Una bellissima canzone d’amore di Bob Dylan, dedicata (pare) a Joan Baez.
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Secondo John Cale dei Velvet Underground Dylan aveva avuto una storia con Nico.
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Secondo la femminista radicale inglese Caroline Coon – cui evidentemente O Caroline di Robert Wyatt non era sufficiente – l’ispiratrice sarebbe stata lei stessa.
In the 1960’s, Caroline Coon was the inspiration for Bob Dylan’s song She Belongs To Me and Robert Wyatt’s song O Caroline. In 1977 the New Musical Express stated that the Strangler’s song London Lady was written about Caroline Coon.
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In 1971 Caroline Coon was one of the women to whom Germaine Greer dedicated The Female Eunuch.
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Naturalmente, la donna del titolo, e nonostante il titolo, non appartiene proprio a nessuno (“she’s nobody’s child, the Law can’t touch her at all”).
Ma il verso più bello è quello dell’anello egiziano che brilla prima che lei parli (“She wears an Egyptian ring / That sparkles before she speaks”).
She’s got everything she needs
She’s an artist, she don’t look back
She’s got everything she needs
She’s an artist, she don’t look back
She can take the dark out of nighttime
And paint the daytime black.You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
You will start out standing
Proud to steal her anything she sees
But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole
Down upon your knees.She never stumbles
She’s got no place to fall
She never stumbles
She’s got no place to fall
She’s nobody’s child
The Law can’t touch her at all.She wears an Egyptian ring
That sparkles before she speaks
She wears an Egyptian ring
That sparkles before she speaks
She’s a hypnotist collector
You are a walking antique.Bow down to her on Sunday
Salute her when her birthday comes
Bow down to her on Sunday
Salute her when her birthday comes
For Halloween buy her a trumpet
And for Christmas, give it a drum.
Qui l’ascoltiamo in una versione acustica (quella di Bringing It All Back Home ha chitarre e basso elettrici) registrata alla Royal Albert Hall di Londra il 9 maggio 1965.
La setlist completa del concerto:
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- To Ramona
- Gates of Eden
- If You Gotta Go, Go Now
- It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
- Love Minus Zero/No Limit
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Talkin’ World War III Blues
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- With God on Our Side
- She Belongs to Me
- It Ain’t Me, Babe
- The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
- All I Really Want to Do
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Per motivi in parte oscuri anche a me, ma in parte riconducibile al modo secco e impersonale con cui eseguono una canzone fin troppo languida, tra le innumerevoli cover quella che mi piace di più è quella dei Tom Tom Club:
Non ho trovato niente su YouTube, quindi metto l’mp3 creato a partire dal CD di cui sono il legittimo proprietario. Spero di non avere violato troppe leggi anacronistiche. E quand’anche, chìssene.
And now for something completely different …
Eccola, Caroline, la vatessa e la musa di Canterbury:
I love you still …
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