By Larry Fyffe
If you’re talking about Bob Dylan and rocknroll, you’re talking about both the lyrics and music of Chuck Berry who hypes up rhythm and blues:
Bertha Mason shook it, broke it Then she hung it on the wall Says, "You're dancing with whom they tell you to Or you don't dance at all" (Bob Dylan: High Water)
Bertha Mason is a mad woman from the ‘Jane Eyre” novel, but the lyrics below are from the ‘Father of RocknRoll”:
She could not leave her number But I know who placed the call 'Cause my uncle took the message And he wrote it on the wall (Chuck Berry: Memphis, Tennessee)
There’s this song:
I got eight carburetors, boys, and I'm using'em all Well, I got eight carburators, and I'm using'em all I'm short on gas, my motor's starting to stall (Bob Dylan: Summer Days)
A reference to the following song;
She just don't have the appetite For gas somehow And, Dad, I got four carburators Hooked up on it now (Chuck Berry: Dear Dad)
Listen to this one:
Learn to dance, get dressed, get blessed Try to be a success Please her, please him, buy gifts Don't steal, don't lift (Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Sick Blues)
And then this:
Working in the filling station, too many tasks Wipe the windows, check the tires, check the oil, dollar gas Ah, too much monkey business, too much monkey business I don't want your botheration, go away, leave me be (Chuck Berry: Too Much Monkey Business)
A sentiment expressed in the folk rock song below:
The only thing I knew how to do Was to keep on keeping on Like a bird that flew (Bob Dylan: Tangled Up In Blue)
Bringing it all back home to:
Ah, Nadine, honey, is that you? Seems like every time I catch up with you You up to something new (Chuck Berry: Nadine)
Rendered below:
Ah, Nadine, baby, is that you? Seems like every time I catch up with you You got something else to do (Bob Dylan: Nadine ~ Chuck Berry)
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