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  34 <h1>Textual sources to the &quot;Love and Theft&quot; songs</h1>
  35 <p>Submitted by Chris Johnson </p>
  36 <p>&nbsp;</p>
  37 <p>Here are some phrases that Dylan apparently lifted from the English translation of Junichi Saga's <em>Confessions of a Yakuza</em> translated by John Bester) and used on Love and Theft: </p>
  38 <table width="100%">
  39   <tr>
  40
  41     <td><strong>Original</strong></td>
  42     <td><strong>&quot;Love and Theft&quot;</strong></td>
  43   </tr>
  44   <tr>
  45     <td>My old man would sit there like a feudal lord (6)
  46     </td>
  47     <td>&quot;My old man, he's like some feudal
  48     lord, Got more lives than a cat&quot; (<a href="floater.htm#***)">Floater</a>)</td>
  49
  50   </tr>
  51   <tr>
  52     <td>&quot;If it bothers you so much,&quot; she'd say, &quot; why don't you just shove off?&quot;
  53  (9)
  54  </td>
  55     <td>Juliet said back to Romeo, &quot;Why
  56     don't you just shove off if it bothers you so much.&quot; (<a href="floater.htm#*****)">Floater</a>)</td>
  57
  58   </tr>
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  60     <td>My mother...was the daughter of a wealthy farmer...(she) died when I was
  61  eleven...my father was a traveling salesman...I never met him. (my uncle)
  62  was a nice man, I won't forget him...After my mother died, I decided it'd be
  63
  64  best to go and try my luck there. (57-58)
  65  </td>
  66     <td>My mother was a daughter of a
  67     wealthy farmer, / My father was a travelin'
  68     salesman, I never met him. / When my mother died, my uncle took me and he
  69     ran a funeral parlor. / He did a lot of nice things for me and I won't
  70     forget him. (<a href="po_boy.htm">Po' Boy</a>) </td>
  71   </tr>
  72   <tr>
  73     <td>&quot;Break the roof in!&quot; ...splashed kerosene over the floor and led a fuse from
  74
  75  it outside (63)
  76  </td>
  77
  78     <td>I’m leavin’ in the mornin’ just as
  79     soon as the dark clouds lift, / Gonn' break in the roof, set fire to the
  80     place as a parting gift (<a href="summer_days.htm">Summer Days</a>)</td>
  81   </tr>
  82   <tr>
  83     <td>I won't come anymore if it bothers you (139)
  84     </td>
  85     <td>Some things are too terrible to be
  86     true, / I won't come here no more if it bothers you. (<a href="honest_with_me.htm">Honest
  87     With Me</a>)</td>
  88
  89   </tr>
  90   <tr>
  91     <td>&quot;D'you think I could call myself a yakuza if I couldn't stand up to some old
  92
  93  businessman?&quot; (141)</td>
  94     <td>What good are you anyway if you
  95     can’t stand up to some old businessman. (<a href="summer_days.htm">Summer
  96     Days</a>)</td>
  97   </tr>
  98   <tr>
  99
 100     <td>...some kind of trouble that put him on bad terms with the younger
 101  men... it's up to him whether a session comes alive or falls flat...even
 102  kicking him out wasn't as easy as that... I decided to wait a while and see
 103
 104  how it worked out... age doesn't matter...Age by itself just doesn't carry
 105  any weight. (155)
 106  </td>
 107     <td>Well, the old men 'round here
 108     sometimes they get on <br />
 109     bad terms with the younger men,<br />
 110     Old, young - age don't carry weight<br />
 111     It doesn't matter in the end&nbsp; (<a href="floater.htm#*)">Floater</a>)<p>
 112
 113     Things come alive or they fall flat. (<a href="floater.htm#****)">Floater</a>)</p>
 114     <p>Not always easy kicking someone out,<br />
 115     Got to wait awhile, it can be an unpleasant task. (<a href="floater.htm#7)">Floater</a>)</p></td>
 116   </tr>
 117   <tr>
 118
 119     <td>I'm not as cool or forgiving as I might have sounded (158)
 120     </td>
 121     <td>I'm not quite as cool or forgiving
 122     as I sound,<br />
 123     I've seen enough heartache and strife (<a href="floater.htm#6)">Floater</a>)</td>
 124   </tr>
 125   <tr>
 126     <td>Tears or not, though, that was too much to ask (182)
 127     </td>
 128
 129     <td>Sometimes somebody wants you to
 130     give something up<br />
 131     And, tears or not, it's too much to ask (<a href="floater.htm#8)">Floater</a>)</td>
 132   </tr>
 133   <tr>
 134     <td>Just because she was in the same house didn't mean we were living together
 135
 136  as man and wife...I don't know how it looked to other people, but I never
 137  even slept with her--not once. (208)
 138  </td>
 139     <td>Samantha Brown lived in my house
 140     for about four or five months. / Don't know how it looked to other people, I
 141     never slept with her even once. (<a href="lonesome_day_blues.htm">Lonesome
 142     Day Blues</a>)</td>
 143
 144   </tr>
 145   <tr>
 146     <td>They were big, those trees--a good four feet across the trunk. (241)</td>
 147     <td>There's a new grove of trees on
 148     the outskirts of town<br />
 149     The old one - long gone.<br />
 150     Timber, two foot six across,<br />
 151     Burns with the bark still on. (<a href="floater.htm#**)">Floater</a>)</td>
 152
 153   </tr>
 154   <tr>
 155     <td>There was nothing sentimental about him--it didn't bother him at all that
 156  some of his pals had been killed. (243)
 157  </td>
 158     <td>My captain he's decorated, he's
 159     well-schooled and he's skilled, / He's not sentimental, it don't bother him
 160     at all how many of his pals have been killed (<a href="lonesome_day_blues.htm">Lonesome
 161     Day Blues</a>)</td>
 162   </tr>
 163 </table>
 164 <p>Well, there you have it! It's a fascinating read in it's own right, and
 165  obviously Dylan liked it. What more recommendation could you possibly
 166  need?! It's available quite cheap in paperback from amazon.
 167 </p>
 168
 169 <p>Cheers!
 170  Chris Johnson
 171  Kitakyushu, Japan </p>
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