The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #20392   Message #211883
Posted By: Rick Fielding
14-Apr-00 - 05:34 PM
Thread Name: Fitting words to music
Subject: RE: Fitting words to music
One of my students, Sophia, came to me last night with "positively 4th Street" (Dylan's nasty divorce letter to Phil Ochs). She seemed to be having a Devil of a time with the fairly simple chords.....until I looked more closely at the lyrics, and how they scanned. Holy Cow! That Bobby was diabolical at times. Too many words...Too few bars. I found the recording and was amazed at how he phrased it to get 'em all in. Not a song you could fake just by reading it off a page.

Rick