Bob Dylan, 1988 Live Oakland performance of "With God on Our Side"
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In the nineteen-sixties came the Vietnam War Can somebody tell me what we were fighting for? So many young men died So many mothers cried Now I ask the question Was God on our side?
— Bob Dylan on Vietnam War
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About Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
About Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
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