A traditional Appalachian song, usually played on banjo, that Dylan adapts to solo guitar on Good as I Been to You.
The words
A man watches the woman he loves drink, gamble and give her heart to someone else.
The singer describes Maggie, a lively and reckless woman he cannot stop loving even as she spends her time drinking and going with other men. He turns between admiration, jealousy and resignation, and thinks of leaving. The song is short and quick, built on a driving rhythm taken from mountain music. Dylan delivers it in a rough, urgent voice over fast strummed guitar.
A traditional song
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗Listen
The words
A man watches the woman he loves drink, gamble and give her heart to someone else.
The singer describes Maggie, a lively and reckless woman he cannot stop loving even as she spends her time drinking and going with other men. He turns between admiration, jealousy and resignation, and thinks of leaving. The song is short and quick, built on a driving rhythm taken from mountain music. Dylan delivers it in a rough, urgent voice over fast strummed guitar.
A traditional song
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1992
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