"Hurricane" is one of my two fave Dylan tunes, the other being his more recent, "Things Have Changed".

I like Hurricane because it breaks rules where it sees fit. It's almost like "stream of consciousness" with rhymes and near rhymes thrown in when he remembers to do it.

But no, I haven't learned it.

All that being said, it may well be that ol' Hurricane isn't as innocent as Bob and the recent movie with Denzel Washington want us to believe.

Check out http://graphicwitness.com/carter/ for "the other side of the story". A quote from the site:

What you may not realize is that Rubin Carter has NEVER been declared innocent or otherwise exonerated by the courts. Carter was set free because of two alleged procedural errors, NOT because of new evidence. Those alleged errors were cited by a single judge who heard no witnesses and issued an error-filled opinion that demonstrated his very poor grasp of the facts. The judge claimed the prosecution had appealed to "racism over reason" -- which makes no sense because the 1976 jury that convicted Carter included two blacks! That lone judge threw out the work of scores of police and prosecutors who, to this day, believe Rubin Carter is a triple murderer. So do I. -- Cal Deal

So who knows?


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