Dylan Cover

[stilltrucking]

This song was an outtake from Dylan's second album, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" (1963). Dylan thought he had outgrown this protest song, which is about the threat of nuclear war.

Wikipedia quotes Dylan as saying, "I was going through some town...and they were making this bomb shelter right outside of town, one of these sort of Coliseum-type things and there were construction workers and everything ... I was there for about an hour, just looking at them build, and I just wrote the song in my head back then, but I carried it with me for two years until I finally wrote it down. As I watched them building, it struck me sort of funny that they would concentrate so much on digging a hole underground when there were so many other things they should do in life. If nothing else, they could look at the sky, and walk around and live a little bit, instead of doing this immoral thing."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pamt_ZVOhSs