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Masters Of War / Commentary by Bob Dylan about Masters Of War, John F. Kennedy, and Nikita Khrushchev A brief recording of Bob Dylan playing and talking 1 January 1963 "Masters of War" Lyrics, BobDylan.com "Masters of War" Music & Lyrics, Broadside, Feb. 1963, p. 1 “Bob Dylan: Masters of War” by Benno Schlachter 2012
A scathing song directed against the war industry, "Masters of War" is based on Jean Ritchie's arrangement of "Nottamun Town", an English riddle song. It was written in late 1962 while Dylan was in London; eyewitnesses (including Martin Carthy and Anthea Joseph) recall Dylan performing the song in folk clubs at the time.
In his review for AllMusic, critic Richie Unterberger wrote of the album, "other than an obscure 1964 album by Linda Mason, it was the very first album of Dylan covers. And in part it was because, unlike most of the artists who would take a swing at the concept, Odetta was actually a major folk musician, one who had done much to inspire Dylan himself.
The advent of World War I (1914–1918) resulted in a great number of songs against the war in general, and specifically in America against the U.S.'s decision to enter the European war. One of the successful protest songs to capture the widespread American skepticism about joining in the European war was " I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier ...
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The lyrics express Dylan's anger at the perceived hypocrisy, commercialism, consumerism, and war mentality in contemporary American culture. Dylan's preoccupations in the lyrics, nevertheless, extend beyond the socio-political, expressing existential concerns, touching on urgent matters of personal experience.
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"John Brown" is an anti-war song. [6] The lyrics are influenced by "Mrs. McGrath", [1] which relates how a young Irish soldier is maimed after fighting in the British Army against Napoleon's forces, and is met by his mother who asks how he was injured. [2] [7] In Dylan's song, a soldier's mother expresses her pride at him going off to war. [7]