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"Bringing It All Back Home", Track #7

RZIM: My favorite line: "I decided to flip a coin, like either heads or tails would let me know if I should go back to ship or back to jail. So I hocked my sailor suit and I got a coin to flip. It came up tails, it rhymed with sails, so I made it back to the ship" Tails also rhymes with jail. Brilliant, haha. (07/10/09)

MATTHEW: Perhaps the most purely humerous song of Bob's career, full of sight gags and puns. Very few songs by other artists compare. A weird masterpiece. The closest I think I've seen to this kind of bizarro narrative is John Prine's amazing "Jesus (The Missing Years)." Best line: "The last I seen of Ahab he was stuck on a whale...that was married to the deputy sheriff of the jail." (11/25/05)