![]() * Lucky Dube also uses the proverb in his song "Rolling Stone," from the album The Way It Is released in 1999: "I'm a rolling stone, 'Cause a rolling stone, Gathers no moss." He rolled away one day and then he never came home." * Sublime's 1996 song "Same in the End" alludes, "Daddy was a rollin' rollin' stone. * Joan Osborne's 1995 song "One of Us" compares God to a "Holy Rolling Stone". * The Temptations made the #1 hit "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" in 1971. * Don McLean's "American Pie" in 1971 claims that "… moss grows fat on a rolling stone, but that's not how it used to be." * The Beatles used the words "Like a Rolling Stone" three times in the beginning of their song "Dig It" released on the 1970 album "Let it Be". Gleason founded the music magazine Rolling Stone in 1967. * Jimi Hendrix used the full, translated version of the proverb in the lyrics to the song "Highway Chile" on the album Are You Experienced. ![]() * Bob Dylan's 1965 song "Like a Rolling Stone", which appeared on his album Highway 61 Revisited, may refer to the original proverb. * Brian Jones was inspired by Muddy Waters's lyrics when he called the band he founded with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ian Stewart The Rolling Stones in 1962/63. The version contained on that album was a solo by founding member Bob Shane. ![]() * The Kingston Trio included the Stan Wilson Song "A Rollin' Stone" on their 1959 Capitol album "Here We Go Again". * Buddy Holly's 1957 song "Early in the Morning" includes the line: "Well you know a rolling stone don't gather no moss". The opening line goes: A rollin' stone gathers no moss. Wilson said that he wrote the song ten years earlier while serving in the Merchant Marine during the war. * Stanleyt Wilson wrote "A Rollin' Stone" and it was included on his album "An Evening With Stan Wilson" in 1955. * Hank Williams's 1952 hit "Lost Highway" (originally by Leon Payne) begins "I'm a rollin stone, all alone and lost, for a life of sin I've paid the cost." He's gonna be, he's gonna be a rollin stone" His 1955 recording "Mannish Boy" includes the phrase "I'm a rollin' stone". * The blues musician Muddy Waters wrote a 1948 song called "Rollin' Stone", which contains the lyrics: "I got a boy child's comin, * The union activist Joe Hill's last will, written in the form of a song in 1915 states: "My kin don’t need to fuss and moan “Moss does not cling to rolling stone.” and what song was THE FIRST that has it?
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