Ballet Dylan

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When she said
"Don't waste your words, they're just lies"
I cried she was deaf
And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes
Then said, "What else you got left"
It was then that I got up to leave
But she said, "Don't forget
Everybody must give something back
For something they get."


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This song from BLONDE ON BLONDE


Fourth Time Around
Puts me in a trance
Nowhere else in DylanLand
Is there such a ballet dance.
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I stood there and hummed

I tapped on her drum
And asked her how come
She buttoned her boot
And straightened her suit
Then she said, “Don’t get cute”

So I forced my hands in my pockets

And felt with my thumbs
And gallantly handed her
My very last piece of gum.

Bob Dylan
Fourth Time Around


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Footnotes
Another utterly amazing thing about FOURTH TIME AROUND is that long before there was
a lobby for handicapped people, Dylan sang a song in which he is rescued by
a woman in a wheelchair!

The next Dylan page is here.
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