Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part XXIV)

by Larry Fyffe

Links to all the previous articles in the series are given at the end.   And here is the list of cover versions from those articles… after which is today’s episode

• Abandoned Love – Sean Keane
• Ahab The Arab -Ray Stevens
• Angelina -Bob Dylan
• Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream -John Bull And The Bandits
• Changing Of The Guards -Whitley & Lang
• Changing Of The Guards -Gaslight Anthem
• Crossing The Rubicon -Bob Dylan
• Drifter’s Escape -George Thorogood/Destroyers
• Duquesne Whistle -Benmont Tench
• False Prophet -Bob Dylan
• Going to Acapulco – Calexico
• Goodbye Jimmy Reed -Bob Dylan
• Groom’s Still Waiting At The Altar -Elkie Brooks 
• Handy Dandy -Bob Dylan
• High Water – Joan Osborne
• Highway 61 Revisited -Ross Scrivener
• I Contain Multitudes -Emma Swift
• I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine – John Doe
• Idiot Wind -Gerard Quintana
• Idiot Wind -The Coal Porters
• I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight -Robert Palmer
• Isis – Julie Corbalis
• Isis -White Stripes
• Just Like A Woman -Old Crow Medicine Show
• Little Maggie – Bob Dylan
• Lord Protect My Child -Susan Tedeshi
• Maggie’s Farm -Chicken Diamond
• Maggie’s Farm -The Specials
• Maggie’s Farm – Zero Prophet
• Maggie’s Farm – Jimmy Vivino And The Black Italians
• Mary And The Soldier – Bob Dylan
• Memphis Blues – HC Handy
• My Own Version Of You -Bob Dylan
• Not Dark Yet: Lucinda Williams
• Oh Sister – Stanilsaw Sojka
• Precious Angel – The Weather Station
• Pretty Mary -Bob Dylan/Band
• Ring Them Bells -Muscle And Bone
• Ring Them Bells – McCrary Sisters
• Rocky Racoon -Charlie Parr
• Romance In Durango – Julie Felix
• Romance In Durango -Gerard Quintana
• Scarlet Town -Bob Dylan
• Seeing The Real You At Last -Bettye Lavette
• Simple Twist of Fate – Emma Swift
• Sign On The Window -Al Turk
• Sign On the Window – Sarah Jarosz
• Slow Train – Clas Yngstrom
• Stuck inside Of Mobile – North Mississippi Alstars
• Summer Days -Brothers Lazaroff
• Talking World War III Blues -Toni Vescoli
• Things have changed – String Swing
• Time Passes Slowly: Judy Collins
• Tin Angel – Bob Dylan
• Visions Of Johanna – Stephen Inglis
• Wedding Song – Maria Muldaur

By Larry Fyffe

Jesus, personified by singer/songwriter Bob Dylan as the narrator in the following song, runs away with His daughter, and travels all the way to Utah.

The original lyrics are pieced together from fragments found in the Holy Grail, now stored in the Archives Department of the Dylan Untold Corporation.

No wonder sad-eyed Jesus decides to drift over the Atlantic Ocean with blanketed Sophia Sarah wrapped up in His arms.

As evidenced in the following pieced-together song lyrics:

God said, "Christ, kill me your daughter"
Jesus say, "Man, you can't mean slaughter'er?"
God say, "No"; Jesus say, "What?"
God say, "You can do want you want, son
But the next time you see me coming, you better run"
(Bob Dylan: Highway LXI Revisited)

It’s quite obvious for those who have eyes to see, and ears to hear, that clues to the solution of the Dylavinci Code are spread throughout many of the songs by Bob Dylan, whether old, new, or reworked, wherein the narrator thereof often takes on the persona of Jesus Christ.

Or the lyrics reference John the Baptist, as Kees de Graaf points out.

The Baptist calls Christ the sacrificial "Lamb of God":
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him
And saith, "Behold the Lamb of God
Which taketh away the sin of the world"
(John 1: 29)

Jesus rebels; decides to save his daughter Sophia from such a fate, evidenced by the lines below:

I don't complain, what I need is control
To gain the whole world, and give up my soul
I ain't going to hell for anybody
Not for father, not for mother
Not for sister, not for brother
No way
(Bob Dylan: Ain't Going To Hell For Anybody)

No way, Jose.

Not for father Roman soldier Panther; nor for mother Saint Mary; nor for sister Mary Magdalene; and certainly not for brother Lazarus.

Index to past episodes

• Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code Part 1
• Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part II)
• Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part III)
• Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part IV)
• Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part V)
• Bob  Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part VI)
• Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part VII)
• Bob Dylan And the Dylanvinci Code Part VIII
• Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part IX)
• Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part X)
• Bob Dylan And The DylanvincI Code (Part XI)
• Bob Dylan and The DylanvincI Code (Part XII)
• Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part XIII)
• Bob Dylan And The Dylanvinci Code (Part XIV) 
• Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part XV)
• Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part XVI) 
• Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part XVII)
• Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part XVIII)
• Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part XIX)
• Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part XX)
• Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part XXI)
• Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part XXII)
• Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code (Part XXIII)