The Junk Drawer

While reading a Wikipedia article on Bob Dylan’s brilliant music video, Subterranean Homesick Blues, I discovered this Weird Al parody of both the song and the video.  Note the Allen Ginsberg lookalike, with a deliberately fake-looking beard.

I am almost ashamed to admit it, but I’ve been a Weird Al fan since I was in Elementary School.  I remember in fourth grade, everyone was singing his parody of the Brady Bunch theme song, which was merely the lyrics to the original song set to the tune of some now-forgotten eighties pop song.

This parody of Dylan took some real creativity, however. Al’s lyrics are in fact palindromes, sentences that spell new sentences when written backwards.  Thus we have the lyric, “Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog,” sung with an impeccable Dylan twang.  Brilliant stuff.  Enjoy!