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The mystery of Kerouac's 'Hallelujah, I'm a Bum...bum again' solved
Started August 18th, 2019 · 1 reply · Latest reply by slackercruster 5 years, 3 months ago
5 years, 3 months ago
Over the years I've gone over Kerouac's 'On the Road' many times. It puts me in the zone for working with my archive from that era which has a large collection of beat generation photography, films and ephemera and mimeo revolution / small press poetry.
In 'On the Road' Kerouac makes reference to 'Hallelujah, I'm a Bum...bum again.' I never could figure out what he was talking about. Today the mystery was solved. 'Hallelujah, I'm a Bum' is a song.
https://archive.org/details/hallelujahimabumyodelingdickbrooksd.d.teolijr.a.c.8.17.19