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pieanne
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Sat, 15 Oct 05 09:03 AM
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South of France ...But I'm Belgian!
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I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...
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Anonymous,
4 yr 28 days ago
the boots are his "walking shoes" ie: "I am outta here"
Anonymous,
3 yr 357 days ago
bob dylan probably didnt even know what he was writing about?
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MrPedantic
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Sun, 04 Dec 05 10:51 PM
 Anonymous wrote: | | the boots are his "walking shoes" ie: "I am outta here" |
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Nonsense, Anon.
MrP
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...opella forensis / adducit febris...
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MrPedantic
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Sun, 04 Dec 05 10:52 PM
| Anonymous wrote: | | bob dylan probably didnt even know what he was writing about? |
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Statement, query, or bemused rhetorical question, Anon?
MrP
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Anonymous,
3 yr 260 days ago
When the song first came out, I, too, wondered about it and, being in high school, rather bookish, and with lots of time on my hands, dug and dug until I found an explanation. Being young and foolish, I did not document the source, and have been looking for it again recently without success.
To put it very simply, in a time when not everyone was quite so straightforward, especially in front of the children, ¨boots of Spanish leather¨ meant ¨the lady had run off with another man¨. It may have been a gift of Spanish leather, as gloves may have done as well as boots, or wearing said boots. and it may have been linked to a superstition. Whatever the details, Dylan is linking back to the language and traditions of a previous era.
I do not know if this tradition is at all related to Henry Wordsworth Longfellow´s poem ¨The Courtship of Miles Standish¨, where in the end the woman being courted chooses not Standish, but John Alden, the intermediary Standish sends to do the wooing. (John is deeply in love with the lady, but a loyal friend to Standish and honestly trying to win her for Standish). Standish is described as wearing boots of Cordovan leather, obviously from Cordoba, Spain.
Anonymous,
3 yr 228 days ago
Maybe,just maybe it's a simple love song and the boots of spanish leather hold no significence other than that's the title of the song,the emphasis of the song isn't the boots it's the feeling of loss for his lover over seas.Maybe he just likes boots of spanish leather
Anonymous,
3 yr 222 days ago
Yes I have suspected all of the theories described in these posts. But
what is most intriguing how Bob Dylan always leaves us wondering. It is
this nature of his works that always draws me to his work. I am
sure there are many other artists whose work have this effect . But bob
Dylan is by far the most commercial of them all and therefore we seem
to always pick a part his work.
Bipolar John
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pieanne
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Tue, 18 Apr 06 10:35 AM
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