Desolation Row
Desolation Row is the Folk Music Scene in the early 1960's
Desolation Row is the Folk Music Scene in the early 1960's
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To <strong>Desolation</strong> <strong>Row</strong><br />
The United States.<br />
Praise be to Nero’s Neptune<br />
The Titanic sails at dawn<br />
And everybody’s shouting<br />
“Which Side Are You On?”<br />
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot<br />
Fighting in the captain’s tower<br />
While calypso singers laugh at them<br />
And fishermen hold flowers<br />
Between the windows of the sea<br />
Where lovely mermaids flow<br />
And nobody has to think too much<br />
About <strong>Desolation</strong> <strong>Row</strong><br />
Praise be<br />
(Theology) the extolling of a deity or the rendering of homage and gratitude to a<br />
deity<br />
to Nero’s Neptune Senator Joseph McCarthy<br />
Emperor of Rome (54-68) whose early reign was dominated by his mother,<br />
Agrippina the Younger. He had his mother and wife murdered, and he was<br />
accused of setting the Great Fire of Rome (64). He committed suicide after being<br />
deposed by the Senate.<br />
The Titanic<br />
Something Of enormous scope, power, or influence:<br />
sails to make an attack (on) violently with words<br />
at dawn<br />
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