Mother's in the kitchen Washing out the jugs;
Sister's in the pantry Bottling the suds;
Father's in the cellar Mixing up the hops;
Johnny's on the front porch Watching for the cops
Mother's in the kitchen Washing out the jugs;
Sister's in the pantry Bottling the suds;
Father's in the cellar Mixing up the hops;
Johnny's on the front porch Watching for the cops
Thanks. That's interesting. Still, although the song was apparently released in 1965 -just as the Vietnam war was beginning, Ayers or Dohrn might have seen unintended meaning in the lyrics that drew them to the song and eventually to naming their communist revolutionary ("domestic terrorist"-Sean Hannity) organization after a line from it. And there is no question that they named the org after a line from the song. They admit this themselves. In any case, it doesn't really matter if Dylan had an entirely different meaning in mind.
"Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government"
"Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May
From wikipedia:
"In 1965 the United States sent in troops to prevent the South Vietnamese government from collapsing. Ultimately, however, the United States failed to achieve its goal, and in 1975 Vietnam was reunified under Communist control; in 1976 it officially became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. During the conflict, approximately 3 to 4 million Vietnamese on both sides were killed, in addition to another 1.5 to 2 million Lao and Cambodians who were drawn into the war.[13]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
"Those who later formed the Weatherman organization produced a paper at the Students for a Democratic Society Convention in Chicago in June of 1969. With a nod to Bob Dylan, the sponsors titled their epistle: 'You Don’t Need A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Is Blowing.'"
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243
"Dubbing itself the Weathermen, this new organization took its name from a line in Bob Dylan’s 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'—'you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows'—and within months had set off bombs at the National Guard headquarters and set in motion plans to bomb targets across the country"
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html