:07:02
And I've been out in front
of a dozen dead oceans
:07:09
I've been 10,000 miles
in the mouth of a graveyard
:07:15
And it's a hard and it's a hard
:07:19
And it's a hard and it's a hard
:07:23
And it's a
:07:24
He's been shot! Oswald has been shot.
:07:27
Rain's a-gonna fall
:07:32
We were going to make this world
a decent, better place...
:07:38
but that loss,
I think it traumatized the nation terribly.
:07:48
The Emergency Civil Liberties Union...
:07:51
was people who were really,
deeply involved...
:07:54
in progressive politics, were idealists...
:07:57
and had a dream about fairness and justice.
:08:00
Well, here's Bobby, he's 21 years old
or whatever, he gets up there...
:08:04
and they're giving him an award
and his discomfort was extraordinary.
:08:09
And he pointed his finger at them
and he said...
:08:14
"I haven't got any guitar. I can talk, though.
:08:16
"I want to thank you
for the Tom Paine Award...
:08:19
"on behalf of everybody
that went down to Cuba.
:08:21
"First of all, because they're all young
and it took me a long time to get young...
:08:25
"and now I consider myself young,
and I'm proud of it.
:08:28
"I'm proud that I'm young.
:08:30
"And I only wish that all you people
who are sitting out here tonight...
:08:33
"weren't here, and I could see
all kinds of faces with hair on their head...
:08:37
"and everything like that,
everything leading to youngness. "
:08:40
You know, they were trying to build me up
as a topical songwriter.
:08:43
I was never a topical songwriter
to begin with...
:08:46
for whatever reason they were doing it...
:08:49
was reasons not, really...
That didn't really apply to me.
:08:52
"Old people, when their hair grows out,
they should go out.
:08:55
"I look down to see the people
that are governing me...
:08:58
"and making my rules,
and they haven't got any hair on their head.