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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....   
      
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