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Tombstone Blues (5:54)

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“If Salvador Dalí or Luis Buñuel had picked up a Fender Strat to head a blues band, they might have come up with something like ‘Tombstone Blues,’” writes critic Bill Janovitz. “Like the work of these surrealists, Dylan’s song is rich with non sequiturs like ‘The Commander-in-Chief answers him while chasing a fly / Saying, ‘Death to all those who would whimper and cry’ / And dropping a barbell he points to the sky / Saying, ‘The sun’s not yellow / it’s chicken’,’ and takes irreverent jabs at religious , political, and bureaucratic figures (‘The ghost of Belle Starr she hands down her wits / To Jezebel the nun she violently knits / A bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sits/At the head of the chamber of commerce’).”
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