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1:01:02
Passed this way an hour ago
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With his friend, a jealous monk
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I believe in giving credit where credit's due.
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I don't think Dylan had a lot to do with it.
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I think God,
instead of touching him on the shoulder...

1:01:21
he kicked him in the ass. Really!
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And that's where all that came from.
He can't help what he's doing.

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I mean, he's got the Holy Spirit about him.
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You can look at him and tell that.
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Well, I ride a mailtrain, baby
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Can't buy no thrill
1:01:48
It Takes a Lot to Laugh,
It Takes a Train to Cry.

1:01:51
In fact, there was two versions of that cut.
The first version...

1:01:54
which turned up on bootlegs,
it was like a fast...

1:01:56
It was a much faster
and much more jivey version...

1:01:59
that sounded kind of a lot
like the other things that had been done.

1:02:04
What the fuck
are we doing with this song, man?

1:02:07
It's not such a terrible song to do.
1:02:09
Then he said, "Let's take a break".
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And he sent everybody off. And he said
it was a lunch break or whatever.

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People went out for an hour.
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He was sitting alone
at the piano working over...

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just play a few chords
and he'd scribble something down.

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And they came back
and they did that other take...

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after the lunch break and it was,
like the much slower, bluesier version...

1:02:27
you hear on the album,
and it's really changed the whole character...

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and the feel of the song.
It was really, really nice.

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Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby
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Can't buy a thrill
1:02:51
I'd like to know about
the cover of your album.

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I'd like to know about...
1:02:55
the meaning of the photograph of you
and the wearing of the Triumph t-shirt.


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