Bob Dylan mention about Sherlock in his Lyrics of “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues”
Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues
Well, I quit my job so I could work all alone
Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they wus red stripes on the American flag!
That ol’ Betsy Ross . . .
Holmes sat down on the edge of the bed. His eyes were glassy and his hands rested on his bony knees, sometimes flopping about mindlessly as he spoke like a fish gasping for air on a dock.
“Consider the case of Bob Dylan, Watson,”
he said through a morphic haze.
“Bob Dylan? Ho!”
I laughed.
“We’re going all over the map here, Holmes. Perhaps you should lie down before you become totally discombobulated.”
Holmes reached under the Persian pillow and extracted a thick paperback book. I gazed at the title on the cover: The Songs He Didn’t Write: Bob Dylan Under the Influence. “Where on earth did you find this, Holmes, and to what end—”
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