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The song that Bob Dylan described as the "greatest ever written"
Far Out Magazine ^ | 6-18-22 | Tom Taylor

Posted on 06/26/2022 4:00:07 PM PDT by FLNittany

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To: FLNittany
How does one pick *one* song to be the greatest ever? But if I was forced to do so it would have to be "Mr Tambourine Man"...written by...
21 posted on 06/26/2022 4:25:38 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: Clay Moore

I like that a lot.

But this is still the greatest Country song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyTOZCfp8OY


22 posted on 06/26/2022 4:28:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: TalBlack

Yes that’s how the author appears to write. Good observation.


23 posted on 06/26/2022 4:29:23 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: FLNittany

I needs an upgrade to be the Windmill Repairman.


24 posted on 06/26/2022 4:29:37 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: FLNittany

Speaking of New Morning, there are some really great songs on that album. It’s one of favorite Dylan albums.

https://youtu.be/H80Tusy6SCU


25 posted on 06/26/2022 4:30:06 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: FLNittany

It was always the descending figure just before “is still on the line” that got to me, like it does to Kristofferson in that clip.


26 posted on 06/26/2022 4:30:12 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: FLNittany
Neither the songwriter Jimmy Webb nor the performer Glen Campbell were ever linemen...

Neither Lee Dorsey, who scored a big hit with Working in a Coal Mine, nor the song's writer, Alain Toussaint ever worked in a coal mine.

27 posted on 06/26/2022 4:30:17 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: TalBlack

Reads like pretentious liner notes from the 60s or 70s.


28 posted on 06/26/2022 4:31:57 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I used to think Galveston was a Vietnam War song, but it is about a young man fighting in the Spanish-American war in Cuba and remembering his girlfriend in Galveston. Wondering if he would survive the war and, if he returned, would his girlfriend be waiting for him.


29 posted on 06/26/2022 4:32:08 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: decal

Yeah, Kris’ reactions during that taping spoke for themselves.


30 posted on 06/26/2022 4:35:19 PM PDT by FLNittany
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To: FLNittany
Homer Simpson Version
31 posted on 06/26/2022 4:35:58 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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To: Olog-hai

The greatest song ever written was “I wanna be sedated” by the Ramones. It’s pure poetry.


32 posted on 06/26/2022 4:38:10 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: FLNittany

A great song, great on every level. Jimmy Webb gave us so much.


33 posted on 06/26/2022 4:39:59 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Jamestown1630

Oh that’s a great one.

My pick is George Jones The Grand Tour.

But there’s too many great songs to choose from....


34 posted on 06/26/2022 4:42:24 PM PDT by noexcuses
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To: Clay Moore

LOL Definitely a fun song…especially in a bar, with everybody boozily and loudly singing along.

“Let me, let me, let me….!”


35 posted on 06/26/2022 4:43:19 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: FLNittany

Yes, I love this song BUT ...

As a technologist, the stanza that goes “Searching in the Sun for another overload” is a, at best, something that rhymes!

Still, as composed by the genius of Jimmy Webb and performed by the late GREAT Glen Campbell, how can one let that minor error break our enjoyment!


36 posted on 06/26/2022 4:44:24 PM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
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To: central_va

Fiber Optic Lineman just doesn’t cut it, either.

When I drive around the west, I sometimes see the old phone line crossbars fallen down. Each had a hundred lines strung on them with old glass insulators. All that replaced with one hair-like strand of optical glass fiber. Fiber optic lines are either underground in conduits or on top of electric transmission towers.

The poor Lineman never had a chance with all these technology changes.

The “Starlink Satellite Man”? Nah. Nobody can run that fast.

Things just aren’t the same.

Besides, it would have to be the “Wichita Line Non-binary Cisgender Questioning Person.”


37 posted on 06/26/2022 4:45:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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To: Jamestown1630

yep


38 posted on 06/26/2022 4:46:06 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: noexcuses

That’s nice - I didn’t remember it.

Great voice.


39 posted on 06/26/2022 4:49:27 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Fiber Optic Lineman just doesn’t cut it, either.”

LOL!


40 posted on 06/26/2022 4:50:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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