A Dylan original on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, a solo acoustic blues written while his girlfriend Suze Rotolo was away studying in Italy.
The words
A man whose lover has gone far across the sea takes to the highway, lonely and unsure she will return.
The singer's woman has gone overseas and taken his heart with her, and all he can do is walk the road alone. It is a straight twelve-bar blues in form, with verses that move between loneliness and grim humour. Dylan plays it with a hard, choppy guitar and sings in a tough, clipped voice, a personal blues dressed in the traditional style he had been studying.
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The words
A man whose lover has gone far across the sea takes to the highway, lonely and unsure she will return.
The singer's woman has gone overseas and taken his heart with her, and all he can do is walk the road alone. It is a straight twelve-bar blues in form, with verses that move between loneliness and grim humour. Dylan plays it with a hard, choppy guitar and sings in a tough, clipped voice, a personal blues dressed in the traditional style he had been studying.
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