A Richard Manuel song performed by the Band without Dylan, one of the Band-only tracks added to the 1975 release of The Basement Tapes.
The words
A lonely man nurses the blues over breakfast, missing a woman who has gone and dreading the long day ahead.
This is the Band's track rather than Dylan's: a slow morning blues about a man left alone with his thoughts. He sits through breakfast feeling sorry for himself, missing someone and unable to shake the gloom. The song unfolds at an easy, sorrowful pace, its mood lifted only slightly by wry humour. Its soulful vocal and warm horns sound closer to rhythm and blues than to the rest of the basement recordings.
Words by Richard Manuel
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗Listen and watch
The words
A lonely man nurses the blues over breakfast, missing a woman who has gone and dreading the long day ahead.
This is the Band's track rather than Dylan's: a slow morning blues about a man left alone with his thoughts. He sits through breakfast feeling sorry for himself, missing someone and unable to shake the gloom. The song unfolds at an easy, sorrowful pace, its mood lifted only slightly by wry humour. Its soulful vocal and warm horns sound closer to rhythm and blues than to the rest of the basement recordings.
Words by Richard Manuel
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗The same year · 1975
Read onMusicBrainz ↗