Who You Gonna Serve?
With the Martin Scorcese documentary on Bob Dylan airing on PBS next week, I thought this would be a good time to post the following words from Dylan...

Serve Somebody
Bob Dylan

You may be a state trooper, you might be a young Turk,
You may be the head of some big TV network,
You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame,
You may be living in another country under another name...

You may be a construction worker working on a home,
You may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome,
You might own guns and you might even own tanks,
You might be somebody's landlord, you might even own banks...

You may be a preacher with your spiritual pride,
You may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side,
You may be in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair,
You may be somebody's mistress, may be somebody's heir...

Might like to wear cotton... might like to wear silk,
Might like to drink whiskey, might like to drink milk,
You might like to eat caviar, you might like to eat bread,
You may be sleeping on the floor, or in a king-sized bed...

But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody.
It may be the devil, or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.
Originally released, 1979, on Slow Train Coming.

I'm looking forward to the show. Bob Dylan is truly one of the giants of American music. With Scorcese directing, it can only be a remarkable experience of the man and his music. No matter what he has sung- from protest to love to spiritual and just plain wierd, he captures so much it is hard to describe. A remarkable artist.