Post by Michael Capasse on Dec 16, 2018 20:54:25 GMT -5
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" is a song written by Bob Dylan and released as the title track of his 1964 album of the same name.
Dylan wrote the song as a deliberate attempt to create an anthem of change for the time, influenced by Irish and Scottish ballads.
It was written around Sept.-Oct. 1963 [wiki]
Bob Dylan
In Performance @ The White House
Feb. 09, 2010
[from Rolling Stone Magazine]
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-bob-dylan-plays-for-obama-at-the-white-house-56601/
Dylan wrote the song as a deliberate attempt to create an anthem of change for the time, influenced by Irish and Scottish ballads.
It was written around Sept.-Oct. 1963 [wiki]
Bob Dylan
In Performance @ The White House
Feb. 09, 2010
[from Rolling Stone Magazine]
Nobody quite knew what was going to happen when Bob Dylan took the stage at the White House’s Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement
concert in February of 2010. Organizers were pretty certain he was going to play ‘The Times They Are-A Changin’,” but that was about it.
“He had mentioned the possibility of also doing ‘Chimes of Freedom’ or ‘Blowin’ in the Wind,'” said Bob Santelli, director of the Grammy Museum and one of
the show’s organizers. “Believe me, if Bob had opted to play another song, there wasn’t a person in the house that would have minded.”
He wound up only doing the one song, but it absolutely stole the show. Backed only by a pianist and a stand-up bass player,
Dylan delivered a jaw-dropping acoustic rendition of his 1963 civil rights anthem and then walked to the front row to shake President Obama’s hand.
President Obama was thrilled at his opportunity to meet Dylan. “He was exactly as you’d expect he would be,” he told Rolling Stone later that year.
“He wouldn’t come to the rehearsal. Usually, all these guys are practicing before the set in the evening. He didn’t want to take a picture with me;
usually all the talent is dying to take a picture with me and Michelle before the show, but he didn’t show up to that.”
He continued, “He came in and played ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’.’ A beautiful rendition. The guy is so steeped in this stuff that he can just
come up with some new arrangement, and the song sounds completely different. Finishes the song, steps off the stage – I’m sitting right in the front row
– comes up, shakes my hand, sort of tips his head, gives me just a little grin, and then leaves. And that was it – then he left.
That was our only interaction with him. And I thought: That’s how you want Bob Dylan, right? You don’t want him to be all cheesin’ and grinnin’ with you.
You want him to be a little skeptical about the whole enterprise. So that was a real treat.”
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-bob-dylan-plays-for-obama-at-the-white-house-56601/
The Times They Are a-Changin'
written by Bob Dylan
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’
Copyright
© 1963, 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991, 1992 by 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’
Copyright
© 1963, 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991, 1992 by Special Rider Music
