I gotta sing "Hollis Brown" -
I can't sing "John Johannah" cause it's his story an his people's story -
I gotta sing "With God On My side " cause it's my story an my people's story -
I can't sing "The Girl I Left Behind" cause I know what it's like to do it -
I gotta sing "Boots a Spanish Leather" cause I know what it's like to live it -
But don get me wrong now -
Don think I go way out a my way not t sing no folk songs -
That ain't it at all -
The folk songs showed me the way
They showed me that songs can say something human -
Without "Barbara Allen" there'd be no "Girl from the North Country" -
Without no "Lone Green Valley" there'd be no "Don Think Twice"-
Without no "Jesse James" there'd be no "Davy Moore" -
Without no "Twenty one Years" there'd be no "Walls a red wing" -
Hell no -
Them ol songs're the only kinda picture left t show the new born how it used t be in them times -
Them ol songs tell us what they had t run thru or walk thru or dance thru
The ol songs tell how they loved an how they kissed -
They tell us what they rejected an objected to -
They laid it down an made the path -
They were simple an tol the story straight -
They said who they fought an what they fought for an with what they fought with -
An who they fought against -
Now's a complicated day -
An all I'm sayin is 'at I gotta make my own statements bout this day -
I gotta write my own feelins down the same way they did it before me in that used t be day -
An I got nothing but homage an holy thinkin for the ol songs and stories...Bob Dylan, For Dave Glover, Newport Folk Festival program, 1963
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