Dylan's Tramp Censored: "When your own father and mother will abandon you"

Acceptance speech of Bob Dylan: @ the Grammy Awards, 20 February 1991:
Click to View Dylan Speech On YouTube: "the Smoking Gun" of this little Dylan Mystery

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  Twenty years ago the New World Order's precious new-born baby, The First Gulf War, was being applauded everywhere in the World. The Iraqis were getting their asses kicked. American Troops safely lounged, half drunk & stoned, in some sweaty corner of Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, watching "The Grammy's" on TV. Dylan and his band performed "Masters of War" and kicked some ass themselves, that night. But the best was yet to come: Dylan is not really recognized as all that clever a speech-maker & he easily can under whelm, if you are not listening carefully.
  "Aw, shit, man --- didya see Dylan on the Grammy's last night? He musta been stoned!!! They cut him off, it was so embarrassing. . . " --- was a common response to Dylan's speech at the time.

  If you watched the [poor quality, but only one I could find] clip [link is above] you see a much younger & less hesitant artist than he is today. A Wonderfully preserved, fifty something man, but truly an artist in his Prime; a Performer at the TopofHisGame: the near-perfect "Things Have Changed" had just been released. Perhaps nearly as wonderful as "Bringing It All Back Home" of the Sixties.

  With Bush's Gulf War nearly "won", the American public was, as usual, asleep at the wheel. Easily forgotten, now, Dylan sang "Masters of War" for the glitterati that night for the gliterati. Jack Nicholson has already sucked up to Dylan in his intro, when Dylan steps forward to the microphone, shuffles really, in an often-used, Dylan-rendition of Chaplin's Tramp.
  HenryTierenan, bloggerof the time, commented,  Dylan . . . squinted, as if looking for his mother, [still alive], who was in the audience."
   Since the quality of this tv, video-tape is so poor, the following verbatim account is all we KNOW he said, because the network apparently edited out his spoken words at the end.
  which I am still trying to find on the internet.
  A National Network, censoring the reflections of a Star's speech at the Grammy's must be seen as unusual --- &, not for the first or [probably] the last time, we are left to ponder what Dylan "really meant."

   ". . . Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know.--- He was a very simple man, but what he did tell me was this . . . [he did say] well, he said a lot of things. But,'son,' he said, he say, you know ---- 'it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own father and mother will abandon you. And if that happens, God will always believe in your own ability to mend your ways.'"

Years later, Martin Grossman  10 Aug, 1998 wrote online:
"It seems to me Ronnie Schreiber nailed the source of Bob's Grammy speech
some time ago. Said Ronnie: 'At the time of the acceptance speech, I turned to my wife and said that Dylan's comments were an allusion to Psalms 27:10: "When my father and mother abandon me, HaShem (G-d) will gather me up."

   However, Now --- Thanks to Youtube, we witness Dylan Step BACK to The Mircrophone, and speak AGAIN, after his words, ". . .mend your ways." And, as you can clearly see, This is where the simple, Deadly "Dead-Air" occurs --- that is a CLEAR NO-NO & ONLY Happens when someone's words are REMOVED BY A CENSOR SITTING IN A Studio, monitoring the broadcast. Dead-Air is never some "Mistake" --- as anyone who works in broadcasting can tell you. It is CENSORSHIP.

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I am looking for what was edited out at the end. Anybody Out There Know?
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