in the wild: "misremembers"

[Mark Mandel]

I left out the source for "disremember":

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> -- Ah! I misremembered the lyric. (You knew that had to come up in this
> thread, didn't you.) From The Death Of Emmett Till, by Bob Dylan<http://homepage.mac.com/danielmartin/Dylan/html/songs/D/DeathOfEmmettTill.html>
> :
>
>     Some men they dragged him to a barn an' there they beat him up
>     They said they had a reason but i disremember what
>
> The official lyrics site <http://bobdylan.com/songs/emmetttill.html> has
> "I can't remember what", but this is how I heard the song, and probably how
> it was recorded, seein' as it ain't just *my *memory.
>

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Mark Mandel

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