Bob Dylan: Haiku 61 Revisited

Every song Bob Dylan wrote or performed can be distilled in a haiku. NOTE FOR READERS: All posts from 2010 to 2014 should be considered out of date. Please disregard them. There are, or will be, new versions of each haiku.

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Cocaine Blues

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Cocaine's bad for you, causes trouble, makes you sick. Try a little more. There must be a bottomless barrel of songs about coc...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Clothes Line Saga

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Neighbor tells family The vice president’s gone mad. They keep doing chores. " Clothes Line Saga " might be the crazi...
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Clean-Cut Kid

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Vietnam victim Leaves the service. Once sweet, He's now a killer. This up-tempo song from the 1985 album "Empire Burlesque...
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The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)

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Christmas is coming. Kids aged 1 to 92: It's coming for you. This is the "chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost ...
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Christmas Island

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Tropical Christmas. Santa drops in by canoe. Let's go there sometime. This is another old standard that Bob Dylan recorded for...
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The Christmas Blues

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Christmas time sucks if You have no friends or lover To buy presents for. This bluesy Christmas carol was written by Sammy Cahn an...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Chimes of Freedom

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The chimes of freedom Flash for the world's losers And make lots of noise. " Chimes of Freedom " was a big hit in sh...
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Changing of the Guards

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Bob makes some changes Sixteen years into his job. He might have found God. One of the most vague and sometimes annoying songs in ...
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Cat's in the Well

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While you slept, the wolf Trapped the cat inside the well. Hope God has mercy. "Under the Red Sky" features some sub-par...
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Catfish

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Catfish played baseball And struck everybody out. He whooped the Yankees. I don't like songs about baseball. Well, I don't...
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Caribbean Wind

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Tropical leftist Embarks on doomed romance with Bob, preaching gospel. This 1981 song didn't make the final cut of "Shot ...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?

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You're with a loser. Are you one too? Why don't you Come date me instead. If Dylan's worst qualities, lyrically speaki...
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Can't Wait

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I have looked for you For years. I want you so bad. Better find you soon. "I’m doomed to love you, I’ve been rolling through ...

Can't Help Falling in Love

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It might be foolish, But I love you like the sea Loves the big river. This song, set to the tune of "Plaisir d'Amour," ...
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Canadee-i-o

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Girl at sea, disguised. Captain saves her from sailors, Boyfriend much chagrined. This is one of my favorite Bob Dylan performance...
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