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All the Tired Horses
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All the Tired Horses is a song written by Bob Dylan, released on his 1970 double album Self Portrait.
The first track on the album, All the Tired Horses does not even feature Dylan's vocals. It consists of a small choir of female voices repeating the same two lines
- All the tired horses in the sun
- How'm I s'posed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.
to the same melody for 3 minutes and 14 seconds, with varying instrumental accompaniment. In the key of C major, this song consists musically of the chord structure I-vi-iii-V, repeated throughout. This translates in the given key to C-Am-Em-G.
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As "ridin'" is a very close homophone to "writin'", it is possible that Dylan is complaining of fatigue of one kind or another — perhaps simple tiredness, perhaps a psychological fatigue stemming from his wild ride of stardom and its attending distractons of the past years, or perhaps a fatigue of the spirit — as interfering with his songwriting.
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- Bob Dylan's official page
- Don Giller and Ed Lozano. The Defintive Bob Dylan Songbook. Amsco Publications, 2003.
- Oliver Trager. Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. Billboard Books, 2004.