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The Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969–1971), 2013 (recorded 1970)
traditional
The narrator pines for his love, Saro, but since he has no land or money, he can't very well ask for her to stick around. He's not even a dab hand with words: "If I was a poet / And could write a fine hand / I'd write my love a letter / That she'd understand." But since he can't, he must bid her adieu and see her only in his dreams. Dylan's using his crooner voice here, a subdued, haunting vocal that emphasizes the narrator's helplessness in the face of harsh reality.
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