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Dylan, The Nobel Laureate

"For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin’
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall

— A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, 1962

Bob Dylan, iconic singer and songwriter, was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature, 2016, “for having created new
poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”

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