DYLAN'S CHRISTMAS ALBUM: SANTA IS A FUCKIN JUNKIE

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THE SECRETS OF CHRISTMAS IS IN THE HEART

Dylan’s Santa Claus is loaded on smack and bringing dugi to all the little kids to get them addicted. THE KEY TO BREAKING THE DYLAN CODE in CHRISTMAS IS IN THE HEART By A. J. Weberman Many of the traditional Christmas songs Bob Dylan chose for CHRISTMAS IS IN THE HEART contained a phrase that was either identical with, or closely resembled, a line from Dylan’s previously established body of poetry. In Do You Hear What I Hear he sang "A song, a song / High above the tree" In Tonight No Light Will Shine on Me he wrote, "As the wind blows high above the tree" In Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas he sang "Here we are as in olden days / Happy golden days of yore." In Days of '49 he wrote, "In the days of old in the days of gold often I repine." In Winter Wonderland he sang, “In the meadow we can build a snowman / And pretend that he's a circus clown.” In the liner notes to The Times They Are A-Changin’ Dylan wrote “An' I walked my road an' sung my song / Like a saddened clown / In the circus a my own world.” In Must be Santa Claus he sang "Who's got a beard that is long and white?" In Tarantula he wrote "the soldier with the long beard says go ask questions my son" "Soldier"


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