In a new song, “Murder Most Fowl,” Bob Dylan puts the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy in any number of political and cultural contexts.
Edward Curtin of Behind the Curtain provides an audio of Dylan singing it and the lyrics to Verses 1 and 3.
Here is a link to it:
A phrase in the song, “Thousands were watching, no one saw a thing,” describes how although the killing was witnessed by countless people in Dallas’s Dealy Plaza and on television, it was planned and executed and covered up in such a way as to throw the blame away from the perpetrators of the coup d’etat and fool everyone for a time. In this respect it was similar to how the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were planned and executed and covered up.
Another phrase, “I’m just a patsy,” refers to the denial of the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald during an interrogation, “I didn’t shoot anybody, no sir … I’m just a patsy” — shortly before he himself was shot to death by Jack Ruby while in police custody. It is worth noting that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden denied several times any involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.