Song written after real life events. (music video, 80s song, bass, Pearl Jam)

[saucywench]

That's just one opinion about the song. Dylan doesn't explain himself, or the song. That's part of it's beauty. Everyone can take what they want from it, but no one can claim to know what it really means, that is, except for Dylan.

[TKramar]

Maybe I'll have to look up what Anthony Scaduto, Dylan's biographer, had to say about the song. He interviewed Dylan for the book.

[saucywench]

Who knows if what Dylan told the biographer is really true??? Maybe it was said to placate.

[LinaJo76]

Originally Posted by ProgShred

I was listening to "I Don't Like Mondays" from the Boomtown Rats, and it got me thinking about songs that were written about real life events, That song was written about the first school mass shooting in America as a 16 year old girl fired sniper shots at an elementary school across the street from her bedroom window. When they asked her why she did it, she replied, "I Don't Like Mondays."

I can think of a few more songs, but I'll wait and see if someone else names them off.

Yeah, her name was Brenda Spencer.

[LinaJo76]

Casey Jones- by various artists

[LinaJo76]

Tom Dooley- The Kingston Trio

about a man named Tom Doolan who killed his girlfriend in North Carolina (?) after the Civil War.

[LinaJo76]

Comanche- Johnny Horton

Comanche was the name of the horse that was ridden by General Custer during the battle of Little Big Horn. He survived it and lived the rest of his life in Kansas (his body is at a Ft. Riley, Kansas museum, stuffed).

[LinaJo76]

On The Old Chisholm Trail- The Cartwright Brothers (and other various artists sang this song too).

[LinaJo76]

Blind Lemon- Leadbelly

It was a song about the famous blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson. He and Leadbelly knew each other.

[LinaJo76]

Nutbush City Limits- Tina Turner

Nutbush, Tennessee is the name of the town where Tina Turner was born. She wrote the song.