Wondering what model, exactly, was a Buick 6, while listening to one of my very favorite Dylan songs, I went searching and found eleventyleven sites making, consistently, two comments about the song:
- “obviously” the weakest track on “Highway 61 Revisited” (I’d put that on Queen Jane, but then, thats ONLY in comparison to the rest of the album, not the rest of music in general, because compared to most music, Queen Jane is in the top 1% of the top 1%)
- “obviously” a cheating song—this is the one that fires me up.
The song opens with mention of “a graveyard woman” and “my soulful mama”. Much is made of the “but” introducing the soulful mama:
I got this graveyard woman…
But my soulful mama
The rest of the song, borrowing[ahem] from old blues, is about not much and everything, but certainly doesn’t elaborate on any cheating, or even the existence of two women in our narrator’s wife.
Instead, the assumption is that the “graveyard” woman is lifeless, but his “mama” is soulful.
Well, I’m telling you, I got a woman I’ll go to the graveyard loving, and ain’t nobody gonna tell me she’s less than full of soul, hers and mine both.