On the other hand, America has weak leaders too, who stitch together for themselves costumes of quasi-fascist adoration. They can be any kind of leader with a name. You praise the Lord in America if you don't have one of these creatures for your boss.
Whereas great folk songs from the Dylan point of view are ever busy tearing the clothes off of this kind of power, there is another kind of music that puts people in the marching mood.
So here I sit on the Fourth of July, slowing down my mind. On this day in particular, I want nothing of the marching kind, certainly none of that music. Give me a
22 verse folk song where a vicious hammer splits open a rebel's resurrection, yes over and over again.
Source: Bob Dylan. Chronicles: Volume One. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Greg Moses gmosesx@prodigy.net is editor of Peacefile http://peacefile.org and author of Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Philosophy of Nonviolence.
Whereas great folk songs from the Dylan point of view are ever busy tearing the clothes off of this kind of power, there is another kind of music that puts people in the marching mood.
So here I sit on the Fourth of July, slowing down my mind. On this day in particular, I want nothing of the marching kind, certainly none of that music. Give me a
22 verse folk song where a vicious hammer splits open a rebel's resurrection, yes over and over again.
Source: Bob Dylan. Chronicles: Volume One. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Greg Moses gmosesx@prodigy.net is editor of Peacefile http://peacefile.org and author of Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Philosophy of Nonviolence.
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