An old blues long associated with Tampa Red and Elmore James, which Dylan recorded for Self Portrait as a quiet, mostly acoustic performance.
The words
A man watches the woman he loves suffer at the hands of another, and feels her pain as his own.
The singer loves a woman who belongs to someone else, and that man treats her badly. He urges her to leave and come to him, insisting that whatever wounds her wounds him as well. The song follows the classic blues pattern of repeated lines and a returning refrain, sympathetic more than bitter. Dylan's version is gentle and unhurried, far from the electric slide-guitar treatment the song is best known for.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗Listen and watch
The words
A man watches the woman he loves suffer at the hands of another, and feels her pain as his own.
The singer loves a woman who belongs to someone else, and that man treats her badly. He urges her to leave and come to him, insisting that whatever wounds her wounds him as well. The song follows the classic blues pattern of repeated lines and a returning refrain, sympathetic more than bitter. Dylan's version is gentle and unhurried, far from the electric slide-guitar treatment the song is best known for.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1970
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