The Super-Impossible Brain-Busting Bob Dylan Trivia Quiz

SHAKE MAMA SHAKE
I got the blues for you baby when I look up at the sun
Come back here, we can have some real fun

I got the blues for you baby” I miss you Al “blues” as longing, Living the Blues, “Since you been gone I been walking around with my head bowed down to my shoes / I been living the blues every night without you” “when I look up at the sun” when I look at a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events in defining my poetry such as Christopher Ricks. You are the only one who even comes close “Come back here” I miss you man “we can have some real fun” sarcastic, overstated, you can ridicule me some more to your heart’s content; poke fun at, to ridicule or tease. Similar sentiments expressed about Al in Nettie Moore, “We can have a whoppin' good time” I could beat up on his work and he could beat me up as he did during the Elizabeth Street Massacre.

Well it’s early in the evening and everything is still
One more time I’m walking up around on top of the big hill

“Well it’s early in the evening” it is the beginning of my decline in age “and everything is still” and my medication is still working, my T-Cell count remains stable “One more time I’m walking around on top of the big hill” once again I am on top of a problem that although big, proved not to be mountainous and insurmountable.

Shake shake Mama like a ship going out to sea
You took all my money and you gave it to rigidly

“Shake shake Mama” remove or dislodge by jerky movements the meaning of my poetry “like a ship” like a revolutionary “going out to sea” preaching to the people, the masses. When The Ship Comes In “And the chains of the sea would have busted in the night” “You took all my money” you took all my imagination “and you gave it to rigidly” and you made it into doctrinaire leftwing propaganda and gave it out in that distorted form.

Down by the river judge Simpson’s walking around
Nothing shocks me more than that old clown

“Down by the river” down where there is an abundance of rewards “judge Simpson’s walking around” a Nobel Prize judge is perambulating like a college professor giving a lecture. “Nothing shocks me” nothing punishes me more “shock” as punish All I Really Want To Do Is Baby Be Friends With You, “I ain't lookin' to block you up / Shock or knock or lock you up” “more than that old clown” more than that rank amateur who lacks insight into my poetry. Tarantula, “the apprentice clown, Tomboy, at her feet - he's known professionally as Rabbit Rough” Highway 61 Liner Notes, “the Cream Judge & the Clown.”

Some of you women you really know your stuff
Some of you women you really doll your stuff
But your clothes are all torn and your language is a little too rough

“Some of you women you really know your stuff” some of your translations are correct “Some of you women you really doll your stuff” and add embellishing details to in order to make the poetry much more attractive “But your clothes” your words “are all torn” cut and pasted from an online dictionary “and your language is a little too rough” and your writing is a little too rough around the edges; you haven't mastered something, though you show promise.

Shake shake Mama shake until the break of day
I’m right here baby I’m not that far away

“Shake shake Mama shake” keep trying to shake loose the meaning of my poetry “until the break of day” until you make a breakthrough “I’m right here baby” I express rightwing views in my poetry “I’m not that far away” sarcastic I am on the other end of the political spectrum.

I'm motherless fatherless almost friendless too
It's Friday morning on Franklin Avenue

“I'm motherless fatherless almost friendless too” I have no connection to certain Jewish people as I have almost been excluded from a religious sect “It's Friday morning” it’s time to ready for Shabbos, the Jewish Sabbath which starts Friday night “on Franklin Avenue” in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This is the stop on the subway closest to Lubuvitch headquarters. Dylan is not davening with the Lubuvitch but with the Satmar a competing sect that opposes the existence of the State of Israel.

Shake shake mama, raise your voice and pray
If you're goin' on home better go the shortest way

“Shake shake mama,” daven man daven, Orthodox Jews rock back and forth when they pray “raise your voice and pray” elevate the ideas you give voice to and pray to Hashem “If you're goin' on home better go the shortest way” if you are going to reach your goal of happiness take the path that is the closet to you, Judaism. Dylan offered similar advice in Sugar Baby, “Look up, look up - seek your Maker” raise yourself up to the altar of the Torah and get religion “'fore Gabriel blows his horn” before you die and miss out on the life that comes after death.