Brian e-mails about the Dylan song lyric I currently have posted atop the page:

Put on your cat clothes, Mama, put on your evening dress
Put on your cat clothes, Mama, put on your evening dress
A few more years of hard work then there’ll be a thousand
years of happiness

… saying:

Are you sure it’s not ‘camp clothes’ - put on your camp clothes mama,
put on your evening dress…

I guess not, but that’s how I heard it!!

The official lyrics for Modern Times are live on the BobDylan.com website, at this link, though they’re not necessarily indexed properly throughout the site (eg., they don’t seem to appear in the overall list of song titles). So, I know “cat clothes” is right.

But mishearing Dylan lyrics is a long and respectable tradition. I know how crushing and disorienting it can be when you discover that a word that you thought was one thing turns out be another. When I looked through the official Modern Times lyrics, I saw at least one thing I had wrong.

I found out that what I thought was the line:

We eat and we drink, we field and we think

in When the Deal Goes Down,

is actually

We eat and we drink, we feel and we think

I liked “field,” like fielding questions or fielding baseballs. Oh, well.

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