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The 20 Greatest Dylan Songs!? #8

3:40 PM GMT 30/06/2009

The 20 Greatest Dylan Songs!? #8

...SEE NUMBER 7

8. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
(Bringing It All Back Home, 1965)

And if his thought-dreams could be seen, they'd put his head upon the guillotine...

David Crosby: "Asking for a favourite is like asking a parent, Hey, which is your favourite child? Bob Dylan has a good three dozen flat-out sterling pieces of material that we can safely refer to as classics. But when I first heard It's Alright, Ma it really was such a knockout. 'Darkness at the break of noon / Shadows even the silver spoon' - hey, that's the apocalypse coming, nothing less."

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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 3:40 PM GMT 30/06/2009


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