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Don’t Criticise What You Can’t Understand lyrics by Alan Unsworth
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‘My introduction to Dylan and the moment that set the course for my life and music started many years ago the day my brother came home with Bob’s Freewheelin album. Firstly the iconic cover made me spellbound and eager to listen to the record itself. An album full of songs of inequality, love, injustice, peace and anti war messages made me sit up and take notice of what is going on around the world. Freedom and justice and a caring world was inscribed in my soul from that day on. Many years later after following Dylan and learning to play and write music I decided to write a song about him. It was I suppose directed at some of his naysayers hence the title. DON’T CRITICISE WHAT YOU CANT UNDERSTAND. Obviously a line from one of his iconic songs THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’. I had an idea though to do something different and that was to incorporate quotes lines and song titles from Bobs songs. I think it’s worked. Along with the songs I have written I have also written books on poetry, my life in music and a fantasy tale called THE DAY I MET DYLAN. I am also singer songwriter in a local band and we are named after a street in Liverpool where Bob was photographed with local kids in 1966 … DUBLIN STREET. We have performed regularly at THE CAVERN and the PHILARMONIC HALL.
Hope you like my song‘.
Alan Unsworth
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Don’t Criticise What You Can’t Understand lyrics
Sitting on a barbed wire fence with the wind blowing in I was just Freewheelin while the times were changing
You ain’t going nowhere sang the man with the band
Don’t criticise what you can’t understand
From the storm you gave me shelter, you took away those lies
I could see things clearer without dark eyes
The cross was black and the man was waiting to be hanged
Don’t criticise what you can’t understand
Walking down the highway the river was red with blood
The rain was pouring hard and the road was full of mud
Its not dark yet I cried and she’ll be back where she belongs
Don’t criticise what you can’t understand
I gazed into the future to see what lies beyond
Everything changed after Blonde on Blonde
I’m heading for the Highlands like a wanted man
Don’t criticise what you can’t understand
Caught visions of Joanna she was cold irons bound
She was with little Maggie 4th time around
We trailed to Durango walked every grain of sand
Don’t criticise what you can’t understand
The man on the train a-travellin said his name was Jack
Said his heart was in Mississippi and he don’t look back
He told me he was love sick and death is not the end
Don’t criticise what you can’t understand
I thought of blind Willie in a series of dreams
He had to crawl out my window and played the tambourine
He was only a hobo and walked the Grand Coulie dam
Don’t criticise what you can’t understand
For seven days now you’ve been knocking on my door
What was it you wanted I don’t believe you anymore
You’re a big girl now and Mama you’ve been on my mind
Don’t criticise what you can’t understand
I said farewell Angelina she was a friend of mine
She lived on 4th street most of the time
She wore Spanish boots and the Sad eyed lady sang
Don’t criticise what you can’t understand
I walked with no direction but things have changed
There’s blood on the tracks and buckets of rain
Everything has broken Freedom’s chimes have rang
Don’t criticise what you can’t understand
by Alan Unsworth
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