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Sara Bob Dylan Series

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Sara was first released on Dylan's 1976 Masterpiece- Desire and is fittingly the final song on the album. The title sums up this "hymn" to his wife Sara. They were on the brink of divorce when he wrote Sara, one of his most overtly personal songs- a rarity for Dylan. You can feel his desperation in the gut wrenching refrain "Sara" repeated throughout the song www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUgWlJFo58

 

"sweet virgin angel, sweet love of my life."

 

But really the song is looking back at memories of their marriage and family and perhaps romanticising all the best bits like we tend do when we have lost something that was once profound

 

" Sleepin’ in the woods by a fire in the night

Drinkin’ white rum in a Portugal bar

Them playin’ leapfrog and hearin’ about Snow White

You in the marketplace in Savanna-la-Mar

 

and asking for forgiveness, knowing in his heart it is was over:

 

"Sara, oh Sara

Scorpio Sphinx in a calico dress

Sara, Sara

You must forgive me my unworthiness"

"Sara, oh Sara

Glamorous nymph with an arrow and bow

Sara, oh Sara

Don’t ever leave me, don’t ever go"

 

They were divorced a year later.

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