One of the shortest songs on Nashville Skyline, running under two minutes, it sits just before the closing Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You.
The words
A rollicking celebration of simple pleasures, using a list of fruit pies as a happy stand-in for country music and life.
This is a song of pure enjoyment: the singer declares his appetite for country pie, reeling off one kind of fruit after another. The pie works as a cheerful metaphor for the down-home music and easy living he loves, and he wants nothing fancier. It moves fast and never slows down, with a loose, rocking country band and a lively guitar. It is a throwaway in the best sense, a burst of fun on a gentle album.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗Listen and watch
The words
A rollicking celebration of simple pleasures, using a list of fruit pies as a happy stand-in for country music and life.
This is a song of pure enjoyment: the singer declares his appetite for country pie, reeling off one kind of fruit after another. The pie works as a cheerful metaphor for the down-home music and easy living he loves, and he wants nothing fancier. It moves fast and never slows down, with a loose, rocking country band and a lively guitar. It is a throwaway in the best sense, a burst of fun on a gentle album.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1969
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