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« Reply #25 on: January 11, 2006, 10:32:06 AM »


I can't explain my favorite line--no idea why it does it to me--but "he said, you can't repeat the past? Whaddaya mean you can't? Of course you can..." immediately struck me as just great. One of many greats on that disc.

That's what Gatsby said to Nick in one of the pivotal scenes in the Great Gatsby.

"You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books . . ."

Seriously though, on both Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft, there are a lot of borrowed lines, put together in a way that makes them completely new.  I know I'm not even coming close to catching all of the allusions.
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« Reply #26 on: January 12, 2006, 11:32:33 AM »

Check this out: http://www.republika.pl/bobdylan/lat/

Summer Days
(words and music by Bob Dylan. Copyright (c)2001 Special Rider Music)

        Summer days, summer nights are gone,
        Summer days and summer nights are gone,
        I know a place where there’s still something going on.

        I got a house on a hill, I got hogs out in the mud,
5      I got a house on a hill, I got hogs all out in the mud,
        I got a long-haired woman, she got Royal Indian blood.

        Everybody get ready, lift up your glasses and sing,
        Everybody get ready, lift up your glasses and sing,
        Well, I’m standing on the table, I’m proposing a toast to the King.

10    Well, I’m driving in the flats in a Cadillac car;
        The girls all say, “You’re a worn out star!”
        My pockets are loaded and I’m spending every dime.
        How can you say you love someone else, you know it’s me all the time.

        Well, the fog’s so thick you can’t spy the land,
15    The fog’s so thick that you can’t even spy the land,
        What good are you anyway if you can’t stand up to some old businessman.

        Wedding bells are ringing and the choir is beginning to sing,
        Yes, the wedding bells are ringing and the choir’s beginning to sing,
        What looks good in the day, at night is another thing.

20    She’s looking into my eyes, and she’s a-holding my hand,
        She looking into my eyes, she’s holding my hand,
        She says, "You can’t repeat the past," I say "You can’t? What do you mean you can’t? Of course, you can.”

        “Where do you come from? Where do you go?”
        Sorry, that is nothing you would need to know.
25    Well, my back’s been to the wall so long, it seems like it's stuck.
        Why don’t you break my heart one more time just for good luck?

        I got eight carburettors and, boys, I’m using ‘em all,
        Well, I got eight carburettors and, boys, I’m using ‘em all,
        I’m short on gas, my motor’s starting to stall.

30    My dogs are barking, there must be someone around,
        My dogs are barking, there must be someone around,
        I got my hammer ringing, pretty baby, but the nails ain’t going down.

        If you got something to say, speak or hold your peace,
        Well, you got something to say, speak now or hold your peace,
35    If it’s information you want, you can get it from the police.

        Politician’s got on his jogging shoes,
        He must be running for office, got no time to lose,
        Sucking the blood out of the genius of generosity.
        You been a-rollin’ your eyes, you been teasing me.

40    Standing by God's river, my soul’s beginning to shake,
        Standing by God's river, my soul’s beginning to shake,
        I’m counting on you, love, to give me a break.

        Well, I’m leaving in the morning as soon as the dark clouds lift,
        Yes! I’m leaving in the morning just as soon as the dark clouds lift,
45    Gonna break in the roof, set fire to the place as a parting gift.

        Summer days, summer nights are gone,
        Summer days, summer nights are gone,
        I know a place where there’s still something goin’ on.

"Summer Days (And Summer Night)" is a 1965 Beach Boys studio album.

"Summer Days" is a Charlie (aka Charley) Patton song. (thanks to DFurrym11)

line 16: Junichi Saga's Confessions of a Yakuza: "D'you think I could call myself a yakuza if I couldn't stand up to some old businessman?".

line 23 is borrowed from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Chapter 6.

line 24 comes from an old folk song, "Cotton-Eye Joe." Incidentally, the song is played during the seventh-inning stretch at regular-season New York Yankees games in Yankee Stadium:

"Where did you come from? Where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?"

lines 28-29 are a refernece to the song mentioned by title in High Water, Hopped Up Mustang by Bill Romberger & Arlen Sanders.

line 42: "I'm Counting On You" is an Elvis song from his first LP (1956)

line 42: "I counted on you, babe, to give me a break" in Woody Guthrie's "21 Years".

line 45: Junichi Saga's Confessions of a Yakuza: ""Break the roof in!" ...splashed kerosene over the floor and led a fuse from it outside".
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« Reply #27 on: January 12, 2006, 01:24:28 PM »


I can't explain my favorite line--no idea why it does it to me--but "he said, you can't repeat the past? Whaddaya mean you can't? Of course you can..." immediately struck me as just great. One of many greats on that disc.

That's what Gatsby said to Nick in one of the pivotal scenes in the Great Gatsby.

"You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books . . ."

Seriously though, on both Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft, there are a lot of borrowed lines, put together in a way that makes them completely new.  I know I'm not even coming close to catching all of the allusions.

I didn't say I memorized them.
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« Reply #28 on: January 12, 2006, 02:04:27 PM »

Ian, have you read Levon Helm's book on The Band? If so, how is it? As anti-Robbie as they say?
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« Reply #29 on: January 12, 2006, 02:56:15 PM »

Interesting, worth reading. But Levon has admitted that he was goaded into making the Robbie sections a lot harsher than they originally were.
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