Dylan's Miscellany
The San Francisco Rap
The San Francisco Rap (from www.fmi-fcia.uchicago.edu/~jrr/index.html, jrr@fciav3.bsd.uchicago.edu)

A long time ago they used to have these Greek plays, pretty long time ago. Anyway, nowadays they got a thing called "Actors". You know, they're in movies. Back then they had actors too, but they called them hypocrites. That's right. It'd be like a play, you know, like there'd be a play with about 30 people in it, but actually there'd be only four. They'd all just wear masks; they ... [Dylan pretends to recite in a high pitched voice] ... to the crowd - talk in another voice, and they'd just wear a mask. So four people could play the part of 30 people. That's a heavy responsibility. Keeps you on your toes. Never know who you are. So now, too, there's a lot of hypocrites; they're talkin' you know, using Jesus' name. But don't let that put you off. Because they're still dealing with the world, and Jesus has overcome the world - that's what he did at the cross, as simple as that. He didn't make it complicated. But actually, if you look at Jesus you gotta look at the cross. Actually, if you wonder why all these things are happening nowadays, Joshua, you know, he went into, I believe it was, uh, Canaan land, and God told him that in certain times He would destroy all the people, every man, woman, children there. You see that's bad. Certainly he hated to leave the children, but they was all just defiled. And there was some cities. God said "Don't go in there yet" so Joshua wondered why, and God said, "because their iniquity is not yet full"

So now, you look around today, when we started out this tour, we started out in San Francisco. It's a kind of unique town these days. I think it's either one third or two thirds of the population that are homosexuals in San Francisco. I've heard it said. Now, I guess they're working up to a hundred percent, I don't know. But anyway, it's a growing place for homosexuals, and I read they have homosexual politics, and it's a political party. I don't mean it's going on in somebody's closet. I mean it's political! All right, you know what I'm talking about? Anyway, I would just think, well I guess the iniquity's not yet full. And I don't wanna be around when it is!



[Table of Contents]
[Four Letters...] [Dear Mummy] [Letter to Larry] [A Letter from Bob Dylan] [A Message from Bob Dylan] [Joan Baez in Concert] [11 Outlined Epitaphs] [Alternatives to College] [Blowin' in the Wind] [For Dave Glover] [Advice for Geraldine...] [Go Away You Bomb] [The Kennedy Poems] [Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie] [Lonesome Christmas] [My Life in a Stolen Moment] [Dylan's Speech] [Off the Top of my Head] [The Armageddon Rap] [The Devil Rap] [The Guru rap] [The Jesus Trip Rap] [Leadbelly Rap] [The San Francisco Rap] [The Tempe Recollection Rap] [Renaldo and Clara]

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