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| Song by "Weird Al" Yankovic | ||
| Album | Poodle Hat | |
| Genre | Comedy | |
| Length | 2:29 | |
| Label | Volcano | |
| Writer | "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
| Producer | "Weird Al" Yankovic | |
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"Bob" is a song and video by "Weird Al" Yankovic, from his 2003 album Poodle Hat, made up entirely of palindromes. The palindromes are arranged in rhyming verses such as the following:
Madam, I'm Adam
Too hot to hoot
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog
UFO Tofu
No lemons no melon
Too bad I hid a boot
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
"Bob" is performed in a style resembling Bob Dylan's vocal delivery. The song's video is a parody of Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" segment of the film Dont Look Back. The music resembles many of Dylan's twelve bar blues songs (particularly "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"): each verse includes ten bars of singing followed by two instrumental bars, with no chorus.
Music Video
In the video, Yankovic stands in an alley holding cards with the palindromic lyrics, and also one saying "(Harmonica solo)", and at the end holds one saying "???" (Dylan's last card in the original video was "What?"). The film uses a grayscale color scheme. Yankovic wears a wig to look like Bob Dylan, and the only other characters are two men in the background without any dialogue. These men are played by band drummer Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz and Yankovic's manager Jay Levey (in Dylan's original, one of the two men in the background is poet Allen Ginsberg). "Bob" is the only song on the Poodle Hat album with a video. It was filmed for an Al TV special that aired on VH-1 ten days later.
