The closing track of Under the Red Sky, a driving blues that ends the album on an apocalyptic note.
The words
A nursery-rhyme image of a cat in a well opens a vision of a world sliding toward ruin.
Taking its title from an old children's rhyme, the song pictures a world in which danger is close and nobody is coming to help. Images of decline pile up, from neglected homes to an approaching sense of doom, delivered with a calm, almost matter-of-fact voice. It closes with a plea for mercy from above, turning the song into a prayer. The band drives it as a tough, rocking shuffle.
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The words
A nursery-rhyme image of a cat in a well opens a vision of a world sliding toward ruin.
Taking its title from an old children's rhyme, the song pictures a world in which danger is close and nobody is coming to help. Images of decline pile up, from neglected homes to an approaching sense of doom, delivered with a calm, almost matter-of-fact voice. It closes with a plea for mercy from above, turning the song into a prayer. The band drives it as a tough, rocking shuffle.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1990
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