.................................the blog nobody reads: Joan Baez 'Love Is Just a Four Letter Word’

As it was Joan Baez’s birthday this past couple of days ago [ 9 January 1941 (age 83 years)]. . . . . . . someone posted this on Facebook

Photo of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan (1963)

“Strange it is to be beside you

Many years the tables turned

You'd probably not believe me

If I told you all I've learned

And it is very, very weird indeed

To hear words like "forever", fleets

Of ships run through my mind, I cannot cheat

It's like looking in the teacher's face complete

I can say nothing to you, but repeat

What I heard

That love is just a four-letter word.”

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez are photographed by Ken Regan during rehearsals for the Rolling Thunder Revue in October 1975 in New York City.

Sisters - Joan Baez & Mimi Baez-Fariña | circa 1960s

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Happy 82nd birthday to Joan Baez!

“She was something else, almost too much to take,” Dylan said. “Her voice was like that of a siren from off some Greek island. Just the sound of it could put you into a spell. She was an enchantress. ... She’d make you forget who you were.”

Joan: "You can always kid yourself, and just say your work is important. Whether it is or not, it has to be to you. It has to be real to you. There’s something sort of cosmic about that. If that’s real to you, then in some way it’s out there as a little piece of reality in the face of all of this terrible stuff we’re in. And if you stay true to yourself, and true to your art, it’s got to mean something.”