How old are you all?

davideo · Post by **davideo** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:15 pm

I'm the same age that Maggie claimed to be in Bob Dylan's Maggies' Farm. (Maggie was actually '68'. )

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:26 am

How old did she claim to be

?

jerry · Post by **jerry** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:28 am

Jerry-51

starshaped · Post by **starshaped** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:40 pm

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:43 pm

David ~

I love the way you keep sharing your inventory of paintings with us.

~ Lizzy

painkillersinaction · Fri Nov 05, 2004 10:14 pm

and i am 26

ironbob2004 · Post by **ironbob2004** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 7:32 am

Well i turn 70 monday. I oringinally saw leonard on Austin city limits on PBS i was facinated.
I rememered that his song Suzanne was recorded by Noel Harrrison who was on a tv show called "Girl from Uncle" back in the late 60s
I just go crazy with the lyrics. Can't help but try to rewrite when i listen and follow the written ones to fit my mood.
Some of the references are not clear to me
like Boogie Street and White man dancing. I usually think ther is some deep secret meaning here. Perhaps it's the time (year) when they were writen and what was "cool" at that time.
(sorta like some of Bob Dillons work) Would enjoy any comments.

ironbob2004 · Post by **ironbob2004** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 7:45 am

I can't believe i refered to Bob Dylan as Dillon.
But you have to cut a 70 yo some slack.
(note to self--read what your write dummy )
Thanks for your patience all.

Udo Metz · Post by **Udo Metz** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 6:59 pm

Maarten · Post by **Maarten** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:24 am

Just turned 27 last week...

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 5:21 am

Welcome to the Forum, Bob

~ Don't worry about those typos. We have a way of looking past them and to what you're really saying. If we can't figure it out, we also tend not to be shy to ask

. You may just be our most senior member

. A Leonard peer for sure

.

~ Lizzy

ironbob2004 · Post by **ironbob2004** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:42 am

Thanks lizzytysh -- how kind.
Really enjoying this site. Like some I don't find many who are familure with L C
but have always been interested in his lyrics.
Sort of like learniing to read Shakespear
just keep on and after a while it starts to make sence (some times). I will be back thanks to all for your help ** bob**

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:14 pm

Hi Ironbob,

"White man dancing"

My daughter once said to me that "white men past 40 rarely dance with dignity".
And I think Leonard uses the term "white man dancing" as the ultimate description of human ineptitude.
Rob.

tomsakic · Post by **tomsakic** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:21 pm

Well, some ideological analysis of that song in which I was recently involved shows that "the white men are dancing" while all this stuff are going in the world of The Future (did this future come?). It seems like great post-colonial metaphor, really great - maybe the best line in the whole song. Namely:

There’ll be the breaking
of the ancient western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There’ll be phantoms
there’ll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing

You’ll see your woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
trying to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin’

You see; the white man is only dancing on all this.

Jonnie Falafel · Post by **Jonnie Falafel** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:52 pm

Well depending on which version you listen to Maggie has claimed at different points to be different ages. In 1965 she claimed to be 54 in spite of actually being 68. By 1976 her claims became more outrageous, reducing her age to 24!

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