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|    Zod to Christopher Rollason    |
|    Re: Rough and Rowdy Ways title and Woody    |
|    23 Apr 21 14:42:32    |
      From: viciouspaul890@gmail.com              On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 1:30:17 PM UTC-4, Christopher Rollason wrote:       >       > 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 ...              Interesting....              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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