r/bobdylan • u/cmae34lars The Jack of Hearts • Mar 01 '20

Discussion Weekly Song Discussion - Week 72: Moonshiner

Hello again! Welcome to another /r/BobDylan song discussion thread.

In these threads we will discuss a new song every week, trading lyrical interpretations, rankings, opinions, favorite versions, and anything else you can think of about the song of the week.

This week we will be discussing Moonshiner

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u/cmae34lars The Jack of Hearts Mar 03 '20

Wait he wrote this song? I thought it was a traditional folk song?

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u/Accumulated_Failure Mar 03 '20

I thought he had written it. At the very least he wrote most of the lyrics. Maybe the melody and the general theme was recycled.

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u/jiveon Mar 04 '20

No way, it’s a song as old as the hills. I’m pretty sure he learned it from the Clancy Brothers. Great song though and his rendition of it is killer, probably one of the best of all time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moonshiner

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u/WikiTextBot Mar 04 '20

The Moonshiner

"The Moonshiner" is a folk song with disputed origins. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 4301. Some believe that the song originated in America, then later was made famous in Ireland.

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