Our conversation was short and sweet
 It nearly swept me off-a my feet
 And I’m back in the rain, oh, oh
 And you are on dry land
 You made it there somehow
 You’re a big girl now
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Song: “You’re a Big Girl Now”
Album: The Complete Budokan 1978
First played: 1976-05-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/youre-big-girl-now/
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 When you’re with me
 I’m a thousand times happier than I could ever say
 What does it matter
 What price I pay
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Song: “Spirit on the Water”
Album: Modern Times
First played: 2006-10-22
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/spirit-water/
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 “No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke
 “There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke”
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Song: “All Along the Watchtower”
Album: John Wesley Harding
First played: 1974-01-03
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/all-along-watchtower/
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40 years ago this week, "If She Knew What She Wants" by #TheBangles entered the #Top40 at 37. It peaked at 29 on 12 Jul 1986. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu_pNeqAQ-U #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo

 And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls
 “Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know
 Casanova is just being punished for going
 To Desolation Row”
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Song: “Desolation Row”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
First played: 1965-08-28
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/desolation-row/
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In 1977, the US researcher Charles R. Ervin came to #Bergen to examine famous musician and composer Ole Bull's Gaspara da Salo violin.

A child prodigy, Bull was a solo violinist with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra at age nine, and a orchestra director at 18. He went to Paris to further educate himself, was room mate with Chopin and played with Paganini and Franz Liszt, and was one of the people who advised a young Edvard Grieg to develop his talents in Leipzig.

Bull was both a luthier, and a collector of famed violins from Amati, Gasparo da Salò, Guarneri, Stradivari and others. This violin, made for Ferdinand II, Arch Duke of Austria, is considered one of the finest in the world – and is currently in the Bergen Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, Permanenten, in Bergen.

Photo by Finn Tollefsen for the Dagen newspaper, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-ft-02765-006.html
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 I’m listening to the steel rails hum
 Got both eyes tight shut
 I’m just trying to keep the hunger from
 Creepin’ its way into my gut
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Song: “Workingman’s Blues #2”
Album: Modern Times
First played: 2006-10-11
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/workingmans-blues-2/
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 My woman got a face like a teddy bear
 She’s tossin’ a baseball bat in the air
 The meat is so tough you can’t cut it with a sword
 I’m crashin’ my car, trunk first into the boards
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Song: “Honest with Me”
Album: Love and Theft
First played: 2001-10-05
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/honest-me/
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