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thin man
01-29-2010, 07:08 AM
Well, I took me a woman late last night,
I's three-fourths drunk, she looked uptight.
She took off her wheel, took off her bell,
Took off her wig, said, "How do I smell?"
I hot-footed it . . . bare-naked . . .
Out the window!
Well, sometimes I might get drunk,
Walk like a duck and stomp like a skunk.
Don't hurt me none, don't hurt my pride
'Cause I got my little lady right by my side.
(Right there
Proud as can be)
I's out there paintin' on the old woodshed
When a can a black paint it fell on my head.
I went down to scrub and rub
But I had to sit in back of the tub.
(Cost a quarter
And I had to get out quick . . .
Someone wanted to come in and take a sauna)
Well, my telephone rang it would not stop,
It's President Kennedy callin' me up.
He said, "My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?"
I said, "My friend, John, Brigitte Bardot,
Anita Ekberg,
Sophia Loren."
(Put 'em all in the same room with Ernest Borgnine!)
Well, I got a woman sleeps on a cot,
She yells and hollers and squeals a lot.
Licks my face and tickles my ear,
Bends me over and buys me beer.
(She's a honeymooner
A June crooner
A spoon feeder
And a natural leader)
Oh, there ain't no use in me workin' so heavy,
I got a woman who works on the levee.
Pumping that water up to her neck,
Every week she sends me a monthly check.
(She's a humdinger
Folk singer
Dead ringer
For a thing-a-muh jigger)
Late one day in the middle of the week,
Eyes were closed I was half asleep.
I chased me a woman up the hill,
Right in the middle of an air raid drill.
It was Little Bo Peep!
(I jumped a fallout shelter
I jumped a bean stalk
I jumped a ferris wheel)
Now, the man on the stand he wants my vote,
He's a-runnin' for office on the ballot note.
He's out there preachin' in front of the steeple,
Tellin' me he loves all kinds-a people.
(He's eatin' bagels
He's eatin' pizza
He's eatin' chitlins
He's eatin' bullshit!)
Oh, set me down on a television floor,
I'll flip the channel to number four.
Out of the shower comes a grown-up man
With a bottle of hair oil in his hand.
(It's that greasy kid stuff.
What I want to know, Mr. Football Man, is
What do you do about Willy Mays and Yul Brynner,
Charles de Gaulle
And Robert Louis Stevenson?)
Well, the funniest woman I ever seen
Was the great-granddaughter of Mr. Clean.
She takes about fifteen baths a day,
Wants me to grow a cigar on my face.
(She's a little bit heavy!)
Well, ask me why I'm drunk alla time,
It levels my head and eases my mind.
I just walk along and stroll and sing,
I see better days and I do better things.


(I catch dinosaurs
I make love to Elizabeth Taylor . . .
Catch hell from Richard Burton!)


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Sandrine
01-29-2010, 03:42 PM
"Wants me to grow a cigar on my face."

Does it mean sexual thing ?

thin man
01-29-2010, 04:10 PM
"Wants me to grow a cigar on my face."

Does it mean sexual thing ?

as I recall..he probably meant moustache


do you find them sexual?

Sandrine
01-29-2010, 04:17 PM
Ah ok.

I thought his penguin is growing because he is happy.

He is so impenetrable sometimes.

I don't remember this song.

thin man
01-29-2010, 06:49 PM
The fifth track, I Shall Be Free No. 10, of the 1964 album 'Another Side of Bob Dylan.'



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVl1toXjkQE

Sandrine
01-29-2010, 07:03 PM
Thank you

The other :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvV_phoEGdI

Sandrine
01-29-2010, 07:06 PM
"Well, I took me a woman late last night,"

Ah Bob, Bob..always in alert.

If I were a man, I would like to be a woman.

thin man
01-29-2010, 07:33 PM
"Well, I took me a woman late last night,"

Ah Bob, Bob..always in alert.

If I were a man, I would like to be a woman.


I'm happy to be myself and would probably feel uncomfortable as a man who wanted to be otherwise :not for me:

Sandrine
01-30-2010, 04:39 PM
"I said, "My friend, John, Brigitte Bardot,
Anita Ekberg,"


Frenchy actress that Bob Dylan liked surely.

thin man
01-30-2010, 05:06 PM
"I said, "My friend, John, Brigitte Bardot,
Anita Ekberg,"


Frenchy actress that Bob Dylan liked surely.


French, Swedish, English, Italian.... he has plenty of choice

Sandrine
01-30-2010, 05:11 PM
French, Swedish, English, Italian.... he has plenty of choice

Say like that, it seems he is going to shop.

For Italian, the best is Gina Lollobrigida, very beautiful woman.

thin man
01-30-2010, 05:24 PM
Say like that, it seems he is going to shop.

For Italian, the best is Gina Lollobrigida, very beautiful woman.


for Italian it's Sophia Loren.. I believe Bob

thin man
01-30-2010, 05:27 PM
For English It's Elizabeth Taylor and for Swedish it's Anita Ekberg--

Bob knows best!!!

Sandrine
01-30-2010, 05:28 PM
for Italian it's Sophia Loren.. I believe Bob


For what ?

thin man
01-30-2010, 05:38 PM
you started with actresses.. or you forget?


I said, "My friend, John, Brigitte Bardot,
Anita Ekberg,
Sophia Loren."

Sandrine
01-30-2010, 05:49 PM
For English It's Elizabeth Taylor and for Swedish it's Anita Ekberg--

Bob knows best!!!

And for French, it's ??
No idea

Sophie Marceau ?

thin man
01-30-2010, 05:59 PM
And for French, it's ??
No idea

Sophie Marceau ? Ahhh..but you have gone off the track.. you said it yourself before.. the French is BB


it's all written in the song.. even your Statesman Charles de Gaulle is mentioned.

Sandrine
01-30-2010, 06:05 PM
Shame on me.

thin man
01-30-2010, 06:14 PM
oh don't worry .. shame is not so bad! some people make mistakes all the time

Landys ghost
01-31-2010, 03:43 AM
now this is weird....I cant stand this song but it popped into my head last night, I started singing it in the kitchen

thin man
01-31-2010, 05:13 AM
haha.. the imagery in this song makes it special,

why do you think he numbered it No. 10, ??

Landys ghost
01-31-2010, 05:48 AM
nice round sum? taking the piss out of classical music?

thin man
01-31-2010, 06:28 AM
hmm yeah maybe, on closer examination of the lyrics however, there are little differences between versions I've heard , I suppose that'0s normal, he's always changed his tune ..


what about Rainy Day Women? why the # 12 & 35 ? .. what your take on this one?