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Girl from the North Country

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by Conor McPherson


  I looked out on the water. Then I closed my eyes.

  End.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  All words and music by Bob Dylan, unless otherwise indicated.

  ‘Sign On The Window’

  Copyright © 1970 by Big Sky Music; renewed 1998 by Big Sky Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Went To See The Gypsy’

  Copyright © 1970 by Big Sky Music; renewed 1998 by Big Sky Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love)’

  Copyright © 1985 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Slow Train’

  Copyright © 1979 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘License To Kill’

  Copyright © 1983 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘I Want You’

  Copyright © 1966 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1994 by Dwarf Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Like A Rolling Stone’

  Copyright © 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere’

  Copyright © 1967 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1995 by Dwarf Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Jokerman’

  Copyright © 1983 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Sweetheart Like You’

  Copyright © 1983 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘True Love Tends To Forget’

  Copyright © 1978 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Hurricane’

  Written by Bob Dylan with Jacques Levy. Copyright © 1975 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2003 by Ram’s Horn Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Idiot Wind’

  Copyright © 1974 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2002 by Ram’s Horn Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Duquesne Whistle’

  Written by Bob Dylan with Robert Hunter. Copyright © 2012 by Special Rider Music and Ice Nine Publishing. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)’

  Copyright © 1978 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Is Your Love In Vain?’

  Copyright © 1978 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  ‘Forever Young’

  Copyright © 1973 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2001 by Ram’s Horn Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.

  CONOR McPHERSON

  Conor McPherson was born in Dublin in 1971. Plays include Rum and Vodka (Fly by Night Theatre Co., Dublin); The Good Thief (Dublin Theatre Festival; Stewart Parker Award); This Lime Tree Bower (Fly by Night Theatre Co. and Bush Theatre, London; Meyer-Whitworth Award); St Nicholas (Bush Theatre and Primary Stages, New York); The Weir (Royal Court, London, Duke of York’s, West End and Walter Kerr Theatre, New York; Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle, George Devine Awards); Dublin Carol (Royal Court and Atlantic Theater, New York); Port Authority (Ambassadors Theatre, West End, Gate Theatre, Dublin and Atlantic Theater, New York); Shining City (Royal Court, Gate Theatre, Dublin and Manhattan Theatre Club, New York; Tony Award nomination for Best Play); The Seafarer (National Theatre, London, Abbey Theatre, Dublin and Booth Theater, New York; Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard, Tony Award nominations for Best Play); The Veil (National Theatre) and The Night Alive (Donmar Warehouse, London and Atlantic Theater, New York). Theatre adaptations include Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds (Gate Theatre, Dublin and Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis), August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios) and Franz Xaver Kroetz’s The Nest (Young Vic, London).

  Work for the cinema includes I Went Down, Saltwater, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, The Actors, The Eclipse and Strangers. His work for television includes an adaptation of John Banville’s Elegy for April for the BBC, and the original television drama Paula for BBC2.

  Awards for his screenwriting include three Best Screenplay Awards from the Irish Film and Television Academy; Spanish Cinema Writers Circle Best Screenplay Award; the CICAE Award for Best Film Berlin Film festival; Jury Prize San Sebastian Film Festival; and the Méliès d’Argent Award for Best European Film.

  BOB DYLAN

  Since bursting into the public’s consciousness in the early 1960s, Bob Dylan has sold more than 125 million records, won eleven Grammy Awards and has six entries in the Grammy Hall of Fame. His contribution to worldwide culture has been recognised with many awards, including the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature (the first songwriter to receive such a distinction); America’s highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from President Obama in 2012; a Special Citation Pulitzer Prize in 2008; an Academy Award in 2001 for ‘Things Have Changed’ from the film Wonder Boys. He released his thirty-ninth studio album, Triplicate, in April 2017, and continues to tour worldwide.

 

 

 


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