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John Wesley Hardin is sentenced to serve 25 years in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA, for the killing of Brown County, Texas, Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb. On his arrest, Hardin boasted of having killed 42 men. in 1967, Bob Dylan will be inspired by Hardin's exploits to write his song John Wesley Harding, a somewhat fanciful account of Hardin's life.
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Bob Dylan : I was gonna write a ballad on ... like maybe one of those old cowboy ... you know, a real long ballad. But in the middle of the second verse, I got tired. I had a tune, and I didn't want to waste the tune; it was a nice little melody, so I just wrote a quick third verse, and I recorded that.
(Source : interview with Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone, 1969)
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(Source : interview with Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone, 1969)