My group is close reading Free Wheelin'. I'm close reading the last four songs. Song no. 9 is "Oxfrd Town". It is obvioulsy about the civil rights movement, protests, discrimination, ect. I was dumb struck after i heard and read did it, because Dylan really did a beautiful thing with it. The words were very simple and plain, the song was short, there were no elaborate dramatizations about the horrificness of the times, but just a clean, breif glimps of racism and the brutality of police against protesters in a small town in america during the sixties. The music and tune itself wasn't dramatic and alarming, it was almost happy- go-lucky, but in a sad and truthful way. Anyway the song is really good, and just for the sake of getting political we've really com a long way from Oxford Town.
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