You got my sympathy, Alan, cos you are completely missin' the point. The point in the lyric was that even a very important person in a high position like a president or a king can still be humbled by events in life...just like the rest of us can. He ain't exempt. Yer literal thinkin' has led you far astray on this one. Yer logical analysis about a person bein' naked or not naked, and when and when, has nothin' to do with it. It's poetry! Poetry deals in metaphor, symbol, allegory, stuff like that.

As fer puttin' his monkey on a log and orderin' him to do the dog...I figger that for one of two possibilities:

1. Bob Dylan abuses his pets (or familiars) by makin' 'em do cross-species sexual acts. (that would be the literal-minded interpretation)

Or.....

2. He was crackin' a joke.

I'm bettin' it's #2.

Now, tell me...whadda you make of the lyric "but he just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette"? You gonna go literal on that one too? ;-D

- Chongo