The untainted Dylan, champion of youth, teller of the deluge, Guthrie wannabe, must have known the inevitability, for these very propensities and his times prescribed it: there could be no more Guthries to be like once American capitalism had made devils of fallen union men and took its warfare into the minds of the wretched survivors, stealing the economies, perverting the identities that simultaneously oppressed and radicalised them, til only the young and unlearned remained alive enough to shout their callow freedom There can be no more Ciscos and Sonnys and Leadbellys too when ageing is a sentence in marketplace pragmatism and global crises are something from which finance and euphemism shelter your offspring and no one elses, fuck knows they couldnt possibly be something thats happening to you.īauldie further records speculation as to why Dylan left the song off Infidels. Lord Protect My Child, of course, is blathering didactic discharge contextualisesd by the disfiguring mole on Dylans soft, velvety cheeks and volume three amounts to a sad document of the man-as-production-lines decline and flirtation with the forfeiture of humanity that tends to reduce punchdrunk celebrity bohemians to serenading their own fucking faith, born again president-style. While parents will always be understandably anxious about their childrens future in the face of increasing global problems and crises, this song implies a strongly held faith that all will be well. As easy as easy, eh What the fuck is this, the learn-to-read-Dylan-songs-with-Bert-and-Ernie episode of Sesame Street.īauldie has need neither to reach for reasons to spod nor talk up the relative runts on volumes one and two, for which he offers interesting and informative background, not blathering didactic discharge like this: Also recorded for but not used on Infidels, Lord Protect My Child is a moving fathers prayer expressing a selfless concern for a childs future in a wicked world.
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