Bob Dylan, explored

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From Only a Pawn in Their Game

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  1. Start here

    1963Greenwich Village
    1 of 8

    Oxford Town

    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

    Same theme as Only a Pawn in Their Game: Both respond to civil-rights violence in Mississippi in 1962 and 1963.

  2. ↓ 1 year later

    1964Greenwich Village
    2 of 8

    Only a Pawn in Their Game

    The Times They Are a-Changin'

    Where you started.

  3. ↓ the same year

    1964Greenwich Village
    3 of 8

    The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

    The Times They Are a-Changin'

    Same theme as Hurricane: Both tell a real case, twelve years apart, in which a court failed a Black American.

  4. ↓ 11 years later

    1975Blood on the Tracks
    4 of 8

    Hurricane

    Desire

    Same theme as The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll: Both tell a real case, twelve years apart, in which a court failed a Black American.

  5. ↓ 11 years later

    1986The '80s
    5 of 8

    They Killed Him

    Knocked Out Loaded

    Same theme as Murder Most Foul: Both reflect on public figures who were assassinated.

  6. ↓ 26 years later

    2012Late Renaissance
    6 of 8

    Roll on John

    Tempest

    Same theme as Murder Most Foul: Both are late elegies for a murdered public figure named John, Lennon and Kennedy.

  7. ↓ 8 years later

    2020Rough and Rowdy
    7 of 8

    Murder Most Foul

    Rough and Rowdy Ways

    Same theme as Key West (Philosopher Pirate): Both songs dwell on the assassination of an American president, Kennedy in one and McKinley in the other.

  8. ↓ the same year

    2020Rough and Rowdy
    8 of 8

    Key West (Philosopher Pirate)

    Rough and Rowdy Ways

    Same theme as Murder Most Foul: Both songs dwell on the assassination of an American president, Kennedy in one and McKinley in the other.