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<h1>Girl from the North Country</h1><h2>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h2><h2><br></h2><h2>"<strong>Girl from the North Country</strong>" (occasionally known as "Girl <em>of</em> the North Country") is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">song</a> written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bob Dylan</a>. It was recorded at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City in April 1963, and released the following month as the second track on Dylan's second studio album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freewheelin%27_Bob_Dylan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan</em></a><em>.</em> Dylan re-recorded the song as a duet with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johnny Cash</a> in February 1969.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_from_the_North_Country#cite_note-cashdylan-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a> That recording became the opening track on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Skyline" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Nashville Skyline</em></a>, Dylan's ninth studio album.</h2><h2><br></h2><h2>Background and composition</h2><p>The song was written following his first trip to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">England</a> in December 1962, upon what he thought to be the completion of his second album. It is debated as to whom this song is a tribute; some claim former girlfriend Echo Helstrom,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_from_the_North_Country#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a> and some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Beecher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bonnie Beecher</a>, both of whom Dylan knew before leaving for New York. However, it is suspected that this song could have been inspired by his then girlfriend, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suze_Rotolo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Suze Rotolo</a>. Dylan left England for Italy to search for Suze, whose continuation of studies there had caused a serious rift in their relationship. Unbeknownst to Dylan, Rotolo had already returned to the United States, leaving about the same time that Dylan arrived in Italy. It was there that he finished the song, ostensibly inspired by the apparent end of his relationship with Rotolo. Upon his return to New York in mid-January, he persuaded Rotolo to get back together, and to move back into his apartment on 4th Street. Suze Rotolo is the woman featured on the album cover, walking arm in arm with Dylan down Jones Street, not far from their apartment.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_from_the_North_Country#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a></p><p>While in London, Dylan met several figures in the local folk scene, including English folksinger <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Carthy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Martin Carthy</a>. "I ran into some people in England who really knew those [traditional English] songs," Dylan recalled in 1984. "Martin Carthy, another guy named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Davenport_(singer)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[Bob] Davenport</a>. Martin Carthy's incredible. I learned a lot of stuff from Martin." Carthy exposed Dylan to a repertoire of traditional English ballads, including Carthy's own arrangement of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scarborough Fair</a>," which Dylan drew upon for aspects of the melody and lyrics of "Girl from the North Country," including the line from the refrain "Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine". Musically, this song is nearly identical to his composition "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_of_Spanish_Leather" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Boots of Spanish Leather</a>",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_from_the_North_Country#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a> composed and recorded one year later for the album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_They_Are_a-Changin%27_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Times They Are a-Changin'</em></a>.</p><h2>Reception</h2><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Rolling Stone</em></a> magazine ranked the song 30th on a list of the "100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs". In an article accompanying the list, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rolling Stones</a> guitarist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Richards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keith Richards</a> wrote: "While the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Invasion" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">British Invasion</a> was going on, Bob Dylan was the man who really pulled the American point of view back into focus. At the same time, he had been drawing on Anglo-Celtic folk songs, and that's certainly true of "Girl From the North Country". It's got all the elements of beautiful folk writing without being pretentious. In the lyrics and the melody, there is an absence of Bob's later cutting edge. There's none of that resentment. He recorded it again later with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johnny Cash</a>, but I don't think it's a duo song. Bob got it right the first time".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_from_the_North_Country#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[5]</a></p>