Which Dylan song character would U B?

Subject: BS: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 12:07 AM

I like the role of the Jack of Hearts in "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts". Now, how about you?

Subject: RE: BS: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 12:09 AM

Oh. It should be in the music threads. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 01:39 AM

I figured you'd be more like "Tweeter" from "Tweeter and the Monkey Man"

I wanna be the narrator in 'Sweetheart Like You' and 'I and I'

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 04:14 AM

I wanna be "Forever Young."
-Joe Offer, aging rapidly-

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 04:26 AM

I used to think there was a cross-eyed parrot in Farewell Angelina which sounded fun but I'm not so sure about being a pirate.

To be the subject of Love Minus Zero might be rather splendid. Or Shelter From The Storm.

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: number 6
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 09:13 AM

The new boyfriend in Leopard-Skin Pill Box Hat.

sIx

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 09:25 AM

Yessss, Clinton. Funny, I sort of pictured you as the "Mr Jones" character... :-)

Well, no, not really.

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 09:39 AM

I have also always felt like the narrator in "Just Like A Woman", but that's cos I like the song so much, I figure. I could say that about a hundred or so other Dylan songs, of course.

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: alanabit
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 10:24 AM

I like the narrator in "Tangled Up In Blue". The loser/narrator character in Mississippi is one I recognise too. He has lived a bit, but there is some sly humour in there. Not sure I want to be him, but you can never be sure you won't end up that way.

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Peter T.
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 10:38 AM

So many to choose from:
The guy who doesn't like it in the wind, although he thought he would -- from "I Was Young When I Left Home".

The rambling country doctor....

The man in the watchtower....

Trying to find out if leaving Arabian drums is a good idea, or should I wait....


yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: GUEST,Jawbone
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 11:17 AM

The guy in Please Mrs Henry (Mrs Henry Please)

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 02:45 PM

Saw the thread title& rushed to put down "The Jack of Hearts"; might have known that would be the first one taken; oh, well; can I be the one-eyed undertaker?

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 03:03 PM

Johnny. In the basement...mixing up the medicine...

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: annamill
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 03:11 PM

????

"Everybody must get stoned!!"

or was this the obvious answer and no one wanted to be first?

;-)

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: outfidel
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 03:38 PM

And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine

Ain't that the truth...

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 03:44 PM

Yeah! Classic line that any free thinker can identify with. And it's from Dylan's greatest lyrical work of them all.

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 04:56 PM

I think it would be fun to the Narrator of one his Dreams.

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Clifton53
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 05:13 PM

Cisco and Sonny, and Leadbelly too

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Brían
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 09:50 PM

I wanna be on the back of the fish truck that loads while my conscience explodes.

Especially, I wanna be in that museum where the fiddler he now steps to the road.

Brían

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: khandu
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 10:10 PM

"Someone's got it in for me..."

The paranoid guy in "Idiot Wind" or a barefoot servant in "All Along the Watchtower'.

k

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 11:05 PM

Lovely choices indeed...

I note that no one has volunteered for the "ugliest girl in the world".

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 11:26 PM

Willie O'Connelly

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 02:11 PM

Why, Mister Tambourine Man, of course!

If that's not available, I suppose I could settle for the brakeman who looks so good flaggin' down the Double E.

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 03:54 PM

Louise's lover

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 05:38 PM

Good choice. Visions of Johanna is a fascinating song, and has drawn a lot of notice here.

I like the character in "Changing of the Guards" too.

"Gentlemen," he said..."I don't need your organization. I've shined your shoes, moved your mountains, and marked your cards, but Eden is burning. Either get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage for the Changing of the Guards."

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: robomatic
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 05:50 PM

The narrator and man of 'Isis'

"The wind it was howling, the snow was outrageous
We chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn
When he died I was hoping it wasn't contagious
But I made up my mind I had to go on..."

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 05:57 PM

She said, "Where ya been?"
I said, "No place special."
She said, "You look different."
I said, "Well, I guess..."
She said, "You been gone."
I said, "That's only natural."
She said, "Ya gonna stay?"
I said, "If you want me too...yes!"

(Whoooo-hooo! What a verse!)

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Brían
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 06:07 PM

Actually the protagonist in ABANDONNED LOVE is one I overlooked:

We sat in an empty theater and we kissed,
I asked ya please to cross me off-a your list.
My head tells me it's time to make a change
But my heart is telling me I love ya but you're strange.

One more time at midnight, near the wall
Take off your heavy make-up and your shawl.
Won't you descend from the throne, from where you sit?
Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.

SAD-EYED LADY OF THE LOW LANDS is one of my favorites, but it was already taken. I played the vinyl of Blonde on Blonde so many times one night my wife asked me to turn it off. Theres something about the juxtaposition of warehouse eyes and arabian drums that strikes a chord with me.

Brían

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: alanabit
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 03:17 AM

I think that verse of "Isis" which you quoted, the penultimate one I think, is one of the funniest Dylan has ever written. I would not want to be the narrator, though, who is a half witted dupe and a bit of a show off!

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Brían
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 11:11 AM

Ah, just sit back and enjoy the scenery....

:-)

Brían

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: GUEST,Richard
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:07 PM

God
(I'm sure he gets a mention somewhere)

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Swave N. Deboner
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:13 PM

If you're asking which character comes close to my actual personality, "Everybody Must Get Stoned" comes to mind immediately.

If you mean which character I'd most like to be...

"Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is
To see you"

I've met a whole lotta people that made me imagine myself as the one uttering the words of "Positively 4th Street." Would that be the "narrator" or the "persona"? Anyway, if you could call that a "character" in a Dylan song, then that's who I'd wannabe.

SND

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 03:22 PM

You are so right, Richard. God gets a great deal of mention.

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Steve-o
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 04:06 PM

"Hey, hey, WOODY GUTHRIE, I wrote you a song....."

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Clifton53
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:12 PM

Always liked the guy who was 'ridin on that train goin west'.

... ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat,
      I'd give it all gladly
      if our lives could be like that

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: GUEST,Elston Gunn
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:43 PM

All of 'em. I'd be all of 'em, but on different days, that's all.

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:46 PM

I was once the character singing "Don't Think Twice".

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: GUEST,El Ren
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:09 PM

Well I want to be Quinn the Eskimo. When I get there, everbody is gonna jump for joy!

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: GUEST,Rush Berkman
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:11 PM

I want to be the French Girl who is talking to Shakespear in a Mobile alley.......

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: number 6
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 06:12 PM

Clifton53 .... I certainly can relate to that guy too!

By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung,
Our words were told, our songs were sung,
Where we longed for nothin' and were quite satisfied
Talkin' and a-jokin' about the world outside.

With haunted hearts through the heat and cold,
We never thought we could ever get old.
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances really was a million to one.

Beautiful song. One of my favourites by Bob.

sIx

Subject: RE: Which Dylan song character would U B?
From: Steve-o
Date: 11 Feb 05 - 05:55 PM

Number 6- them's "hungry hearts" through heat and cold...