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Thread #167766   Message #4050868
Posted By: GUEST,Jerry
06-May-20 - 12:57 PM
Thread Name: Bob Dylan's 50 greatest songs
Subject: RE: Bob Dylan's 50 greatest songs
I always liked that one too, although it’s not perfect. It has a few dodgy rhymes and some clumsy scansion in places, highlighted by the perfect scansion in preceding or following lines. However, its strength lies in choosing to tell the story of miners through a witness to it all, as well slowing down a jig tune (The Ten Penny Bit?) to a haunting waltz.