{"id":34797,"date":"2016-10-14T12:58:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T01:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=34797"},"modified":"2019-04-16T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:31:10","slug":"nobelprize-for-literature-to-dylan-the-times-they-are-a-changin-two-songs-through-a-climatechange-prism-takvera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/nobelprize-for-literature-to-dylan-the-times-they-are-a-changin-two-songs-through-a-climatechange-prism-takvera\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nobelprize for Literature to Dylan. The Times they are a changin’: two songs through a #climatechange prism – @takvera"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Singer\/songwriter Bob Dylan awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature<\/p><\/div>\n

The 1964 classic protest anthem The Times they are a changin’<\/i> by Bob Dylan is just as relevant as a song about climate change. That is the poetic greatness of Bob Dylan, who has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2016. <\/p>\n

Try reading the lyrics of Blowin’ in the Wind<\/i> using a climate change frame:<\/p>\n

Come gather ’round people where ever you roam
\nAnd admit that the waters around you have grown
\nAnd accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone
\nIf your time to you is worth savin’
\nThen you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone,
\nFor the times they are a’ changin’!<\/p>\n

Come writers and critics who prophesy with your pen
\nAnd keep your eyes wide the chance won’t come again
\nAnd don’t speak too soon for the wheel’s still in spin
\nAnd there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’
\nFor the loser now will be later to win
\nFor the times they are a’ changin’!<\/p>\n

Come senators, congressmen please heed the call
\nDon’t stand in the doorway don’t block up the hall
\nFor he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
\nThere’s a battle outside and it’s ragin’
\nIt’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
\nFor the times they are a’ changin’!<\/p>\n

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
\nAnd don’t criticize what you can’t understand
\nYour sons and your daughters are beyond your command
\nYour old road is rapidly agin’
\nPlease get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand
\nFor the times they are a’ changin’!<\/p>\n

The line it is drawn the curse it is cast
\nThe slow one now will later be fast
\nAs the present now will later be past
\nThe order is rapidly fadin’
\nAnd the first one now will later be last
\nFor the times they are a’ changin’!<\/p>\n

Watch Tracy Chapman cover Blowin’ in the Wind<\/em> below:<\/p>\n