FINISH THIS LINE.....(REMEMBERED BEFORE THE ROOSTER IS UP)

"I'd make contact with the one who tries to hide what he don't know to begin with." Positively 4th Street. Bob Dylan.

. . . that I don't know you shop at Wal-Mart?

thank you, Paula....."what IT don't know.."..you are correct

thank you, Thomas.....funny, true to form....come back

O.K. Shirley, keep posting your "finish this line" and I'll keep coming back with stupid endings.

Thanks Shirley...it is "..what HE don't know..." in Dylan's version. I know it's been covered by others, so I don't know if one of them says "...it don't know...", but I have always had the Dylan original. Am I revealing how very old I am to have known the answer?

it's Dylan's version to which I referred....perhaps he re-recorded and I heard the re-do....doesn't really matter...just thought it sounds really dumb with 'it'....
thanks for the clarification.....and i don't recall the exact year of the release, so you could be twenty and just really knowledgable...or nineteen and have the record

and I will do,Thomas....love your participation

Thanks Shirley! It was 1965 and the album was Highway 61 Revisited. The same recording is on the Greatest Hits album from a few years later. It was a great time to be growing up...some fantastic music back then.

yout welcome , Paula.....and thank you

I've heard the "what it don't know" version, too. As you both know better than I do, sometimes musicians recorded an lp version, and a 45 version of the same song, at the same time. Why they did this, I don't know... Anyway, it's even possible he did "it" in one, and "he" in the other.

I always suspected that he, Dylan, was making another political commentary song when he said "it," speaking of it, the government, hiding what it doesn't know to begin with. When you think about it, the song fits very well with the idea of political corruption and conspiracy theories. Just think about some of the lyrics, in view of the Vietnam war: "When I Was Down You Just Stood There Grinnin';" "When You Know As Well As Me You'd Rather See Me Paralized;" "And Tho I Know You're Dissatisfied With Your Position And Your Place; Don't You Understand, Its Not My Problem?" (all cut and pasted from the internet, which is why the strange use of caps)

I think the "it" and the "he" were really the gov.

Thanks, Frank. Very informative and provocative too. You just may be right.
Whatever the case, it was a silly sounding song

Ten stars for you!