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Please, read carefully Dylan’s lyrics and listen to both “Nottamun Town” and “Masters of War”. I suggest here (for “Nottamun Town”) the covers by the Fairport Convention and Bert Jansch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5emPqmZSrM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-7p_3oQIoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEmI_FT4YHU

Listen to one of the many versions of “Lord Randal”: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=MMR55HoeSG4 This is one of the classic Italian versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=KDSJ58DAmlA • Listen to the song and follow the lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5al0HmR4to A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? And where have you been, my darling young one? I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son? And what did you see, my darling young one? I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin' I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin' I saw a white ladder all covered with water I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son? And what did you hear, my darling young one? I heard the sound of a thunder, that roared out a warnin' I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin' I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin' I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin' Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall Oh, what did you meet, my blue-eyed son? Who did you meet, my darling young one? I met a young child beside a dead pony I met a white man who walked a black dog I met a young woman whose body was burning I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow I met one man who was wounded in love I met another man who was wounded in hatred And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son? And what'll you do now, my darling young one? I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin' I'll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest Where the people are many and their hands are all empty Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison And the executioner's face is always well hidden Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten Where black is the color, where none is the number And I'll tell and speak it and think it and breathe it

And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin' But I'll know my song well before I start singin' And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall

“BLOWING IN THE WIND” was composed at the beginning of April 1962, and recorded on 6th July 1962. Its melody was inspired by the old spiritual “No More Auction Block”: https://www.sguardidiconfine.com/nomore-auction-block-for/ In July 1963 the group Peter Paul and Mary recorded Dylan’s song and it spent 5 weeks atop the easy listening chart in USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Ld6fAO4idaI This particular song has been described and used as an anthem of the civil rights movements. Listen also to the following famous version by Sam Cooke: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=PBDdLgBO0Nw

Listen to one of the major successes of the period. In 1958, The Kingston

Trio, a San Francisco-based folk group, had a huge hit called “Tom Dooley”, a song traceable as far as 1866. Suddenly saleable, folk music started to be regarded with great interest by the big record companies. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=S3zdE8bliGI Dylan’s version of the brothel lament “House of the Risin’ Sun”, whose arrangement was taken (actually stolen, according to Van Ronk) from Dave van Ronk himself and his Greenwich Village performances. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=tD0UQ5k7y7w https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=RP_caKDfoyU https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=uS90B4sZf7U Listen to Guthrie’s song and compare it with Dylan’s rendition (read some specific notes by Andy Gill on Dylan’s song, pp. 15-17).

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=oz7oguguIZE https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=lOWfCVQBixs ACTIVITIES • Read the two chapters on American folk revival: one by Ailie Munro (in The Democratic Muse, chapt. 2) and the introductory pages on Dylan’s first 2 albums in Andy Gill’s book (pp. 7-27, see file attached here). • Be sure you have deeply read the previous attach on Woody Guthrie’s life (booklet on his life, work, and career). • Listen to the suggested songs, and, possibly, explore some extra material according to your taste and interests: in Andy Gill’s book some extra songwriters are quoted and discussed together with Bob Dylan: Peter Lafarge, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Maria Muldaur, Dave Van Ronk, etc. They represent some extra styles and actualizations of Americam folk music in the 1960s and, possibly, the possibility of being differently politically or socially engaged as much as Bob Dylan was in his first albums (Maria Muldaur, at least). Investigate the way in which they represented a past creative possibility that someway declined along the 1960s and try to see the song “Tom Dooley” in a larger perspective which might foresee one of the major trends in contemporary American folk music: “murder ballads” (see Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Nick Cave, Freddie Mercury, Richard Thomson, etc.). • Download Dylan’s quoted songs and read his lyrics: “Talkin’ New York”, “Song to Woody”. Read also Guthrie’s “1913 Massacre” lyrics: this is one of the most famous topical songs in the history of American folk music....