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'Sweetheart Like You' (1983)


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Only Dylan would compliment a woman with this line, playing on a Bible verse: "They say in your father's house there's many mansions/Each one of them got a fireproof floor." Then, in the same song, he says, "A woman like you should be at home/That's where you belong/Watching out for someone who loves you true/Who would never do you wrong." It's one of Dylan's most misogynistic lines, and this is a man who five years earlier compared a woman to a horse in "New Pony." Lyrics aside, though, this is a gorgeous, overlooked ballad.

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