to bobby - joan baez

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Joan Baez, “To Bobby,” Gannon College, Pennsylvania, PA, December 10, 1972.

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“Joan Baez recorded a protest song about me that was getting big play, challenging me to get with it—come out and take charge, lead the masses—be an advocate, lead the crusade. The song called out to me from the radio like a public service announcement.” ---Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One.

So anyway I had already changed the words and I talked to him for the first time in four years, and somebody had already printed the damn song with that lousy verse in it. So I said, “Hi, Bobby,” and he says, “Hey, Hi, I heard that lousy song---it’s really terrible,” I said, “Thank you---just what a young, new songwriter needs for confidence.” And he said “Hey, ‘Listen to the lambs Bobby’ that’s a terrible line, it’s really terrible. Hey, I wrote an answer, “Listen to the turkeys Joanie, gobble-gobble-gobble.” Anyhow...the ‘ole son of a bitch.”

O termo miragem tem origem na expressão francesa se mirer que significa mirar-se, ver-se no espelho. No espanhol, espejismo.