
I'm Not There.
There he lies.
God rest his soul,
and his rudeness.
A devouring public can now share
the remains of his sickness,
and his phone numbers.
There he lay...
poet,
prophet,
outlaw,
fake.
Star of electricity.
Nailed by a peeping Tom
who would soon discover...
A poem is like a naked person.
Even the ghost...
was more than one person.
But a song is something
that walks by itself.
# Aw, the ragman draws circles #
# Up and down the block #
# I'd ask him what the matter was #
# But I know that he don't talk #
# And the ladies treat me kindly #
# And they furnish me with tape #
# I know I can't escape #
# Oh, Mama #
# Can this really be the end #
# To be stuck inside of Mobile #
# With the Memphis blues again? #
# Well, Shakespeare, he's in the alley #
# With his pointed shoes and his bells #
# Speaking to some French girl #
# Who says she knows me well #
# And I would send a message #
# To find out if she's talked #
# But the post office has been stolen #
# Oh, Mama #
# Can this really be the end #
# To be stuck inside of Mobile #
# With the Memphis blues again? #
# Now the rain man gave me two cures #
# Then he said, "Jump right in" #
# The one was Texas medicine #
# The other was just railroad gin #
# And like a fool I mixed them #
# And it strangled up my mind #
# And now people just get uglier #
# And I have no sense of time #
# Oh, Mama #
# Can this really be the end #
# To be stuck here inside of Mobile #
# With the Memphis blues again? #
Hey. How old are you, boy?
Eleven years old.
Oh.
What's your name, son?
Woody.
Woody Guthrie.
Just like the singer.
Way I see it,
singin's kept me right in this world
more than any Bible's ever done.
And somethin' else I learned?
Takes just about a fountain pen
to get yourself robbed.
Hey, Joe. What do you
make about that?
Uh, son...
you wouldn't be stashin' no weapons
in that case of yours?
No, sir. Not in any literalized way.
What'd you say his name was?
A- R-T-H.
Please sit down.
"A-R-T-H-U-R...
R- I-M-B-A-U-D."
Born October 20th.
That makes you 19,
nearly 20.
Is that correct?
That's correct.
So what's all this about?
Well, Missouri, originally.
But all over, really.
Been to Gallup, Phillipsburg,
Sioux Falls...
I got me a cousin in Sioux Falls.
Yeah! That's right.
Uh, is there really
a town called Riddle?
Tell you the flat truth,
that's sort of a... a whatchamacallit.
A, uh...
A composite.
A compost heap is more like it.
Truth is, my mind
got mixed with ramblin'
when I was, oh, so young.
the blind protest singer from Chicago.
four...
about five years back.
That's also when I first started
writin' songs on my own.
I've written some hillbilly songs.
You know Carl Perkins,
from Nashville?
Yeah, yeah.
He sings some of my songs.
Yep. Talkin' blues kind
of stuff, you know?
Union songs.
I also played piano with Bobby Vee.
I would've been a millionaire
if I stayed with him.
Well, what brings you
around these parts?
Carelessness.
I lost my one true love.
And I started drinking.
Next thing I know, I'm in a crap game.
I wake up in a pool hall.
One night, I meet up with a Chinaman
working at a dime store
who says he loves my sound.
And next thing I know,
I'm all booked up
at his boss's establishment.
The Tiny Troubadour!
# I've been a... #
# Moonshiner #
# For 17 long years #
There you go, boy.
Of course, success ain't all
it's cracked up to be, now.
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