Fact #20949
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Short story:
In his apartment on Fourth Street, New York City, USA, after watching a tv documentary about a convicted murderer, Bob Dylan is inspired to compose the song The Ballad Of Donald White.
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Bob Dylan : I'd seen Donald White's name in a Seattle paper in about 1959. It said he was a killer. The Next Time I saw him was on a television set. My gal Sue said I'd be interested in him so we went and watched.
Donald White was sent home from prisons and institutions 'cause they had no room. He asked to be sent back 'cause he couldn't find no room in life. He murdered someone 'cause he couldn't find no room in life. Now they killed him 'cause he couldn't find no room in life. They killed him and when they did I lost some of my room in life.
When are some people gonna wake up and see that sometimes people aren't really their enemies but their victims?
Suze Rotolo (Dylan's girlfriend) : Donald White was only partly a journalistic approach. Dylan was perceptive. He felt. He didn't read or clip the papers and refer to it later, as you would write a story, or as other songwriters might do it. With Dylan it was not that conscious journalistic approach. It was more poetical. It was all intuitive, on an emotional level. Not as a newspaper re-writeman, although it may have on occasion seemed that way. It was more than just writing, it was more like something flowing out of him.
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Donald White was sent home from prisons and institutions 'cause they had no room. He asked to be sent back 'cause he couldn't find no room in life. He murdered someone 'cause he couldn't find no room in life. Now they killed him 'cause he couldn't find no room in life. They killed him and when they did I lost some of my room in life.
When are some people gonna wake up and see that sometimes people aren't really their enemies but their victims?
Suze Rotolo (Dylan's girlfriend) : Donald White was only partly a journalistic approach. Dylan was perceptive. He felt. He didn't read or clip the papers and refer to it later, as you would write a story, or as other songwriters might do it. With Dylan it was not that conscious journalistic approach. It was more poetical. It was all intuitive, on an emotional level. Not as a newspaper re-writeman, although it may have on occasion seemed that way. It was more than just writing, it was more like something flowing out of him.
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