Re: Dylan and I


K. Stephen Shain wrote:


For example, in 1991, Bob reworked the 1953 classic, Answer Me by David
Whitfield, itself the English cover of Rudi Schuricke's German language
Mütterlein, and personalized it as he sang it live supporting himself
only on harp and guitar as Answer Me My Love

Answer me
Oh my Love
Just what sin have I been guilty of?
Tell me how how I've come to lose your love
Please answer me
My love.

Notice that Bob not only substitutes Oh Lord with My love, he redirects
the song completely. In his version, he is not singing to the Lord for
help, comfort or intercession as does Whitfield. He sings directly to
his love.

You were mine
Yesterday
I believed that love was here to stay.
Tell me how I've ever gone astray.
Please answer me
My love.

Now on the break, Bob turns it around even further. Here is
Whitfield's:

Is she happier without me
Or does she still care?

And with Bob, the question has evaporated; only the mission remains:

If you could do without me
I'll try not to care
But if you ever think about me
Listen to my prayer.



Like you I sense Bob on some kind of mission. How the mission is to be
defined, how it has been in the past and how it will be in the future,
are all valid questions. Yet, as you seem to imply, even more
essential to the reflection of Bob's love is the fact that "the
question(s) has evaporated, only the mission remains." Because Bob
gets his answers as he walks on, his mission can be likened to an
authentic self-renewing prayer, at least partly meant to inspire
others. Too many questions could dull his receptivity to the answers
he is destined to receive, quite naturally...

Of course, here we are quite happy to witness it all, prayers,
statements, answers and questions, footnotes, parenthesis, ze v'gam ze;
this and also that, along with many of the other etc... that come
thru' the words of a living being, loving.

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