone just last night relayed that Dylan said, recently, "what kind of
mind could have written that?" in befuddlement over where he was at,
coming from, high on etc., when he wrote that song, in amazement and
puzzlement at his own profuse output over those years, of that
particular song.

Jim Strong wrote:

> --- Jon Ford <jonmfordster@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I like to think that Stevens wouldn't have cared
> > much for our present
> > moralistic leaders in the Bush camp--
> -- quoting the Stevens poem --
> [A High Toned Old Christian Woman]
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>
> REPLY:
> Dunno Fordster, I'm thinking maybe Desolation Row says
> it even better? I mean the first stanza seems to be
> what's happening now, after all ...
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> "They're selling postcards of the hanging
> They're painting the passports brown
> The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
> The circus is in town
> Here comes the blind commissioner
> They've got him in a trance
> One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
> The other is in his pants
> And the riot squad they're restless
> They need somewhere to go
> As Lady and I look out tonight
> >From Desolation Row"
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> The rest of DR follows at:
> http://bobdylan.com/songs/desolation.html
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> Billy Jim
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