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add to them, adapt them for new people.
It happens in every other field.
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Lawyers change old laws to fit new citizens.
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So I'm one in this long chain
and so are millions of other musicians.
1:09:13
And Woody stepped right in that.
He was always making up verses...
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songs about real life,
real people, real events.
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The idea is that you make up
a song about something real...
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don't expect that it'll ever make any money.
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It may never be heard by more than a few
dozen people, but who knows? Who knows?
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And I look upon us all as Woody's children.
1:09:34
Bob Dylan is... Well, you must be
20 years old now, I assume.
1:09:36
Yeah, I must be 20.
1:09:39
- Are you?
- Yeah, I'm 20.
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Tell me about the songs that
you've written yourself that you sing.
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I don't claim to call them
folk songs or anything.
1:09:46
I just call them contemporary songs.
1:09:48
Come you ladies and you gentlemen,
a- listen to my song
1:09:50
Sing it to you right,
but you might think it's wrong
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Just a little glimpse of a story I'll tell
1:09:54
'Bout an East Coast city
that you all know well
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It's hard times from the country
1:09:59
Livin' down in New York town
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Come you ladies and you gentlemen,
listen to my song
1:10:04
The traditional songs gave us ideas...
1:10:07
and attitudes about life
that you could borrow from...
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that you could build your songs on.
1:10:12
I will not go down under the ground
1:10:17
'Cause somebody tells me
that death's comin' round
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I wrote them anywhere I was.
1:10:22
You could write them on the subway
or in a café or wherever.
1:10:26
You could write them
talking to somebody else...
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and be scribbling down a song.
1:10:32
Let me die in my footsteps
1:10:36
Before I go down under the ground
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The first time I think I ever saw him
perform a topical song, he was singing...
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"Let me die with my boots on,
before I go under the ground".
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And that was a real feeling
in New York at that time.
1:10:51
People were building
bomb shelters everywhere...
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and that we'll live out our lives
in preparation for that kind of crap.
1:10:56
And here we were
in the middle of Greenwich Village...
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like a little pus pimple
in the middle of this huge society...