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   Christopher Rollason to All   
   Rough and Rowdy Ways title and Woody Gut   
   19 Apr 21 10:30:15   
   
   From: rollason54@gmail.com   
      
   The title of Dylan's album 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' has been traced to ‘My   
   rough and rowdy ways’, a song recorded in 1930 by Jimmie Rodgers.    
      
   However, an alternative possible source is a passage in Woody Guthrie's   
   autobiography of 1943, Bound For Glory: in that book's chapter VI, a character   
   declares: 'I'm gonna give up my good ol' ruff [sic] and rowdy ways' (p. 95 of   
   the 1974 Picador edition).   
       
      
   Was Guthrie influenced by Rodgers, and Dylan by both? Here as with Tarantula,   
   there may be more than one source for Dylan's title ...    
      
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