A Song And A One-Night-Stand

The Ethnomusicologist & Dylan's Baby Blue

By: George Waldrop

I would like you to see me in this light, my poetry unpretentious and bright
I think everyone that has ever been can say something profound about themselves
just from the experience of how they are living, call things by their true names

Walt Whitman said whatever satisfies the soul is truth
Donovan said all our souls are deeper than you can see
I am telling you we all are but dust & shadow, to pierce to the marrow

ask yourself was the light worth the candle, or the cold worth the heat
I tell everyone I meet, to tread lightly, for we all have to live in each others shadows
the brightest flame casts the darkest shadow, ageold time is aglow

the troublesome fear, the complexities of our history of mankind blend into
untrained, isolation, the folk artists turned ethnomusicologist & dylan's baby blue

lonesome goes deep but I will never know it's depths
loneliness pain is when you are hurting and no one is there
more lonely is having someone there who doesn't know how to care

I know the rain, how it smelt and how the flowers felt
beware, to know a man, walk between the raindrops, you think you know
resurrect the roots of the road, the sensitive soul is moved to tears of hobos

to study folk music and of their relationship to the peoples and cultures
singing our songs, the simple immediacy, we the people belong, I make mix tapes
among all the people, your absence, the people who are always, not you

may this poem, cast a long shadow on the ethnomusicologist & Dylan's baby blue

1. Fair
   Terri Hendrix

2. Gentle On My Mind
   Johnny Cash

3. And So it Goes
   Kerosene Halo

4. As The World Burns
   Drunk

5. Barfly
   Aimee Mann

6. Goin' Down Slow
   Eric Bibb

7. Wish I'd Been Honest
   Johnny Dowd

8. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
   Gillian Welch

9. Statesboro Blues/Shades
   The Devil Makes Three

10. Hey Hey What Can I Do
    Led Zeppelin

11. Lucky Thirteen Blues
    Brother Yusef

12. The Other Side Of Town
    Chuck E. Weiss

13. Bottom of the World
    Tom Waits

14. We All Come To The Same Place
    Rhubarb Whiskey

15. Sad and Blue
    Melvern Taylor

16. Pornographic Love Song
    David Dondero

17. I Want You All
    Brigid Kaelin

18. Walk Of Shame
    Winechuggers

19. The Ethnomusicologist & Dylan's Baby Blue
    George Waldrop

20. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (1966)
    Bob Dylan

     

     

     

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