Bob Dylan: Song To Woody Meaning

Song To Woody Lyrics

I'm out here a thousand miles from my home,
Walkin' a road other men have gone down.
I'm seein' your world of people and things,
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings.

Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
'Bout a funny ol'...

1. anonymous

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   Sep 14th 2017 !⃝

   A BOB DYLAN ''Song To Woody'' GUTHRIE. The Great Old American folk singer [with communist leanings] for that time who loved His ''Machine That Kills Fascists'', meaning his guitar. Compare to Dylan who believed to take a different road to success. That was for The Capitalist Zionist and where in this song BOB DYLAN sounds very similar to the WHOLESOME SOUL SOUND of the most underated and unknown folk singer and musician, BUY the name of SAMMY WALKER.
2. anonymous

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   Nov 12th 2006 !⃝

   He did not write this song in honour of woody guthrie's death because this song came before that. Bob wrote this song in 1962 and woody died in 1967. He wrote this song for woody because he was such a major influence in his music. Bob did not want to follow woody's exact footprints in music, so before he took his own path he wrote this song. Its very obvious in the last line that bob did not want to follow the same path.
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   Oct 28th 2006 !⃝

   He was obviously honoring the death of woody guthrie, and writing about how woody and all ground breakers (sisco, ledbelly, etc) inspired him. He also talks about traveling down the road (representing his artist journey that continues after woody), and:
   "the very last thing that i'd want to do, is to say I've been hitting some hard traveling too."
   which of course was a song of woody's (hard travelling), indicating that he does not want to steal his music or rip him off, but that he is respectful of his talents and will take woody's music with him on his journey.

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