Re: song covers

["rslovacek" <rslovacek>]

Of course the Bobster's new lines are good, he's been throwing in stuff for
years, when he'd feel like it or when he'd forget the "official" lines.
That's one thing that's made him the best vocalist in my lifetime.  The way he
can change the meaning of a whole song by changing just one stressed sylablle
or dipthong is amazing.

...anyway, those old blues songs, in the folkie tradition, just beg to be
changed by whoever's singing.

    As Robert Hunter has said about "misheard lyrics", "Hey, the way anyone
hears my lyrics is every bit as valid as the words that I meant"

        For more Mondegreens, a fun site is:

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/writing/Resources/essays/mondegree
ns.html

    (I still say the lyrics to the "The Wheel" is "If the joker don't get you
then the blind man will")  :)


--Bob

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Gart, Mitchell
  To: babel-list
  Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 6:29 AM
  Subject: song covers


  The mention of Privilege, and also Bob Dylan's new album, made me think of
  song covers and Patti's rumored album.  It was more than a year ago that
she
  and the guys were said to be in the studio making a covers album.

  Bob's new album isn't really that good IMHO, but I LOVE his cover of the
old
  Muddy Waters blues song Rollin and Tumblin.  Bob takes the chorus and the
  melody from that song, but writes 100% new words in all the middle verses.
  The result is incredibly great.  That would be a great approach for Patti
to
  take on some old songs.

  Anybody know recent info about the covers album?

  Mitch

  (original RnT)
   Well, if the river was whiskey,
  And I was a divin duck.
  Well, if the river was whiskey,
  And I was a divin duck.
  Well, I would dive to the bottom,
  Never would I come up.
  http://www.lyricsdownload.com/muddy-waters-rollin-and-tumblin-lyrics.html

  (Bob's version)
  I'm flat out spent, this woman been drivin' me to tears
  I'm flat out spent, this woman she been drivin' me to tears
  This woman so crazy, I swear I ain't gonna touch another one for years
  http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/B/Bob-Dylan/Rollin'-and-Tumblin'.html