How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must Boomer Sooner play Before the band is forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind How many years must a mountain exist Before it is washed to the sea? And how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? And how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows That too many people have died? Well OU, my friend, is sucking in the wind The Sooners are sucking in the wind
Johnny’s in the basement Mixing up the medicine I’m on the pavement Thinking about the government The man in the trench coat Badge out, laid off Says he’s got a bad cough Wants to get it paid off Look out kid It’s somethin’ you did God knows when But you’re doin’ it again You better duck down the alley way Lookin’ for a new friend The man in the paperclip cap By the big pen Wants eleven dollar bills You only got ten Maggie comes fleet foot Face full of black soot Talkin’ that the heat put Plants in the bed but The phone’s tapped anyway Maggie says that many say They must bust in early May Orders from the D.A. Look out kid Don’t matter what you did Walk on your tiptoes Don’t try “No-Doze” Better stay away from those That carry around a fire hose Keep a clean nose Watch the plain clothes You don’t need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows Get sick, get well Hang around a ink well Ring bell, hard to tell If anything is goin’ to sell Try hard, get barred Get back, write braille Get jailed, jump bail Join the army, if you fail Look out kid You’re gonna get hit But Sooners are cheaters And big-time losers Hang around the theaters Girl by the whirlpool Lookin’ for a new fool Don’t follow leaders Watch the parkin’ meters Ah get born, keep warm Short pants, romance, learn to dance Get dressed, get blessed Try to be a success Please her, please him, buy gifts Don’t steal, don’t lift Twenty years of schoolin’ And they put you on the day shift Look out kid They keep it all hid Better jump down a manhole Light yourself a candle Don’t wear sandals Switzer and his scandals Don’t wanna be a bum You better chew gum The pump don’t work ’Cause the Land Thieves took the handles
Before the term was coined, Dylan was "counterculture" in 1964. He wrote & sang a lot of dynamic & iconoclastic music. His folk rock influenced many IMHO: CSNY, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and especially The Byrds. Maybe others I cannot recall.
Worster, Back my freshman year there were not enough freshman English classes, so kids were sitting around the English Dept table in Gregory Gym waiting on the possibility that new classes would be created. After a day or so, a small class was created and to meet on the fifth floor (???) of the BEB. The guy teaching it was in his 30s. He wanted to teach us to write and express ourselves rather than concentrate on grammar and punctuation. He repeatedly told us that Bob Dylan was the "new Willie Shakespeare". Sidebar - I took the first half of Freshman English in the BEB and the second half in Taylor Hall (Engineering Building). I consider that year the beginning of the "Great Faculty War" from which the school will never recover.
Well my friend, that gathering / class was a foundation that certainly and obviously helped you "express" yourself in life!!
Butch, I never agreed with my English prof. I thought Brian Wilson was the new Shakespeare, then Jim Morrison broke on the scene
Haha I heard Jackson brown was the RnR poet laureate and believed it way back when. At least till I heard he hit/abused Linda Ronstadt, then I hated him. Although after she went all liberal on me I changed my opinion of her too. Dang it, all my old heroes have changed. Ok not all but most.
