re: Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize for Literature!

The best Bob Dylan dying isn't even a Bob Dylan song.

One of America's greatest poets.

You could literally pick almost any song; here's one:

Tangled Up In Blue
"Drifted down to New Orleans, lucky not to be destroyed, where he got him a job on a fishing boat docked outside Delacroix."

I am a huge Dylan fan. He's an incredible songwriter and a fascinating personality, and he is the only "rock" musician whose songs will still be sung 200 years from now.

That being said, giving him a Nobel prize is absurd.

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I am a huge Dylan fan. He's an incredible songwriter and a fascinating personality, and he is the only "rock" musician whose songs will still be sung 200 years from now.

That being said, giving him a Nobel prize is absurd

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If you're a big Dylan fan you should check out the Don't Look Back documentary about him, It's pretty great. Shows his 1965 tour of England.

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Hank Sr., Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson might have something to say about that.

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Love all of these, and have been fortunate enough to see Merle, Kris, and Willie in concert. Dylan is a better song writer and it's not even close.

My favorite. Not sure about the Nobel prize for literature though, but then many lit Nobels aren't all that great.

I think it's extremely cool Dylan won a Nobel. It's Bob frickin' Dylan, man. He's pretty much deserving of every award we've got.

That said, Cormac McCarthy isn't getting any younger, Nobel people.

I don't think there's been any one in American popular culture harder to 'pin down' than Dylan. If you can't like him for his music, love him for the fact that he never sold out to the Hollywood left.

Fact, all of Bob Dylan's songs were really written by a black servant of his.

My favorite Dylan song and a lyrical masterpiece (of course). Allegedly written in his hotel room in 1963 after the desk clerk initially denied him entry due to his appearance.

When the Ship Comes In

Oh the time will come up
When the winds will stop
And the breeze will cease to be breathin'
Like the stillness in the wind
Before the hurricane begins
The hour that the ship comes in
And the sea will split
And the ships will hit
And the sands on the shoreline will be shakin'
And the tide will sound
And the waves will pound
And the morning will be a'breakin'

The fishes will laugh
As they swim out of the path
And the seagulls they'll be a'smilin'
And the rocks on the sand
Will proudly stand
The hour that the ship comes in
And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they're spoken
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And be buried on the bottom of the ocean

A song will lift
As the mainsail shifts
And the boat drifts onto the shoreline
And the sun will respect
The every face on the deck
The hour that the ship comes in
And the sands will roll
Out a carpet of gold
For your weary toes to be a'touchin'
And the ship's wise men
Will remind you once again
That the whole wide world is watchin'

Oh the foes will rise
With the sleep still in their eyes
And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin'
But they'll pinch themselves and squeal
And they'll know that it's for real
The hour that the ship comes in
And they'll raise their hands
Sayin' "We'll meet all your demands"
But we'll shout from the bow "Your days are numbered"
And like pharoah's tribe
They'll be drownded in the tide
And like Goliath they'll be conquered