# Identify the source of this quote/reference
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-source-of-this-quote-reference/419296
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 15, 2007, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-source-of-this-quote-reference/419296 "2007-09-15T08:53:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2007, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-source-of-this-quote-reference/419296/1 "2007-09-15T08:53:28Z")
It describes when god asked Abraham to sacrifice his son, but does it in plain modern english, and has Abraham say something to the effect of “Lord you must be kidding me” and god replying with something along the lines of “but when I come around you better run.”
I know I’ve heard this somewhere, I’m half convinced it’s a Johnny Cash song, but I can’t find it with any lyrics-search website. It’s not “The man comes around.”
I can’t say definitively whether it’s a song, poem, or what, but I’ve seen it quoted here, and I know I’ve run across the source somewhere. Thanks for your time, and hopefully someone can answer this.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2007, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-source-of-this-quote-reference/419296/2 "2007-09-15T08:54:26Z")
Bob Dylan “Highway 61 Revisited”
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### Author:  [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2007, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-source-of-this-quote-reference/419296/3 "2007-09-15T09:11:58Z")
thanks!
Now… to iTunes!
ETA: I was thinking the Man in Black because of the lyrics, I couldn’t remember what I’d heard them from, but it seemed like something he’d sing. Dylan would’ve never occured to me.
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### Author:  [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-source-of-this-quote-reference/419296/4 "2007-09-15T15:02:21Z")
Don’t forget to check out the version by P.J. Harvey.
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### Author:  [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-source-of-this-quote-reference/419296/5 "2007-09-16T16:18:08Z")
Also, Johnny Winter from the 3-sided album. Guess that dates me a bit.