Bob Dylan ~ From a Buick 6 ~ cover

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"From a Buick 6" is a song by Bob Dylan from his album Highway 61 Revisited, which was also released as a single on the B-side of Positively 4th Street. The version that appeared on the album Highway 61 Revisited and the single was recorded on July 30, 1965.

Although the closest thing to a love song, in blues tradition it is as bitter as it is sweet, and shows the dark side of the love relationship.Like other Dylan songs of this period, the song is a tribute to an earth mother.References to her include a description as a "soulful mama" who "don't make me nervous / she don't talk too much", as well as a "graveyard woman", a "junkyard angel", a "steam shovel mama" and a "dump truck baby".Some of the more flattering lyrics can be taken as a peaen to Dylan's first wife Sara Lownds.However, the woman described by the song also resembles the subject of a previous Dylan song, "She Belongs to Me".In "She Belongs to Me", the narrator described a woman that he claims to have, when clearly she has him.Similarly, in "From a Buick 6", the narrator claims that he "got this graveyard woman" but she is the one he is dependent on her, she does all the work, and everything that happens to the narrator occurs as a result of her actions.She keeps him as a prisoner, as described in lines such as "she keeps me hid" and "brings me bread", and that prison can be viewed as his sexuality, symbolized by the Buick 6 itself.In a sense, rather than being merely an earth mother, the woman described by the song can be viewed as being Mother Nature itself.

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