This song is from the album where dylan goes electric. After another side of bob dylan, where he departed from politically motivated songs (oxford town, blowin' in the wind, masters of war...and some others on freewheelin' bob dylan) to more surreal songs and introspective stream of consciousness lyrics. This made some people angry, both for the fact that he changed his sounds and lyrical subjects. The movie No Direction Home shows how some people began to grow angry at Dylan for straying away from lyrics that tended to fit with the left leaning audience. Maggies farm is his response. He doesn't want to work for them and their political causes. He isn't going to work on the farm. This isn't what he is trying to do. He wants to do what he wants to do. This was followed by the first song on Highway 61 revisited, Like a Rolling Stone, where he completely departs from the folk sound and goes on for six minutes on the same subject. I doubt that this song is an attempt by Dylan to talk about anything directly political.
This song is from the album where dylan goes electric. After another side of bob dylan, where he departed from politically motivated songs (oxford town, blowin' in the wind, masters of war...and some others on freewheelin' bob dylan) to more surreal songs and introspective stream of consciousness lyrics. This made some people angry, both for the fact that he changed his sounds and lyrical subjects. The movie No Direction Home shows how some people began to grow angry at Dylan for straying away from lyrics that tended to fit with the left leaning audience. Maggies farm is his response. He doesn't want to work for them and their political causes. He isn't going to work on the farm. This isn't what he is trying to do. He wants to do what he wants to do. This was followed by the first song on Highway 61 revisited, Like a Rolling Stone, where he completely departs from the folk sound and goes on for six minutes on the same subject. I doubt that this song is an attempt by Dylan to talk about anything directly political.