Hyde Park, London, England
T.V. TALKIN' SONG / Under The Red Sky / 1990
One time in London I'd gone out for a walk,
Past a place called Hyde Park where people talk
'Bout all kinds of different gods, they have their point of view
To anyone passing by, that's who they're talking to.
Timothy Herrick (TIMHRK@aol.com):
One of the very few mentions of England in a Dylan song.
A large public park in west-central London, England,
famous for its soapbox orators.
Jason Crimp jasoncrimp@hotmail.com 15 April 2003:
More Specifically, what is mentioned is Speakers' Corner,
a corner of Hyde Park where once the Tyburn Hanging Tree stood
and public executions took place. People gather every Sunday and
are free to stand up and orate/berate on any subject they please.
However, this tends to attact a lot of evangelical Christians
and there is always somebody who affects to be the risen Christ.
Sometimes there is more than one but as far as I know,
no fights between Jesus' has broken out.
Expecting Rain