A twelve-bar Chicago-style blues on side two of Blonde on Blonde, released as a single in 1967.
The words
A jilted man mocks the trendy hat his former girlfriend wears and the new man she has taken up with.
The singer fixes on a woman's fashionable hat and turns it into a running joke about vanity, status and his own jealousy. Each verse finds him admiring, envying or teasing her as she moves on to someone else, always circling back to the hat. It is pure comedy, sharp but not cruel. The band plays a stinging, stop-start blues with stabbing electric guitar, and Dylan delivers it with deadpan timing.
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The words
A jilted man mocks the trendy hat his former girlfriend wears and the new man she has taken up with.
The singer fixes on a woman's fashionable hat and turns it into a running joke about vanity, status and his own jealousy. Each verse finds him admiring, envying or teasing her as she moves on to someone else, always circling back to the hat. It is pure comedy, sharp but not cruel. The band plays a stinging, stop-start blues with stabbing electric guitar, and Dylan delivers it with deadpan timing.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1966
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