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The 20 Greatest Dylan Songs!? #7
3:52 PM GMT 30/06/2009
7. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
(Bringing It All Back Home, 1965)
Stately vocal carries a warning from history.
Richard Thompson: "Sounds like it's curtains for Baby Blue, which has led some to speculate that this is an updating of the story of Mary, Queen Of Scots; Bob may have heard 'Mary Queen Of Scots' Lament' on his visit to England in the winter of 1962, or perhaps he's just a history buff. She was fond of blue stockings - indeed, she was wearing sky-blue hose with an interwoven silver thread when she was beheaded in 1587. The orphan (or soon to be) 'crying like a fire in the sun' might be her son, and the 'empty-handed painter' her secretary-lover David Rizzio, also a fine musician, and composer of outstanding ballad tunes. The action, we imagine, is shifted to Greenwich Village, and is beautifully and skilfully updated and made immediate by imagery and street language. A great song by someone who knows the tradition, innovates in it, and builds on it."
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 3:52 PM GMT 30/06/2009
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