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 NOTE FOR READERS: All posts from 2010 to 2014 should be considered out of date.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.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Stay With Me

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If I lose my way, If I wander and do wrong, I hope you stay close. By Jerome Moross and Carolyn Leigh. Should my heart not be humble ...
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Some Enchanted Evening

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If you find true love Laughing in a crowded room, Dont leave her; seize her. By Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers. From "So...
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The Night We Called It a Day

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It's the end of us: The moon and stars went away, The sun didn't rise. By Matt Dennis and Tom Adair. There was a moon out in ...
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I'm a Fool to Want You

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It's wrong to want you Every time I leave, I wish I had you again By Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf and Joel Herron. I'm a fool to ...
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Autumn Leaves

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Had you in summer, Missed your sunburned hands in fall, Winter's worst of all By Joseph Kosma and the French poet Jacques Pr é vert...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

Stealin'

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Some people don't change. They say they will, but they go Back to what they were. This song was recorded in 1963, but it didn't...
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You Win Again

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Everytime you cheat, I can't bring myself to go. So you keep winning. This cover of the Hank Williams song "You Win Again...

You Wanna Ramble

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Leave me. It's your life. Oh, if you need someone killed, I know what it costs. "You Wanna Ramble," from the 1986 album ...

You're No Good

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You're sweet and evil. You please me and tease me too. What am I to do? The first song on Bob Dylan's first album from 1962, ...

You're Gonna Quit Me, Baby

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Babe, if you leave me, I'll kill you and go to jail. You think I'm kidding? "You're Gonna Quit Me, Baby" is a sho...

You're a Big Girl Now

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He's sighing, crying, And learning to love too late -- You're already gone "You're a Big Girl Now" has got to be ...
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Young But Daily Growing

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Girl marries young boy Half her age. They have some kids. He's dead at 18. "Young But Daily Growing," also known as ...
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You Changed My Life

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I ate with the pigs Until God gently told me: Pay now, skip dessert. If you ever wanted to hear God compared to Errol Flynn, "You ...

You Angel You

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You're quite an angel. If that's love you're bringing me, I will buy in bulk. Here's another lovey-dovey song off the 1...

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

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Stay right where you are. Your bride's coming. Genghis Khan Has other problems. I don't know how to describe this song, which D...
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Ye Shall Be Changed

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You work too hard and You need a new beginning. Go get born again. This romp through judgment day promises that you shall be changed if...

Ye Fair and Tender Ladies

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Bob warns the ladies That men will love them and Leave them afterward. Watch out, ladies, those men can be dawgs. That is the message i...
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Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread

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Catch the bus with Bob. Pack the bread and the meat and Go fishing for trout. You can't ignore a song with a name like "Yea! H...

Worried Blues

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Don't leave me, baby. I need to go where it's warm. I've never been there. "Worried Blues," which showed up on th...
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World Gone Wrong

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You left and I said I'd kill you. It's a bad world. It's clearly gone wrong. "World Gone Wrong," by the Mississip...
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