[dennisw]

The Neighborhood Bully
by Bob Dylan - 1983

[agrace]

This certainly deserves a bump.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is going to lose a lot of his Hollywood friends for him.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I didn't realize it was written in 1983. I bet he disavows it if it suddenly becomes popular.

[KC_Conspirator]

Bump

[RobRoy]

BOOKMARK BUMP

[nd76]

Bob Dylan is Jewish (his given name was something like Robert Zimmerman). And, apparently, he is not a self-hating Jew. That may help to explain this interesting piece of music.

[DoughtyOne]

Tanks Dennis. It's kind of a tough read, but the sentiment is in there, and it's dead on.

[Beau Schott]

Arabic Mein Kampf sells in PA areas, London

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/19/LatestNews/LatestNews.45493.html 

Arabic-language copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf are on sale at newsstands on London's Edgware Road, which has a large Arab population, and has become a bestseller in Palestinian Authority-controlled territory, the British Daily Telegraph reported. 

Bavaria's state government claims the copyright to the book, and has tried to stop its publication.  The Arab edition, published by a Lebanon-based company, has a picture of Hitler and a swastika on the cover. Translator Luis al-Haj writes in his foreword that "National Socialism did not die with the death of its herald, rather, its seeds multiply under each star."

[Skooz]

This song has been going through my mind since this latest round of suicide bombings (just after 9/11) began. It's from the "Infidels" album. A great song and timeless, as is most of Bob's music.

[Skooz]

Infidels, 1983.

Desire, 1976 (my favorite Dylan album).

[A CA Guy]

Glad you have READ that, you for-sure can't understand him when he sings it.

[Bobby777]

pretty insightful ... Dylan at one-time became evangelical and saw the conflict Israel would face ... I'm not sure of his current status ...

[SerpentDove]

Anybody know the chords to this song for guitar? I'm a beginning guitarist and I can't find them anywhere. And believe me, I've searched.

[don-o]

OMG!

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.

[headsonpikes]

Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall bump.

[parsifal]

Fascinating post! The rhymes they are a' changing....parsy.

[Aliska]

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind . . . the answer is blowin' in the wind.

[SJackson]

BTW Dennis, great thread, even got Larry involved in music (parentage of couse, those pesky Nuremburg laws).

Wanted to send some cheer from google, but didn’t know which you’d like. You like even numbers, so probably #4, but I’ll send them all.

[sultan88]

Great Dylan thread!