Hi, all, These questions will only mean anything to those jmdlers who have seen or heard the songs in questions -- to all others, I think you can find the lyrics and, in some cases, the guitar tablatures, at <www.jmdl.com>. Ironically, I can't go there myself because my browser is mortally wounded, but that's another story, which i won't go into here...
The questions: (1) This may be an old discussion for some of you, but the song "Just Like Me" almost seems like Joni's answer to the song (almost certainly by Dylan, but I seem to remember quite a few other people sang it, even at least one woman) that went: "She [blanks] just like a woman, She [blanks] just like a woman, And she [blanks] just like a woman, But she breaks (just) like a little girl." My memory of this song is obviously sketchy, but it came back to me when I heard Joni's "Just Like Me" (in which Joni describes the object of her affections as doing certain things, often confusing behavior, making him "Just Like Me"), which seems to be almost an answer to the (Dylan?) song. Is that possible? I don't know the chronology of the two songs, when each was written. Any comments? I know that Joni has at best mixed feelings about the Women's Movement, etc., but maybe she was fed up with lyrics like the above, in which underneath every together woman, there's a breakable little girl, and this was her response. Just a thought. (2) Another Oldie: "The Wizard of Is" reminds me, musically, of "Suzanne", you know, the one that starts "Suzanne takes you down/to a place by the river/..." I don't know who wrote it -- it may even be "traditional", but many artists have covered it. Anyhoo, "TWoI" reminds me musically (i.e., as opposed to lyrically") to the Suzanne song -- not exactly, but there are a lot of parallels. Anybody else think so? My apologies to those who haven't heard thre songs -- at least the lyrics to them are (I think) at jmdl.com. Musically yours, Walt
