# Bob Dylan, Sara Lownds and the 1966 song he couldn’t stop writing: “I just got carried away”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/bob-dylan-sara-lownds-and-the-1966-song-he-couldnt-stop-writing-i-just-got-carried-away/
- Published: 2026-10-29T20:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-29T21:56:51+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bob-dylan-sara-lownds-1966-song-he-couldnt-stop-writing/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Dylan’s 11-minute song was written for Sara Lownds.
- He wrote lyrics for about ten hours in Nashville.
- The session produced four versions, not one take.

## Summary

Bob Dylan wrote “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” for his then-wife, Sara Lownds, and made the 11-minute song the closing track of his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde. He later recalled that what began as a small idea grew as he kept writing, until he lost track of what it was about and had to return to the beginning.

The song was written and recorded in Nashville on 15 February 1966, with Dylan working on the lyrics for about ten hours before the band began shaping the arrangement. The musicians recorded four versions, three of them complete, rather than capturing the song in a single take as legend suggests. Its length filled one side of the album, while its imagery left listeners to interpret its portrait of Lownds.

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