A song first recorded by the Mississippi Sheiks in the early 1930s; Dylan's version on World Gone Wrong was given a black-and-white video filmed in London.
The words
A man burns with desire for a woman and keeps trying to win her, even as she slips away.
A blues about longing: a man is so taken with a woman that he can think of nothing else, and he offers what little he has to win her over. It repeats its situation like a lament rather than moving forward, and its mood is weary more than lustful. Dylan slows the original's string-band lilt into a dark, deliberate solo performance on acoustic guitar.
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The words
A man burns with desire for a woman and keeps trying to win her, even as she slips away.
A blues about longing: a man is so taken with a woman that he can think of nothing else, and he offers what little he has to win her over. It repeats its situation like a lament rather than moving forward, and its mood is weary more than lustful. Dylan slows the original's string-band lilt into a dark, deliberate solo performance on acoustic guitar.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1993
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