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Highway 61 Revisited · 1965

Queen Jane Approximately

The song opens side two of the original LP.

The words

An invitation to a worn-out woman to come by when she tires of the people around her.

Addressed to a woman worn down by her family, her admirers and the obligations of her position, the song offers a quiet alternative. Each verse names another source of her exhaustion, and each closes on the same refrain inviting her to come and see the singer once she has had enough. The mood is gentler than the songs around it on the album, half sympathy and half wry teasing, set to an easy mid-tempo band groove.

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The words

An invitation to a worn-out woman to come by when she tires of the people around her.

Addressed to a woman worn down by her family, her admirers and the obligations of her position, the song offers a quiet alternative. Each verse names another source of her exhaustion, and each closes on the same refrain inviting her to come and see the singer once she has had enough. The mood is gentler than the songs around it on the album, half sympathy and half wry teasing, set to an easy mid-tempo band groove.

Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗

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