Happy Birthday Bob Dylan

Subject: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 May 03 - 12:37 PM

62 and still going strong, have a great one.
Giok

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST
Date: 24 May 03 - 01:14 PM

62 already? It seems like it was only 2 years ago that we celebreated his 60th. ;-)

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: delphinium
Date: 24 May 03 - 04:31 PM

Happy birthday Bob.

TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
by Garrison Keillor - for Dylan's 60th in 2001

Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
It's time to start looking for a good nursing home
And accept it that soon you'll be living alone
And you'll need help with bathin and shavin
They say "golden years," but it's the twilight zone
For the times, they are a-changin'.

Come pals from the Sixties who are sixty like me
Once we were longing to love and be free
And now we're all marchin in the A.A.R.P,
And get senior discounts on drug payments
And we're longing to live til we're 73
For the times, they are a-changin'.

Come doctors and internists, answer my call.
Does my PSA say that my prostate's still small?
These blood pressure pills are not helping at all.
Or these tranquilizers I'm taking.
I walk cross the room, I'm afraid I will fall,
For the times, they are a-changin'.

Come daughters and sons throughout the land
Someday you'll get old and you'll understand.
There's gray in my hair and big spots on my hand.
Your daddy is rapidly agin'.
Once I rolled stones and now I'm an old man,
For the times, they are a-changin'.

I never dreamed I'd get this old so fast
I look in the mirror and I'm simply aghast
Cause all of my best times are far in the past.
And my memory is rapidly fadin',
And my memory, my friends, is blowin in the wind
Like a rolling stone
In a nursing home
Happy Birthday to me
No,no,no, it ain't me Bob
It ain't me who's getting old, Bob,
It ain't me who's getting old.
Forever young, forever young,
I will stay...forever young.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Peter T.
Date: 24 May 03 - 05:46 PM

Great song. Happy birthday Bob -- and, er, dump the mustache. You look like the world's oldest gigolo. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 May 03 - 06:42 PM

Yeah, I'd have to agree about the mustache...but let me add my good wishes. It's been a real pleasure all the way.

- LH

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Big Tim
Date: 25 May 03 - 03:33 AM

Happy birthday Bob (and Liz McColgan too, former world 10,000 metres champion ). When he was 46 she was 23!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST,joe
Date: 25 May 03 - 06:30 AM

great work
love ya.
breath eazy,
jt

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 May 03 - 04:08 PM

At last night's music, we did 'Lay Down Your Weary Tune'. Great harmonies, too.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Matt_R
Date: 25 May 03 - 09:14 PM

I just heard "Across The Green Mountain" for the first time today...breathtaking. Happy Birthday Bob, you rock.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Big Tim
Date: 26 May 03 - 02:58 AM

"Across the Green Mountain"...details please.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 May 03 - 09:40 AM

Yeah, that one's new to me too.

- LH

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Giac
Date: 26 May 03 - 09:54 AM

I think it's from the American Civil War epic, Gods and Generals.

--Mary

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Giac
Date: 26 May 03 - 09:56 AM

OOps, forgot to say, Happy Birthday, Bob, and thanks for all the great lyrics!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Matt_R
Date: 26 May 03 - 11:28 AM

Giac is right...it's from the soundtrack of the movie "Gods & Generals". It's an 8-minute epic song, with lots of references to Stonewall Jackson.




'Cross The Green Mountain

Bob Dylan

I cross the green mountain, I slept by the stream
Heaven blazin' in my head, I dreamt a monstrous dream.
Somethin' came up out of the sea
Swept through the land of the rich and the free.

I look into the eyes of my merciful friend
And then I ask myself, is this the end?
Memories linger, sad yet sweet
And i think of the souls in heaven who will meet.

Altars are burnin' with flames far and wide
The foe has crossed over from the other side
They tip their caps from the top of the hill
You can feel them come, more brave blood to spill.

Along the dim Atlantic line
The ravaged land lies for miles behind
The light's coming forward and the streets are broad
All must yield to the avengin' God.

The world is old, the world is gray
Lessons of life can't be learned in a day.
I watch and I wait and I listen while I stand
To the music that comes from a far better land.

Close the eyes of our captain, peace may he know
His long night is done, the great leader is laid low.
He was ready to fall, he was quick to defend
Killed outright he was by his own men.

It's the last day's last hour of the last happy year
I feel that the unknown world is so near.
Pride will vanish and glory will rot
But virtue lives and cannot be forgot.

The bells of the evening have rung
There's blasphemy on every tongue.
Let 'em say that I walked in fair nature's light
And that I was loyal to truth and to right.

Serve God and be cheerful, look upward, beyond
Beyond the darkness of masks, the surprises of dawn.
In the deep green grasses of the blood stained wood
They never dreamed of surrenderin', they fell where they stood.

Stars fell over Alabama, I saw each star
You're walkin' in dreams, whoever you are.
Chilled are the skies, keen is the frost
The grounds froze hard and the morning is lost.

A letter to mother came today
Gun shot wound to the breast is what it did say.
But he'll be better soon, he's on a hospital bed
But he'll never be better, he's already dead.

I'm ten miles outside the city an' I'm lifted away
In an ancient light that is not of day
They were calm, they were blunt, we knew 'em all too well
We loved each other more than we ever dared to tell.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 May 03 - 11:40 PM

Wow. Did Dylan write that? And if so, when? Stonewall Jackson was a general to remember, probably the finest of his day.

And Dylan? I will quote Judy Collins, who has called him "a national treasure". Make that "international".

- LH

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: GUEST
Date: 27 May 03 - 10:39 AM

We Love You Bob!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Matt_R
Date: 27 May 03 - 05:28 PM

Yes, he wrote it last year specifically for the movie "Gods & Generals" and all 8 minutes of it is featured during the closing credits of the movie, copyright is ©2003 Special Rider Music.

Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 May 03 - 06:34 PM

Well, I guess I'm gonna buy a soundtrack album...

Thanks for the info, Matt.

- LH