The bass playing of Charlie McCoy is what I like best about this song, which is from the excellent John Wesley Harding album. The story seems to be about a guy walking about, breathing the 'air around Tom Paine' (person? place? thing?) and seeing a girl in chains. But she 'meant to do me harm,' how did he know? Who is this girl? He tells her to get away from him, but she begs him to take her with him. Tom Paine comes running up and tells the girl to let go of the narrator and apologizes to him for her behavior. Mysterious, shady and suspicious.
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