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Bob Dylan Poem Not Written By Him

But it will still go up for auction...

  • by Daniel Melia
  • Thursday, May 21, 2009
  • Photo by: wenn.com
  • filed in: Indie
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A poem about a dead dog - attributed to Bob Dylan - was really penned by late Canadian country singer Hank Snow.

The verse, thought to have been written by a 16-year-old Dylan in 1957, was due to go under the hammer in New York on June 23 - with an expected sale price of $15,000.

Called Little Buddy, it read, "Broken hearted and so sad/Big blue eyes all covered with tears/Was a picture of sorrow to see/Kneeling close to the side/Of his pal and only pride/A little lad, these words he told me."

But bosses at auction house Christie's have discovered Dylan's words are in fact "a revised version of lyrics of a Hank Snow song".

The poem will still be auctioned - along with a collection of Dylan memorabilia - and auctioneers expect it will still fetch hundreds of dollars, because it "remains among the earliest known handwritten lyrics of Bob Dylan".
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  • Suppose "Yellow matted custard, dripping from the dead dogs eyes" was not by Dylan either? :-)

    ~ by Thomas Dayton 6/25/2009

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