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To: JakeStraw who wrote (34193)	4/12/2004 11:57:40 PM
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Scot tune inspired Bob Dylan's 'Times They Are A Changin'! London \| April 12, 2004 5:18:34 PM IST webindia123.com Bob Dylan crooned "The Times They Are A- Changin'" almost four decades back. But, the song that became an anthem for anti-war protesters and won hearts the world over, was actually inspired by an obscure Scottish tune. According to The Telegraph, Dylan has suggested that "The Times They Are A-Changin'" is probably from an old Scottish folk song. Dylan enthusiasts have named the 51st (Highland) Division's Farewell to Sicily as the most likely source of his inspiration. "You use what has been handed down. I'll take a song I know and simply start playing it in my head. At a certain point, some of the words will change and I'll start writing," the 62-year-old singer was quoted as saying. The late Scottish poet Hamish Henderson wrote the words and the tune was composed in 1915 by Pipe Major James Robertson. Rab Noakes, a singer-songwriter who has examined Scottish influences on Dylan, said yesterday: "When I studied the song, I realised that the phrasing was identical to Henderson's piece and you could sing Dylan's words on top of either tune." "Although there are differences in the main melodies, the chorus tune that became The Times They Are A-Changin' is almost identical," he adds. Henderson's song, written in Scots, begins: The pipie is dozie, the pipie is fey He wullnae come roun' for his vino the day The sky owre Messina is unco an' gray An a' the bricht chaumers are eerie. Writing on top of the Scottish song, Dylan produced in 1964 a rather more familiar first verse: If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a- changin'. Dylan said in the interview that many of his songs were based on old Protestant hymns or variations on blues music. "I wrote Blowin' in the Wind in 10 minutes when I just put words to an old spiritual tune I learned from some records." Henderson wrote Farewell to Sicily, about the withdrawal of Allied troops shortly after the war ended in 1945. (ANI)