The Times They Are A-Changin', one of Bob Dylan's early acoustic albums, might be best remembered for its civil rights anthems like the title song, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," and "A Pawn in their Game," ballads about people who have been forgotten by most, names like Medgar Evers and Hollis Brown. While civil rights issues are once again roiling this country, it is another Dylan song from that album that demands attention right now, a song about religious fervor and war, the brilliant and prescient tune, "With God On Our Side." In that song, Dylan sang ironically about the moral justification for so many of the wars in history. He sang of how the Germans "murdered six million,...
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