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Bob Dylan buys Scottish mansion
Jan 17, 2007, 12:10 GMT
Bob Dylan performing at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. EPA/Niels Meilvang
Bob Dylan has bought a £2.2 million Scottish mansion.
The music legend and his brother, David Zimmerman, have purchased Aultmore House, an Edwardian highland hideaway, together.
The remote 10-bedroom property is nestled in 25 acres of woodland near the village of Nethy Bridge, Inverness-shire, and surrounded by the stunning Cairngorm mountains.
The 65-year-old singer-and-songwriter fell in love with the historical house after spending a week there last spring, when it operated as a five-star hotel.
Dylan - real name Robert Allen Zimmerman - and his brother purchased the property last year under the family name of Zimmerman.
Knight Frank, the selling agents, yesterday (16.01.07) confirmed the house - which has featured on BBC TV drama 'Monarch of the Glen' - was sold to a "member of Bob Dylan's family".
As a keen golfer, another attraction drawing Dylan to the area could be the local golf club.
But Abernethy club treasurer, Jack McCool, has warned Dylan he should not expect any special treatment.
He said: "Mr Dylan will have to apply in writing just like everybody else and be vetted by the committee."
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I ain't gonna work at Dylan's Scottish Mansion no more.
I ain't gonna work at Dylan's Scottish Mansion no more.
He golfs all day and he golfs all night,
Everybody says that golf is his whole life,
He's 65 but he says he's 64.
I ain't gonna work at Dylan's Scottish Mansion no more.
Once upon a time you golfed so fine
Threw the caddies a dime in your prime didn't you?
You used to laugh about, all the golf bums that were hanging out,
Now you don't talk so loud, about having to hit your next hole!
Well how does it feel? To golf on your own, with no direction known,
Like a complete unknown, just like a rolling golf stone....
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How many times can a golfer hit the ball before he gets a hole in one?
Yes and how many strokes will it take till he knows that too many golf balls have died?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the golf course, the answer is blowin' in the golf course.
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No it ain't no use to putt and wonder why babe, it don't make no difference anyway.
No it ain't no use to putt and wonder why babe, you never could follow through anyhow.
When my golf coach calls at the break of dawn, look out your window cause I'll be gone,
He's the reason I'm a travelin' on, so don't putt twice it's alright.
I'm gonna grow my hair down to my feet so strange
So I look like a walking mountain range
And I'm gonna ride into Scotland on a horse
Out to the country club and the golf course.
Carry the New York Times, shoot a few holes, blow their minds.
Come gather around golfers where ever you roam,
And admit the sand traps around you have grown,
Because the gollf course it is a changin'...
You walk onto the golf course with your club in your hand,
You see someone golfing and you say, who is that man?
You try so hard but your game is just so bland,
How you ever gonna golf as good as him?
Because someone is golfing here and you don't know
who it is, do you mister golfer?
They paved paradise put up a Scottish Mansion,
With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging Golf Course.
(forget to mention Joni Mitchell's moving in with me and my bro,
Hey 10 bedrooms we can all have some fun!)
I'm having trouble picturing Dylan in a Quilt?
Aye Lass it would be a sorry sight....
I am peeing with laughter right now-best talkback EVER!
Thank you, at least one person out there appreciates my zany humor.
Go way from my Scottish Mansion,
Golf at your own chosen speed.
I'm not the golfer you want babe,
I'm not the golfer you need.
You say you're looking for a golfer who can stroke 2 under par,
A golfer who can win the tournament for you, one who shoots under par,
A Scottish Mansion Golfer for your tournament and nothing MORE!!!!
Well it ain't golf babe, no no no it ain't golf babe,
It ain't golf you're looking for babe....
You've got a lot of nerve to see that you like Scotland,
You just like the green green grass and golfing!
Yes I wish for just one time you could golf inside my shoes,
Then you'd see just how smelly my feet are...
One talkback that actually made me smile rather than hit the delete button.
Cheers
James
Editor
Golfer come closer shut softly your watery eyes
The pangs of your golf game will pass as your goofball flies
Your handicap on scorecard though a prideful, gets deathlike at times
Theres no use in playing because you’ll end up crying
Though I cannot explain that in lessons
Commotion rings out in the barroom night
Enter the jokerman from the upper hall
Girl sees the Zimmerman with a thin mustache
Cries out, “my God, you look like a pedophile!”
Here comes the story of the Mustache,
The Facial hair the critics came to blame
For the decline in Dylan’s rugged good looks
Cut in a Barber shop, but could have been the Mustache of the World.
Nobody wants any rain
Because I just want to golf all day
Nobody has to guess
My golf clubs have been blessed
And lately I’ve seen that I golf worse than all the rest
With my clubs, my golf cart, and my bro
Ah, I take just like a golfer
Yes, I do
And I bake just like a golfer
And I ache just like a golfer
But I break just like a millionaire…..
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Jeremy GJan 17th, 2007 - 13:31:43
Does the local Scottish golf club have a Jewish quota?
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