A ballad in the voice of a woman from an iron-mining town, drawing on the Minnesota iron range where Dylan grew up.
The words
A miner's widow traces how her town and family fall apart as the mines close and the work goes overseas.
A woman tells her own life story from childhood to middle age in a northern mining town. Her family is lost one by one, her husband's work disappears when the company finds cheaper ore abroad, and her household slowly empties. The song moves in plain, unhurried verses, each a step further into hardship, with no chorus to relieve it. Dylan sings it alone with guitar, in a flat, steady voice that lets the story carry the anger.
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The words
A miner's widow traces how her town and family fall apart as the mines close and the work goes overseas.
A woman tells her own life story from childhood to middle age in a northern mining town. Her family is lost one by one, her husband's work disappears when the company finds cheaper ore abroad, and her household slowly empties. The song moves in plain, unhurried verses, each a step further into hardship, with no chorus to relieve it. Dylan sings it alone with guitar, in a flat, steady voice that lets the story carry the anger.
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