Maggie's Farm

[sweetwater]

ambiguity as crypticism

[Lightning Rod]

I'm not sure I get your meaning
was it cryptic or ambiguous?

[stilltrucking]

I hate it when da man comes and hauls me away in chains and den he makes me work on maggies farm against my will

my heart goes out to you bro
living with a woman like that
I guess you had to keep your legs crossed at all times.

September of 19 seventy something listening to that dylan song over and over and over again like waltzing matilda.

Nice poem clay
I am pretty sure it was a poem
all neatly set on the page like a mathematical equation.
the more I read your poems the more I am reminded of sylvia plath.

interesting thread

[silent woman]

sorry about the ramble
I just wondered how a fellah
could wind up in such a perdicament
maybe if his girl friend was a lawyer?

She sold the farm Clay, she now has a trucking company she built one man at a time.

[stilltrucking]

Doreen for your informaton cause I take everything so literal
there is a lot of speculation about who maggie was in dylan's song.

I always thought the title came from an old prision blues song called Parchman's Farm.

Yes, i should have mentioned the white country song "Penny's Farm" (also
recorded as "Hard Times in the Country," "Tanner's Farm," etc.) and the
black prison song "Parchman Farm" -- because both of those certainly
influenced the TITLE of "Maggie's Farm."

While Dylan's 1962 "Hard Times in New York Town" was essentially a
parodic reworking of "Penny's Farm"/"Hard Times in the Country" neither
"Penny's Farm" nor "Parchman Farm" affected the lyrical content of
"Maggie's Farm" very deeply. However, the link between "Maggie's Farm"
and "Penny's Farm" actually supports my thesis in an unlikely manner: if
"Hard Tmes in New York Town" is a complaint about the poor life of a
folksinger, then "Maggie's Farm" is the same complaint, now directed
both against the establishment AND the institutionalized folk-music
scene.

[who is Maggie?