Step It Up and Go

The words

A good-humoured blues full of comic scenes, urging everyone to quicken their step and get moving.

This is a jaunty, ragtime-flavoured blues made of short, comic verses about people and their foibles, each one capped by the title as a refrain. There is little story; the fun lies in the rhythm and the wit. Dylan plays it fast with a bouncing fingerpicked guitar, singing with obvious enjoyment, a brief burst of energy among the album's darker ballads.