We can sit in the shade by the fountain-side Lines also in: I eat when when I'm hungryĪs Dylan so often does, the singer/songwriter from the North Country has a little fun at the expense of interpreters of his lyrics – Freudians, for example: What are you looking at? I climbed the mountain of swords on my bare feet The song pays tribute to adventure stories of hardship and romance ie, Jack Livings’ “Mountain Of Swords Seas Of Fire”: I search the world the over In the Humprey Bogart movie “The Treasure Of Sierra Madre”, greed takes its toll the bandits kill Bogart at the water hole thinking that the gold dust is sand they throw it away: Put out your hand (Clydie King: Long Goodbye ~ Williams/Mercer) “The Long Goodbye” is a pastiche on the ‘noir’ detective movies starring Humphrey Bogart features the following song: There's a long goodbye (Robert Mitchum: Tall Dark Stranger ~ (Webb/Salt) The movie features the following song about a lusty mule who’s after a Mary Lou: the womanizing stranger leaves after the husband starts to appreciate wife Rachel: Once there was a man, a hateful man

To the movie anti-hero Robert Mitchum attention is paid ie, “Rachel And The Stranger”: Hello stranger (Ricky Nelson: Hello Mary Lou ~ Pitney/Mangiaracina) Hermes and Persephone are the guides to Hades, the mythodical underworld: Hello Mary Lou, goodbye heart No stars in the sky shine brighter than you

My fleet-footed guides from the underworld The song pays tribute to those happier, to rocknroller Ricky Nelson who sings about Mary Lou the blues singer Pearl Bailey stars in the Broadway musical ‘Hello Dolly’: Hello, Mary Lou (Roy Orbison: Only The Lonely ~ Melson/Orbinson) There goes my baby, there goes my my heart Only the lonely know this feeling ain't right Pays tribute to a melancholy singer: Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight I'm the enemy of the unlived meaningless life In his song ‘False Prophet’, Bob Dylan grabs hold of Frederick Nietzsche’s arm, and searches for meaning in life: Well, I'm an enemy of treason

False Prophet by Rachel Dylan