As I Went Out One Morning

As I Went Out One Morning
"As I Went Out One Morning"
Song by Bob Dylan from the album John Wesley Harding
Released December 27, 1967
Genre Folk rock, country rock
Length 2:49
Label Columbia
Writer Bob Dylan
Producer Bob Johnston
John Wesley Harding track listing
"John Wesley Harding"
(1)
"As I Went Out One Morning"
(2)
"I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine"
(3)

"As I Went Out One Morning" is a song written by Bob Dylan, released on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding. He has only performed this song live once, in the early phase of the Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Tour.

The lyrics to "As I Went Out One Morning" tell about a man who offers a hand to a woman in chains, but realizes that she wants more than he is offering, and that "she meant to do [him] harm." A character identified as Tom Paine then appears and, "command[s] her to yield" and apologizing to the narrator for the woman's actions. Tom Paine as a figure may represent common sense or civil liberties, which the historical Tom Paine championed. However, it is also likely that this song references the prestigious Tom Paine Award that Dylan received in 1963 from the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. Dylan delivered a rambling acceptance speech and was booed and rushed from the stage when he claimed to have empathy for some of Lee Harvey Oswald feelings. [1] It is thought that afterward Dylan wrote the song on a paper napkin.[citation needed]

The song bears a resemblance to the W. H. Auden poem As I Walked Out One Evening, including sharing the same iambic meter and quatrain form.

Dylan's use of harmonica on the song is distinctive. The flatted second (as well as third, sixth, and seventh) identifies the musical mode as Phrygian. Since the song is in F# minor (played in D minor on a guitar with a capo at the fourth fret), Dylan must be playing a D harmonica. The usual modes for diatonic harmonica in minor keys are Aeolian and Dorian (A or E harmonicas in the key of F# minor).

Covers

References

  1. ^ Copy of Dylan's acceptance speech at NECLC accessed 14 August, 2011
  2. ^ Woven Hand article NPR Music, accessed 14 August, 2011

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