Most people, nowadays, don’t even know that they know the s… - Bob Dylan

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Most people, nowadays, don’t even know that they know the song. Whiffenpoof is just an alien word to them. But start singing “We’re poor little lambs who have lost our way” and you pretty much guarantee that they will reply, “Baa! Baa! Baa!

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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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Pen Names: Bob Landy • Robert Milkwood Thomas • Tedham Porterhouse • Blind Boy Grunt • Jack Frost • Elston Gunn • Boo Wilbury • Lucky Wilbury • Sergei Petrov

Birth Name: Robert Allen Zimmerman

Native Name: Robert Dylan

Alternative Names: Robert Zimmerman • Dylan • Robert Dylan né Robert Allen Zimmerman • Robert Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) • Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham

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Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse.
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Most people, nowadays, don’t even know that they know the song. Whiffenpoof is just an alien word to them. But start singing “We’re poor little lambs… - Bob Dylan

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