anonymous October 28th, 2006 10:48PM  
He is having a relationship with a woman that has gone away for an unknown period of time. She asks if there is anything he wants her to send back to him, to remember her by (symbolizing that she may not be coming home). Bob, doesn't want anything except that she comes back to him, because I'm assuming he finally stopped his restless ways and fell in love with a woman that he wanted to "keep". One day, she tells him that she is most likely not coming back. He finally accepts that she is not coming back, so he asks her to send him something after all: spanish boots of spanish leather...So that he can take up his restless ways again, and "be on his way" down the lonely road.

m320753 May 8th, 2008 06:41PM  
This song is about Susie Rotolo going to Italy or Spain. I have found that Bob Dylan's songs in the early to mid sixties are interwoven. Susie is on the cover of freewheeling and was Dylan's second true love after echo in north country blues, but Susie had a sister named Carla who hated him and saw him as a moocher and wanted nothing to do with him. See ballad in plain "d" (I think it is the right song) and I think it may well continue in love minus zero when he gets over her. I wonder if Susie still talks to Carla? Correction #1girl from the north country #2 I don't believe you (she acts like we never have met