6v The Beat Generation

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Amazing Grace

• Origineel: 1e publicatie in 1779
  
• Tekst John Newton
  
• vnl gebaseerd op het NT
  
• 1847 muziek toegevoegd
  

Original Hymn

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,

  That saved a wretch; like me!

I once was lost, but now am found,

  Was blind, but now I see.

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,

  And grace my fears relieved;

How precious did that grace appear

  The hour I first believed!

The Lord hath promised good to me,

  His word my hope secures;

He will my shield and portion be

  As long as life endures.

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,

  Bright shining as the sun,

We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise

  Than when we first begun.

I dreamed I dwelled in a homeless place

Where I was lost alone

Folk looked right through me into space

And passed with eyes of stone

O homeless hand on many a street

Accept this change from me

A friendly smile or word is sweet

As fearless charity

Woe workingman who hears the cry

And cannot spare a dime

Nor look into a homeless eye

Afraid to give the time

So rich or poor no gold to talk

A smile on your face

The homeless ones where you may walk

Receive amazing grace

Woe workingman who hears the cry

And cannot spare a dime

Nor look into a homeless eye

Afraid to give the time

So rich or poor no gold to talk

A smile on your face

The homeless ones where you may walk

Receive amazing grace

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Bob Dylan

• singer-songwriter
  
• 2016 Nobelprijs Literatuur
  
• 1985: “I came out of the wilderness and just naturally fell in with the beat scene, the bohemian, the Be Bop crowd, it was all pretty much connected. It was Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso, Ferlinghetti… I got in at the tail end of that and it was magic… it had just as big an impact on me as Elvis Presley.”
  

The Times They Are A-Changin'

• anthem for the frustrated youth
  
• anti-establishment gevoelens van de generatie die later de hippies werden genoemd
  
• tekst gebaseerd op Civil Rights movement
  
• 1e x live op 26-10-1963, moord op JFK 22-11-1963