Something extra I wanted to add from the liner notes written by The Brothers Four:
With his keenly perceptive senses honed to razor sharpness, Bob Dylan has in this song cut deeply into our way of life to reveal one of "modern" man's greatest follies.
Here amid the wonders of material luxury and glories of science, we are in terms of man's humanity to man, hardly more civilized than were the people of the Dark Ages,
or Rome's bloodthirsty crowds, or Attila's mobs. The four of us will never forget the week when we learned this song. By Thursday night of that week, we had finished the arrangement.
That was November 21, 1963. The next day brought with it the assassination of the President of the United States.
"Things like that don't happen no more. nowadays. Do they?"
John Paine / Bob Flick / Mike Kirkland / Dick Foley
- The Brothers Four (Columba Records, 1963)
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