This week's question: Bob Dylan has sold his entire catalog of over 600 songs to Universal Music Publishing Group for an estimated $300 million. If the former counterculture legend were to write a new song about this deal and his now substantially larger bank balance, what should the track be titled?
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THE WINNER: "The Times They Are Ka-Chingin'"
Rick Torrence, The Village, Oklahoma
SECOND PLACE: "Tangled Up in Green"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
THIRD PLACE: "Positively Wall Street"
Joe Ayella, Wayne, Pennsylvania
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"It's All Clover Now, Baby Blue"
Dave Grossman, Petaluma, California
"Visions of Bonanza"
Steve Brown, Biltmore Lake, North Carolina
"Pay Lady Pay"
Shaun Manny, Alpharetta, Georgia
"Don't Think Twice, Sold the Rights"
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pennsylvania
"House of the Rising Sum"
Don Drissel, Seal Beach, California
"Don't Think Twice, My Bank Account's All Right"
Lou Franzini, Jacksonville Beach, Florida
"The Balance, It Is a-Changin'"
Jeff Marder, Los Angeles
"Mr. Tambourine Mammon"
Norm Carrier, Flat Rock, North Carolina
"Idiot Windfall"
Brian Easler, Moore, South Carolina
"Like a Rolling 401k"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
"Bonds on Bonds"
Jennifer Kitchin, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
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