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Bob Dylan · 1962

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

A traditional blues Dylan says in its spoken introduction he learned from Ric Von Schmidt in Cambridge; he later played it electric with the Hawks in 1966.

The words

A man pleads with a woman to let him go wherever she goes, promising to do anything for her.

A simple, good-humoured courting song: the singer will do whatever it takes if she will just let him follow her. It repeats its single plea over a rolling fingerpicked pattern, warm rather than desperate. Dylan opens with a chatty spoken introduction crediting where he learned it, one of the few moments on the album where his offhand personality comes through between songs.

A traditional song

Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗

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The words

A man pleads with a woman to let him go wherever she goes, promising to do anything for her.

A simple, good-humoured courting song: the singer will do whatever it takes if she will just let him follow her. It repeats its single plea over a rolling fingerpicked pattern, warm rather than desperate. Dylan opens with a chatty spoken introduction crediting where he learned it, one of the few moments on the album where his offhand personality comes through between songs.

A traditional song

Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗

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