Joan Baez Babe, Im Gonna Leave You HD

Joan Baez sings Babe, I m Gonna Leave You from her 1962 Vanguard album Joan Baez In Concert, Part 1. This album contains live recordings of songs from her 1962 concert tours. This song was written by Anne Bredon though the song was originally noted as traditional on the earliest album label. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below. In the album liner notes Maynard Solomon writes the following thoughts on the song: The strange quality (and power) of the song is that the narrator inwardly desires exactly the opposite of what he will do, and is torn by the prospect of his selfimposed departure. Babe, I got to ramble, my feet start going down and I got to follow he says, because moving on is a way of life that cannot be altered now, even by love. Note that the one leaving the relationship is presumed to be the man. Since Baez is singing the song, the video has the woman leaving. This makes good sense now almost 60 years after the song was w