HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY BOB DYLAN

HAPPY BIRTHDAY  BOB DYLAN




BOB DYLAN IS 70 TODAY. HE HAS BEEN CALLED THE VOICE OF THE GENERATION. AS A YOUNG KID GROWING UP IN THE 60'S I HEARD DYLAN'S ALBUM PLAYING AT MY GUITAR TEACHER'S STORE. I LOVED THE RAW TALENT COUPLED WITH THE POETIC WORDS.  I STILL PLAY THE GUITAR TO THIS DAY.   THE FIRST SONG I LEARNED TO PLAY WAS A' SONG TO WOODY FOUND ON DYLAN'S FIRST ALBUM.


Song To Woody


I’m out here a thousand miles from my home

Walkin’ a road other men have gone down

I’m seein’ your world of people and things

Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings



Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song

’Bout a funny ol’ world that’s a-comin’ along

Seems sick an’ it’s hungry, it’s tired an’ it’s torn

It looks like it’s a-dyin’ an’ it’s hardly been born



Hey, Woody Guthrie, but I know that you know

All the things that I’m a-sayin’ an’ a-many times more

I’m a-singin’ you the song, but I can’t sing enough

’Cause there’s not many men that done the things that you’ve done



Here’s to Cisco an’ Sonny an’ Leadbelly too

An’ to all the good people that traveled with you

Here’s to the hearts and the hands of the men

That come with the dust and are gone with the wind



I’m a-leavin’ tomorrow, but I could leave today

Somewhere down the road someday

The very last thing that I’d want to do

Is to say I’ve been hittin’ some hard travelin’ too