Maggie's Farm

Maggie 's Farm is a folk-rock song of the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who first appeared in 1965 on his fifth studio album Bringing It All Back Home.

Musically, Maggie 's Farm is a Blue song that is played electrically amplified. As usual for blues pieces, the singer repeated the verse with which the new stanza begins, and engages the subject again at the end to. These repeated lines are the lyrical protestations of the lyrical ego, no longer to work on the title given farm (I is not gonna work on Maggie's farm no more, or later modified in eg I is not gonna work for Maggie's brother no more).

Recorded Maggie 's Farm by Dylan and his band on 15 January 1965. On March 22 of that year, the piece appeared with ten other compositions Dylan on the album Bringing It All Back Home. Later, the song was released as a single with On the Road Again as B-side. With the album Bob Dylan distanced himself from the folk - protest song movement of the 1960s, which he had previously supported yet with songs like Blowin 'in the Wind and The Times They Are A- Changin ''. In fact, Dylan looked set artistically and personally and had already searched the distance for movement with the folk album Another Side of Bob Dylan. Bringing It All Back Home (which is an English phrase and in German means as much as to make it clear to all ) was a radical change. Dylan first played with an electric band in the background and turned to more rock ' n ' roll, he impregnated her with his influences of folk music.

As with Dylan usual, the lyrics are varied and can be interpreted differently. The autobiographical interpretation provides that Dylan freedom sought by the folk - protest movement and explain the song, no longer work for them. Maggie 's Farm is therefore a bitingly sarcastic settlement with old companions, who were only the constant repetition of the old protest from him what Dylan bored artistic ( They sing while you slave and I just get bored ). Other interpretations also tackle the issue of racism in the U.S. and slavery. The protagonist was therefore an African American who no longer wanted to work for the white population on the farm. Dylan himself has never ruled on the interpretation of the text.

1965 saw Dylan, meanwhile, for a call at the Newport Folk Festival, when he appeared for the first time with a belt and electronically amplified. Fans wanted him to acoustic folk songs. The controversies were often discussed and illustrated, as in Martin Scorsese's film No Direction Home.