Outlaw Blues

The words

A restless, rough-edged blues in which the singer casts himself as a hunted man who trusts nobody.

The singer pictures himself as an outlaw, on the run and on edge, keeping his head down and his guard up. The verses are a string of half-comic, half-menacing images rather than a story, delivered in a loose twelve-bar shape. Dylan sounds gleeful in the role, growling over a stomping band. The guitar is ragged and the rhythm heavy, and the whole thing has the feel of a live take caught on the run.