You're a Big Girl Now
| "You're a Big Girl Now" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Bob Dylan | |
| from the album Blood on the Tracks | |
| Released | January 1975 |
| Recorded | December 27, 1974 at Sound 80 in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Genre | Folk rock |
| Length | 4:36 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Songwriter(s) | Bob Dylan |
| Producer(s) | Bob Dylan |
| Blood on the Tracks track listing | |
"You're a Big Girl Now" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 15th studio album, Blood on the Tracks, in 1975. It is one of five songs on the album that Dylan initially recorded in New York City in September 1974 and then re-recorded in Minneapolis in December that year. The latter recording, made on December 27, 1974, became the album track.[1]
Like most songs in Blood on the tracks,"You're a big girl now" tells a story about two lovers that is near to get to an end.In the lyrics,the narrator begs his lover to give him one more chance and forgive him along the five verses.
Individual outtakes of "You're a Big Girl Now" from the New York sessions were released in 1985 on the compilation Biograph[2] and in 2018 on the single-CD and 2-LP versions of The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks, while the complete New York sessions were released on the deluxe edition of the latter album.[3] The deluxe version of The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 also included a remix of the December 1974 master issued on Blood on the Tracks.[4]
A live version of the song, recorded on May 23, 1976, appeared on Hard Rain.
The sentence "Love is so simple, to quote a phrase" refers to one song of the group The Dells "Love Is So Simple".
Cover versions
- The Sports on their 1981 EP The Sports Play Dylan (and Donovan)
- Lloyd Cole on his 2001 studio album ETC
- Jimmy Lafave, by Lisa Miller on her 1996 album Quiet Girl with a Credit Card
- Zita Swoon on their 2006 album Camera Concert - A Band In A Box
- My Morning Jacket on the 2012 compilation album Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International.
A version with Swedish lyrics "Du är en stor tjej nu"[1] appears on the album Georga - Vid Grinden[2][5]
References
- ^ Partridge, Kenneth (January 16, 2015). "Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' at 40: Classic Track-by-Track Album Review". Billboard. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Bob Dylan - Biograph". AllMusic. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
- ^ "More Blood, More Tracks – The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 to Be Released on November 2 | The Official Bob Dylan Site". www.bobdylan.com. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
- ^ "More Blood, More Tracks – The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 to Be Released on November 2 | The Official Bob Dylan Site". www.bobdylan.com. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
- ^ http://georga.se/album_audio/a/vid_grinden
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