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Come Writers and Critics

Monday, April 21, 2003

• TITLE: "Come Writers and Critics" Another line from the Dylan Song. Here are the lyrics:

  THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
  (Words and Music by Bob Dylan)
  1963, 1968 Warner Bros. Inc
  Renewed 1991 Special Rider Music
  
  Come gather 'round people
  Wherever you roam
  And admit that the waters
  Around you have grown
  And accept it that soon
  You'll be drenched to the bone.
  If your time to you
  Is worth savin'
  Then you better start swimmin'
  Or you'll sink like a stone
  For the times they are a-changin'.
  
  Come writers and critics
  Who prophesize with your pen
  And keep your eyes wide
  The chance won't come again
  And don't speak too soon
  For the wheel's still in spin
  And there's no tellin' who
  That it's namin'.
  For the loser now
  Will be later to win
  For the times they are a-changin'.
  
  Come senators, congressmen
  Please heed the call
  Don't stand in the doorway
  Don't block up the hall
  For he that gets hurt
  Will be he who has stalled
  There's a battle outside
  And it is ragin'.
  It'll soon shake your windows
  And rattle your walls
  For the times they are a-changin'.
  
  Come mothers and fathers
  Throughout the land
  And don't criticize
  What you can't understand
  Your sons and your daughters
  Are beyond your command
  Your old road is
  Rapidly agin'.
  Please get out of the new one
  If you can't lend your hand
  For the times they are a-changin'.
  
  The line it is drawn
  The curse it is cast
  The slow one now
  Will later be fast
  As the present now
  Will later be past
  The order is
  Rapidly fadin'.
  And the first one now
  Will later be last
  For the times they are a-changin'.

  
  

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• "... Long-haired Freaky People ..." From a 1971 song by a Canadian group named "The 5 Man Electrical Band." The chorus went:

  Sign Sign everywhere a sign
  Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
  Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign

  The Lad and I still giggle at a Bugs Bunny cartoon of the same era which contained a scene in which Elmer Fudd was trying to hire someone but didn't want to hire Bugs so he put up a sign which read: "Long-eared freaky people need not apply"

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• "... Four Administrations ... " From the 15th Field Artillery Regiment web site:

  12 Feb 55 - President Eisenhower's administration sends the first U.S. advisers to South Vietnam to train the South Vietnamese Army

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  Yet another good reason to live in Texas. Of course they grow it here.
  
  
  
  
  

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