“You're A Big Girl Now” by Bob Dylan

"You're a Big Girl Now" is one of the Blood on the Tracks songs Bob Dylan recorded twice, first in New York in September 1974 and again in Minneapolis that December, and the December 27 take is the one that made his 15th studio album in 1975. He produced it himself, singing, blowing harp and strumming acoustic guitar alongside Chris Weber, with Buddy Cage's steel guitar, Greg Inhofer's piano, Tony Brown's bass and Bill Berg's drums wrapped around him.

It's a breakup song, the narrator pleading with a departing lover for one more chance. Some critics heard his marriage to Sara in it. Dylan flatly denied that in the Biograph notes, sneering at the interpreters and insisting he doesn't write confessional songs: it only looks that way, he said, the way Laurence Olivier looks like Hamlet.

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