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organizer appears, promising to improve things, and the narrator tells his new associates, "I'm a union man, now, all the way", but, perhaps ashamed of his homelessness begs them to "just don't judge me by my shoes." Some sources speculate the events depicted in the song are a reference to the
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from the point of view of a poverty-stricken farmer who, with increasing desperation, details the misfortune which has befallen him: there was no rain and his crops died, his barn burned down, he has ended up on skid row. A
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: The Best of the Band Live in
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This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band
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870:This Wheel's on Fire
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622:The Best of the Band
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506:Jubilation
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