That's a great line Dick...and I like Dylan, but its true....and I'm sorry T, that wasn't how I meant it. My apologies.

The thing is that for whatever reason, probably money, he failed to give credit where due and claimed things not rightfully his. I'd say he was probably the "watershed" there too, since before, eventhough it was done, it was more part of the natural/oral/aural process that Sandy so well describes. He saw Woody do it, but Dylan took it to a new level.

But we're busting his chops on a few issues that aren't really true to me. If you use a trad tune for instance, then the flow and pattern of the words are apt to be similar to the original. Also, the updating of a tale is not unknown and falls in with a normal process. What is tough to deny is that Dylan is one helluva wordsmith, and although he stole and pirated the base for "Bob Dylan's Dream," the song really speaks strongly to many of us from the 60's as we age.

Whatever his original motives and desires were, its obvious after he got to New York that at one point, fame and bucks started to grow into his motives to a much larger degree.

NOW----WHO KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT THE ROOTS (if any) OF "LAY DOWN YOUR WEARY TUNE?"......Spaw asked again.

Spaw