Posted on 06/19/2002 11:45:18 AM PDT by dennisw
Amazing Dylan lyrics on Israel. Must read the entire lyrics.
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The Neighborhood Bully
by Bob Dylan - 1983
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
I think this may be the first Dylan thread, with legs, ever on FR
don-o,
from the FR class of '98 and the hi skool class of '64 and still digging Dylan.
Chords for the song.
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D A E Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man, D A E His enemies say he's on their land. G D A They got him outnumbered about a million to one, A E G D He got no place to escape to, no place to run. A D A D A D A He's the neighborhood bully.
On his most recent tour, europe it was, he played "Solid Rock" about 20 times.
Well, I'm hangin' on to a solid rock
Made before the foundation of the world
And I won't let go, and I can't let go, won't let go
And I can't let go, won't let go, and I can't let go no more.
For me He was chastised, for me He was hated,
For me he was rejected by a world that He created.
Nations are angry, cursed are some,
People are expecting a false peace to come.
Well, I'm hangin' on to a solid rock
Made before the foundation of the world And I won't let go, and I can't let go, won't let go
And I can't let go, won't let go, and I can't let go no more.
It's the ways of the flesh to war against the spirit
Twenty-four hours a day you can feel it and you can hear it
Using all the devices under the sun.
And He never give up 'til the battle's lost or won.
Well, I'm hangin' on to a solid rock
Made before the foundation of the world
And I won't let go, and I can't let go, won't let go
And I can't let go, won't let go, and I can't let go no more.
Copyright © 1980 Special Rider Music
I'd bet not...otherwise why would he have written it? The title tells you that people were against 'The Neighborhood Bully" when he wrote it.
Do not downlosd Bob's commercialy available work. Go out and buy it. Copying copyrighted material is just WRONG.
If any Dylan fans want to get some links to where there is a never ending treasure trove of amazing Dylan stuff, FreepMail me.
FWIW, a Christian rocker back then named Larry Norman did a great Dylan parody song. I think it was called "I'm Only Visiting This Planet." He sounded almost exactly like Dylan. Some of the lyrics, I never forgot.
"This time, last year, people didn't wanna hear
They looked at Jesus from afar
This year he's a Superstar..."
"The Beatles said all you need is love
And then they broke up..."
Good stuff, i may have to see if that recording is still out there.
And that tour ended in May. The "Never Ending Tour" shall resume in another month, mostly in Canada, but kicking off from Newport.
Yes, but a Jew. So Larry finds a site, reads stuff like
The student rebellion of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States and France was also mainly an expression of Jewish radicalism. Emma Goldman, the Jewish anarchist of the early twentieth century, known for her analysis of sexual repression in the context of the theories of Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Reich, is undoubtedly the mother of the anarchist movements and of the 1960s slogan Make love, not war. In the 1950s the bridge between Goldmans anarchism and the coming student rebellion was Abraham Maslow, a leftist radical who developed his own version of psychoanalysis that he termed humanistic psychology. Maslow is the philosopher of communal living and the spiritual father of Abraham (Abbie) Hoffman, Betty Friedan, Lenny Bruce (Leonard Schneider), Bob Dylan (Zimmerman), and Jerry Rubin to mention only some of the Jews who were leaders of the student rebellion at that time.
and his white supremecist mind goes Jew, Jew, Jew, they're all the same, and he posts nonsense.
Thanks for the facts, they're lost on LL though.
I see Larry often on the board.
He is a jew hater, and by extension, now hates Bob Dylan?
I have it from the highest authority that Bob loves Jesus.
But, Bob hates Larry, and all of his ilk
BTW, Dylan's never performed "Neighborhood Bully" live.
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