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"Love
& Theft
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34 <h1>Textual sources to the
"Love and Theft
" songs
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35 <p>Submitted by Chris Johnson
</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>
41 <td><strong>Original
</strong></td>
42 <td><strong>"Love and Theft
"</strong></td>
45 <td>My old man would sit there like a feudal lord (
6)
47 <td>"My old man, he's like some feudal
48 lord, Got more lives than a cat
" (
<a href=
"floater.htm#***)">Floater
</a>)
</td>
52 <td>"If it bothers you so much,
" she'd say,
" why don't you just shove off?
"
55 <td>Juliet said back to Romeo,
"Why
56 don't you just shove off if it bothers you so much.
" (
<a href=
"floater.htm#*****)">Floater
</a>)
</td>
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
64 best to go and try my luck there. (
57-
58)
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>
73 <td>"Break the roof in!
" ...splashed kerosene over the floor and led a fuse from
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>
83 <td>I won't come anymore if it bothers you (
139)
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
91 <td>"D'you think I could call myself a yakuza if I couldn't stand up to some old
93 businessman?
" (
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
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
104 how it worked out... age doesn't matter...Age by itself just doesn't carry
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
(
<a href=
"floater.htm#*)">Floater
</a>)
<p>
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>
119 <td>I'm not as cool or forgiving as I might have sounded (
158)
121 <td>I'm not quite as cool or forgiving
123 I've seen enough heartache and strife (
<a href=
"floater.htm#6)">Floater
</a>)
</td>
126 <td>Tears or not, though, that was too much to ask (
182)
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>
134 <td>Just because she was in the same house didn't mean we were living together
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)
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
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>
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)
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
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.
171 Kitakyushu, Japan
</p>