Walter Cronkite on UFOs/flying saucers ---> Bob Dylan "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"
I remember reading Time Magazine back then, and they said something like "Rainy Day Women, of course, is slang for marijuana cigarettes." I'm not sure I'd ever heard that!
ETA: if anyone has access to Time Magazine, the article is from Friday, July 01, 1966, but since I'm not a subscriber, I can only get so far
ROCK 'N' ROLL
They'll stone ya when you're try'n to go home,
Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.
But I would not feel so all alone,
Ev'rybody must get stoned.
A caveman's lament? A paranoid's fantasy? Could be, but then the convoluted verses of Rainy Day Women, like most Bob Dylan songs, are open to a variety of interpretations. In any event, some radio stations have banned the record because, they say, the song is an obvious paean to the joys of smoking pot. In the shifting, multilevel jargon of teenagers, to...
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