Written and recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson in the late 1920s, it closes Dylan's first album as a slow, solemn blues.
The words
A dying man's single last request is that his grave be looked after once he is gone.
A man thinks about his funeral and asks only one favour of those he leaves behind: that his resting place be cared for. The song lingers on images of burial, slow and grave, with the request returning as a refrain. Dylan ends his debut with it, singing in a weary, aged voice over steady guitar, a final note on the album's preoccupation with death.
Words by Blind Lemon Jefferson
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗Listen and watch
The words
A dying man's single last request is that his grave be looked after once he is gone.
A man thinks about his funeral and asks only one favour of those he leaves behind: that his resting place be cared for. The song lingers on images of burial, slow and grave, with the request returning as a refrain. Dylan ends his debut with it, singing in a weary, aged voice over steady guitar, a final note on the album's preoccupation with death.
Words by Blind Lemon Jefferson
Lyrics on bobdylan.com ↗In threads
The same year · 1962
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