The opening track of Street-Legal, a heavy blues with the album's gospel-style backing singers answering him throughout.
The words
A sultry, menacing blues in which a man sings about a pony as a thinly veiled stand-in for a lover.
The singer talks about a pony he once had and the new one that has replaced her, using the horse as a barely disguised image of desire and of a woman who has a hold on him. It is built on a slow, grinding blues riff, with the backing singers repeating a churchy call behind his lines. The mood is sexual and a little threatening, with hints of dark magic. Horns and the women's voices make it heavier than a plain twelve-bar blues.
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The words
A sultry, menacing blues in which a man sings about a pony as a thinly veiled stand-in for a lover.
The singer talks about a pony he once had and the new one that has replaced her, using the horse as a barely disguised image of desire and of a woman who has a hold on him. It is built on a slow, grinding blues riff, with the backing singers repeating a churchy call behind his lines. The mood is sexual and a little threatening, with hints of dark magic. Horns and the women's voices make it heavier than a plain twelve-bar blues.
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1978
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