Easy To Play "Things Have Changed" - by Bob Dylan

 

Another fine production by master songwriter, singer, and Nobel laureate Bob Dylan, with credits cited at the bottom of page 3 image.  Free use as compiled here for the non-profit, not-for-profit educational use of amateur and/or beginner guitar and baritone ukulele artists for their practice, their continued learning, and their strumming pleasure.   

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Bob Dylan's song "Things Have Changed" was initially written specifically for inclusion in the outstanding Curtis Hanson film "Wonder Boys" -- starring the film's fine actor Michael Douglas.  The film seems destined to become a future classic.  Michael Chabon's highly praised novel by the same name "Wonder Boys" was skillfully adapted in the screenplay by Steve Kloves.  Director Hanson's film commentary notes with great pleasure that Bob Dylan expressed interest in writing a masterful film-based song.  Bob Dylan also subsequently released a strongly humorous associated video wherein he sings his fine song while artfully employing selected "Wonder Boys" film clips that firmly enhance his final video project. 

Critics may note a few changed words here and there and revisions in three lines done by DJ Paul as published here in Dylan's song "Things Have Changed" - Verse 3 line 8, and Verse 4 lines 6 and 7, revisions believed to more faithfully communicate the accurate presentations in both Chabon's novel and Hanson's film.  Dylan's original written verse 4, lines 6 and 7 are reported here as follows:

Verse 3:

          Line 8 - Puttin' her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street

Verse 4:

Line 6 - I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me

Line 7 - Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake

Writer D. Paul's verses 3 and 4 revisions are respectfully tendered as follows:

Verse 3:

          Line 8 - Puttin' her on ah scooter and pushin' her down the street

Verse 4:

Line 6 - I love a married woman who truly appeals to me

Line 7 - It's a tense match game, with very high stakes 

Among The Finest Four Words In Film Dialogue

Personal film studies find some of my favorite four words of motion picture dialogue... and a truer four-word phrase was never uttered.

Directed by John Ford, and starring John Wayne, James Stewart, and Lee Marvin -- this funny scene is a fine part of the 1962 film “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”

Edmond O'Brien's character local newspaper editor Dutton Peabody says ”... give me a drink.” Bartender Jack replies “The bar is closed.”  Peabody later replies “A Beer's Not Drinking!”

The great film barroom scene dialogue actually goes like this:

Dutton Peabody: [during local voting for a territorial convention] “I'll have the usual, Jack.”

Jack the Barman: “The bar is closed, Mister Editor, during voting.”

Dutton Peabody: “Bar's closed?”

Tom Doniphon [John Wayne's character]: “You can blame your lawyer friend. He says that's one of the fundamental laws of democracy. No exception.”

Dutton Peabody: "No exceptions for the working press?  Why that's carrying democracy much too far!   Give me a drink."

Tom Doniphon: “Bar's closed.”

Dutton Peabody: “Just a beer!”

Tom Doniphon: “The bar's closed.”

Dutton Peabody: “A beer's not drinking!”