My Song for the Camino

[scruffy1]

Yesterday was Bob Dylan's birthday number 74. He never walked the Camino and probably never will, Woodie Guthrie never walked and neither did Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry, or Huddie Ledbetter. The song still captures much of a certain spirit of theCamino. Happy Birthday Bob!!!

• I'm out here a thousand miles from my home
  Walkin' a road other men have gone down
  I'm seein' your world of people and things
  Hear paupers and peasants and princes and kings
  
  Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
  'Bout a funny old world that's comin' along
  Seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn
  It looks like it's dyin' and it's hardly been born
  
  Hey, Woody Guthrie, but I know that you know
  All the things that I'm sayin' and many times more
  I'm singin' every song but I can't sing enough
  'Cause there's not many men done the things that you done
  
  Here's to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly, too
  And to all the good people that traveled with you
  Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
  That come with the dust and are gone with the wind
  
  I'm a-leavin' tomorrow but I could leave today
  Somewhere down the road someday
  The very last thing that I'd want to do
  Is to say I'd been hittin' some hard travelin' too
  
  
  

 

[ricitosdeplata]

Love Dylan's music. Was trying to put some music on my mp3 player, so thanks for the suggestion.

I know it's referring to Santiago, Cuba, but in Compay Segundo's musical version of Federico Garcia Lorca's poem, Son de negros en Cuba, every other line is"Ire' a Santiago." It's got a rhythmic tune that makes you feel like dancing or maybe picking up your pace if you're walking.

 

[waveprof]

I wrote my masters thesis on road imagery in Dylan, and he was central to my dissertation (about hobo imagery in 20th Century american literature, film, and song). I love that song. I could listen to it on repeat for hours. But it is early (the first song he wrote himself) and actually works against the ethos of how Dylan uses the road in the rest of his work......it's all about following someone else's road. The rest of Dylan's use of road imagery is usually about constant renewal and reinvention, which is how I, personally, think of the Camino.

I always think of Dylan on camino myself---Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Don't know why.


PS: Dylan is playing Donostia/San Sebastian July 11th. Would be a really, really nice way to celebrate finishing a Camino. His current tour is really good (just saw him in New Orleans---although people talked out loud and texted on cell phones the entire time so I wasn't able to enjoy it much, I'll be livid if that is my final memory of Dylan live)

 

[when night falls]

Thanks for the heads up on Dylan's birthday.
I just added "Shelter From The Storm" to the "Camino" folder on the mp3-player

 

[Wolfdog]

I love listening to Dylan and had lots of music on my phone when we walked last year but only put my buds in a few times. Seems I had the music from the Godfather as Michael Corleone walked through the Italian countryside playing nonstop in my head.

 

[Coleen Clark]

I love listening to Dylan and had lots of music on my phone when we walked last year but only put my buds in a few times. Seems I had the music from the Godfather as Michael Corleone walked through the Italian countryside playing nonstop in my head.

(cotton in cheeks) "I'm gonna make you a Camino you can't refuse"

 

[Coleen Clark]

I wrote my masters thesis on road imagery in Dylan, and he was central to my dissertation (about hobo imagery in 20th Century american literature, film, and song). I love that song. I could listen to it on repeat for hours. But it is early (the first song he wrote himself) and actually works against the ethos of how Dylan uses the road in the rest of his work......it's all about following someone else's road. The rest of Dylan's use of road imagery is usually about constant renewal and reinvention, which is how I, personally, think of the Camino.

I always think of Dylan on camino myself---Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Don't know why.


PS: Dylan is playing Donostia/San Sebastian July 11th. Would be a really, really nice way to celebrate finishing a Camino. His current tour is really good (just saw him in New Orleans---although people talked out loud and texted on cell phones the entire time so I wasn't able to enjoy it much, I'll be livid if that is my final memory of Dylan live)

Love all the songs posted so far! I wonder sometimes if I should actually put my earpieces in, or if I would be missing out on something that has been put in my way on the Camino. While "training" here (walking up and down the waterfront with my backpack on four miles a day) I hum. "The Wanderer" is great, although at the 'Valderie, valdera, valderie valder-ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha' part I find myself startling people around me. Sorry. "Maybe God is Trying To Tell You Something" from The Color Purple picks up my pace, then I transition into "One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater". I remember all the words from Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, so "Why Would A Fellow Want a Girl Like Her" eats up almost a half mile. Anything by Chicago is walk-worthy, "Saturday in the Park", "Spinning Wheel", and of course " 25 or 6 to 4". The Jukebox in the corner of my mind is full, so perhaps I will leave the earpieces behind and carry imaginary nickels.

 

[waveprof]

Love all the songs posted so far! I wonder sometimes if I should actually put my earpieces in, or if I would be missing out on something that has been put in my way on the Camino. While "training" here (walking up and down the waterfront with my backpack on four miles a day) I hum. "The Wanderer" is great, although at the 'Valderie, valdera, valderie valder-ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha' part I find myself startling people around me. Sorry. "Maybe God is Trying To Tell You Something" from The Color Purple picks up my pace, then I transition into "One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater". I remember all the words from Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, so "Why Would A Fellow Want a Girl Like Her" eats up almost a half mile. Anything by Chicago is walk-worthy, "Saturday in the Park", "Spinning Wheel", and of course " 25 or 6 to 4". The Jukebox in the corner of my mind is full, so perhaps I will leave the earpieces behind and carry imaginary nickels.

I spent a lot of time planning my playlist, then never listened to music once the entire camino. And I'm glad I didn't. But the music was always in my head (because of the training)