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

Actually I wanna tell you a story.
We were playin' about four months ago some place that was a college
or a campus. I forget exactly where, Arizona I think it was.
Anyway, I read the Bible a lot; it just happens I do.
It says things in the Bible that I didn't really learn until recently,
And I really mentioned these because there are higher learnin people there,
preaching their philosophy.
So people can study all the different philosophies, of Plato and, oh, who else? Who?
Well, I definitely recall reading Nietzsche and those people like that.
Anyways, in the Bible it tells a specific thing in the Book of Revelations
that just apply to these times, and it says that certain wars that soon -
I can't say exactly when, but soon anyway - so that at that time it
mentions a country to the furthermost north, and it has it's symbol the bear.
And it's also spelt R-O-S-H in the Bible.
This was written quite a few years ago.
So it can't but be applied to one country that I know.
But do you know another it can be applied to? Maybe you do. I don't know.
Then there's another country called ... can't remember what the name of it is,
but it's in the eastern part of the world and it's got an army of two
hundred million foot soldiers.
Now that's only one country that that can actually be.
So anyway, I was telling this story to these people.
I shouldn't have been telling it to them.
I just got carried away.
I mentioned it to them and then I watched.
And Russia was going to come down and attack in the Middle East.
It says this in the Bible.
And I had been reading all kind of books my whole life:
magazines, books, whatever I could lay my hand on anyway,
and I never found any truth in any of it, if you wanna know the truth.
But I said this country is gonna come down and attack.
And all these people - there must've been 50,000 ... maybe it wasn't 50,000 -
5,000 maybe ... I don't know, maybe three - 3,000 - they all booed.
Everybody just booed; and it was the whole auditorium of people.
I said, Russia's gonna come down and attack in the Middle East.
And it was ooohhh! They couldn't hear that. They didn't believe it.
And a month later, Russia moved her troops into, I think, Afghanistan.
And the whole situation changed, you know.
I'm not saying this to tell you they were wrong and I was right,
or anything like that.
These things that it mentions in the Bible I'm gonna pay mighty close
attention to ...been a lot of previews of what Anti-Christ could be like.
You had a preview; you got Adolf Hitler.
Well, a preview?
Anyway, the Anti-Christ is gonna be a little different from that. But then he's
gonna bring panic to the world.
But he will eventually be defeated too.
But you're still gonna have to be aware of these things.
You need something strong to hang on to.
It was manifested in the flesh!
Testified in the Spirit!
Received by angels!
Preached out in the world!!



[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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