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Come you ladies and you gentlemen,
listen to my song
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The traditional songs gave us ideas...
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and attitudes about life
that you could borrow from...
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that you could build your songs on.
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I will not go down under the ground
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'Cause somebody tells me
that death's comin' round
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I wrote them anywhere I was.
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You could write them on the subway
or in a café or wherever.
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You could write them
talking to somebody else...
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and be scribbling down a song.
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Let me die in my footsteps
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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.
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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.
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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...
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saying, "This has gotta go.
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"We don't... I don't agree with that.
I'm not gonna live my life that way".
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No more auction block for me
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I was working at CORE
and that was an incredible time.
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A call would come in,
and people would say, "Oh, my God...
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"so-and-so was beaten to a pulp
and so-and-so's in the hospital. "
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These were traumatic times to live through.
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And just the way I felt
was the insane... It was insane.
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Why should this be happening?
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And I'm sure Bob had that same thing.
You just can't live through this.
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You live in your own little world
and your own interests...
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but the outer world is definitely part of it.
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How many roads must a man walk down
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before you call him a man?
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Yes, and how many seas
must a white dove sail