In the song, Joan Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from Bob Dylan, which sends her a decade back in time, to a “crummy” hotel in Greenwich Village (a neighbourhood in New York City) in about 1964 or 1965. She recalls giving him a pair of cufflinks, and surmises that memories bring “diamonds and rust”.
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9 Ιούλ 2022
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναThe technique employed by Bob Dylan to write the song was to construct the verses as a series of “lists” of the attributes of the eponymous Sad-Eyed Lady. These “lists” are complemented by a sequence of rhetorical questions about the Lady which are never answered within the song. The lyrics are glorious. The repeated long vowels give it a sonorous, romantic… (συνέχεια…)
