Happy Jack Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock 'n' roll route? DYLAN: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13- year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy - he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say? PLAYBOY: And that's how you became a rock 'n' roll singer? DYLAN: No, that's how I got tuberculosis. From the Bob Dylan 1966 Playboy interview 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Rather disturbing fixation on 13 year old girls in that, yuck! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted March 2 Author Share Posted March 2 Friend of Jimmy Page, maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjones Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 You can see where Tom Waits got his influences from. It sounds like the lyrics to one of his songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Wait, what? 1 hour ago, Happy Jack said: I get a job as a Chinaman. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowB_FTW Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 9 hours ago, Happy Jack said: I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor ❓❗❓ Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 21 hours ago, Lozz196 said: Rather disturbing fixation on 13 year old girls in that, yuck! In context with the rest of this completely outlandish nonsense I don't think it is a fixation (also think it is the same girl returning, not multiple girls) just something outrageous for outrage sake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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